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The Weather Underground (2002)

Documentary | 92 minutes
3,68 20 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 92 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Sam Green and Bill Siegel

Stars: Kathleen Cleaver and Lili Taylor

IMDb score: 7,4 (3.813)

Releasedate: 17 November 2002

The Weather Underground plot

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", Bob Dylan sang in "Subterranean Homesick Blues". For example, in the late 1960s everyone could sense that the revolution was in the air and a few subversive students made a fist under the name "The Weatherman". The aim was to overthrow the established order, whereby radical means were not shunned. Doing nothing was considered an act of violence. The war in Vietnam and the brutal police action against black Americans convinced the activists of their moral right. The war had to be fought 'in the belly of the motherland'.

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avatar van gotti

gotti

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Very good documentary. I really had no idea that outside of the war it was such a mess in the US... 4*

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Woland

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Interesting documentary about The Weather Underground, an organization I had heard about but didn't know much about. And in a way quite current, because if you think that polarization is a problem now: in the 1970s they could do something about it too. The Vietnam War, race riots, Black Panthers, the Cold War and also radicalization on the campuses - and WU is a consequence of the latter. A terrorist organization of far-left rich kiddies that not only sympathizes with the Black Panthers and the anti-war movement (both very understandable), but does so in a rather rigorous way by wanting the violence that the US causes abroad to come to the US and declare war on the government. And also had some weird post-hippie practices, but that aside. Especially the era is very interesting and well put down, and this sketch about how polarization can lead to violence and terrorism is also something to look at with a slanted eye.

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