I love the way some of these clowns say "whites abandoned Detroit" as if they did something wrong. Ran out is more like it. The crime, violence and terrible schools ran my family out. You can get your purse snatched, robbed at gun point, have a knife pulled on you, spit at, have your bike stolen, so many times b/4 you just get tired of fighting back. It is easier to move away and let the inmates run the prison.
the juwel town..i would be very angry anout my parents and grandparents to spend all the money to shit and nothing to spend for the future.. but its enormous that almost every industrial town in the world has the problem with empty bulidings. but i think its an potencial for the future. its ressource that you can use for free! go in! use!
for whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equal, they will either destroy him or devour him, and they will destroy all his work; and so for any existing relationship or for any benefit to this people let white men from anywhere in the world who would come to help Africa remember that you must continually retain this status; you the master, and they the inferior, like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternise with them as equals, never accept them as as your
"That's the future"? A 2nd Africa, crime ridden, homicide a common occurrence? Jungle reclaiming cities, schools, factories, houses?
Sounds fucking fab......
No wonder after a lifetime of charity work in Africa, just prior to his death, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer stated “I have given my life to try to bring unto them the advantages which our civilisation must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status; white, the superior, and they the inferior,
Hi trulynot. I meant that Detroit itself built the strong motor industry. I have no idea if it was black or white. I'm sure that all contributed in some way. I understand that there is a LOT of poverty and divide, and in this case I do not think that it was caused by racism, but rather an economic choice of the stakeholders. However, desperation leads to anger and violence from all sides. It is a very sad documentary and highlights the result of corporate greed, or necessity as they would say.
Everything that has a beginning has an end... No city or empire can last forever, the same thing will eventually happen to New York and many other current cities in the future... People will just move on to bigger and better things..
Detroit bought us amazing music with Motown, and they made car history. Unfortunately the white trash still live there and bring the place down. Useless talentless out of work skinheads have done nothing but destroy what the Black people did. Sad. Very sad.
You have to die before you can have a requiem--Detroit is alive. I live here, unlike y'all and these dime a dozen European ''journalists.'' Of course the opening scenes are violent and scary...these people only made this documentary for the shock value. Detroit, contrary to popular journalist opinion, is not a post-apocalyptic hell.
@ShreddyTeddy You don't understand European documentary making. It tries to portray reality, unlike anything on american tv. You might think it presents a version of hell but this doc has finally made me want to go to the states. It seems like the most real, cultural, innovative city in usa. It shows how the companies and gov fucked you up and how the core population continue to live, rather than survive. Peace.
@gavanf True documentary film making depicts the truth whether it is European or American. For example Michael Moore is not a documentary film maker. He always has an agenda and promotes it in his films. If you think Europe is superior in portraying reality in films you are wrong. You sound as though you may be prejudiced against American documentaries. BTW, I think I would believe a guy who actually lives in Detroit before I would an outsider.
I highly enjoyed this. Great filming, angles and editing. It is not such a bad idea for the farms. I mean, if there is so many abandoned houses and lots, why not clear it out and get farming? Better than crack houses and dead bodies in abandoned houses. The Heidelberg Project is something I still need to get out and see. Also, pretty cool for those people being able to hang out that night at the train station. Most would get fined. Being from Michigan, I think this was a fantastic documentary.
the only thing that keeps detroit limping along is all the federal and state tax dollars that working people pony up. otherwise detroit would just like liberia or any other third world country.
I feel the story painted of Detroit that is not accurate. The documentary took an hour to show nothing but negativity about Detroit, and a whopping 10minutes about the positive. The community, grassroots programs, young adults, artists, and thinkers have been collaborating to make strides to changes in this city that I think were overlooked in this. As a young Detroiter I see nothing but potential for the city. Detroit can be the blueprint for how rust belt cities escape their past problems.
@ay8494 Be as optimistic as you wish, but cottage industries and urban agriculture can't economically support a city of over 800k. Detroit's decline is far from over.
Another very good BBC documentary, though near the end it got a bit unbearable with the "it's all someone else's fault" message that was being driven home.
The auto makers are not responsible for people committing crimes, doing drugs, landing in prison, buildings deteriorating and falling etc. Detroit has elected a long line of criminal politicians, that might have been an area the director showed a little more curiosity about - otherwise, very good doc
Told to watch this after my urban revival lecture today, amazing, just think of the stuff that's happening, urban and suburban areas returning to rural landscapes, incredible.
satan's way to take one from the Truth into imaginations...if one assembles a car all day long, one does not have time to reflect on the Truth...but one thinks about the machine...one lives for the machine....because of the love for isis ($) and the spell that that machine might hav one one....
it's good that it collapsed...too bad it took so long....
walk in the Way of Yahweh...it leads to Life...this world is passing away.....
@thisisjustme1 New Jersey was hit hard as well. Linden was hurt when GM closed their plant, and Mahwah and Edison when Ford closed their plants. Bruce Springsteen's song "Johnny 99" was inspired by the closing of the Mahwah plant.
Do a websearch for he poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley to see how all empires rise and fall. The line "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" comes from that poem.
I lived in Windsor, Canada right across from Detroit for 4 years as a foreign student, the first time I went to Detroit, I was told to fear for my life... but I threw caution to the wind and walked around downtown on a sunny Saturday afternoon, it was a ghost town, but the rich architecture spoke of a beautiful past, and paint a better future once people start moving back in when oil prices make the suburbs obsolete.
What comes up will come down, trust me, I know, I'm a Dubai native.
Not only did the people of Detriot fail themselves, but the rest of the country turned their back on them in their time of need. We ALL share blame to her demise.
Phenomenal documentary with some very knowledgeable commentaries on the decline of this once great city. It definitely made me miss living here primarily because of the commentary in the last five minutes by current residents.
This is really sad to see. I don't live in Detroit or Michigan but this to me is the same process that happens when someone gets cancer that is terminal. This poor city had so much and lost it all because of stupidity and greed. And the good people in that city did not ask for that.
As sad as it is I guess this should also be a wake up call to the rest of the country that this is what can happen when you have major companies suck the blood out of a city.
It's somewhat irritating to hear John Sinclair's comments in this documentary near the end, laughing about rebuilding Detroit. He probably would have spent another seven years in prison if not for the many people who supported him in the Detroit area. It's not like he even stayed here in Detroit. He moved to Europe. I may die tomorrow or I may die in forty years, but being a Detroiter, I'm still concerned about the future of Detroit.
Even though the City of Detroit has been in decline since I was just a little boy - this is MY city, this is YOUR city - there is nothing that will ever change that....
We lifelong Detroiters take a great deal of pride in this city, as we call it home.
t's a crying shame some of the most historic, and memorable places in the city have fallen into disrepair, been vandalized, and left to rot as only a distant memory of how great this city once was, yet never will be again - Tears flow
From rochester hills, story so accurate. What they dont tell you though is how Flint, Saginaw, and Pontiac are smaller versions of what happened to Detroit.
