Kathryn Bigelow’s DETROIT Trailer Witness the first DETROIT trailer! The film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker), stars John Boyega, John Krasinski, Jack Reynor, Anthony Mackie, Will Poulter, Tyler James Williams, and Jason Mitchell. DETROIT will be released in theaters on August 4. A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizen uprisings in United States history. The story is centered around The Algiers Motel Incident, which occurred in Detroit, Michigan on July 25, 1967, during the racially charged 12th Street Riot. It involves the death of three black men and the brutal beatings of nine other people: seven black men and two white women.