Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Let the fire burn [videorecording] / [a film by Jason Osder] ; School of Media & Public Affairs, the George Washington University ; Sundance Institute ; the Film Sales Company ; directed and produced by Jason Osder.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : Zeitgeist Films, c2013.

Description:

1 videodisc (approx. 95 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Comprised of found footage and sound bites, Let the fire burn describes the conflict between the Black Power group MOVE and the people and city government of Philadelphia, culminating in the armed standoff of May 13, 1985, in which one police officer and eleven MOVE members were killed, ending when Philadelphia police dropped a bomb on the row house that served as MOVE headquarters.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

MOVE (Organization)

African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Police-community relations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Black nationalism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Black power -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations.

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