Monday, December 14, 2020

My Interview With Tommy Oliver, Director of '40 Years a Prisoner'


40 Years a Prisoner chronicles the 1978 face-off between the Philadelphia police and the Black radical group MOVE. (If you've seen Let the Fire Burn, that was about a later skirmish between the two that was even deadlier.) For MEL, I spoke with documentarian Tommy Oliver about the queasy similarity between then and now.