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The Weather Underground Reviews
The Weather Underground is a retrospective on the '70s-era left-wing terrorist organization (that is the precursor to Antifa) depicting the seemingly normal, apparently well-meaning people who were in the group. The documentary presents a neutral viewpoint, but I would have liked more discussion on what motivated the terrorists and how they view their actions ~30 years later.
Every American should watch this... now!!!
A really compelling documentary about the radical offshoot of the SDS responsible for a series of bombings of public buildings and for breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and smuggling him to Algiers. It's a fair assessment of both sides of the issue, interviewing former members of the group as well as the FBI agent who lead the task force that tracked their movements as well as more moderate members of the SDS like Todd Gitlin. Timely viewing since American society seems to be heading back towards a time where extreme political division creates groups like this.
Undeniably gripping documentary about domestic terrorists.
Excellent documentary about the violent Radical Left of the early 1970s. You will likely find some of these people and their actions highly repellant, but it's well worth reviewing what they did and why they did it.
Excellent documentary about the violent splinter group which broke off of the Students for a Democratic Society determined to "bring the war home" by bombing government buildings like the Pentagon and Capitol in an effort to stop the Vietnam War. Most fascinating for the contemporary interviews with leaders and members of the group who weigh in with their mature assessments of what they did 20 to 30 years ago.
This Oscar nominated documentary gives a look into The Weather Underground anti-Vietnam radical group.It interviews members of the group and FBI investigators who were trying to destroy it. This terrorist group included the likes of Bill Ayers, who you might recall Rush Limbaugh speaking of when addressing Obama. This film is not for the close-minded, if you have a strong opinion on the issue you have nothing to gain here. It's really more of a documentary that would be shown in a high school history class, except for the orge tape. It never gave full facts though, just opinions. I didn't learn if the bombs killed someone, or any of the vital information. No one on either side is asked a difficult question, and they just allow the people to blab on.
Another fabulous documentary featuring one of the more radical elements of the '60s protest movement (at least for white America). This is cat and mouse game between the authorities and those driven to change society in desparate ways.
This is an unbelievable documentry that aired on PBS and it is told by the indivudals of a radical time in America history the 1970s I totally agree with Robert Denerstien, Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News If names such as Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, Naomi Jaffe and Brian Flanagan mean nothing to you, you'll definitely want to see the thought-provoking documentary, The Weather Underground. I bought this movie and one other movie on Amazon and you can watch them instanly. If you want to see it send me a private message and I will share with you my amazon account information where you can also watch "My real fathers dream"
A potent reminder--for the multitudes who've forgotten--of just how volatile a period the late 60s and early 70s were in American life. The piece is balanced in showing us differing opinions of radicalism in the period, and this reconsideration is especially aided by the sometimes regretful interviews by former Weather Underground activists. Still, watching, say, the aftermath of Fred Hampton's murder, or seeing film of police attacking citizens in the street, allows us to see the seething frustrations among a lost generation of youth and why they would be moved to violence against their country.
This was on Oscar nominated documentary in 2002, and I think that just shows how far the genre has some since then. I fell asleep and didn't even finish this as it just became too tiresome to watch. The group exposed and questions posed are not uninteresting. Maybe it's just overwhelming to think about it all, or maybe it's just that every time a human group does anything, you wind up with some self-serving bullshit. The Weather Underground had lots of that. This was a group that took over the politically left student movement in the mid 60s, pushing the idea that being nonviolent was a way of supporting violence, particularly that committed at the time in Vietnam. I actually struggle with this idea a lot. MLK, I think, was the greatest American in history. Ghandi is another hero of mine. They both used nonviolence in the face of violence to solve their problems. But they also had cameras pointed at them. It was the exposure of violence against nonviolence that really saved the day. Getting your ass beat in a dark alley with no one watching will never change the world. So this group took it to the next level, bombing buildings, fighting cops, etc. Again, I struggle with this. The correct thing is to say it's wrong. Well, I didn't grow up in 1968 when Vietnam was going down. The current wars piss me off enough, so hard to say what I might have felt in that time. I generally fight back, and if I'm out protesting and a cop sprays me in the face or hits me, well it's probably game on. So while there are not emotions maybe as high now as they were then, we're again seeing this type of behavior from the government. Peaceful student protestors are being spray in the face and hit. It's unacceptable. Only this time, the American populace is too dumb to care so putting it on the news doesn't matter much. The generation in 1970 wasn't flooded in those images and they were shocking. Not so much the case in 2012. So bottom line, when you look at the history of this country, even as recent as 40 years ago or sometimes even last week, it's not the clean-cut, perfect thing we're supposed to say it is. It never was and probably never will be. But these groups can be pretty lame. Most times when human groups get involved, some level of self-interest gets in the way. These people were half nuts and probably hurt the cause. Then again, no one else was really taking up the cause. It's all very depressing when you realize you always have to have radical factions pulling at both ends to get the masses to meet in the middle. This documentary got me thinking about these things but otherwise was pretty boring.
Amazing documentary, showing the victory of some amazing souls. Something not mentioned in the film is that many of the heroic Weather underground and those interviewed in this film were Jews, including Mark Rudd and Naomi Jaffe. Ted Gold was Jewish as well. Bernadine Dohrn had a Jewish father. So for all the so called 'Revolutionaries and Activist' today currently calling the Jews the 'Illuminati', blaming U.S imperialism on the Jews, saying the Jews run America and want to control the world, please WATCH THIS FILM and learn that historically some of the bravest freedom fighter revolutionaries of all time were Jews! It kills me when I see Leftists falling right into the Anti-Semitic mouse traps that the FBI has planted for them, for the sole reason of decreasing a chance that such a beautiful group like the Weather underground would rise up again.
How they try and justify there actions is laughable but ultimately frustrating. I knew hardly anything about the 'movement' so the documentary was informative and that's about it.
Interesting watching this in the context of the various revolutions going on in our country today against the wars and the financial crisis and greed. Makes you want to both be part of these revolutions and at the same time avoid them. Change is needed in many ways in our country and seeing the history of one of these periods of time really gives a good perspective and history to look back on to learn how to maybe make these changes happen in better ways.
One of the better documentaries I've seen.
"The Explosive Story Of America's Most Notorious Radicals." The Weather Underground is a really interesting and absorbing documentary that chronicles an unsure time in America. The Weather Underground bombed many public buildings in protest of pretty much anything violent that the government or police did. To me it's kind of hypocritical, but hey, they were trying. All their trying basically did nothing except make them complete outcasts and make them seem like mentally ill hippies. Their motives were comprehendible, but their actions, not so much. This documentary does a good job presenting the story through footage, interviews with actual Weathermen and little readings of letters and memoirs from the Weathermen. Now, listening to the much older Weathermen talk; most of them seem like your next door neighbor. The film manages to keep the viewers entertained while informing us on an important time in America. A time where we had groups rioting, smashing windows, robbing banks and blowing up buildings; all in the name of the demolishment of an unjust and oppressive government. Join the fight against the oppressor or you are the oppressor is what they believed. If you sit and do nothing in a time of war, when our military is slaughtering innocent civilians in Vietnam; then you are acting in a violent way. You aren't changing or calling for a change in what is taking place in the war. So to me, their beliefs on the war make sense. I just don't think that they went about it the right way.