baltimore (md.)

Tells the story of Fort McHenry, the place from which American troops successfully defended Baltimore from the British in 1814 in a battle that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star-Spangled Banner.".

Chronicles the full story of Adnan Syed, as told on the podcast "Serial." Family friend and attorney Rabia Chaudry traces the accusations, trial, and aftermath of Syed's alleged killing of his high school ex-girlfriend in 2000, arguing for his innocence and release.

Traces the story of the 1981-82 Dunbar Poets, one of the best high school basketball teams in United States history. Discusses coach Bob Wade, the politics and conditions of 1980s Baltimore, and the team's four players who went on to careers in the NBA.

In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people.

After being forced to kill the same terrorists two times, Joe Ledger is assigned to a counterterrorism task force with the special task of preventing the release of a bioweapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies.

The author describes his life growing up in urban Baltimore with a former Black Panther for a father. He relates the challenges his father faced while trying to raise each of the family's seven children amidst the dangers of the streets.

Explores the history of the deaf community in Baltimore.

Baltimore County narcotics officer Luther Ewing's life is turned upside-down when someone shoots him and he finds himself involved in a joint operation with sexy DEA agent Francesca Russo.

Journalist Darryl Billups, having been promoted to an editing job, returns to the streets as a reporter and unwittingly places himself in the orbit of a serial killer when he sets out to investigate the murders of young African-American professionals in Baltimore.

When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora's attention.