Tell me again how the big three destroyed Detroit, Flint , Pontiac and Saginaw by taking the wealth from these communities. The big three GAVE wealth to these communities and the Unions destroyed the big three
@jjrglobal You should watch Roger & Me by Michael Moore or read No Logo by Naomi Klein, it better explains the role unions played. The unions power has been weakened by the following:
-Plants closures due to these corporations moving to places like Mexico for production sites
-Change in labour market designed to increase the wealth of the elite by downgrading the manufacturing sector, increasing the low wage service sector, and the disappearance of intermediate levels of jobs.
I dont need to read Klein or watch Moore in order to know the truth, these two leftist idiots sure won't convince me of anything more than just how idiotic their beliefs are. Unions have destroyed every industry they have ever been involved in. If you're worth a damn at your job, why do you need someone else to speak on your behalf? I can do my own negotiating. I know I can't easily be replaced
Well a lot of ppl aren't worth a damn at their job anymore...but that's not their fault or the fault of the unions. The changing labour market now demands highly skilled levels of job and low wage service sector positions. All the managerial middle skill levels of work are disappearing and more people are forced to work at the retail sector for example. Under a neoliberal framework employment is at the mercy of big businesses which is a dangerous exploitative relationship
Thats the liberal mind set alright, no responsibility for anything. It IS your fault if your not good at your job, and no one elses. It IS your fault if you didn't study in school and go to college. Americans have every opportunity to become whatever they strive to become, so stop blaming everyone else for your OWN failures and get off your ass and try harder.
You're twisting my words. I never said its not your fault you suck at your job. I said its not your fault you're not worth a damn at your job anymore. I say this because the way the job sector has been restructured makes low-wage jobs more dominant and more precarious. You don't want to read leftist approach? fine. But the growing income inequality gaps are real
and Obama is powerless to this - he allows for more and more nuclear equipment to be made, but cannot even open his eyes to the very next state next to where he was raised. HOW PATHETIC im not even american but i feel so pissed off - imagine how you SHOULD feel.
they use way too much music in this. They Union tunes are great but they just seem to change song every 45 seconds for the sake of audio/visual connection.
Every large city in this country has its problems. As a former metro Detroiter who now lives in Chicago, all I can say is open your eyes and try to gain a different perspective. Vacant, abandoned buildings and lost youth are problems in every large city, including Chicago. Also, why are all the commentators artists, musicians and poets? Where are the academics? Where's the analytical point of view? BTW, there are better documentaries out there about Detroit.
Lived in the city for 35 years until we moved to the burbs. If it wern't for the state and federal tax dollars that flow in....Detroit would be about like Haiti or any other 3rd world country.
Sad seeing my old neighborhood (East English Village) which used to be so beautiful, now going to pot. I ran out of decent neighborhoods to move to in the city so we moved to the burbs. I wish Detroit luck, it needs it.
It's not whites fault that blacks started coming to Detroit, murdering/raping innocent people, burning buildings down. You can see the same shit in Africa. All society run by blacks turn to this. The government of Detroit/city council is nearly all black. Mayors/City officials have been convicted of trafficking drugs, laundering money, racketeering influenced corrupt organizations. THEY HOARD AND LEAVE THEIR PEOPLE TO STARVE AND DIE, JUST LIKE THE AFRICAN LEADERS WITH THEIR IVORY/GOLD PALACES.
@shabubala12345 Before anyone says ''oh they didn't rape and murder people back then'' Yes they did. Even back in the 1920s they did. For generations, black populations in America have fallen to chaos, and the finger always points to the white man. DON'T YOU SEE THE TREND? EVERY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD IN AMERICAS LIKE THIS. HOW ABOUT PHILLY? 40 PERCENT BLACK, 90 PERCENT BLACK MURDERERS. IF PHILLY/CHICAGO HAD AS BIG BLACK POPULATIONS AS DETROIT, THEY WOULD BE WAY WORSE. DETROIT ISN'T EVEN THAT BAD.
Detroit is a lose cause, best to get as much stimulus as you can and tear it down to create farm land. Only way Detroit can flourish once again is to get rid of the druggies that plague the streets. Tear it all down, dont give drugs a place to flourish bring it back to what was true, honest work "Farming". Get rid of the Corrupt Government and the Unions. We need to get back to small communities.
As a suburban Detroiter, this great doc gives me a greater appreciation for the city and its history. The BBC presents fascinating subject matter in a stylish way. This one really "hits close to home".
This is a great doc that, as a suburban Detroiter, gives me a greater appreciation for the city and its history. BBC always presents fascinating subject matter in a stylish way.
Attention White People: Be aware that if you have a clean police record you can legally own a CLASS 3 WEAPON. Any machine gun that was manufactured before August of 1986 can be legally transferred to U.S. citizens. The gun manufacturers knew years in advance that the shut off date was coming, so they manufactured and registered hundreds of thousands of lower receivers. Just apply at the BATF for a Machine Gun Tax Stamp, get finger printed, jump through their hoops, then go see a CLASS 3 dealer.
Detroit is the home to techno, and when I moved to Alaska, I brought that Detroit sound there to the local radio station. Be proud, stay in school, and help one another
@5150UK & @willgrant99 - It ain't Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman's Pakard as it says in the docu! Arg this is wrecking my head too! Would love to find out what the tune is!
Fuck all the idiots below me, I live in Ontario, Canada across the border and go to Detroit as often as I can, fascinating stuff... but they've been stepping up the teardown of the city so go while you can.
Great doc. I grew up in Michigan in a GM family and this is what molded me. This film hits the note. What would be great would be a Pt II that takes off on the last 15 minutes or so - about the New Detroit, one being constructed by the people who live there and refuse to give up, in spite of living in one of the most racist states in the US. Thanks to producers for giving time to Tyree Guyton, Invincible, Grace Lee Boggs, three of many protagonists of modern Detroit who are making a difference!
"Americans can laugh at the plight of cities like Cleveland and Detroit, that contributed so much to this nation's prosperity, but if they ignore them, they do so at their own peril." - Harvey Pekar (1939 - 2010)
And one more thing. The decline in American Auto Industry happend quite a while after Detriot whent to hell in a handcart. The American Auto Industry was in its heyday back about 1965 or so. By this time Detroit had alread started their decline as any type of a decent city. People were leaving the city as early as the early 1960's. So it had already started to become a dangerous place by that time. The decline in American Auto Industry really didn't begin in earnest till the late 1970's or so.
