The Corner - The Complete Miniseries DVD, 2000

All six episodes of the gritty HBO docudrama mini-series set in a drug-saturated West Baltimore neighbourhood in the mid-1990s and based on real people and events. The series was a precursor to writers David Simon and Ed Burns's highly-acclaimed 'The Wire' and chronicles a year in the lives of 15-year old DeAndre McCullough (Sean Nelson) and his addict parents Fran Boyd and Gary McCullough (Khandi Alexander and T.K. Carter), as well as others caught up in the dealing and using of heroin and cocaine. Episodes are: 'Gary's Blues', 'DeAndre's Blues', 'Fran's Blues', 'Dope Fiend Blues', 'Corner Boy Blues' and 'Everyman's Blues'.