Brick City (2009)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 11 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series follows the people of Newark, New Jersey as they work to overcome violence and poverty. It focuses on Mayor Cory Booker and local residents trying to improve their city.

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What happens

Brick City is an American television documentary series on the Sundance Channel, created and directed by filmmakers Mark Benjamin and Marc Levin. The series captures the daily drama of a community striving to improve. Against great odds, Newark's citizens and its mayor, Cory Booker, fight to raise the city out of nearly a half century of violence, poverty and corruption. It won a Peabody Award in 2009 "for its honest and passionate exposition of the lives and institutions that make up a community, and for its inspiring yet sometimes skeptical look at the trials embedded within the struggle for a better future." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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