Synopsis
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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Cast
- Lili TaylorNarrator (voice)
- Bernardine DohrnSelf
- Mark RuddSelf
- Brian FlanaganSelf
- David GilbertSelf
- Bill AyersSelf
- Kathleen CleaverSelf
- Laura WhitehornSelf
Recommendations
- 100
Christian Science Monitor
Along with its historical value, The Weather Underground is also a terrific movie, energetic, and articulate. It's the don't-miss documentary of the season. - 88
Boston Globe
Essential viewing for anyone who wants to know the roots -- and perils -- of modern political dissent. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Whether the protest movement hastened the end of the Vietnam War is hard to say, but it is likely that Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for re-election was influenced by the climate it helped to create. - 80
The New York Times
This terrifically smart and solid piece of filmmaking lets the former Weathermen, now in their 50's and older, speak into the camera and reveal a bit of their personal histories as well as what the peace movement meant to them. - 80
Chicago Reader
Fascinating documentary. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Powerful and surprisingly timely. - 75
New York Daily News
The documentary plays it down the middle, neither condemning nor romanticizing the political outlaws, but making sense of who they were and what they did. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
It's curious that the filmmakers choose to end the story without reporting on Weatherwoman Kathy Boudin's involvement in an ill-fated 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck in New York State.
