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. ...
06 Sep 2019 September with Decade of Fire
We're headed to a battleground community near you this September. Join us along with organizers and festivals across the country as we discuss the history of the South Bronx and the future of Housing Justice! More info at: http://decadeoffire.com/screenings/ ...
15 Aug 2019 Coming Soon to Independent Lens
We're thrilled to announce that DECADE OF FIRE is part of the 18th season of Independent Lens on PBS. The true story of the South Bronx will soon be shared with all of America! Check out the full lineup below: “Made in Boise” by Beth Aala...
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...
29 Jul 2019 Join us at Global Peace Film Festival!
We're thrilled to be headed to Florida for the Global Peace Film Festival, a program that uses the power of the moving image to further the cause of peace on earth! Join us for this special screening! When: Saturday, Sept 21 at 6:00 PMWhere: Winter...
22 Jul 2019 DECADE OF FIRE Heads Outdoors!
Appalled by the devastation he witnessed during his historic walk through the burnt-out sections of the South Bronx, in 1977 Jimmy Carter pledged $500,000 for new parks and recreation facilities, part of a $10 million proposal for immediate aid to the area. That proposal eventually...
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. ...
20 Jun 2019 Coming Soon to Harlem
We're thrilled to announce our return to NYC, this time for a limited stay at Harlem's Maysles Documentary Center! Join us from Friday, July 12 to Tuesday, July 16 for a series of screenings, followed by urgent conversations about our city's housing crisis with activists...
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. ...