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In 1975, director Emile de Antonio filmed some of the most wanted women and men in America - fugitive members of the militant leftist group known as the Weather Underground. Shooting in secret and utilizing creative methods to obscure their identities, his documentary “Underground” had consequences no one could have predicted. In this episode of The Document, avante-truth filmmaker Travis Wilkerson ("Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?") tells the story of how de Antonio found the Weather Underground, how he filmed them and how the movie about them helped destroy their organization.
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