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The Weather Underground

Weather Underground member Bernadine Dohrn in Person
Director in Person
Screening on Film
$10 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.
US, 2003, 35mm, color, 92 min.

Thirty years ago a group of young American radicals, The Weather Underground, announced their intention to overthrow the United States government. Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the group waged a low-level war against the government throughout much of the 1970s—bombing targets across the country they considered emblematic of the violence for which the U.S. was responsible around the world. Ultimately, the group’s clandestine network managed to evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history. In this new Oscar-nominated documentary, former Underground members 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.

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