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The Weather Underground
2002 · Film · documentary · 92 min
Directed by Bill Siegel, Sam Green
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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I strongly recommend the documentary "Weather Underground". They interview key members who introspect a great deal on the actions they had taken. You'll get the full spectrum ("no regrets" to "we were totally wrong"). One of the members put it succinctly:
> When you feel that you have right on your side you can do some horrific things.
> If you think that you have the moral high ground, that's a very dangerous position and you can do some really dreadful things.
For those who don't know, the Weather Underground were a violent revolutionary/militant/terrorist group in the US in the 70's who aimed to (more or less) overthrow the US government.
> The Weather Underground Organization (WUO)... was a radical left-wing militant organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan ... Weatherman organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
There are a number of books about the group (some by former members) that are worth reading, and there's also a documentary:
-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343168/