The Weather Underground

The Weather Underground

6.7IMDb Score
Released:2002-11-17
Duration:92 min
Director:Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Actors:Lili Taylor, Bernardine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert
Production:The Free History Project

Overview:

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

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