Directed by Haskell Wexler, Emile de Antonio, and Mary Lampson • 1976 • United States
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.
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Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1983 • United States
Starring Martin Sheen, Daniel Berrigan, Philip BerriganInnovatively merging documentary and dramatization, director Emile de Antonio reconstructs the trial of the so-called Plowshares Eight, members of a Christian pacifist movement committed t...
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Mr. Hoover and I
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1989 • United States
The final work by uncompromising political documentarian Emile de Antonio is at once a radical assertion of his defiantly DIY approach to filmmaking, a deeply personal summation of his career, and a scathing attack on a figure whose specter hau...
