'Hold Your Fire' Reexamines a Hostage Siege

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Thom Powers
Documentary of the Week | Nov 12, 2021

"Hold Your Fire," premiering at the DOC NYC festival, looks at the longest hostage siege in NYPD history in 1973. Filmmaker Stefan Forbes teams with producer Fab Five Freddy to cover multiple perspectives, and mysteries that linger decades later.

The documentary "Hold Your Fire" reexamines a 1973 hostage siege in New York City.
(Courtesy of "Hold Your Fire" film.)

 

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