United States of Detroit (1080p) FULL MOVIE - Documentary

[@NateRobinson-x1u]

This is my church home. Pastor barry and coach terry really do care for our community. They help with housing cars and food. Also with our youth they do a great job💪🏾💪🏾💯💯💯

[@dawnhughes9942]

I was a part of rhe urban agriculture revival in Detroit during the recession. I worked next to burned out building and prostitutes. No one ever bothered me. I was always safe and respected in those orchards. The city gave me hope and an inner strength a sense of love that I was needed to be a good ancestor, to do things that would make a place better for generations after me. I will not be running off to Florida when I am older. It's each one of us who are accountable for the future we want for our great great grandkids.

[@michellebeckstrom6110]

oh my god, I want to be a part of something as productive and positive. I live in Traverse City MI where I was born but am homeless partly due to the unrelenting greed driving housing prices thru the roof. I wish we could connect and talk Dawn.

[@dylanskrzypek5397]

My neighbor was working on a house that was abandoned and got murdered. You got lucky. He didn't. Female privilege, guys are seen as threats and exploiting them. Women are seen as helpers. Bullshit

[@tinamccuien9560]

Hello 👋 everone I lived in delary 8450 Dearborn Ave in the 60s to 70s no place like Detroit boblo love it all Tina in bangor maine

[@tinamccuien9560]

Happy Halloween 🎃 Detroit

[@sknmwms6516]

As a child coming up these homes were beautiful. Manicured lawns, backyards and fabulous basements! So much pride. Hard working families! I hope that prosperity comes back to the common people. The rich are still rich and do what they do!

[@SittingWithDogs]

The most impactful phrase of this documentary to me was “it’s not that our kids don’t want something better it’s that they don’t know how to go after it”. Very well said. Thanks to the men & women in these organizations that are helping these beautiful young kids that path & how to build on any previous failures & successes

[@eray9934]

I love my hometown but sadly have moved away for 17 years now. I have to say, having been around different parts of the country and seeing other people who've moved away from their cities, us Detroiters are some of the most proud of our hometown that I've seen.

[@JackBQuick79]

As a resident from the 616 part of my heart is in Detroit. This is where my child hood idols were at. Barry Sanders, Allen Trammel, Jack Morris, Chet lemon, Isiah Thomas, Bill Lamber. The list goes on. I still love Detroit, I just don't go there anymore. But after watching this, I absolutely see a hopeful future because of the citizens of such an amazing city. And it appears there are some pretty amazing minds here as well. These are people that are worth the resources and money to make Detroit world class once more.

[@ryanbrown8497]

I live in Tampa now, but Detroit will always be home. When I visit, I am blown away at how much the city has improved. Detroit is way way better than it was when I was growing up in the 90s that's for sure.

[@mikaelbeytm9095]

I'm in Wesley Chapel I visited in 2020. The city is progressing as far as blight. The n Main Streets looked worse as a child during the 90's and 80's. The residential streets looked worst before I left in 2018.

[@Dirty2Clean1980]

I’m from north Flint but my whole family lived in Detroit on the east, west, and southwest and I spent all summers and holiday there and would go down on the weekends. The 90s were crazy in Detroit and in Flint town and still are but Detroit has gotten a lil nicer especially downtown.

[@ryanbrown8497]

Those neighborhoods are a lost cause, most of those poorly maintained houses are 100 years old, they can only hold up for so long. They knocked a ton of them down.

[@smokinnplatez1426]

Fuck dwteoit its a shit hole and people are always crying in Detroit we have it bad

[@Willieb-hi6yt]

Only part of Detroit that has improved is downtown. Drive around the neighborhoods.

