Underground

How did a group of largely middle-class students become guerrilla revolutionaries near the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list? Granted unprecedented access to the members of the militant Marxist organization known as the Weather Underground while they were still in hiding, filmmakers Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler, and Mary Lampson explore the group’s radical ideology, revolutionary goals, and lives on the run from the state. What emerges is an essential snapshot of the 1970s leftist counterculture that, in its extraordinary access to wanted fugitives, led to the filmmakers being subpoenaed (ultimately unsuccessfully) by the FBI.