This video has it wrong for the most part but in today's world we must read between the lines to get to the truth. Most intelligent people know what happened to Detroit. Demographics! Plain and Simple. When the demographics of the city began to change from law-abiding productive people to something less, then Detroit started its downward spiral. The productive people moved away and left idiots like Coleman Young in charge. The result was predictable- Disaster. The truth! Live with it.
'Reading between the lines' of your specious argument, the inevitable conclusion is that you believe that whites who fled to the suburbs were "law-abiding productive people" and the blacks who stayed behind--usually without a choice--were "something less."
"The truth" is that the economic and social apartheid arrangement which formed the basis of the industrialization of Detroit came to its fruition under the decline of the economy. The video has it right.
@KentAZ58 Excrement! I know long term residents of Detroit. Detroit was a prosperous and decent city in 1945. It had the highest per capita income of any city in the country. As demographics changed in the 1950's and 1960's real changes began to happen in the crime rate and social despair. And this was at a time when the Auto makers were at their peak. No the problems of Detroit started way before the Auto makers problems. You couldn't be more wrong and you are delusional in your analysis.
My mother was born in Detroit in 1926. My wife is from Detroit and most of my in-laws and many friends still live there, so I too am familiar with the city and its history. Have you considered WHY the demographics changed? It wasn't merely because whites who were prospering in Detroit suddenly decided to become suburbanites. The '67 riots didn't occur simply because inner city blacks suddenly decided to revolt. Underlying causes involving the economy and racism were germane.
@KentAZ58 I also know people whose family history goes back further than 1926. But I do know why the demographics changed. When a certain class of people arrive who seem to have a pre-disposition for crimminal behavior, it makes for a very unpleasant situatution for those around them. Who enjoys getting robbed, assulted or worse. The Whites left because of the declining quality of life. So what caused the 65 Watts riots, or any number of other riots aross the USA? Same type of people.
@juscurious You're sick. You assume that blacks have a pre-disposition for criminal behavior. You have no idea where criminal behaviors come from. You have lost any credibility making an argument about race which is merely a social construction.
@Toka313 No I'm not sick. I'm actually quite well. I don't make assumptions, but rather look at hard facts and data. And I'm as non PC as you get so I'm not afraid to say what others shy away from. People from around the globe have different temperment and pre-dispositions. Anthropologists have known this for a very long time. The group in question is 2-1/2% of the populations of Great Britain yet commit over half the violent crime. And these folks were never slaves. Happens everywhere they go.
"I'm as non PC as you get so I'm not afraid to say what others shy away from."
I would describe your arguments as "non-SC" (non-scientifically correct). As another poster noted, race is an artificial, cultural construct. There is no genotype for race. Thus attempts to attribute behaviors and characteristics to a "race" are based on fallacy.
@KentAZ58 The idea that race is an artificial cultural construct is beyond absurd. Only a complete fool separated from any concept of a real world reality could accept such a premise. I've traveled world wide and that argument isn't accepted by anyone who doesn't have political motives. It only exists in fringe groups and on college campuses where that type of idiocy can survive. You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
"The group in question is 2-1/2% of the populations of Great Britain yet commit over half the violent crime. And these folks were never slaves. Happens everywhere they go."
Just who are "they"? Again you apparently believe in the erroneous concept of a racial genotype. And what is the point of the reference to slavery? No one in the U.S. has been in slavery since the mid-19th century. You seem to ignore the social and economic factors which contribute to crime.
@KentAZ58 In 19th Century England there were huge disparities of wealth and in absolute terms there was quite a bit of poverty. And yet the crime rate was incredibly low. The idea that crime is a product of economic factors is another lie. This has been proven false over and over again. Certain groups of VERY poor people can have very low crime rates. You have it backwards. Poverty DOESN"T cause Crime. Crime and crimminal behavior is what causes poverty. Case closed.
@juscurious I believe you are right. I found it interesting that during this entire film, they did not interview a single middle class Michigander. I mean the guy that called dots and rotten stuffed animals art is a bit loony. As for the Goodwill plug...I would have to say that it is great that they help individuals give back to their community. However, if you look at the economics of this situation, it would cost a whole lot less to pour funds into building strong family units not reclaimin
@Toka313 It's only criminal behavior when it takes place in our society. They can build their own and render any degenerate activity they want 'legal'. Oh yea no they can't that's the point!
"A certain class of people [...] who seem to have a pre-disposition for criminal behavior"??? What is the scientific basis for your (absurd) argument?
'People from around the globe have different temperment and pre-dispositions. Anthropologists have known this for a very long time."
Specifics? References?? You sound like an early 20th century eugenics proponent. Are you by chance a fan of the book "The Bell Curve" (Murray & Herrnstein)?
@KentAZ58 So in a mere 500 characters I'm supposed to give the scientific basis for my general comments? How could I do that. I'm not a eugenics proponent but to make the assumptions that there would be no variability in the human species is beyond absurd. It happens in the animal kingdom all the time and it's readily accepted. So why shouldn't it happen with humans? So world wide we have variability in all kinds of physical characteristics. Why not temperment? Why should that be different?
I grew up in Royal Oak (a suburb mentioned in the film), just 2 miles north of Detroit. This documentary is fantastic and really paints a vivid picture of Detroit and it's dense history. I love BBC and it was great to see them take on such personal subject matter.
This was absolutely riveting. Somehow this film made me feel like I now know Detroit better than I know my own home town. Fascinating work and one of the best documentaries I have ever had the privilege to watch. This should be at least nominated for any awards it is eligible to win and should probably win too. I feel very sad yet hopeful for America at this moment.
can anyone tell me the name of a track that is used for this documentary please?
1:00:50 into this a guy is talking about the underground music scene, and chats about richie hawtins (aka 'plastikman') pakard track, but it certainly is not the track which is playing. i remember it from back in the day, but cant trace it...
@dylant79 Eminem is the artist. '8mile' is the movie that the song originally plays on. 'Lose Yourself' is the title of the song; the first rap/hip hop song to win an Academy Award.
@5150UK thanks blud. i had an inkiling it wasnt 8mile. still. i really remeber this from 'back in the day' in grimy clubs in the 90's. just shows that a good tune is timeless..
A bit too fast paced, generalization riddled, and filled with "one man's opinion" snippets(rendering it not a true documentary), but basically accurate and a worthy effort. Truly thought provoking. In spite of the cliche Eminem soundtrack(!).
too much ruins porn. Packard Plant closed in 1958, not recent by any stretch of the imagination. Detroit is being depopulated, but many of the people still living there are the best people you'll ever meet.
MMMM, poverty porn...there are still some 700,000 people living and working in the city. Perhaps this documentary should have attempted to understand what they do with their lives.
Excellent documentary, somewhat dismayed that it is not yet playing in the states. I'm from the suburbs and i've seen many of these areas and want nothing more than Detroit to again prosper as it did in the 40's. However i feel this video offers much doom and gloom with very little of what can be done to help resolve the underlying issues.