[@ricosally6734]

Born and raised in Detroit, lived on the Eastside in a basement apartment rode the bus to work always struggled, moved out of state, got a nice Apt, patio, fireplace, central air, swimming pool, weight room, drve a nice car, life is lot better, if you stay living in a place like that you will think everywhere is like that , you will have a poverty mentality, like most of the people there

[@robertzabick1030]

I am a 79 year old man, born and raised in Detroit, but living in the suburbs for the last 30 years. Moved out of the city because of the crime that affected my family. The riot of 1967 also caused much of the flight out of the city. I still love my hometown, and I am encouraged with some of the promising things happening in the "D".

[@Soberan]

Great doc, totally absorbing, the leadership and generosity of the pastor and the basketball coach are inspirational and humbling. I'm white, hispanic and European. Never been to Detroit and never will be, yet I already feel a special bond with the place, the protagonists and this community. Thanks for posting and God bless everyone in the film and its makers too 🙏

[@jgrinnell8376]

Born and raised in Saginaw spent lots of time in the D. and this was so uplifting. Makes me want to come back home.

[@michellebeckstrom6110]

Although I have never lived in Detroit I am a Michigander and pray the city is on a good recovery path. AND I DESPISE THOSE WHO SLAM IT. Detroit has a proud legacy of diversity in people, millions of automobiles that helped POWER AMERICA! AND MOTOWN.

[@Glooogii]

Great documentary, Great people. I especialy like Pastor, may God Bless him and other people of Detroit, because with God there IS always hope for better 🙏💯

[@rickprusak9326]

But Godless people in 1967 did a great job burning down their own neighborhood. Burned down their businesses, apartments, homes, and the cancer continued to spread beyond bankruptcy. Thank Kwame Kilpatrick for that. Kwame had committed black on black crime, and many of the Detroit citizens would STILL vote for him because of the color of his skin. Because of what a few street cockroaches did in the area of 12th Street and Clairmont in 1967, it made Detroit what it is today, tomorrow, and forever. Detroit used to be a great city. Never more. No matter how many times Munchkin Mayor Mike Duggan sez that Detroit is "coming back." The only thing "coming back" in Detroit is ribbon farms. There's enough open land where home's, and businesses USED to be to turn over into farms.

[@rickprusak9326]

A downtown does not make a city a city to live in. Nothing is happening in the surrounding vacant neighborhoods. An empty lot is an empty lot. An empty field is an empty field. Detroit has miles and miles of empty land. Many people who live in Detroit stay there because they can't afford to live in the suburbs. Or just want to exist among the criminal elements that exist in Detroit. Kids don't have neighborhood parks and recreation centers to go to anymore. WHY? 1967.

[@rickprusak9326]

Ask Diana Ross, Barry Gordy, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and other black and white former Detroit residents why they left Detroit. Because of what assholes did in the summer of 1967.

[@natet5959]

Excellent film! That version of Wade in the Water was amazing!

[@CharlesMosley129]

1:05:40 "basketball kept me outta trouble for a long time. . . for a long time. and girls, well they got me into a lot of trouble-girls got me into a lot of trouble. but basketball, that's one thing that never did me wrong." i LOVE that statement!!! God Bless every young person in this video but especially Bless him. i hope he does it someday.

[@k.simmons862]

I’m born and raised in Detroit, moved away in 2014 and it’s been the best decision I’ve ever made. Unfortunately, it took me to move in order for me to learn the systemic racism and corrupt practices that have been in places for decades, that are still practiced and continue to block Detroit from truly moving forward from its toxic past.

[@ricosally6734]

Facts, I'm from Detroit moved 09 I feel what you're saying, Detroit is courupt place, especially law enforcement

[@kennethmartindale8771]

Mayor Coleman Young and kwame kilpatrick. I don't understand your point. Corruption from them absolutely!!!

[@natepace2881]

What are the practices/laws that prevent black people from progressing?

[@vetbcrazy]

In Detroit the racism is against Whites.@@natepace2881

[@onceagain227]

As a white guy living in a precinct where all of the officers are black.. it's obviously 2024 Detroit is not 2014 Detroit .. and hopefully you are a better person than you were 10 years ago too.

