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Barber Shop - Ep 3: Detroit / USA
The car industry moved away to low-wage countries and over a million citizens left the city: ‘Motown’ became ‘Ghost town’. Barber Shop Detroit tells the story of nostalgia and pride against a background of economic recession.
First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes
Brothers On The Line
Narrated by Martin Sheen, Brothers On The Line is an award-winning documentary feature exploring the extraordinary journey of the Reuther brothers — prolific union organizers who led an army of laborers into an epic struggle for social justice.
Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 81 minutes
Detropia
Academy Award-shortlisted for Best Documentary, the film is a vivid portrait of Detroit, America's first major post-industrial city, as it struggles to deal with the consequences of a broken economic system.
Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 86 minutes
Far Off Sounds Ep 18 - Onyx Ashanti Programs Himself
Onyx Ashanti is a Detroit-based Afrofuturist.
Means TV | 2018 | 13 minutes
Far Off Sounds Ep 8 - Fish & Synths
Richard Kik maintains and studies the fish at Detroit's Belle Isle Aquarium.
Means TV | 2018 | 7 minutes
Finally Got the News
The classic film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, one of the most significant expressions of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s
Icarus Films | 1970 | 55 minutes
Hard to Swallow, Episode 2: There is No Authority without Hypocrisy
Tunde visits Chef Syrena Johnson and revisits his conversation with the journalist, reflecting further on the first episode’s interwoven storylines.
Collective Eye Films | 2024 | 30 minutes
Hard to Swallow, Episode 3: A Great White Hope
Tunde visits two of Detroit’s mayors: Dennis Archer, who blames Detroit’s collapse on his notorious successor Kwame Kilpatrick; and Mike Duggan, the first white mayor in fifty years.
Collective Eye Films | 2024 | 30 minutes
Taking Back Detroit
In the '70s and early '80s Detroit was the site of an unusual development in U.S. urban politics, as voters elected two socialists to citywide office. The film examines these people against the backdrop of a city in extreme economic crisis.
Icarus Films | 1980 | 55 minutes
We Are Not Ghosts
Detroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world. This title has one or more clips.
Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 52 minutes
