The Weather Underground (film)

2002 American film

The Weather Underground
U.S. DVD cover
Directed by	Sam Green Bill Siegel
Starring	Bill Ayers Bernardine Dohrn Mark Rudd Brian Flanagan Naomi Jaffe Laura Whitehorn David Gilbert Kathleen Neal Cleaver Todd Gitlin
Release date	2002 (2002)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$564,632

The Weather Underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical far-left Communist organization Weather Underground.

Summary

Using archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the Weathermen in the modern day, the film constructs a linear narrative of the organization and serves as a cautionary tale.

Reception

Critical response

The Weather Underground has an approval rating of 91% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 58 reviews, and an average rating of 7.79/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Fascinating documentary about the militant Weathermen". Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Accolades

The film, directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, won the audience choice award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2004.

References

"The Weather Underground" – via MUBI.
The Weather Underground Box Office Mojo
Ebert, Roger. "The Weather Underground movie review (2003) | Roger Ebert".
"The Weather Underground - Official Trailer". 19 August 2014 – via ROCO films on YouTube.
"The Weather Underground" – via Rotten Tomatoes.
"The Weather Underground" – via Metacritic.
"Documentary Short and Feature Film Oscar® Winners in 2004". 14 March 2014 – via Oscars on YouTube.

External links

The Weather Underground site for Independent Lens on PBS
The Weather Underground at IMDb
The Weather Underground on Sam Green's website
The Weather Underground Official Site
The Weather Underground on Vimeo

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Background	Anti-Vietnam War movement Counterculture of the 1960s New Left (New Communist movement· Maoism) Students for a Democratic Society (Revolutionary Youth Movement) 1968 Democratic National Convention (riots) Flint War Council Domestic terrorism in the United States Women's Brigade of Weather Underground Seattle Weather Collective FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s Bill Clinton pardon controversy Bill Ayers 2008 presidential election controversy
Members	Jane Alpert Bill Ayers Kit Bakke Alan Berkman Silas Bissell Kathy Boudin Scott Braley Judith Alice Clark Bernardine Dohrn Dianne Donghi Elizabeth Ann Duke Linda Evans Brian Flanagan Larry Grathwohl (informant) David Gilbert Ted Gold Phoebe Hirsch John Jacobs Naomi Jaffe Jeff Jones Michael Justesen Michael Kazin Sharon Krebs Nancy Kurshan Roger Lippman Howard Machtinger Eric Mann Sam Melville Mark D. Naison Diana Oughton Robin Palmer Eleanor Raskin Jonah Raskin Terry Robbins Susan Rosenberg Robert Roth Mark Rudd Matthew Steen Susan Stern Laura Whitehorn Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson
Attacks	Days of Rage (Weather High School Jailbreaks) Greenwich Village townhouse explosion Bombing of the National Guard Bombing of the Presidio of San Francisco Bombing of the Bank of America HQ Timothy Leary escape from California Men's Colony Bombing of Marin County Courthouse Bombing at Harvard University Bombing of the United States Capitol Bombings of the Office of California Prisons Bombing of the New York Department of Corrections Bombing of the Pentagon Brink's robbery 1983 United States Senate bombing (Resistance Conspiracy case)
Derivatives	Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (May 19th Communist Organization)
Associates	Seattle Liberation Front (Michael Lerner)
Media	The Weather Underground Katherine Underground The Company You Keep American Pastoral Osawatomie Mother Right Fugitive Days The Anarchist Columbus Free Press
See also	Protests of 1968 Communist terrorism Yippies Rainbow Coalition John Brown Anti-Klan Committee Michael Klonsky and Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) Tate–LaBianca murders (Charles Manson) Attica Prison riot Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues Black Power movement Jewish left Student activism White privilege theory (Critical race theory) COINTELPRO
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