[@yooperlooper]

I've always loved Detroit. Great documentary

[@wlhansen2068]

I'm so impressed with this pastor.His love and passion for his church and people. Blessings Sir 🙏

[@Gigismom59]

Urban Art has transformed these heartbroken cities into something that looks like hope. Without the politics, rhetoric & failed reforms. I especially appreciated the Heidelberg project. I traveled to Detroit in 2009 from New York just to see the art work.

[@mausegetlit363]

compared to what the city was, it just looks like trash to me

[@DetroitKim]

you should see the art now!! it's EVERYWHERE!! :)

[@drewlaszlo6793]

If I could give this a double thumbs up I would!

[@SLAUSONGIRL]

Thank you for this. trying to figure out what happened to Detroit and I was not about to sit through a Vice video. salute

[@diannehallman8062]

Racism. Intolerance. Lack of empathy. Collective group tempers blew. I was there. It is a nightmare to me to this day 50 years later.😮

[@l.a.gothro3999]

I was born in 1964 and grew up in a housed that'd been built in 1926, located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood. His house looks like it was built around the same time.

[@lilliecrutchfield2798]

(I also prayer this prayer for Detriot) (Detriot, Say this prayer. I Decree, I Declare, Plea the blood of Jesus, on Detriot, on my neighborhood, on me, my family, my relatives, my friends, my job, my finances.God loves all humans.Such beautiful structures gone to wasted! This saddens me! Praying for you Detriot.

[@vicmastro1]

I was born in Detroit in 1947. In its heyday it's where suburbanites shopped, until shopping malls came along. It's true that the decline of the auto industry was a major cause of what we see there today. But as an eyewitness to the last 75 years of its history, if I had to choose the biggest catastrophe that befell the city, it would be the riot of '67. It became the onset of "white flight". It brought on the adage of, "Will the last person leaving the city please turn out the lights", and it proved prophetic. Sad, but true. I watched it happen

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

Those community gardens are the way out of oppression and poverty. Don't let them stop you.

[@kristenstudebaker814]

Beautiful documentary, God bless you.

[@airbrushken5339]

I now live in Australia since 1979 after 9 years US Army....During the 1960's, cruising Woodward, TEDS Driven, muscle cars of those 60's ... meeting chicks... $200 fine in Bloomfield Hills for drag racing...got one... own a 427 CU Inch ford back then...engine by Shelby. Then the Riots of 1967 and that whole world changed... flew back to visit just before Covid hit and was shocked.... Last visit ... Australia is my home now...free health care ...Sadly all my fellow Vietnam Veteran Friends have died form what I was told exposure to Dioxin Poisoning (Agent Orange)... in the Army we were GREEN and BROTHERS. America I'm so ashamed at how you treat veterans, solders (needing Food stamps to feed their family, really?)...your hate and fear of blacks, or brown skin? Why? My fellow troopers, many of who died in YOUR NAME.... how soon you forget.

[@woowutank5576]

I almost got shot twice from security guard throwing trash out behind a Happys Pizza off Schafer rd in Detroit. Dude flew up in a suv doing 50 mph slammed breaks door flew open gun barrel looking big that day

[@MCKornbred]

I was born in Detroit, lived in both Detroit and Dearborn before my parents split up when I was 12. It’s nice to see that there is some improvement since I still have family that lives in the area, but I’m definitely better off on the west coast. Hopefully that trend will continue because I’d love to be able to retire in the city I was born and bring my life’s story full circle.

[@l.a.gothro3999]

OH, and HOUR "Detroit" magazine is located...in Troy, Michigan.

[@salemdesigns65]

Facts.

[@vrj40]

There is no viable community anywhere without industry.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Detroit in the 1970s was incomparable 👍

[@Willieb-hi6yt]

You mean the 50's

[@AngeloPrice-j9u]

I hate when people go to the worst neighborhood and the city and say that's all Detroit it's not we have good neighborhoods here

[@ponylockz7371]

Exactly !! I feel the same way.

