Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain's First Urban Guerilla Group

As produced in 1973 (when the topic was still fresh and making headlines), Gordon Carr's muckraking documentary The Angry Brigade discusses and explores a controversial and infamous series of events that began three years prior - universally known and explored in Great Britain but seldom acknowledged in the States. In the early 1970s, a domestic terrorist group formed in the UK that alternately called itself 'The Angry Brigade' and 'The Stoke Newington Eight.' A libertarian militant unit designed to stir up anarchy and protest "the system," the Newington Eight set about planting bombs in a series of public and private locations throughout Britain, such as the homes of Tory MPs. Its activities officially began in 1970, with a bomb planted in the Paddington Green Police Station, but the group arguably culled inspiration from the First of May Group, with their horrific machine-gunning at the U.S. Embassy in London, c. 1967. Carr's documentary explores the doings and motivations of this outfit, and speculates on its (then) future.