Show Me A Hero

Show Me a Hero is an American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former New York Times writer, Lisa Belkin. The book details a white middle-class neighborhood's resistance to a federally-mandated scattered-site public housing development in Yonkers, New York, and how these tensions affected the city as a whole. The miniseries was written by David Simon and journalist William F. Zorzi – whom Simon worked with at The Baltimore Sun and on The Wire. It was directed by Paul Haggis. Six episodes were ordered by HBO and premiered on August 16, 2015.