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An incredibly well produced documentary of the famous Detroit department store chain from its beginning. It appears that it was produced as an internal training film but is rich with historic scenes of Detroit and interesting little known facts about the city.

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In the once-thriving city of Detroit, we start to dig underneath the decay of the automobile industry and discover a well rich in art and culture cultivating underneath. Just as the wheel is the symbol of Detroit's past the cyclic shape of it reminds us that life repeats itself and has potential for rebirth.

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Detroit. A city the whole world seems to have given up on, with an art museum any city in the world would be proud to call their own. In this new documentary, Dir. Graham Beal and the DIA staff, while struggling to make the Detroit Institute of Arts relevant

Life in Osborn is the story of hope for one of Detroit?s most-blighted neighborhoods. Chronicling the efforts of the Detroit-based non-profit Life Remodeled to make a sustainable difference in the northeast Detroit community that once was the most violent ZIP Code in the United States

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Soul Skate 2018

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Soul Skate is the roller disco that?s central to Detroit?s cultural legacy. This new documentary from Carhartt WIP, NTS and Dazed takes a look inside the world of the iconic bi-annual party.

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Strengthening the basic unity of this community is still a work in progress... 50 years later. But there's important work being done in our city.

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Reviving Detroit looks at how the city went from the richest in the U.S. to the most poverty stricken. Detroit?s population is at nearly a quarter of what it was at its peak, and despite a recent wave of gentrification, the city is still struggling with rampant crime, a failing school system and swaths of vacant land.

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