WEATHER UNDERGROUND

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: In the 1960s and 1970s, the polarization of the political situation of the USA was becoming acute with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being but the most obvious issues. For the youth political movement, the seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of an idealistic faction that want a more extreme approach that the Establishment could not ignore. This faction, called the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government that started with street riots and escalating to bombing government targets. Thorough archival footage and interviews of the veterans of both sides of this conflict, this film covers the resistance movement's campaign of selective violence through this period until changing times and disillusionment brought it to an end while the FBI used unethical and illegal methods to hasten it.
• Cast: Lili Taylor; Pamela Z; Jim Lange; Evan White; Bernardine Dohrn; Mark Rudd; Brian Flanagan; David Gilbert; Bill Ayers; Naomi Jaffe; Todd Gitlin; Laura Whitehorn; Don Strickland; Kathleen Cleaver; Ivan Boesky; Fidel Castro; Eldridge Cleaver; Bob Dylan; Jane Fonda; Gerald Ford; Billy Graham; Fred Hampton; Abbie Hoffman; Dustin Hoffman; George Jackson; Martin Luther King; Timothy Leary; Charles Manson; Zedong Mao; Walter Mondale; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; James Robison; Evelle Younger; Sam Green; Bill Siegel
• Director: Sam Green
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: New Video DVD
• Media Format: Movie