The Weather Underground

November. 17,2002      
Rating:
7.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Lili Taylor as  Narrator (voice)
Bernardine Dohrn as  Self
Kathleen Cleaver as  Self

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