The Detroit Collection
Detroit has become synonomous with urban dysfunction. But this is a superficial reading of the the past 50 years. In this collection of films spanning five decades and with multiple focal points, a vibrant and militant city emerges -- a community that has faced severe challenges, and has risen up, again and again, to meet those challenges. These films will change the way you think about the Motor City.
The Detroit Collection includes the following titles:
Finally Got the NewsThe classic film about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, one of the most significant expressions of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s
Taking Back DetroitIn 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.
The Water FrontIn Highland Park, MI an unelected, state-appointed Emergency Financial Manager with quasi dictatorial authority sees water privatization as key to economic recovery.
We Are Not GhostsDetroiters are reinventing the old Motor City as a vibrant new self-sustaining and human-scaled city for a post industrial world.
DetropiaAcademy 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.
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