Liberty Heights is a 1999 comedy-drama film by writer-director Barry Levinson. It is a semi-autobiographical account of his childhood growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s. It is the fourth in Levinson's series of four "Baltimore Films" "? Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999) "? all set in his hometown during the 1940s, '50s and '60s.