Underground (1976)

Directed by

Emile de Antonio

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary features interviews with members of the Weathermen, a 1970s radical group that went underground. It includes protest footage and shows the group explaining their views on revolution.

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What happens

Underground is a 1976 documentary film about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with members of the group after they went underground and footage of the anti-war and civil rights protests of the time. It was directed by Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler, and Mary Lampson, later subpoenaed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an attempt to confiscate the film footage in order to gain information that would help them arrest the Weathermen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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