Let the Fire Burn 2013 Watch Free in HD

On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE came to a deadly climax. This dramatic tragedy unfolds through an extraordinary visual record previously withheld from the public.

Genre:

History, Drama, Documentary

Actors:

Birdie Africa, Ramona Africa, Wilson Goode, William Brown III, Delbert Africa, William B. Lytton, LaVerne Sims, Louise James, Frank Rizzo, John Africa, David Shrager, ...»

Director:

Jason Osder

Country:

United States

Release:

2013

IMDb:

7.9

Quality:

Duration:

88 min

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.

May 13, 2014

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

It's gripping and shocking.

November 07, 2013

Gerald Peary

[This historic footage -- from newsreels, TV stations once-live coverage, from several investigating commissions -- has been edited, brilliantly into a coherent, important political film.

June 13, 2014

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Colin Covert

Jason Osder's stunning debut documentary offers a disturbing look at a forgotten tragedy.

June 13, 2014

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Matt Prigge

Apart from the score and the very occasional basic intertitle to help us along, all we see and hear is footage from the day. We're immersed in the present of this world.

November 14, 2013

Liam Lacey

Brilliantly edited, the film moves back and forth in time, first tracking the events leading up to the confrontation through news reports of the day.

December 06, 2013

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Isaac Feldberg

Let The Fire Burn is an incendiary documentary that uses archival footage to weave a compelling, all-important tale of tragedy bred from anger and misunderstanding.

February 17, 2014

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Tom Long

"Let the Fire Burn" offers a searing picture of how dumb and dangerous humans can be.

January 23, 2014

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Wesley Morris

It's scary as both a movie and a still-reverberating moment in time.

December 10, 2013

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Brian Orndorf

Mesmerizing and provocative, Burn creates an unnerving atmosphere of troubling decisions on both sides of the conflict, permitting the viewer to understand the thought process that went into the explosive endgame.

November 07, 2013

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Ellen Gray

It's a remarkably evenhanded telling of a story in which there could be no winners, using archival footage alone.

May 13, 2014

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Michael Phillips

Director Jason Osder's grieving account of the deadly police assault on the MOVE collective's fortified Philadelphia row house works small, continuous miracles with a variety of existing footage.

June 13, 2014

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