| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Canada and the United States

The Weather Underground. Directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel. Produced by Sam Green, Carrie Lozano, Bill Siegel, and Marc Smolowitz. 2003; color and black and white; 93 minutes. Distributed by Shadow Distribution.

Given the level of vitriol directed at the Weather Underground—from the right and left—over the last thirty years, one of Sam Green's and Bill Siegel's greatest achievements in this uneven film is to have approached the organization as a legitimate historical subject at all. As the most militant and notorious faction to emerge from the student left, responsible for a sustained bombing campaign against government and corporate interests in the 1970s, the Weather Underground has been an easy target for many activists-turned-scholars and other pundits. In the film's introductory segment, however, against the backdrop of ghastly images from the Vietnam War, several Weatherpeople explain their declaration of war against the United States government as rising from their personal horror and anger over the war. Their own testimony about the ineffectiveness of marches and protests brackets a clip of Martin Luther King, Jr., describing the "abominable, evil, unjust war in Vietnam," and moments later, King's assassination. Revolution seemed the only answer, and they took their inspiration from other revolutionary struggles all over the world.

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