The Weather Underground (film)

The Weather Underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical far-left Communist organization Weather Underground.^[3]

The Weather Underground
U.S. DVD cover
Directed by	Sam Green Bill Siegel[1]
Starring	Bill Ayers Bernardine Dohrn Mark Rudd Brian Flanagan Naomi Jaffe Laura Whitehorn David Gilbert Kathleen Neal Cleaver Todd Gitlin
Release date	2002 (2002)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$564,632[2]

Summary

Using archive footage from the time as well as interviews with the Weathermen in the modern day, the film constructs a linear narrative of the organization and serves as a cautionary tale.^[4]

Reception

Critical response

The Weather Underground has an approval rating of 91% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 58 reviews, and an average rating of 7.79/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Fascinating documentary about the militant Weathermen".^[5] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[6]

Accolades

The film, directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, won the audience choice award at the Chicago Underground Film Festival and went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2004.^[7]

See also

• Underground
• The Company You Keep
• American Pastoral, the 2016 film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel about American left-wing terrorism