Hold Your Fire (film)

Hold Your Fire
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStefan Forbes
Written byStefan Forbes
Produced by
CinematographyStefan Forbes
Edited byStefan Forbes
Music byJonathan Sanford
Production
company
InterPositive Media
Distributed byIFC Films
Release dates
  • September 10, 2021 (2021-09-10) (TIFF)
  • May 20, 2022 (2022-05-20)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$5,614[1][2]

Hold Your Fire is a 2021 American documentary film written, directed, shot, edited, and produced by Stefan Forbes. It is about the 1973 Brooklyn hostage crisis, a 47-hour standoff in New York City in January 1973 that saw one of the first successful uses of crisis negotiation by American law enforcement. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2021, and was theatrically released on May 20, 2022 by IFC Films.

  1. ^ "Hold Your Fire". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved May 27, 2022.
  2. ^ "Hold Your Fire". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved May 27, 2022.