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Oz

Oz (1997–2003)

Life's not a word. It's a sentence.

Release:1997–2003
Seasons:6
Country:United States
Director:Jim Finnerty, Barry Levinson
Language:English

Genre

CrimeDrama
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Keywords

PrisonExperimentdystopiarevengebetrayalRacismDrugsInmate
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Oz rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

TMDb8.057/10· 838 votes

About Oz

The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.

Cast of Oz

  • Lee Tergesen

    Lee Tergesen

    as Tobias Beecher

  • Harold Perrineau

    Harold Perrineau

    as Augustus Hill

  • Dean Winters

    Dean Winters

    as Ryan O'Reily

  • Eamonn Walker

    Eamonn Walker

    as Kareem Saïd

  • Ernie Hudson

    Ernie Hudson

    as Leo Glynn

  • Terry Kinney

    Terry Kinney

    as Tim McManus

  • Rita Moreno

    Rita Moreno

    as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo

  • J.K. Simmons

    J.K. Simmons

    as Vernon Schillinger

  • Kirk Acevedo

    Kirk Acevedo

    as Miguel Alvarez

  • Craig muMs Grant

    Craig muMs Grant

    as Poet

  • BD Wong

    BD Wong

    as Father Ray Mukada

  • Tom Mardirosian

    Tom Mardirosian

    as Agamemnon Busmalis

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026MethodologyData sources

Episodes: 56
Ep. length: 58m

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