If names such as Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, Naomi Jaffe and Brian Flanagan mean nothing to you, you'll definitely want to see the thought-provoking documentary, The Weather Underground.
The Weather Underground
2002 · 1h 32m · Unrated
Documentary
Directed by
Sam Green
,
Bill Siegel
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The Weather Underground
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The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
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The Weather Underground leaves the viewer with many questions. To the filmmakers' credit, most of them are the right and urgent ones to ask.
Directors Sam Green and Bill Siegel expertly limn the forces that gave rise to Weatherman and clearly sympathize with the group's motivations. At the same time, they don't stint on Weatherman's follies.
Whose side the documentarians are on is never clear -- in a muddy rather than an ambiguous way. Did anyone die from the Weathermen's bombings? We don't find out here.
An eye-opening look at idealism taken to extremes during one of the most turbulent periods of American history.
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