There's the famous cabaret singer Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson playing the piano at 0:19:23. Pity they don't have him singing "Let's Do It" at that point, rather than Louis Armstrong's "La Vie en Rose"! Great to see this brilliant documentary here, as I missed it on TV and the BBC take things off the iPlayer so soon.
This was an absolutely stunningly good documentary. I still live in the suburbs of Detroit and frequently drive through many of these areas seen during this film. After everything that has happened. I feel quite optimistic that this city has a future and will once again rise, but it will take time before everyone sees the path that needs to be taken to get there. Here is hoping we can turn it around and build a future there.
@DarkJediHawkeye I disagree. In my opinion, the Michigan population has been so deprived of substance for decades that they now cling to any heavily slanted media piece that gives them character and substance. I think it is time for people, not only in Detroit, but across the nation to pull their heads out of the ground and start living a life worthy of Life. Be responsible, do the difficult but just thing, or go one further and put yourself second and other first. Convert the city 1 by 1.
@zvonimirbulaja I do not think you understood the underlying premise of this film. Liberal Plant Media, or Trees over people, or maybe batty seniors full of partially true thoughts and the other half filled with delusion. I mean, personally I latched on to the history and triumph of the people. And what really got me hooked was the fact that I too am a product of the Michigan Auto Workers livelihood. The film draws you into with pitty and pumps you full of hope...but for what? Utopia
yah yah, good visuals. Grew up near Detroit, was hanging there last year. I have a gripe with the pop cultural interjections. Eminem is despised on the real in Detroit. He is more of a Hollywood prop. They use his songs to represent, but it's only for those aging kids to latch onto. For those that think a white rapper sums up Detroits peril, then you are believing a lie. Oh yeah, it's from the BBC. A bunch of milk toast coach cozies experiencing their own imposition.
I love the way some of these clowns say "whites abandoned Detroit" as if they did something wrong. Ran out is more like it. The crime, violence and terrible schools ran my family out. You can get your purse snatched, robbed at gun point, have a knife pulled on you, spit at, have your bike stolen, so many times b/4 you just get tired of fighting back. It is easier to move away and let the inmates run the prison.
myfletcher 1 year ago
the juwel town..i would be very angry anout my parents and grandparents to spend all the money to shit and nothing to spend for the future.. but its enormous that almost every industrial town in the world has the problem with empty bulidings. but i think its an potencial for the future. its ressource that you can use for free! go in! use!
hakenstreet 1 year ago
social equals; or they will devour you; they will destroy you."
“I have given my life to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is
something that all white men who have lived here, must learn and know;
that these individuals are a sub-race; they have neither the intellectual,
mental or emotional abilities to equate or share in any of the functions
of our civilisation.”
When will the White Man learn...
bhibatsu 1 year ago
for whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equal, they will either destroy him or devour him, and they will destroy all his work; and so for any existing relationship or for any benefit to this people let white men from anywhere in the world who would come to help Africa remember that you must continually retain this status; you the master, and they the inferior, like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternise with them as equals, never accept them as as your
bhibatsu 1 year ago
"That's the future"? A 2nd Africa, crime ridden, homicide a common occurrence? Jungle reclaiming cities, schools, factories, houses?
Sounds fucking fab......
No wonder after a lifetime of charity work in Africa, just prior to his death, Nobel Prize winner Dr. Albert Schweitzer stated “I have given my life to try to bring unto them the advantages which our civilisation must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status; white, the superior, and they the inferior,
bhibatsu 1 year ago
Hi trulynot. I meant that Detroit itself built the strong motor industry. I have no idea if it was black or white. I'm sure that all contributed in some way. I understand that there is a LOT of poverty and divide, and in this case I do not think that it was caused by racism, but rather an economic choice of the stakeholders. However, desperation leads to anger and violence from all sides. It is a very sad documentary and highlights the result of corporate greed, or necessity as they would say.
101pigeons 1 year ago
Everything that has a beginning has an end... No city or empire can last forever, the same thing will eventually happen to New York and many other current cities in the future... People will just move on to bigger and better things..
MoPete15 1 year ago
Detroit is my favorite African republic
elfchimp 1 year ago
Check out the new HeartAche & Pain Music Video by Detroit's own Seville Ft. L.B. on youtube
rautry05 1 year ago
Detroit bought us amazing music with Motown, and they made car history. Unfortunately the white trash still live there and bring the place down. Useless talentless out of work skinheads have done nothing but destroy what the Black people did. Sad. Very sad.
sillyduffers 1 year ago
@sillyduffers Black people built up the motor industry ?
trulynot 1 year ago
I don't want this shit to work. I hate it!
My sentiments exactly.
badnewswade 1 year ago
You have to die before you can have a requiem--Detroit is alive. I live here, unlike y'all and these dime a dozen European ''journalists.'' Of course the opening scenes are violent and scary...these people only made this documentary for the shock value. Detroit, contrary to popular journalist opinion, is not a post-apocalyptic hell.
ShreddyTeddy 1 year ago
@ShreddyTeddy You don't understand European documentary making. It tries to portray reality, unlike anything on american tv. You might think it presents a version of hell but this doc has finally made me want to go to the states. It seems like the most real, cultural, innovative city in usa. It shows how the companies and gov fucked you up and how the core population continue to live, rather than survive. Peace.
gavanf 1 year ago 6
@gavanf True documentary film making depicts the truth whether it is European or American. For example Michael Moore is not a documentary film maker. He always has an agenda and promotes it in his films. If you think Europe is superior in portraying reality in films you are wrong. You sound as though you may be prejudiced against American documentaries. BTW, I think I would believe a guy who actually lives in Detroit before I would an outsider.
spyguys 1 year ago
detroiters are still crying racism. despite it being run by blacks for over 50 years.
garand 1 year ago
too much eminem
feelthelove17 1 year ago
@feelthelove17 agreed, where's the black milk? good to see finale and invincible, woulda been better to hear them speak...
remotedt 1 year ago
Barely a mention of union extortion, no mention of 30+ years of Democrat mayors and the effect of the massive welfare programs.
Unions and welfare programs got this city hooked on handouts, then blamed it's collapse on the auto makers.
Pathetic, and typical of the BBC.
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For an alternative view, watch this video, which explains the REAL cause of the city's decline: watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw
LibertyDownUnder 1 year ago
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@LibertyDownUnder haha, truth hurts, doesn't it?
gavanf 1 year ago
great job of this film teams.
frankchentaiwan 1 year ago
I highly enjoyed this. Great filming, angles and editing. It is not such a bad idea for the farms. I mean, if there is so many abandoned houses and lots, why not clear it out and get farming? Better than crack houses and dead bodies in abandoned houses. The Heidelberg Project is something I still need to get out and see. Also, pretty cool for those people being able to hang out that night at the train station. Most would get fined. Being from Michigan, I think this was a fantastic documentary.
