28 Oct 2019 Decade of Fire Premieres on Independent Lens Monday, November 4, 2019 on PBS and PBS.org
Discover Why the Bronx Burned in the 1970s and Meet Those who Chose to Resist, Remain and Rebuild. Click to read more. ...
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14 Oct 2019 The City: Film Probes Causes, Legacy of South Bronx Fires
For Bronx residents old enough to remember when parts of the borough burned in the 1970s, the images are seared into memory. Click to read more. ...
10 Aug 2019 Jacobin: Why the Bronx Burned
There’s a popular narrative that blames the blight and decline of the South Bronx in the 1970s on the working-class people who lived there. But a new film shows that it was landlords and the state who were responsible for the famous fires that ravaged...
22 Jul 2019 Hyperallergic: How New York Let the Bronx Burn, and How the Borough Survived
The documentary Decade of Fire delves into the wave of arsons that wracked the Bronx in the 1970s. Click to read more. ...
10 Jun 2019 The Clyde Fitch Report: The Bronx Fires as Metaphor for Community Erasure
Reflections on a documentary about the structural racism that erased a community -- and the people who rebuilt it. Click to read more. ...
10 Jun 2019 Curbed New York: In the 1970s, the Bronx was burning, but some residents were rebuilding
Decade of Fire, a new documentary, tells a different story about the borough’s fires—and the communities affected by them Click to read more....
10 Jun 2019 Pix 11: New documentary ‘Decade of Fire’ examines infamous ’70s Bronx blazes
LONGWOOD, the Bronx — Those of a certain age remember when the South Bronx was burning for most of the 1970s and now a new documentary, "Decade of Fire," is trying to shed light on some of the reasons why. Click to read more. ...
10 Jun 2019 WNYC: ‘Decade of Fire’ in the South Bronx
Filmmaker Vivian Vazquez Irizarry and producer Julia Steele Allen join us to discuss the documentary, “Decade of Fire,” about the South Bronx in the 1970s. Click here to listen. ...
02 May 2019 The New York Times: ‘Decade of Fire’ Review: A Documentary Remembers the Blazes That Scorched the Bronx
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02 May 2019 The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Decade of Fire’: Film Review
"Though many popular explanations for the Bronx's 1970s suffering were long ago understood to be racist nonsense, the heartfelt film represents a self-portrait of those lies' impact. " – THR Read more here....