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Stories Set in Maryland
The Wire's corners, naval-academy drama and Chesapeake sailing towns — Maryland mixes urban grit with waterfront ease. Its stories dock from Baltimore to Annapolis.
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Browse 137 books, 97 movies, 5 TV shows and 5 games set in Maryland.

The Shape of Water
An other-worldly story set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962 where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him…

The Wire
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining…

Step Up
Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer Nora.

The Blair Witch Project
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville Maryland while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

Charm City Kings
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader Blax takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing Mouse soon finds himself…

Step Up 2: The Streets
When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the schools hottest dancer…

Hairspray
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame she becomes determined to help her friends and…

Sleepless in Seattle
When Sam Baldwin's wife dies he is left to bring up his eight-year-old son Jonah alone and decides to move to Seattle to make a new start. On Christmas Eve Jonah rings a radio phone-in with his Christmas wish to find a…

Something the Lord Made
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

The Raven
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
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