DeadlyCreatures 1 year ago
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sknygrydg07 1 year ago
the only thing that keeps detroit limping along is all the federal and state tax dollars that working people pony up. otherwise detroit would just like liberia or any other third world country.
rosevillefool 1 year ago 4
I feel the story painted of Detroit that is not accurate. The documentary took an hour to show nothing but negativity about Detroit, and a whopping 10minutes about the positive. The community, grassroots programs, young adults, artists, and thinkers have been collaborating to make strides to changes in this city that I think were overlooked in this. As a young Detroiter I see nothing but potential for the city. Detroit can be the blueprint for how rust belt cities escape their past problems.
ay8494 1 year ago
@ay8494 Be as optimistic as you wish, but cottage industries and urban agriculture can't economically support a city of over 800k. Detroit's decline is far from over.
veganthrope 1 year ago
Another very good BBC documentary, though near the end it got a bit unbearable with the "it's all someone else's fault" message that was being driven home.
The auto makers are not responsible for people committing crimes, doing drugs, landing in prison, buildings deteriorating and falling etc. Detroit has elected a long line of criminal politicians, that might have been an area the director showed a little more curiosity about - otherwise, very good doc
mollkatles 1 year ago 3
Told to watch this after my urban revival lecture today, amazing, just think of the stuff that's happening, urban and suburban areas returning to rural landscapes, incredible.
CillBill91 1 year ago
satan's way to take one from the Truth into imaginations...if one assembles a car all day long, one does not have time to reflect on the Truth...but one thinks about the machine...one lives for the machine....because of the love for isis ($) and the spell that that machine might hav one one....
it's good that it collapsed...too bad it took so long....
walk in the Way of Yahweh...it leads to Life...this world is passing away.....
YAHWEHisperfect 1 year ago
@YAHWEHisperfect ...oookeeey...
applepiewithtoast 1 year ago
Enjoy Detroit
num1ksfan 1 year ago
The UAW killed michigan, not just detroit
electrohacker 1 year ago
Surreal. I didn't know the situation was that bad. Eye opener.
thisisjustme1 1 year ago
@thisisjustme1 New Jersey was hit hard as well. Linden was hurt when GM closed their plant, and Mahwah and Edison when Ford closed their plants. Bruce Springsteen's song "Johnny 99" was inspired by the closing of the Mahwah plant.
MrUnidyne 1 year ago
Do a websearch for he poem "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley to see how all empires rise and fall. The line "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" comes from that poem.
MrUnidyne 1 year ago
I lived in Windsor, Canada right across from Detroit for 4 years as a foreign student, the first time I went to Detroit, I was told to fear for my life... but I threw caution to the wind and walked around downtown on a sunny Saturday afternoon, it was a ghost town, but the rich architecture spoke of a beautiful past, and paint a better future once people start moving back in when oil prices make the suburbs obsolete.
What comes up will come down, trust me, I know, I'm a Dubai native.
cow777 1 year ago
Probably one of the most accurate portrayals of what life is REALLY like in Detroit. Amazing documentary.
vivorisayamorxoxo 1 year ago
Not only did the people of Detriot fail themselves, but the rest of the country turned their back on them in their time of need. We ALL share blame to her demise.
DennyDFW 1 year ago
This is ALL about the Frickin Union's especially the PUBLIC ONE"S and the TEAMSTERs and UAW.
kjell1653 1 year ago
DETROIT LIVES ~ Like a seed in the winter : )
Kymimom 1 year ago
DETROIT LIVES ~ Like a seed in the winter ! : )
Check out the YT videos about detroit Urban Farming
Kymimom 1 year ago
Phenomenal documentary with some very knowledgeable commentaries on the decline of this once great city. It definitely made me miss living here primarily because of the commentary in the last five minutes by current residents.
riktic 1 year ago
Such shit happens when the kikes got all the power over a country"s money system! Black-white friendship, unity against kikes!
hnemify 1 year ago
This is really sad to see. I don't live in Detroit or Michigan but this to me is the same process that happens when someone gets cancer that is terminal. This poor city had so much and lost it all because of stupidity and greed. And the good people in that city did not ask for that.
As sad as it is I guess this should also be a wake up call to the rest of the country that this is what can happen when you have major companies suck the blood out of a city.
Speaktok 1 year ago
where is robo cop when you need him
fancyman50 1 year ago
where is robo cop when you need him
fancyman50 1 year ago
so did the riots work?
did it imporove the lives of the people who live here?
no, nice work rioters.
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SvalbardJanMayen1976 1 year ago
this is what happens when you have a black city, chaos.
SvalbardJanMayen1976 1 year ago
Amazing this is my city and I love it. BBC rocks <3
shimq 1 year ago
It's somewhat irritating to hear John Sinclair's comments in this documentary near the end, laughing about rebuilding Detroit. He probably would have spent another seven years in prison if not for the many people who supported him in the Detroit area. It's not like he even stayed here in Detroit. He moved to Europe. I may die tomorrow or I may die in forty years, but being a Detroiter, I'm still concerned about the future of Detroit.
TheKingofRock 1 year ago 2
I live about forty minutes from the city, and just spent all day drving around and taking it all in. Very worth it.
04TGP 1 year ago
Even though the City of Detroit has been in decline since I was just a little boy - this is MY city, this is YOUR city - there is nothing that will ever change that....
We lifelong Detroiters take a great deal of pride in this city, as we call it home.
t's a crying shame some of the most historic, and memorable places in the city have fallen into disrepair, been vandalized, and left to rot as only a distant memory of how great this city once was, yet never will be again - Tears flow
RamboRed2007 1 year ago 2
From rochester hills, story so accurate. What they dont tell you though is how Flint, Saginaw, and Pontiac are smaller versions of what happened to Detroit.
TheCoolBand1 1 year ago 12
@TheCoolBand1
Tell me again how the big three destroyed Detroit, Flint , Pontiac and Saginaw by taking the wealth from these communities. The big three GAVE wealth to these communities and the Unions destroyed the big three
jjrglobal 1 year ago
@jjrglobal You should watch Roger & Me by Michael Moore or read No Logo by Naomi Klein, it better explains the role unions played. The unions power has been weakened by the following:
-Plants closures due to these corporations moving to places like Mexico for production sites
-Change in labour market designed to increase the wealth of the elite by downgrading the manufacturing sector, increasing the low wage service sector, and the disappearance of intermediate levels of jobs.
syrakoss 1 year ago
@syrakoss
I dont need to read Klein or watch Moore in order to know the truth, these two leftist idiots sure won't convince me of anything more than just how idiotic their beliefs are. Unions have destroyed every industry they have ever been involved in. If you're worth a damn at your job, why do you need someone else to speak on your behalf? I can do my own negotiating. I know I can't easily be replaced
jjrglobal 1 year ago
@jjrglobal
Well a lot of ppl aren't worth a damn at their job anymore...but that's not their fault or the fault of the unions. The changing labour market now demands highly skilled levels of job and low wage service sector positions. All the managerial middle skill levels of work are disappearing and more people are forced to work at the retail sector for example. Under a neoliberal framework employment is at the mercy of big businesses which is a dangerous exploitative relationship
syrakoss 1 year ago
@syrakoss
Its not your fault if you suck at your job???
Thats the liberal mind set alright, no responsibility for anything. It IS your fault if your not good at your job, and no one elses. It IS your fault if you didn't study in school and go to college. Americans have every opportunity to become whatever they strive to become, so stop blaming everyone else for your OWN failures and get off your ass and try harder.
jjrglobal 1 year ago
@jjrglobal
You're twisting my words. I never said its not your fault you suck at your job. I said its not your fault you're not worth a damn at your job anymore. I say this because the way the job sector has been restructured makes low-wage jobs more dominant and more precarious. You don't want to read leftist approach? fine. But the growing income inequality gaps are real
syrakoss 1 year ago
@TheCoolBand1 You are right about Flint, Saginaw and Pontiac. I think this whole state is ruined.
myfletcher 1 year ago
Sad.....
Jdub14000 1 year ago
and Obama is powerless to this - he allows for more and more nuclear equipment to be made, but cannot even open his eyes to the very next state next to where he was raised. HOW PATHETIC im not even american but i feel so pissed off - imagine how you SHOULD feel.
n64player9 1 year ago
they use way too much music in this. They Union tunes are great but they just seem to change song every 45 seconds for the sake of audio/visual connection.
707ismyareacode 1 year ago
For example, give Blueprint America; Beyond the Motor City by PBS a look.
This Blueprint series shines a light on many other American cities that are facing a plight similar to Detroit, such as Gary, IN, and Buffalo, NY.
pietrow13 1 year ago
Every large city in this country has its problems. As a former metro Detroiter who now lives in Chicago, all I can say is open your eyes and try to gain a different perspective. Vacant, abandoned buildings and lost youth are problems in every large city, including Chicago. Also, why are all the commentators artists, musicians and poets? Where are the academics? Where's the analytical point of view? BTW, there are better documentaries out there about Detroit.
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pietrow13 1 year ago
FREAKKYYY!!!!!!
gutsup42 1 year ago
the more these illegal immigrants keep penetrating our neighborhoods, the more white flight will take place.
it is happening here in whittier which was once a friendly all american town.
sardonicbynature 1 year ago
Lived in the city for 35 years until we moved to the burbs. If it wern't for the state and federal tax dollars that flow in....Detroit would be about like Haiti or any other 3rd world country.
Sad seeing my old neighborhood (East English Village) which used to be so beautiful, now going to pot. I ran out of decent neighborhoods to move to in the city so we moved to the burbs. I wish Detroit luck, it needs it.
myfletcher 1 year ago 2
It's not whites fault that blacks started coming to Detroit, murdering/raping innocent people, burning buildings down. You can see the same shit in Africa. All society run by blacks turn to this. The government of Detroit/city council is nearly all black. Mayors/City officials have been convicted of trafficking drugs, laundering money, racketeering influenced corrupt organizations. THEY HOARD AND LEAVE THEIR PEOPLE TO STARVE AND DIE, JUST LIKE THE AFRICAN LEADERS WITH THEIR IVORY/GOLD PALACES.
shabubala12345 1 year ago
@shabubala12345 Before anyone says ''oh they didn't rape and murder people back then'' Yes they did. Even back in the 1920s they did. For generations, black populations in America have fallen to chaos, and the finger always points to the white man. DON'T YOU SEE THE TREND? EVERY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD IN AMERICAS LIKE THIS. HOW ABOUT PHILLY? 40 PERCENT BLACK, 90 PERCENT BLACK MURDERERS. IF PHILLY/CHICAGO HAD AS BIG BLACK POPULATIONS AS DETROIT, THEY WOULD BE WAY WORSE. DETROIT ISN'T EVEN THAT BAD.
shabubala12345 1 year ago
@shabubala12345 I agee. There isn't a black run city in American that isn't a disaster. Sad but true.
myfletcher 1 year ago
Detroit is a lose cause, best to get as much stimulus as you can and tear it down to create farm land. Only way Detroit can flourish once again is to get rid of the druggies that plague the streets. Tear it all down, dont give drugs a place to flourish bring it back to what was true, honest work "Farming". Get rid of the Corrupt Government and the Unions. We need to get back to small communities.
InfantryGeek 1 year ago 2
As a suburban Detroiter, this great doc gives me a greater appreciation for the city and its history. The BBC presents fascinating subject matter in a stylish way. This one really "hits close to home".
sybobchillin 1 year ago
This is a great doc that, as a suburban Detroiter, gives me a greater appreciation for the city and its history. BBC always presents fascinating subject matter in a stylish way.
sybobchillin 1 year ago
This is a great doc that, as a suburban Detroiter, gives me a greater appreciation for the city and its recent history.
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moojeed 1 year ago
Detroit is the home to techno, and when I moved to Alaska, I brought that Detroit sound there to the local radio station. Be proud, stay in school, and help one another
collegeprof86 1 year ago
whats that electro song which plays when Logan x is on exploring?
willgrant99 1 year ago 2
@willgrant99 Architeq - Packard if it's the one I'm thinking of
5150UK 1 year ago
@5150UK & @willgrant99 - It ain't Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman's Pakard as it says in the docu! Arg this is wrecking my head too! Would love to find out what the tune is!
winni4tubes 1 year ago
@winni4tubes I know :) It's by an artist called Architeq!
5150UK 1 year ago
@5150UK Ah nice one m8! Didn't see the name Architeq there before the track name! Kudos to u! Tis goin' onto my set list as we speak!
winni4tubes 1 year ago
Shout out to my brotha froma nutha mutha, kelly Sopo!
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cbrown39xl 1 year ago
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this is future of any city or country infiltrated by niggers.
JOESGONNAKILLY0U 1 year ago
Fuck all the idiots below me, I live in Ontario, Canada across the border and go to Detroit as often as I can, fascinating stuff... but they've been stepping up the teardown of the city so go while you can.
Bottomless80Depths 1 year ago
the crime rate is high-- ya, well, it's only high if it happens to you... that seems to be the perfect line to sum up the American Dream
CandianBear 1 year ago
Great doc. I grew up in Michigan in a GM family and this is what molded me. This film hits the note. What would be great would be a Pt II that takes off on the last 15 minutes or so - about the New Detroit, one being constructed by the people who live there and refuse to give up, in spite of living in one of the most racist states in the US. Thanks to producers for giving time to Tyree Guyton, Invincible, Grace Lee Boggs, three of many protagonists of modern Detroit who are making a difference!
