The Weather Underground

Without the proper context, it's easy to snicker at the Weather Underground, a group of middle- and upper-middle class white kids who adopted the poses and rhetoric of the Black Panthers and Ho Chi Minh, vowing to smash racist/imperialist America through a people's revolution. Context is everything when it comes to the anti-war movement of the 1960s and '70s, and while Sam Green and Bill Siegel's informative documentary is far from sympathetic to the WU's terrorist tactics, the background the film provides helps make the group's motivations somewhat comprehensible. Taking their name from Bob Dylan's epochal "Subterranean Homesick Blues" ("You don't need a weather man...