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Philadelphia & MOVE: Videos

This guide presents a variety of primary and secondary materials related to the MOVE bombing of 1985, and related information about the MOVE organization and its relationship to Philadelphia.

PBS/WHYY: The Bombing of Osage Avenue (1986)

A 1986 documentary produced and directed by Louis Massiah for WHYY-TV 12 Philadelphia, and written and narrated by Toni Cade Bambara. 58 minutes.

The Bombing of Osage Ave., Philadelphia

Sister Pam Africa A HerStory Lesson

Move Confrontation in Philly the Hold Story Part 1

Interview with Ramona Africa and Mumia Abu Jamal

"Let The Fire Burn" Q&A with filmmaker Jason Osder

Let The Fire Burn Official Trailer

Democracy Now!: "MOVE Bombing at 30: "'Barbaric' 1985 Philadelphia Police Attack Killed 11 & Burned a Neighborhood"

Vice interview with Ramona Africa: "The Day Police Dropped a Bomb On Philadelphia | I Was There"

On a MOVE: Ramona Africa & the MOVE Organization" at Burning Books- Buffalo, NY

August 8, 2014 – 36th anniversary of the incarceration of the Move 9

Unable to Move Forward

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