Fueled by outrage over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground
waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the
'70s--bombing targets across the country that they considered emblematic of
the real violence that the U.S. was wreaking throughout the world.
Ultimately, the group1s carefully organized clandestine network managed to
successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history, yet the
group1s members would reemerge to life in a country that was dramatically
different than the one they had hoped their efforts would inspire.

Extensive archival material, including photographs, film footage and FBI
documents are interwoven with modern-day interviews to trace the group1s
path, from its pitched battles with police on Chicago1s streets, to its
bombing of the U.S. Capitol, to its successful endeavor breaking acid-guru
Timothy Leary out of prison. The film explores the Weathermen in the
context
of other social movements of the time and features interviews with former
members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Black
Panthers. It also examines the U.S. government1s suppression of dissent in
the 1960s and 1970s. Looking back at their years underground, the former
members paint a compelling portrait of troubled times, revolutionary times,
and the forces that drove their resistance.