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A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
A revolution stirs when a gang of frustrated rebels plots urban mayhem for the citizens and cops of Detroit. Opposing factions of thugs, police and residents search for their own ways of coping with the misery of violence, racial tension and poverty.
Edzard is on his way from Berlin to Braunschweig to visit his family. During the trip the reason of his visit becomes clear, or doesn't it? During the trip he meets several people, most of them more than once. How this is possible becomes not quite clear until the end.
Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
The Whites Stripes live at The Detroit Institute of Arts, November 2, 2001. Filmed in the Rivera Court.
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
Plant pot dropped from the sky. What is Detroit and what is Ukulele?
WHEN HIS PARENTS ARE BETRAYED AND CONSPIRED AGAINST, THEY’RE LEFT WITH NOTHING. A YOUNG TONY MUST DO AWAY WITH HIS ENTITLEMENT, THEN USE BOTH HIS PARENTS’ TEACHINGS AND EXPERIENCES TO REGAIN THEIR FORTUNE AND RESTORE HIS POSITION AS THE PRINCE OF DETROIT.
A view at two cities far from each other – Bochum and Detroit – which face huge challenges after the departure of the automobile industry. The industry disappears, what stays are the people. In the end there is a journey into the hearts of the citizens of both cities who, after the end of the industrial age, search for a new identity. What unites them despite all differences, is the desire for a dignified and happy life.
Her name's Jazz. Her broken voice resonnates every thursday night in Detroit, in the same club, for the same people.
A documentary exploring the rise and fall of Detroit. Compiling historical footage and interviews with the city's residents, this meditative documentary looks at a city reclaimed by nature and resettled by 21st century urban pioneers.
Recorded Live at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI, USA November 24, 1990
Detroit We Dey examines the history of Detroit social clubs that were founded by a community of Igbo-Nigerians in the ’70s and ’80s, questioning how the next generation will carry its traditions into the future.
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an amusement park nestled in the waters between the US and Canada. When the vessel comes under threat of ruin, a doctor, psychic and amusement park fanatic unite to save their beloved steamship from the scrapyard. Interweaving local lore and mythology, "Boblo Boats" explores the whitewashed history of amusement parks and one crew's crusade to bring back the memories.
This triptych contains moving portraits from a film produced as part of a lawsuit against the city of Detroit, filed by protesters after police inflicted horrific violence against them. The original film relied primarily on body camera footage. The three screens in this installation depict protesters one year later, standing fearlessly in spaces where they were brutalized by police, as audio reveals the violence still echoing in their heads and a voice-over narrates why they continue to protest.
The Stooges, also known as Iggy and The Stooges, is an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan, first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003. Although they sold few records in their original incarnation, and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences, the Stooges are widely regarded as instrumental in the rise of punk rock, as well as influential to alternative rock, heavy metal and rock music at large. The Stooges were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them 78th on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
Before its economic decline, Detroit was a major metropolis. Now, in the 2000s, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. Johnny Knoxville tours the city to meet some of the people who are creating a new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity.
An ambitious Lebanese-American youth is forced to take over his family's gas station after his father's death, in this spirited and often hilarious coming-of-age tale from first-time feature director Rola Nashef.