Kathryn Bigelow's 'Detroit' Trailer: Watch the Haunting Take on the 1967 Riots

Tensions run high in the first trailer for Detroit, the upcoming movie from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty). The director continues her knack for transforming political and war-based stories on the big screen for this project, which is based off the 1967 riots in Motor City.

John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Pacific Rim: Uprising) stars as a police officer who is thrown into one of American history's largest and most terrifying civil uprisings. "I'll sleep when they stop rioting," he says in the trailer. The gripping tale highlights the fight between the Black community and mainly white law enforcement.