In 1969 a group of anti-war protestors pledged to bring the Vietnam War home to America. Calling themselves The Weather Underground Organisation, they cut themselves of from their friends and families and went underground. They sprung Timothy Leary from prison, bombed the Chicago Police Department and the Pentagon. This film tells their story using their own words, both then and now, in archive footage and interviews. Why did they think the violent overthrow of the American government was necessary, and, after years spent on the run or in prison, do they now regret their actions?
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan