The Weather Underground-Documentary

The Weather Underground-Documentary ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE BEST DOCUMENTARY http://www.upstatefilms.org/weather/main.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343168/ In October 1969 hundreds of young people, clad in football helmets and wielding lead pipes, marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows in their path. This was the first demonstration of the Weather Underground's "Days of Rage." Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, the organization waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history. The Weather Underground is a feature-length documentary that explores the rise and fall of this radical movement, as former members speak candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. "Hello, I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war...within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." ~ Bernardine Dohrn Thirty years ago, with those words, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Underground members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home" and the trajectory that placed them on the FBI's most wanted list. Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world. Ultimately, the group's carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the group's members would reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire. Extensive archival material, including, photographs, film footage and FBI documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group's path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago's streets, to its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the context of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government's suppression of dissent in the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, the former members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times, and the forces that drove their resistance. THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND is a production of the Free History Project, produced in association with KQED Public Television/San Francisco and ITVS.

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DROEPAstoner (2008-10-12)

you people are desgusting playing this bullshit giult by association shit, what the fuck is wronge with you republicans you always have to de-americanize your democratic opponets. and now this shit with aires is complete b.s. , Obama sat on an education board with the guy wich was run by republicans 30 years after those gesgusting acts , Obama was 8 years old for god sakes and if you want to play guilt by association then what about Mccain sitting on a board of anti semites , and people involved in the Iran contra, your buy has deep connections in some really shady people involved in shadow black organizations that specialize in dis information and torrorists acts done to advanced an agenda wich will bennifit the war mongols and stell mongers and oil mongols of the world wich just so happen are owned by the central bankers of the world that controll everything to advance their own agenda of global obediance and to keep people evslaved by keeping them in debt ,just look what is happening now the republicans and mccain were deregulators bent onbreaking the rules and get as many people in debt as they can thus the mortgage has been a result of that they fucked up and now thay want the very people they enslave to bail thwm out.and john maccain has been one of their loyal puppets just look how mccain has changed when he brought all those bush people in who are bankers lapdogs and totally have ruined mccains honor he and all you republicans who want to devide the world instead of uniting it like Obama , but soon you agents of intolerance {republicans} will find out there is no mora silent majority you have now turned into the intolerant minority and will pay for your acts that violate the very religion you worship, no killing,no lieing,love they nighbor , and the most important turn the other cheek wich you people are incapable of undrstanding ,you think it meens just pacifism but if yuo can ever figure out thereel meening of this then you will know you are on the right path,but come november when Obama wins embrase it and now our counrty can unite.

colinreynolds (2008-10-30)

thanks bozo!

chicago_skyline138 (2009-01-02)

powerful,moving,informative...inspiring
thanks uploader

amishrobots (2009-01-22)

droepastoner, I agree with pretty much everything you are saying, I just wish you would learn to spell. I have met many very intelligent folks who could not spell for damn; but it does not help the cause of intelligent people to look like illiterate boobs on the internet. Seriously, your words are true and valid; as such you should give them the respect they deserve; i.e. run them through a spell-checker!

alcocer (2009-05-29)

Great Upload!
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
"If you want respect you must spell-check!" LOL funny as that was!

burningrabbit (2010-01-16)

Thanks for the UL. This is an important piece of the anti-war protest puzzle. About intelligence, respect, and poor spelling: usually poor spelling by posters is about poor typing skills and typing faster than is possible. But you out there who are smart but cannot spell? Keep writing. The world keeps spinning. Pride is not poison. The Sun remains yellow.

Tiki007 (2010-11-23)

It is a great documentary, thanks
Perfect Quality

2xrainbow (2012-02-09)

Absolutely amazing film, but I couldn't watch off the DVD on my PC because for whatever reason it would hiccup. So, I figure loading from a HDD would help (much faster buffer).
stoner dude, learn to spell. seriously. I agree with you and all, though.
And you might not be likely to find many of those fucking republicans on TPB.

kennyhendrick (2012-04-29)

DROEPAstoner I read your comment concerning this documentary. It appears you are inflamed about something and that you made claims to YOUR proclaimed salvation. Now that we are all "united" as you prophesied I can't help but to wonder how the world would have been had you never lived.....just a thought.