The Weather Underground
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| The Weather Underground | |
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| Directed by | Sam Green, Bill Siegel |
| Starring | Billy Ayers Kathleen Cleaver Bernadine Dohrn Brian Flanagan |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Language | English |
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The Weather Underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical organization The Weathermen. The group's goal was to "bring the [Vietnam] War home" through acts of domestic terrorism.
The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004. In 1969, a small group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the US government. This documentary explores the rise and fall of this radical movement as former members speak candidly about the passion that drove them at the time. The film also explores the group in the context of other social movements of the time, featuring interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers, as well as examining the US government's suppression of dissent during this turbulent era. Using archival footage from the 1960s and 1970s, the film also intersperses recent interviews with high profile ex-Weathermen like Bernadine Dohrn, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers, Mike Rudd and Brian Flanagan, who talk about their involvement in the organisation and their experiences, as well as the trajectory that led them to be placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
The film was criticized for including lengthy interviews with the former members in which they justified their violent acts. However, the Weathermen damaged only property, and no deaths were caused by their actions, besides the deaths of 3 of the group's own members.
The Weather Underground is also the name of an independent Rock n Roll outfit from Los Angeles, CA whom have cited the movie as a great influence and inspiration.
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- "We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. That's really the part that I think is the hardest for people to understand. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and allow the country that you live in to murder people and to commit genocide, and you sit there and you don't do anything about it, that's violence." -Naomi Jaffe
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