Barack Obama’s Vetting Through Association :: MAXINE

"The Weather Underground" crew: Directors Sam Green and Bill Siegel along with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, two of the subjects documented in the film on the '60s radicals. /// Sam Green and Bill Siegel's film "The Weather Underground" documents a group of '60s leftists, outraged over racism and the Vietnam war, who were determined to bring the war home against the U.S. government through bombing targets throughout the country that they considered "emblematic" of the "violent" policies of the U.S. around the world. The film uses archival footage and interviews with the group’s former members, as well as FBI documents, to recreate the group's confrontation with Chicago police, its bombing of the U.S. Capitol, and its successful scheme to free psychedelic guru Timothy Leary from prison. /// The film spotlights what many will consider a terrorist organization, not exactly the en-vogue story post-September 11 for many in the film industry, as Green acknowledged in a conversation with indieWIRE. "After 9/11, we were like, 'Oh God we can't even do this.'" Still, he along with Siegel pursued the story (for two years) believing it was especially important to understand, as Green states, "what is the meaning of terrorism and violence." Image Credit: Brian Brooks/© 2003 indieWIRE