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Season 5 Episode 22 - The Weather Underground
"Hello. I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war... Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." -- Bernardine Dohrn Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals called The Weathermen announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. Fueled by outrage over the Vietnam War and racism in America, they went undergound during the 1970s, bombing targets across the country that they felt symbolized "the real violence" that the U.S. government and capitalist power were wreaking throughout the world.From pitched battles with police on Chicago's city streets, to bombing the U.S. Capitol building, to breaking acid-guru Timothy Leary out of prison, this carefully organized clandestine network attempted to incite a national revolution, while successfully evading one of the largest FBI manhunts in history.One of the top documentaries of the year, this award-winning film interweaves extensive archival material with modern-day interviews to explore the incredible story of "The Weather Underground." As former members reflect candidly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home," they paint a compelling portrait of troubled and revolutionary times, with unexpected and often striking connections to the current world situation.
Episodes in Season 5
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
60 min
Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
60 min
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
60 min
A Wedding in Ramallah
60 min
Be Good, Smile Pretty
60 min
Livermore
60 min
Eroica!
60 min
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
60 min
Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
60 min
Man Bites Shorts
60 min
Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
60 min
Life Matters
60 min
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
60 min
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
60 min
A Place of Our Oen
60 min
Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew
60 min
Sentencing the Victim
60 min
T-Shirt Travels
60 min
Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas
60 min
Love Inventory
60 min
Ram Dass: Fierce Grace
60 min
The Weather Underground
60 min
One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure
60 min
Refugee
60 min
Death of a Shaman
60 min
Cosmopolitan
60 min
Sumo East and West
60 min
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
60 min
