六十年代美国是理想主义激情澎湃的时代,涌现出大量左翼激进组织,其中“学生争取民主社会”(Students For Democratic Society,简称SDS)是反战先锋,从它分化出来的“气象预报员”(the Weathermen)更是激进中的极端,悍然打出推翻美国政府的旗帜,宣传“把越战带回家来”的行动纲领,号召暴力革命,砸烂资本主义。“气象预报员”的名称来自鲍勃•迪伦的歌词“你不需要气象预报员来瞭解天气”。他们的典型行动,是一系列事先张扬的大规模爆炸,攻击物件直指象徵美国国家机器的机构和建筑,如国会大厦、银行,石油财团,FBI等,其核心成员被视作“恐怖分子”,虽多年通缉在逃,却连年隐身试法,无一落网,是歷史上羞辱FBI最漂亮的一笔记载。 1975年越战结束,“地下气象预报员”突然迷失了行动方向,而且都已年过叁十,面临生活、家庭和就业的压力,失...In the late 1960s and early 1970s polarization of American political situation was becoming acute, with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home being the most pressing issues. For the youth political movement, seemingly ineffectual methods of peaceful protest and resistance led to the rise of a faction that wanted a more extreme approach that the government could not ignore. One particular group, the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government. They began with participation in street riots, and escalated their efforts to include the bombing of specific targets associated with the government or local power structures. Through archival footage and interviews of participants on both sides of this conflict, this film covers the Weather Underground's campaign of violence through this period, the FBI's strategies and tactics to apprehend them (including some deemed unethical or illegal), until changing times and disillusionment brought their activities to an end.