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      Is City on a Hill a True Story? - The Cinemaholic
      • ‘City on a Hill’ is based partially on a true story. The show tells a fictional story; however, the backdrop it is set against is very much real. It also incorporates certain real incidents, fictionalizing them to best suit the show’s narrative.
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  2. Mar 27, 2021 · ‘City on a Hill’ is based partially on a true story. The show tells a fictional story; however, the backdrop it is set against is very much real. It also incorporates certain real incidents, fictionalizing them to best suit the show’s narrative.

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      Is The Town a True Story? ‘The Town’ is not based on a true...

  3. Jun 16, 2019 · The story in City on a Hill unfolds in the aftermath of this real-life crime, in a Boston rife with tension in the wake of a murderous racial hoax. Here’s the story behind the murder that...

  4. Jun 12, 2019 · City on a Hill takes a dramatized approach to telling the Boston Miracle's origin story. The show opens when the city's homicide rate was at its highest.

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    • Was The Series Actually Shot in Boston?
    • Who Are The Main Characters Based on?
    • What About The Armored Car Robbers?
    • How Do The Charles Stuart Case and ‘The Boston Miracle’ Tie in?
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    Just like the story of “City on a Hill” is only loosely based on real events, the physical location of the show is only partially real Boston; the lion’s share of the production took place in New York. The first episode, however, was shot almost completely in Massachusetts, with filming in Boston, Chelsea, Lynn, Medford, Newton, Quincy, and Revere....

    The show centers around unscrupulous FBI investigator Rohr and up-and-coming assistant district attorney Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge, “Hidden Figures”) as they join forces to bring down a gang of armored car robbers. Rohr is a loose cannon with a cocaine habit and a drinking problem, and he plays by his own rules. Ward is initially portrayed as an i...

    In 2010, Affleck directed “The Town,” a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. The return of the armored car narrative is no coincidence, as Affleck told The New York Timesthat “City on a Hill” came to be, in part, because of him “doing so much research for ‘The Town’ and not being able to tell the scope and scale of the story the r...

    The opening of “City on a Hill” begins with text prologue explaining the infamous Charles Stuart case. In 1989, Charles Stuart told authorities that a black man tried to rob him and his wife, Carol, fatally shooting Carol and wounding Charles. The case drew national attention, and Mayor Flynn ordered every available officer to the Mission Hill neig...

    “City on a Hill” has only been ordered for one season so far, but MacLean has plotted out five seasons’ worth of material. Affleck told The New York Timesthat the action will move from Charlestown to Roxbury for the season two, and then to other Boston neighborhoods with each season, similar to how HBO’s “The Wire” focused on a different facet of B...

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  5. Feb 20, 2024 · From the sounds of it, City On A Hill's characters are fictional, but they're set against the backdrop of 1990s Boston that rings pretty true to how things were.

  6. City on a Hill is an American crime drama television series created by Charlie MacLean, based on a story by Ben Affleck and MacLean. The series stars Kevin Bacon , Aldis Hodge , Amanda Clayton , Cathy Moriarty , Kevin Dunn , and Jill Hennessy .

  7. Jun 14, 2019 · City on a Hill is a period cop series about trying to change the system from within, and encountering resistance — sometimes deadly resistance — everywhere you turn.