[@tracymoton7006]

This makes a lot of good sense 😊. Plpl higher up need to listen!!

[@daveyram2967]

dear brother my comrade kadari or kad rest in power. for you forever brother daveed. on the mixtape s.i.r.i.u.s. the track "they don't love us"

[@stevengotts]

Beautiful, Thanks for sharing.

[@mikedehn8654]

It's crazy with all of the investing that's happening downtown now. I build IT infrastructure. I worked in the new hockey arena. I worked on the new Lululemon and Savage X retail stores off of Woodward. I also had the pleasure of working on a project at the Fillmore.

[@Sacto1654]

I think Detroit is going to experience a major revival for one reason: the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge in 2025. The very opening of that bridge will make goods trade between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario *MUCH* easier, and that could turn Detroit into one of the biggest goods trans-shipment points not only in the USA, but possibly the world.

[@hiphophistory2218]

I've left home a few times. I love this city too much. We're back. We're growing. I absolutely hate this "no hope" narrative for Detroit. It's not true.

[@Jazz313]

Great City ❤

[@robertaanderson6229]

I'm not even American and I am so pissed at they way it was just left to rot. The car capital, greatest people ever to come from there. Politicians ruin more than they create. Shame.

[@seand67]

Outstanding documentary

[@chloeew4627]

Love the gardens 😊

[@radji4110]

I'm African living in Africa. I'm glad to see you black Americans of Detroit. I know must of you don't know your origine in Africa. I hope one days I will meet you over. Stay strong family

[@tinamccuien9560]

Hello.i bet it is real hot there how are you today

[@maundamartin59]

My Dad was district manager for the DETROIT FREE PRESS. AND HE LOVED HIS JOB. WE WORKED FOR HIM....and we always had cash money my brother's and cousins by my Dad giving us paper routes.

[@debisybesma5855]

what can be done when we work together.....real simple isn't it? it's made me sad for a lot of years what's happened to areas/cities across the country. the cities that helped BUILD this country....have now had the very life sucked out of them and are left to disarray and decay while it all starts again in an area called "the suburbs...."

[@raskltube]

being poor doesn't make you murder and car jack

[@BepisCubes]

the drugs will though, and thats the problem

[@cameronparfitt624]

I Hope the entire soundtrack is by Dilla

[@karimshabazz3770]

I saw myself in doc at Dtown farm 😊

[@shawn8353]

HISTORY!

[@randybest9187]

They have been saying Detroit has been on the comeback for decades now. Come on................

[@shansworld712]

Well done! Reality

[@karenjewell6543]

Jobs,just like the man said..need living wage jobs

[@genevievehawkins9856]

That is what #sports are all about. Fun practice for war but also building #TheBrotherhood to work together. Each player is an important role on the #team. #TheBrotherhoodOfTheSword #TheBrotherhoodOfEternalLight

[@mastermind.det313]

Devil's Night burned Detroit down not the Detroit Riots

[@timheidel5849]

I feel sorry for the people stuck in Detroit. I lived and worked in the Detroit area for 12 years. So glad I left. This "documentary" tells me that I made the right choice to leave. A lot of this was about a guy with white guilt and his well-intentioned but misguided idea that "graffiti art" was going to make a difference.

[@Fires755]

Where's governor witmer on this is her state or is Detroit separate from Lansing ???

[@cmthomas07]

She’s having dinner with her old family friend, George Soros.

[@nattloux9025]

This is not a documentary. You learn very little if not at all the history and the past Detroit has lived and had to go through. This is just interviews of people living in the city, no historical facts. Even though the interviews are very interesting and emotional, when I click to watch "United States of Detroit", this is just another 'reality' documentary amongst others. We want the historical facts. We want to understand why Detroit is how it is. We want examples of solutions of how to make it come better. I want to believe that this city deserves a better future.

