LEWISTON – Former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers will answer questions after introducing and showing the film, “The Weather Underground,” Saturday, Dec. 6 at Bates College.

The film will be shown at 8 p.m. at the Benjamin Mays Center on the Bates College campus in Lewiston. Its showing will mark the film’s Maine premiere.

“The Weather Underground” is a 2002 award-winning documentary relating the history of the Weathermen, the violent antiwar group that emerged from the student protests of the late 1960s. Present-day interviews with many of the participants are interwoven with extraordinary archival footage to create a portrait of startling immediacy. Sam Green and fellow filmmaker Bill Siegel include multiple points of view, from an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the group to a member of the nonviolent Students for a Democratic Society, who criticizes the Weathermen’s methods.

Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, “The Weather Underground” has won awards at the Locarno and Seattle film festivals. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times has given it a four-star rating.

The film’s Web site is at http://www.upstatefilms.org/weather/.

The showing is free and open to the public.

This event has been sponsored by the following Bates College student organizations: New World Coalition, Friends of Fair Labor and the Bates Democrats.