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el1head 1 year ago
This Doc is great. really poignant. Some really cheesy video/audio clips in it though.
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"Americans can laugh at the plight of cities like Cleveland and Detroit, that contributed so much to this nation's prosperity, but if they ignore them, they do so at their own peril." - Harvey Pekar (1939 - 2010)
Best scene: 34:36
MrUnidyne 1 year ago
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MrUnidyne 1 year ago
the Renaissance Center looks like its the ministry of truth from 1984.
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MrUnidyne 1 year ago
And one more thing. The decline in American Auto Industry happend quite a while after Detriot whent to hell in a handcart. The American Auto Industry was in its heyday back about 1965 or so. By this time Detroit had alread started their decline as any type of a decent city. People were leaving the city as early as the early 1960's. So it had already started to become a dangerous place by that time. The decline in American Auto Industry really didn't begin in earnest till the late 1970's or so.
juscurious 1 year ago
This video has it wrong for the most part but in today's world we must read between the lines to get to the truth. Most intelligent people know what happened to Detroit. Demographics! Plain and Simple. When the demographics of the city began to change from law-abiding productive people to something less, then Detroit started its downward spiral. The productive people moved away and left idiots like Coleman Young in charge. The result was predictable- Disaster. The truth! Live with it.
juscurious 1 year ago 2
@juscurious
'Reading between the lines' of your specious argument, the inevitable conclusion is that you believe that whites who fled to the suburbs were "law-abiding productive people" and the blacks who stayed behind--usually without a choice--were "something less."
"The truth" is that the economic and social apartheid arrangement which formed the basis of the industrialization of Detroit came to its fruition under the decline of the economy. The video has it right.
KentAZ58 1 year ago
@KentAZ58 Excrement! I know long term residents of Detroit. Detroit was a prosperous and decent city in 1945. It had the highest per capita income of any city in the country. As demographics changed in the 1950's and 1960's real changes began to happen in the crime rate and social despair. And this was at a time when the Auto makers were at their peak. No the problems of Detroit started way before the Auto makers problems. You couldn't be more wrong and you are delusional in your analysis.
juscurious 1 year ago 2
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KentAZ58 1 year ago
@juscurious
My mother was born in Detroit in 1926. My wife is from Detroit and most of my in-laws and many friends still live there, so I too am familiar with the city and its history. Have you considered WHY the demographics changed? It wasn't merely because whites who were prospering in Detroit suddenly decided to become suburbanites. The '67 riots didn't occur simply because inner city blacks suddenly decided to revolt. Underlying causes involving the economy and racism were germane.
KentAZ58 1 year ago
@KentAZ58 I also know people whose family history goes back further than 1926. But I do know why the demographics changed. When a certain class of people arrive who seem to have a pre-disposition for crimminal behavior, it makes for a very unpleasant situatution for those around them. Who enjoys getting robbed, assulted or worse. The Whites left because of the declining quality of life. So what caused the 65 Watts riots, or any number of other riots aross the USA? Same type of people.
juscurious 1 year ago
@juscurious You're sick. You assume that blacks have a pre-disposition for criminal behavior. You have no idea where criminal behaviors come from. You have lost any credibility making an argument about race which is merely a social construction.
Toka313 1 year ago
@Toka313 No I'm not sick. I'm actually quite well. I don't make assumptions, but rather look at hard facts and data. And I'm as non PC as you get so I'm not afraid to say what others shy away from. People from around the globe have different temperment and pre-dispositions. Anthropologists have known this for a very long time. The group in question is 2-1/2% of the populations of Great Britain yet commit over half the violent crime. And these folks were never slaves. Happens everywhere they go.
juscurious 1 year ago
@juscurious
"I'm as non PC as you get so I'm not afraid to say what others shy away from."
I would describe your arguments as "non-SC" (non-scientifically correct). As another poster noted, race is an artificial, cultural construct. There is no genotype for race. Thus attempts to attribute behaviors and characteristics to a "race" are based on fallacy.
KentAZ58 1 year ago
@KentAZ58 The idea that race is an artificial cultural construct is beyond absurd. Only a complete fool separated from any concept of a real world reality could accept such a premise. I've traveled world wide and that argument isn't accepted by anyone who doesn't have political motives. It only exists in fringe groups and on college campuses where that type of idiocy can survive. You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
juscurious 1 year ago
@juscurious
"The group in question is 2-1/2% of the populations of Great Britain yet commit over half the violent crime. And these folks were never slaves. Happens everywhere they go."
Just who are "they"? Again you apparently believe in the erroneous concept of a racial genotype. And what is the point of the reference to slavery? No one in the U.S. has been in slavery since the mid-19th century. You seem to ignore the social and economic factors which contribute to crime.
KentAZ58 1 year ago
@KentAZ58 In 19th Century England there were huge disparities of wealth and in absolute terms there was quite a bit of poverty. And yet the crime rate was incredibly low. The idea that crime is a product of economic factors is another lie. This has been proven false over and over again. Certain groups of VERY poor people can have very low crime rates. You have it backwards. Poverty DOESN"T cause Crime. Crime and crimminal behavior is what causes poverty. Case closed.
juscurious 1 year ago
@juscurious I believe you are right. I found it interesting that during this entire film, they did not interview a single middle class Michigander. I mean the guy that called dots and rotten stuffed animals art is a bit loony. As for the Goodwill plug...I would have to say that it is great that they help individuals give back to their community. However, if you look at the economics of this situation, it would cost a whole lot less to pour funds into building strong family units not reclaimin
alexsancez95682 1 year ago
@Toka313 It's only criminal behavior when it takes place in our society. They can build their own and render any degenerate activity they want 'legal'. Oh yea no they can't that's the point!
concerninged 1 year ago
@juscurious
"A certain class of people [...] who seem to have a pre-disposition for criminal behavior"??? What is the scientific basis for your (absurd) argument?
'People from around the globe have different temperment and pre-dispositions. Anthropologists have known this for a very long time."
Specifics? References?? You sound like an early 20th century eugenics proponent. Are you by chance a fan of the book "The Bell Curve" (Murray & Herrnstein)?
KentAZ58 1 year ago
@KentAZ58 So in a mere 500 characters I'm supposed to give the scientific basis for my general comments? How could I do that. I'm not a eugenics proponent but to make the assumptions that there would be no variability in the human species is beyond absurd. It happens in the animal kingdom all the time and it's readily accepted. So why shouldn't it happen with humans? So world wide we have variability in all kinds of physical characteristics. Why not temperment? Why should that be different?
juscurious 1 year ago
Pretty over the top imagery. And the Devil's Night fires have really, really decreased over the years. People will never let that image die, though.
