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Birdie Africa | ... | Self (archive footage) (as Michael Moses Ward) |
| Ramona Africa | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Wilson Goode | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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William Brown III | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Delbert Africa | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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William B. Lytton | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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LaVerne Sims | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Louise James | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Frank Rizzo | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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John Africa | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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David Shrager | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Sue Africa | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Tomaso Africa | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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John Cresse | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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Lucien Blackwell | ... | Self (archive footage) |
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. Written by Anonymous
This 95 minute documentary traces the history of the black liberation group MOVE through the two attempts of the philadelphia police to destroy them in 1978 and 1985, during which they put an explosive on the roof of their community house and took the decision to let the fire burn, which later in the day destroyed an entire city block. Most of the footage are taken from the public hearings surrounding the aftermath of the crisis as well as live TV footage of the two assaults, in order to document the terrorist attacks conducted by the philadelphia police. As of last week, the documentary was streaming for free, to remember the day of May 13th, 1985 when the second attack happened.