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Let the Fire Burn is a 2013 documentary film about the events leading up to and surrounding a 1985 stand-off between the black liberation group MOVE and the Philadelphia Police Department. The film is directed and produced by Jason Osder and was released by Zeitgeist Films in October 2013.
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.
In 1985, another firefight ended when a police helicopter dropped two bombs onto the roof of the MOVE compound, a townhouse located at 6221 Osage Avenue. [4] [5] The resulting fire killed six MOVE members and five of their children, and destroyed 65 houses in the neighborhood. [6] The police bombing was strongly condemned.
Pages in category "Films set in 1985" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 1985 (film) A.
Gregore J. Sambor (February 22, 1928 - September 15, 2015) was an American Police Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department from 1984 to 1985. He had a major role in the 1985 bombing of MOVE, in which six adults and five children died after he told firefighters to stand down and "let the fire burn". [1]
In 1971 he moved his family to Powelton, a polyglot neighborhood in West Philadelphia, close to the University of Pennsylvania. Community Housing Inc., was a cooperative in which members pooled money together to buy a handful of buildings to live in with an idea to rebel against an oppressive society that bulldozed homes to make way to build more academic housing.
The 1985 film Compromising Positions, starring Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, and Edward Herrmann, features the NCPD. Nassau County Police were featured in the film Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio which takes place in the prosperous neighborhood of Old Westbury.
Airwolf (1985). Stuntman Reid Rondell was killed in a helicopter crash. [213] Police Story (1985). During the film's famous pole-sliding scene, Jackie Chan suffered third-degree burns on his hands, nearly broke the seventh and eighth vertebrae on his spine, dislocated his pelvis, and was nearly paralyzed. Also, in the scene where Jackie Chan ...