LisaBaby67 1 year ago
It is tragic this is a BBC documentary. It is not the British that should be seeing this, it is the American public.
I am Canadian, I found this on Reddit.com.
RichGilly 1 year ago
Amazing. Great work! I grew up in Detroit and believe you have done an amazing job capturing the history, the leaders, the people.
bhallpm 1 year ago
I grew up in Royal Oak (a suburb mentioned in the film), just 2 miles north of Detroit. This documentary is fantastic and really paints a vivid picture of Detroit and it's dense history. I love BBC and it was great to see them take on such personal subject matter.
callmeIan 1 year ago 12
best line in this movie:
Whats goin on here?...
Idk i just woke up.
you have to see it in context
Great upload. Alan Watt plugged this video.
Symbolc0729 1 year ago
@rancidom oh PLEASE. Don't make me shoot your high horse!
ConcordantMind 1 year ago
This was absolutely riveting. Somehow this film made me feel like I now know Detroit better than I know my own home town. Fascinating work and one of the best documentaries I have ever had the privilege to watch. This should be at least nominated for any awards it is eligible to win and should probably win too. I feel very sad yet hopeful for America at this moment.
ConcordantMind 1 year ago
Always know when a city or state is going to head rapidly down. Can you guess what tells me that? Now the country.
hagbard72 1 year ago
@rancidom you dont hate its music you listen to it everyday
Interactivesystems 1 year ago
meh this is such a one sided story told by hippies and liberals.
dutchybag 1 year ago
@dutchybag It is obvious you are consumed by absolutism.
ConcordantMind 1 year ago
can anyone tell me the name of a track that is used for this documentary please?
1:00:50 into this a guy is talking about the underground music scene, and chats about richie hawtins (aka 'plastikman') pakard track, but it certainly is not the track which is playing. i remember it from back in the day, but cant trace it...
dylant79 1 year ago
@dylant79 Eminem is the artist. '8mile' is the movie that the song originally plays on. 'Lose Yourself' is the title of the song; the first rap/hip hop song to win an Academy Award.
paperdreamsalight 1 year ago
@dylant79 It's s track called 'Packard' by Architeq :)
5150UK 1 year ago
@5150UK thanks blud. i had an inkiling it wasnt 8mile. still. i really remeber this from 'back in the day' in grimy clubs in the 90's. just shows that a good tune is timeless..
dylant79 1 year ago
@5150UK thanks blud. just goes to show that good tunes are timeless. remember this from back in the day but obviously it isnt! too many little ones..
dylant79 1 year ago
A bit too fast paced, generalization riddled, and filled with "one man's opinion" snippets(rendering it not a true documentary), but basically accurate and a worthy effort. Truly thought provoking. In spite of the cliche Eminem soundtrack(!).
Thanks for posting.
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fadiapartente 1 year ago
too much ruins porn. Packard Plant closed in 1958, not recent by any stretch of the imagination. Detroit is being depopulated, but many of the people still living there are the best people you'll ever meet.
SittinPretty 1 year ago
MMMM, poverty porn...there are still some 700,000 people living and working in the city. Perhaps this documentary should have attempted to understand what they do with their lives.
mmkelly130 1 year ago
I also live in a suburb of Detroit. It always makes me so sad whenever I drive through the city, knowing how great Detroit used to be.
blackstallion681 1 year ago 3
Excellent documentary, somewhat dismayed that it is not yet playing in the states. I'm from the suburbs and i've seen many of these areas and want nothing more than Detroit to again prosper as it did in the 40's. However i feel this video offers much doom and gloom with very little of what can be done to help resolve the underlying issues.
chika948 1 year ago
I hate living in Detroit...the people suck and so does the city. Packard Plant though is a fun place to break things and get highhhhhhh.
DropKickMurphys1823 1 year ago
@DropKickMurphys1823, do me a favor and get the fuck out of my city. We hate you, too.
twothirtyam 1 year ago 3
@DropKickMurphys1823 If you hate detroit then fucking leave. you're the kind of person that keeps detroit in the condition its in.
KidVengeance6661 1 year ago
There's the famous cabaret singer Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson playing the piano at 0:19:23. Pity they don't have him singing "Let's Do It" at that point, rather than Louis Armstrong's "La Vie en Rose"! Great to see this brilliant documentary here, as I missed it on TV and the BBC take things off the iPlayer so soon.
MsPeperonata 1 year ago
I love that Motown sound.
derpenstein 1 year ago
This is a great video and is unavailable on BBC iPlayer.
Its only fault is that the makers felt the need to add "cinematic effects".
In fact the material itself is dramatic and gripping without and special effects!
ruralgorilla 1 year ago 2
This was an absolutely stunningly good documentary. I still live in the suburbs of Detroit and frequently drive through many of these areas seen during this film. After everything that has happened. I feel quite optimistic that this city has a future and will once again rise, but it will take time before everyone sees the path that needs to be taken to get there. Here is hoping we can turn it around and build a future there.
DarkJediHawkeye 1 year ago
@DarkJediHawkeye I disagree. In my opinion, the Michigan population has been so deprived of substance for decades that they now cling to any heavily slanted media piece that gives them character and substance. I think it is time for people, not only in Detroit, but across the nation to pull their heads out of the ground and start living a life worthy of Life. Be responsible, do the difficult but just thing, or go one further and put yourself second and other first. Convert the city 1 by 1.
alexsancez95682 1 year ago
Excellent documentary! Thanks for posting!!
gumbogrrl 1 year ago
Excellent film! Should win the next academy award!
Intriguing, puts up so many questions, and also the interviewed people are all brilliant!
I also love the slight optimism that it brings up, in spite of everything.
Congratulations!
zvonimirbulaja 1 year ago 6
@zvonimirbulaja I do not think you understood the underlying premise of this film. Liberal Plant Media, or Trees over people, or maybe batty seniors full of partially true thoughts and the other half filled with delusion. I mean, personally I latched on to the history and triumph of the people. And what really got me hooked was the fact that I too am a product of the Michigan Auto Workers livelihood. The film draws you into with pitty and pumps you full of hope...but for what? Utopia
alexsancez95682 1 year ago
yah yah, good visuals. Grew up near Detroit, was hanging there last year. I have a gripe with the pop cultural interjections. Eminem is despised on the real in Detroit. He is more of a Hollywood prop. They use his songs to represent, but it's only for those aging kids to latch onto. For those that think a white rapper sums up Detroits peril, then you are believing a lie. Oh yeah, it's from the BBC. A bunch of milk toast coach cozies experiencing their own imposition.
freqazoidiac 1 year ago
@freqazoidiac solid!
alexsancez95682 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing documentary it does not only tells the story of a city but of a whole century too.
cavakun 1 year ago