The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

I did not know this story, and its quite gripping. Based on the 1985 best selling German book of the same name by Stefan Aust, The Baader Menhof Complex tells the true story of a far left West German terrorist group known as The Red Army Faction from 1967-1977 and its best known  members Andreas Baader and the former reporter Ulrike Meinhof. The group was responsible for a series of bombings at U.S. military installations and the bank robbery's they used to finance them. After the groups ringleaders were captured and put on trail a series of additional terrorist actions were undertaken by their followers with the intent to free this leadership. These actions including a plane hijacking with 86 people on board (sub-contracted to sympathetic middle-easterners), an attack on the German embassy in Stockholm, and the murder of the West German Attorney General. A story of maniacal obsession Meinhof started out as a reasonable enough person principally opposed to the American war in Vietnam who got seduced by evil, while Baader started off pretty much an asshole. Lots of twists in this made all the more intriguing by the fact that they really happened. The protest turned riot scene near the beginning of the film is by its self worth seeing. ****