George Pelecanos

We Own This City

The story of the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force — and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.

Release Date: 2022-04-25

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 215

DC Noir

A crime anthology film based on George Pelecanos' book of the same title.

Release Date: 2019-04-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

Fishbowl

It is 1999 in Bishop, a small town filled with secrets. Three sisters, Belle, Rachel, and Jessa are trying to cope with the absence of their mother and maintain a normal life. Silently repressing them is Rick, their damaged father who, adrift himself, is growing increasingly obsessed with the rapture that he believes is imminent. With home anything but a refuge, the sisters must cling to one another to survive.

Release Date: 2018-10-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 7

The Deuce

The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence of the area.

Release Date: 2017-09-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Bar Patron

Episode Count: 9

Vote Count: 367

Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal Man, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows-without major record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 1990s (and the industry's subsequent implosion). Thirty years later, DC's original DIY punk spirit serves as a reminder of the hopefulness of youth, the power of community and the strength of conviction.

Release Date: 2015-04-11

Character: Self

Vote Count: 24

Bosch

Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD homicide Detective Harry Bosch who pursues justice at all costs. But behind his tireless momentum is a man who is haunted by his past and struggles to remain loyal to his personal code: “Everybody counts or nobody counts.”

Release Date: 2015-01-14

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 625

Treme

Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

Release Date: 2010-04-11

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 135

The Pacific

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

Release Date: 2010-03-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2400

The Rules of Film Noir

Matthew Sweet explores his rules of 1940s and 50s American film noir thrillers.

Release Date: 2009-08-22

Character: Self

Vote Count: 13

Jason Baldwin: I No Longer Face the Storm Alone

One of the West Memphis Three, Jason Baldwin was incarcerated for life without parole for a crime he did not commit. This film focuses on Jason’s writings which enabled him to get through his days at Grady Correctional in Arkansas.

Release Date: 2007-06-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides

Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends, William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich, as well as on his late wife, screenwriter Silvia Richards, Mr. Bezzerides offers colorful reflections as to why he and his typewriter unabashedly need to keep creating honest characters, worlds, and stories. Through recently discovered boxes of photographs, film clips, the haunting music by Fugazi, interviews (including Jules Dassin, Mickey Spillane and Barry Gifford) and testaments to his progressive creativity from other writers, Fay Lellios' straight-ahead documentary gives us a start in discovering this 97-year-old proletariat storyteller, and the meaning of his favorite phrase by Carl Jung, "There can be no birth of consciousness without pain."

Release Date: 2005-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Narrator (voice)

Vote Count: 1

The Wire

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

Release Date: 2002-06-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 7

Vote Count: 2372

A Dry Run

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1