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Let the Fire Burn
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Let the Fire Burn

Let the Fire Burn

2013
Documentary
1h 28m
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police dropped two pounds of military explosives onto a city row house occupied by the radical group MOVE. The resulting fire was not fought for over an hour although firefighters were on the scene with water cannons in place. Five children and six adults were killed and sixty-one homes were destroyed by the six-alarm blaze, one of the largest in the city's history.

Let the Fire Burn

2013
Documentary
1h 28m
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Rated 25 Oct 2014
77
82nd
Really fantastic documentary about an event I'd never even heard of. It's always easy to say the filmmakers have a bias when making a movie like this, but it seems this was presented in a really fair way to all parties. Using only archival footage, this documentary brings you as close to the events as one could possible get nearly 30 years later. Highly recommend.
Rated 26 Apr 2014
73
88th
Well made documentary achieves the goal it sets out to do. It does not paint the MOVE members as angels and lets the government response speak for itself.
Rated 15 Sep 2021
86
77th
This is a wonderful documentary that pulls together the entire film using only a few archive sources. As I watched a few weeks after the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, I was reminded of how a militarized police force can create a horror story. And kudos for not going to interview the participants now, as I think those in power would've tried to cover their asses regarding the original injustice. A fantastic document on how authorities overreact to political movements.
Rated 02 Feb 2018
83
83rd
and he did.
Rated 18 Mar 2016
50
33rd
Everyone here is terrible. Everybody
Rated 06 Jul 2014
90
90th
This is a well made, intriguing, and entertaining documentary. Like all documentaries it has its biases (in favor of MOVE) but here they are very tame. Definitely worth seeing especially for anyone (like myself) who is not old enough to remember the tragic conflict.

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