Bernardine Dohrn
Actor · b. 1942 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Bernardine Rae Dohrn, born Ohrnstein, is a former leader of the Weather Underground, a militant radical group responsible for bombings of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York, as well as the accidental Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three members of the Underground.
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Movie6.6DocumentaryThe remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
The Weather Underground
2002 · 54 votes
MovieDocumentaryChesa Boudin’s journey from son of imprisoned Weather Underground activists to DA fighting to reform the justice system.
Beyond Bars
2023
- Movie8.0Documentary
AXIS OF EVIL is an experimental-feature-documentary-essay that features interviews with sixteen artists, scholars, and activists, including Howard Zinn, Daniel Ellsberg, Bernardine Dohrn, Martha Nussbaum, and others, talking about the concept of evil, its usefulness as a framework for US foreign policy, and evils that they've encountered in their lives. The interviews are illustrated with postage stamp art, archival footage, and other elements that interact with, illustrate, and comment on the statements of the interviewees.
Axis of Evil: Perforated Praeter Naturam
2004 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryA documentary about the Weathermen, founded as a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), who fought to overthrow the U.S. government during the 1960s and 1970s. The film consists of interviews with members of the group after they went underground and footage of the anti-war and civil rights protests of the time. It was directed by Emile de Antonio, Haskell Wexler and Mary Lampson, later subpoenaed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an attempt to confiscate the film footage in order to gain information that would help them arrest the Weathermen.
Underground
1976 · 4 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryThe story of the hopes, rebellions, and repression of the 1960s, told by those who lived it - members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Rebels with a Cause
2000 · 1 votes