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- 1. Parts One & Two Aug 16, 2015
- The obligation to build public housing in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers looms over the mayor.
- 2. Parts Three & Four Aug 23, 2015
- Mayor Wasicsko achieves some consensus and pushes through a housing plan with a tough vote.
- 3. Parts Five & Six Aug 30, 2015
- Nick Wasicsko plans his political comeback; the residents for the new townhouses are chosen.
August 30, 2015. ( 2015-08-30) Show Me a Hero is a 2015 American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former New York Times writer Lisa Belkin about Yonkers mayor (1987–89) Nick Wasicsko. [1] [2] Like the book, the miniseries details a white middle-class neighborhood's resistance to a federally mandated scattered ...
- August 16 –, August 30, 2015
- 6 (list of episodes)
Show Me a Hero: With Oscar Isaac, Natalie Paul, Carla Quevedo, Peter Riegert. Nick Wasicsko takes office as mayor of Yonkers in 1987 and has to face the issue of building public housing in the white, middle-class side of town.
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- Drama, History
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- 2015-08-16
WATCH NOW. A young mayor in Yonkers, NY is engulfed in a racially divided maelstrom in this six-part HBO miniseries. 1. Part 1. Nick Wasicsko becomes the youngest big-city mayor in America, but at what cost? 2. Part 2. All hell breaks loose as the Yonkers mayor and City Council are given an ultimatum by a federal judge weary of further delay. 3.
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David Simon’s latest six-hour miniseries, Show Me a Hero, directed by Paul Haggis, was an important, incredible, fascinating, infuriating and sad account of a six-year period in the city of...
Six-part HBO miniseries from creator David Simon and director Paul Haggis based on a true story about the young mayor (Oscar Isaac) of Yonkers, NY who finds himself engulfed in a racially divided maelstrom that threatens the city's future. Co-starring Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Bob Balaban, Peter Riegert, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, Carla ...
Aug 13, 2015 · Scott Fitzgerald. Based on the true story of the development of low-income housing in Yonkers, New York in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, HBO’s “Show Me a Hero” is the TV event of the Summer, a mini-series that plays like a great American novel or a lost Sidney Lumet movie. Over six hours, writer/creator David Simon (“The Wire ...
Part 1. TV-MA | 56 MIN. WATCH NOW. Written by William F. Zorzi & David Simon. Directed by Paul Haggis. Nick Wasicsko becomes the youngest big-city mayor in America, but at what cost? Even before he is inaugurated, the obligation to build public housing in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers looms over his new administration.
