The 2007 film Across the Universe, set in the late 1960s, depicted how American society was affected by the Vietnam War. The film involves the music of the Beatles which also portrays the revolutionary sentiment of the period. The film follows a group of twenty people, each affected differently by the changing times. The film portrays the Detroit riots, the Vietnam War peace parade draft on Fifth Avenue, and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The film depicts the 1967 Detroit riots that broke out in July of that summer due to of racial tensions in the country. African American community. The riot lasted five days with reports of notoriously brutal police forces. In the film they show the city in flames, people running for their lives, and a little boy singing amidst all the chaos. On the Sunday of the riot, crowds began to push back against police brutality and the city erupted into total chaos with break-ins and fires. The governor was forced to call in the National Guard to try to regain control of the city, this just adds...