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1) 8 mile
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English
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Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest of his days. With the help of his friends, and his new...
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Follows the McLusky family, power brokers who deal with systematic racism, corruption, and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan.
From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, and Hugh Dillon, it follows the McLusky family-power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their...
3) Gran Torino
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English
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Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Kathy, a 30-year-old, modern woman who is extremely happy living the city life is asked by her parents, the owners of Michigan's historic Holly Hotel, to return home for Christmas. In NYC she had it all, the right apartment, plenty of Wall Street suitors, and her own career as a food critic. But what seemed like the life of her dreams gets cloudy when she returns home as she reconnects with family, finds a career that sparks her passion, and falls...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1950s Detroit, the movie centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes wrong, their search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family - power brokers in Kingstown, Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systematic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither. --container
9) Detroit
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Amidst the chaos of the Detroit Rebellion, with the city under curfew and as the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel.
10) The man
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
Description
ATF agent Derrick Vann's partner, who happened to be corrupt, has been killed after a cache of guns were stolen from the ATF office in Detroit. Internal affairs believe Derrick was in on the gun theft, forcing him to go off on his own to bring the bad guys to justice. At the same time, dental supply salesman Andy Fiddler happens to be in Detroit for a business convention. During the course of investigating who is responsible for his partner's death,...
11) Semi-pro
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1970s, Flint, Michigan. Jackie Moon is a former pop sensation who somehow made enough money from a couple of hit records to buy Flint's semi-pro basketball team, the Tropics. The team consists of a bunch of disorganized losers with one genuine talent named Coffee Black. Despite knowing little about the game, Jackie is the Tropics' coach as well as a player. His greater love involves coming up with bizarre marketing stunts to draw in an audience. His...
12) Flint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
LeeAnne Walters, Melissa Mays, and Nayyirah Shariff join forces after discovering that the drinking water in their city is contaminated, resulting in a slew of devastating medical problems for their families. When their claims go unheeded, they band together to expose the wrongdoings committed by their government officials, whose carelessness caused irrevocable harm to the lives of the city's residents.
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English
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In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three men fight to build something lasting for themselves and future generations.
Shot over three years in the neighborhoods of Detroit, STREET FIGHTING MEN is a story of hard work, faith and manhood in a community left to fend for itself. The film takes a deep, observational dive into the lives of three African American men: retired
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2007.
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English
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Devastated over his breakup with his girlfriend, Carter Webb leaves Los Angeles to stay with his ailing Grandmother in her suburban Detroit home. Across the street lives the Hardwicke family. As Carter struggles to reconcile his own inner conflicts, he is drawn into the pains and loves of the Hardwicke women. All the Hardwicke women, in their way, fall in love with Carter. Each woman, in her own way, helps Carter find his way back.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Though a work of fantasy, few realize that Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic was actually inspired by real-life witness testimony, as well as a series of UFO sightings in Michigan in the summer of 1966. Separate science fact from science fiction as government documents are re-examined and old witness testimonies are put to the test using modern technology.
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English
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In 1962, Larry Kroger and Kent Dorfman are freshman in college. They want to join a fraternity. After visiting several, including the snobby Omega house, they come to a Delta house pledge party. Here they meet the handsome, but compulsive womanizer Otter, his best friend Boone, Boone's girlfriend Katy, the daring thrill-seeker D-Day, the ever responsible Hoover, and slacker Bluto. They are accepted into the fraternity and join in on the wild toga...
17) Flash of genius
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shun him. Ignored, threatened and then buried in years of litigation, Bob...
19) Burn
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Documents a year in the life of Detroit fire fighters as they face constant struggles with shrinking budgets and a high rate of arson.
20) Exit wounds
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
After going against orders and saving the life of the Vice President of the United States, Detroit detective Orin Boyd is moved to a new preceinct and busted down to traffic cop. Boyd's new preceinct is filled with police corruption. He becomes friends with a street-smart dotcom hustler who may or may not be his ally.
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