IT USED TO BE HOME OF
THE U.S AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY.
THE BIRTHPLACE OF MOWTOWN
THAT BOASTED A STABLE
BLACK MIDDLE CLASS POPULATION.
NOW THE JOBS HAVE GONE,
60,000 BUILDINGS LIE EMPTY.
AND BANKRUPTCY IS NOW
THE ONLY OPTION.
THIS FILM LOOKS AT THE KEY MOMENTS,THE
PEOPLE AND THE DRUGS
THAT PLAYED A PART IN THIS
CITY`S RISE AND FALL
The fall of Detroit is many ways the story of modern America. It was the place where you could see at first hand, America`s industrial might - especially in the realms the car industry. Employing many thousands directly, and thousands more indirectly... the city`s fortune was tied directly to it`s car manufacturing plants. But when the work went overseas..and the jobs was largely replaced by drugs things.. start to go downhill.
This film charts the sorry tale of Detroit, it`s highs and lows, the music, the people, the gangs, the undercover cops, lawyers, the assassins for hire, the politics, the middle class who left the city and what came to take it`s place. You will see many photographs and hear the stories of young men who were in their prime in the 1970s and 1980`s who never lived past their 20s... and by the 1990`s came around, Detroit bore little resemblance to the hustle and bustle of the 1960`s..... few who are left from time tell their stories how they survived the streets.
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