Detroit Free Press staff

"12th and Clairmount" is now available on Amazon's streaming service.

The Free Press-produced documentary about the Detroit riot/rebellion of 1967 provides an immersive look at that tumultuous summer through the use of Detroiters' home movies and other archival video and photos.

The film premiered at the 2017 Freep Film Festival, selling out four screenings, and received one local broadcast with producing partner WXYZ-TV (Channel 7) that same year. It went on to play film festivals around the country, including the Traverse City Film Festival and Doc NYC.

Now "12th and Clairmount" is available for streaming at Amazon Prime Video, along with another Free Press-connected film, "The Wall," which also landed on Wednesday. Both films are free for Amazon Prime members, while nonmembers can rent them for $2.99 (HD) or $1.99 (SD) each.

Using more than 400 reels of home movies donated by Detroiters — along with a tapestry of archival materials, including footage from Channel 7's vaults — "12th and Clairmount" transports viewers back in time to explore the causes and aftermath of perhaps the most pivotal moment in Detroit's history.

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The movie's production was the result of a collaboration among the Free Press, Channel 7, Bridge Magazine and several key Detroit cultural institutions, including the Detroit Institute of Arts (which led the collection of the home movies), the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Detroit Historical Society and the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. The Knight Foundation provided funding for the gathering and digitizing of the home movies.

"12th and Clairmount" director Brian Kaufman and producer Kathy Kieliszewski were also key members of the team that created "The Wall," a joint project with Free Press sibling paper the Arizona Republic.

The documentary, which premiered at the 2018 Freep Film Festival, takes an in-depth look at the real-world implications of installing Donald Trump's border wall, with USA Today Network journalists traveling the full length of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. It was part of a broader look at the proposed border wall that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018.

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