Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Name: Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Documentary, News
Released: November 16, 2012
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 59

2012

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"DIA" Productions GmbH & Co. KG | Release Date: November 16, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: A news anchor reports while graphic news coverage of a terrorist car bomb attack in 1990 in Oakland, CA is shown. Two Earth First! activists are immediately blamed by the FBI for bombing themselves. We learn that the victim/suspects Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney have later sued the FBI and Oakland Police and that Judi Bari is now dying ofA news anchor reports while graphic news coverage of a terrorist car bomb attack in 1990 in Oakland, CA is shown. Two Earth First! activists are immediately blamed by the FBI for bombing themselves. We learn that the victim/suspects Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney have later sued the FBI and Oakland Police and that Judi Bari is now dying of cancer before her case goes to trial. Weak though defiant, she gives her deposition, on camera, just a month before she dies. [Hokey Pokey]… Expand

Director: Mary Liz Thomson

Genre(s): Biography, Crime, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Ronnie Scheib

Nov 18, 2012

The film, produced by Cherney, makes a clear and cogent case (later upheld by a court verdict) that police and FBI falsified evidence in order to discredit Bari's cause. Read full review

Michelle Orange

Nov 13, 2012

Insult upon injury didn't stop the central figure of Mary Liz Thomson's tough and intriguingly well-told account of the fight between environmentalists and corporate raiders (perhaps abetted, we learn, by the government) from taking the battle to her deathbed. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Nov 18, 2012

The only film ever to be released with the promise of a reward--$50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the bomber--Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an engrossing account of the case. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Nov 15, 2012

There is no satisfactory answer to the titular question posed by this no-frills environmental documentary. But first-time feature director Mary Liz Thomson does answer another one at least as important, by showing us who Judi Bari was. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Dec 7, 2012

Though its early sections feel repetitive and self-congratulatory, the documentary's tension builds in the way director Mary Liz Thomson uses archival material, much of it from TV news. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Nov 16, 2012

Relies too much on rehash and preaching to the choir to kindle a broad-based outrage, but it does make you wonder what really happened on May 24, 1990. Read full review

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