The fact-based drama is set in the summer of ’67, when police raided an unlicensed bar where dozens of African-Americans were celebrating the return of two soldiers from the Vietnam War.

After they attempted to arrest everyone present, tensions escalated and boiled over, resulting in a five-day riot that remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history, with 43 killed and nearly 1,200 injured.

Bigelow's previous films - The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty - feature characters who've reached an emptiness that leaves them asking themselves "what now?"

Detroit does this to its audience.