The Weather Underground (2002) [N/A]
Featuring:
Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange
Directed by:
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Release Date:
November 17, 2002
Original Title:
The Weather Underground
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
The Free History Project
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
CH: 12
Runtime: 92
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s polarization of American political situation was becoming acute, with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being the most pressing issues. For the youth political movement, seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of a faction that wanted a more extreme approach that the government could not ignore. One particular group, the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government. They began with participation in street riots, and escalated their efforts to include the bombing of specific targets associated with the government or local power structures. Through archival footage and interviews of participants on both sides of this conflict, this film covers the Weather Underground's campaign of violence through this period, the FBI's strategies and tactics to apprehend them (including some deemed unethical or illegal), until changing times and disillusionment brought their activities to an end.
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