[@Frank-sr1dz]

Where you can always grab a camera and feel free to make your own documentary and see how it turns out good luck and God bless and may your future documentary be a hit 🙏🙏✌️✌️

[@JackBQuick79]

Did u get nothing out of this? It's not about the history, it's about the future and the hope these people have. The world should take note of the unity and the will to change for the better.

[@aprilpengelly1747]

watch "A requiem for Detroit" it will have the info you're looking for...

[@cheekkeith74]

Detroit will go nowhere until they vote a certain faction of politicians out. They'll give little tidbits now for hope. But it'll never truly flourish until then.

[@DETSRC313]

Home sweet home

[@jvtc]

Man. If I was wealthy I would pay off that church's debt for them. That pastor is the kind of person Detroit needs. And that's coming from an atheist.

[@INFJ2]

It would be wonderful if the comments below inspired HOPE. Never give up Detroit citizens. We do LOVE YOU IF U LET US ❤ Anonymous Social Worker working with you in Detroit

[@jaafarvandenberghe]

Great documentary, great people!! RESPECT!! 1 thing always made me wonder, how in the USA is it possible that there are many places and cities like this but the government spends billions on wars...!?! For example last week they approved again billion of dollars 'help' to Ukraine while there's so much broken at home 🇺🇸...??

[@owlman1365]

MURALS ON BUILDINGS MAKE A CITY LOOK LIKE S$&! & POOR AF

[@genevievehawkins9856]

Making our own way is the #American way #AmericanRevolution #JesusRevolution

[@maundamartin59]

I'm from Detroit...but I live in NORFOLK,Virginia.7/14/24.

[@Iluvzukx]

I wanna change my city

[@jacquelineanderson240]

All done by design

[@genevievehawkins9856]

Working the land can heal the soul, workout the stress, and build physical strength and you don't have to pay for a gym #Farmers #FarmersOnly #FarmersInsurance #LaborDay #Laborworkers #LaborUnions #CircleOfLife #SaveTheSoil #JohnDeere #DearJohn #BigJohn #UncleTom #compost #fertilizer #FertileCrescent

[@MrAudioBill]

The Electrifyin" MOJO!

[@rebeccaferrier7383]

Where is this locate east side or west side of detorit

[@tonyg9519]

The reason the security guard was so nervous, is because 90% of the “graffiti” that doesn’t have a permit, is done by gangs! So of course he was cautious!!

[@matchesmalone79]

This is pure false. Graffiti is in just about anywhere teens and young adults hang out, such as bridges, abandoned buildings, etc. I see graffiti very often out walking. If someone ever said "90% chance that is gang graffiti, I just might might laugh myself to death.

[@jacquelineanderson240]

All by design

[@genevievehawkins9856]

You have to repair at the foundation ground level #Underground #UndergroundRailroad

[@genevievehawkins9856]

It is the #ComebackStory #Jubilee

[@shawn8353]

Big city

[@crylovejuju]

I love Detroit

[@15DurangoRT]

"Detroit is all I know". I feel sorry for you.

[@johnathandaviddunster38]

😢 Was the second amendment the biggest mistake in american history ???

[@robertstrickland9685]

7mile

[@johndelper1404]

Interviewing the losers on how to succeed... see how well that works, more graffiti that'll fix everything, the people of Detroit believed things that were NOT true, and elected leaders based on those false beliefs, that's what created this mess. Businesses didn't leave they were chased away, high taxation, unreasonable regulations, short sited apathetic unions and the leadership they helped to install. Detroit was arguably the most Productive City in the entire Country, question is, who could screw that up? They'll be no come back till you figure that one out.

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

There can be no representation in lieu of the people.

[@derrickbibbs-ex7ku]

I have not ever been to Detroit, MI I don’t want to visit

[@tinamccuien9560]

Why won't you visit Detroit Michigan are you racist not right i lived in delary in.the 60s to 70s im.white had a black husband he died in 1993 to cancer we lived in Detroit

[@lilliecrutchfield2798]

Do a go fund online!!!!!!!

