Let the Fire Burn
Let the Fire Burn

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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. This dramatic tragedy unfolds through an extraordinary visual record previously w... (Full plot summary below)

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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. This dramatic tragedy unfolds through an extraordinary visual record previously withheld from the public. It is a graphic illustration of how prejudice, intolerance and fear can lead to unthinkable acts of violence.

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New York Times - 10/10 by Neil Genzlinger[Osder] cuts between news footage of the events as they unfurled and testimony from hearings held afterward to create a stark, nonjudgmental portrait of an incident that probably needn't have happened.
Easy Reader (California) - 10/10 by Neely SwansonDirector Jason Osder has created a film that is an accurate capsule of one extraordinary human rights violation approved and carried out by the political hierarchy of Philadelphia in 1983.
New York Magazine (Vulture) - 10/10 by David EdelsteinOsder has made a documentary that’s astonishingly in the present tense.
Variety - 10/10 by Ronnie ScheibThe brilliantly edited tapestry of actions and reactions exposes a pattern of prejudice and fear capable of infinitely repeating itself.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by David LewisWhatever you may feel about each side, it's hard to watch as city officials order explosives to be dropped on the MOVE house (which has a bunker on top) - and then sit idly by as the resulting fire burns the entire neighborhood. You'll keep asking yourself: How did it come to this? And hauntingly, no one has any answers.
Washington Post - 10/10 by Ann HornadayDirected with rigor and sensitivity by Jason Osder, this is the kind of nonfiction film that proves how powerful simple storytelling and a compelling through line can be.
The New York Times - 9/10 by Nicolas RapoldLet the Fire Burn relentlessly sustains its tragic momentum.
Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Kenneth TuranIt earns its considerable impact by telling an unnerving story and leaving it, in ways both daring and effective, fundamentally unresolved.
Boston Globe - 9/10 by Peter KeoughIn his eloquent, evenhanded, and meticulously constructed debut documentary, Jason Osder stirs the ashes of this tragedy and sheds new heat and light on such timely issues as the abuse of authority and the violation of the rights of citizens, especially the marginalized and powerless.
Slant Magazine - 9/10 by Bill WeberAn unnerving, all-archival account of Philadelphia citizens suddenly terrorized by the unchecked violence of rogue "law and order."

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