The Weather Underground
Directed by Sam Green, Bill Siegel
2002Documentary92 minUnited States
The story of the Weather Underground, the radicals who bombed the U.S. Capitol in 1971 and waged war on the government from underground.
Synopsis
The U.S. Capitol was spared a violent attack on September 11, 2001.
But if you’ve forgotten, it was bombed 30 years earlier. In the middle of the night on February 28, 1971, a blast tore apart a ground-floor bathroom. The bomb harmed no one, but it struck fear in Washington and around the country, triggering calls for tighter security and a swift crackdown on anti-war radicals.
The director
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Sam Green and Bill Siegel are American documentary filmmakers whose The Weather Underground was nominated for the Academy Award. Green later created live documentaries, and Siegel directed The Trials of Muhammad Ali.