[@tsaeshae]

I remember when people would start fires on Devil's Night

[@genevievehawkins9856]

My dad told me he asked my mom to marry him in the #TigerStadium but she didn't answer him until they were in a movie theatre days later. LOL It would be amazing if that theatre was the #Fox #Theatre

[@Desaved]

Giving people religion literally takes AWAY any hope for the future! It's a death sentence in a world that needs people with science and tech skills!

[@DetVen]

The public schools aren't giving kids religion, they're giving them liberal progressive crap that has little to do with science and tech skills. Teach kids STEM first and foremost! Nothing wrong with religion, you can take it or leave, but nobody's "giving religion" to anyone so what are you talking about? Where is this giving of religion happening, in Detroit?

[@matchesmalone79]

​@@DetVenlearning is too "woke" these days, eh? 😂

[@meriadocbrandybuck9833]

Albert the Great - catholic monk, invented the scientific method Louis Pasteur - daily mass attending Catholic, invented pasteurization and the rabies vaccine The internal combustion engine was invented by an Augustinian monk Marie Curie - devout Catholic, invented x-ray machine, discovered several elements, Nobel prize winner George Washington Carver - who popularized crop rotation was Baptist Working together properly science and religion do not conflict

[@Charvyification]

[@genevievehawkins9856]

#SaveTheSoil

[@genevievehawkins9856]

#TeachWithTV #Array101 #homeschoollife

[@rottenandremixedrecords]

That was an awesome garden, amazing graffiti to

[@flower_of_ra5604]

The Sy- te- m. Really Destroyed Det. Monsters

[@rygarq2]

Im sorry but i need to say this. Some of these people in the documentary are too comfortable with being broke and undereducated. I didnt hear one mentioning of trades or higher learning.

[@gorfpatrol2073]

Keep voting for me,, I'll take care of you..😅just do as I say..

[@genevievehawkins9856]

#ChickenSoupForTheSoul #SoulFood

[@genevievehawkins9856]

Going #Rogue #Farming #regeneration #SeedOfLife #TreeOfLife #ArborDay #Arborist #TuBishvat #Kabbalah

[@genevievehawkins9856]

#NormanRockwell #ArtClass #ArtSchool

[@melissainaus7955]

I think if they trying to fix up detroit they should get rid of the graffiti,it looks terrible on the building.but maybe open some galleries were they can work on large boards and sell them worldwide as they are very talented.

[@AndweleYakini]

Kadiri

[@user-qjvqfjv]

They should have called this "Demographic Won't Stop Voting for the Political Ideology that Makes Their Lives Shittier".

[@too2great8]

And what you do not understand is this is deeper than politics. So many people like you have commented the same thing. It's the Democrats fault. It's the Republicans fault. Do you know whose fault it is? EVERYONE'S.

[@user-qjvqfjv]

@@too2great8 Low-IQ take. The Republicans haven't run Detroit for the last 6 decades without exception.

[@kabakarazakwaan]

I agree the delusional illusion of inclusion makes sheep of people. It ain’t EVERYONE’S fault. It’s the Powers that be who hold the ultimate outcome in their hands, not the masses. The masses have no real say in political process other than choosing someone and HOPING & PRAYING(both exercises in futility and pointless wastes of time & energy) that the person they “elected” are honorable with dignity & integrity- good luck finding that in todays social climate. The preachers be raping boys and girls, the police killing and abusing people…. Realistically(cuz I ain’t a pessimist nor an optimist) what’s the chance of “HONEST POLITICIANS”… that’s an oxymoron

[@KOSMICKEN09]

@@too2great8 agree completely with you - politics is insufferable on social media people just insult each other with no real substance or solutions - it's not not all Dems are bad - I'm not a republican but some are good people - oh I'm commenting cause I watched a Blu Ray of this tonight. .my Life isn't great nor terrible but I'm not sitting here blaming it on whomever is in charge - you kinda have to make your own success..

[@trinafromdetroit1]

😮

[@AlmazKojaxmet]

IT cyber punk metroit do it