Bernadine Dohrn, Billy Ayers, Brian Flanagan
During the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration, a group of white-bread, upper-middle-class college students took up guns and explosives to plot the violent overthrow of the United States governme...( read more
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Directed by: Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Siegel, Billy Ayers, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert, Don Strickland, Kathleen Cleaver, Laura Whitehorn, Lili Taylor, Mark Rudd, Naomi Jaffe, Sam Green, Sam Green (II), Todd Gitlin
Release Date: January 1, 2002
DVD Release Date: May 25, 2004
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Flixster Reviews (211)
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July 6, 2009A sobering and much-needed documentary. Sadly, it only begins to scrape the surface of the importance and context of the Weather Underground.
Sadly, this film would be much more at home as a History Channel special event feature, rather than the groundbreaking documentary that s...( read more) -
November 18, 2009Extremely well done, superb usage of old footage and excellent editing everything together. Fascinating and very informative. A wonderfully structured documentary.
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July 26, 2009Good documentary about one of the major splinter groups who tried to up-end society in the 1960s. They decided their view of America was the only right one and decided to bomb U.S. institutions to say so.
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October 6, 2008Informative, disturbing documentary about a time of great upheaval in the USA, and a group of misguided people who chose the wrong direction to try and make a difference. Just one question why aren't these people in jail?
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August 27, 2008An interesting documentary about a revolutionary group called the Weathermen that started up in America during the Vietnam War. They bombed places associated with what they thought was wrong with America (and they went to great lengths to make sure nobody would get hurt in the b...( read more)
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July 17, 2008i thought the documentary was pretty unbiased which was cool. i really had no idea that the weathermen were so ridiculous. i mean i always assumed they were a great revoluntionary group in the 60s but they seemed to not know what the hell they were doing. they seemed to be direct...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
August 22, 2003
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
August 1, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Weather Underground chronicles those early days of idealism, and their transition into a period when American society seemed for an instant on the point of revolution. full review
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