February 3rd, 1971, New York City cop Frank Serpico was shot in the face at a Brooklyn tenement.

It was the bitter, brutal end of a career spent battling the forces of corruption within the NYPD.

After joining the police department, Serpico soon discovered that his biggest enemy was not murderers, drug dealers, or armed robbers, but the NYPD itself.

Features interviews with Frank Serpico and Peter Maas, legendary author of the true-crime classic in his last on-camera interview before his death.