Year 2015 Video Release 2016-02-02 Studio HBO Home Entertainment Genre TV Miniseries MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future. From creator David Simon HBO's Treme and The Wire and director Paul Haggis Crash , and based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin, the six-part HBO Miniseries presentation Show Me a Hero explores notions of home, race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists and ordinary citizens in Yonkers, NY.