Today is the 30 Year Anniversary of Operation: M.O.V.E., an FBI led sting operation against a black power community group that ended after the FBI dropped 2 incendiary bombs on a row house complex in Philadelphia, killing 11 people, destroying a neighbourhood and leaving more than 250 people homeless.
There is a documentary about it that is free to view on youtube, it's one of the best documentaries to be released in 2013 and one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
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In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial radical urban group Move came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a Move-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated—and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “…let the fire burn.”
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