The Fire This Time - Film Screening | Los Angeles Public Library

Film will be viewable between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific Time only on Friday, April 29, 2022. If you're having trouble loading the film, please reload the page. Please join us after the film at 3 p.m. on Friday, April 29 at 3 p.m. for a live panel discussion of the film.

This film is shared for a limited time for personal viewing only. Downloading or sharing this film is prohibited.

About the Film

The Fire This Time, a standout at the Sundance Film Festival, documents L.A.'s turbulent history following the large migration of African Americans from the South to California only to experience institutionalized racism limiting their economic opportunities. The resulting simmering tensions reached a boiling point in 1965 sparking the Watts Rebellion. Run time: 90 minutes.

Find A Library

Choose Branch:

Support Your Library

Why support the Library?

The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States.

Through its Central Library and 72 branches, the Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities.

With more people than ever before using the library—a record 17 million last year alone—your support helps the Library provide people with the resources they need to succeed and thrive.

How to support the Library

You can support the Los Angeles Public Library in several ways:

Join a “Friends” group. There is a “Friends of the Library” group for most branch libraries and departments of the Central Library. Friends groups raise money for improvements to their library through memberships, used book sales and other activities. For more information click here or talk to your local librarian.

Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. The Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises funds for Library enhancement programs such as adult and early literacy, children and teen reading clubs, technology, and cultural programs. Foundation members receive a variety of benefits with their membership. For more information, see http://www.lfla.org.

Make a donation by check to the Los Angeles Public Library and send it to:
Support the Library, 630 W. Fifth St., Los Angeles CA 90071 or call (213) 228-7272.