City Confidential (1998–2006)

City Confidential features real life stories in a wide variety of American cities. While many of these stories deal with murder, some also deal with attempted murder, and public officials caught in compromising situations, among other things. The cities featured vary widely in size, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas.

Stars:

Paul Winfield, Keith David, Marc Wanamaker

Cast

Series cast summary:
Paul Winfield	...	Narrator (87 episodes, 1998-2004)
Keith David	...	Narrator (26 episodes, 2001-2005)

Storyline

City Confidential features real life stories in a wide variety of American cities. While many of these stories deal with murder, some also deal with attempted murder, and public officials caught in compromising situations, among other things. The cities featured vary widely in size, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas.

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Plot Keywords:

city | murder

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Genres:

Crime | Documentary

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Details

Official Sites:

A&E Television [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Empisteftiko

Company Credits

Production Co:

A&E Television Networks, Jupiter Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

50 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

User Reviews

It's the best show on television

Paul Winfield can make any small town or city fascinating. He could sell ice to Eskimos or anything else. The language and description of towns like Skidmore, Missouri, Fairbanks, Alaska, Seattle, Boston, Hunt Country, Virginia, Philadelphia, St. Augustine, Florida, and Salem, Massachusetts can entice people to visit these places and buy the books about the famous crimes that have occurred there. He is a wonderful narrator of this show. He makes everything so trivial and mundane about these towns to be exotic and captivating. Winfield died and they replaced him with a narrator just as wonderful as Paul was in the role. Still it makes you wonder about your own hometown, what makes it special, unique and it's character to the other ones depicted on City Confidential. My favorite episode was Salem known for more than the witches. If you listen to his voice, it's like listening to poetry sometimes. He points out the irony and how a town will recover from it's crimes.