They have just abruptly dethroned their long-serving editor, Stefan Aust.

ECONOMIST: A brave tale of journalists who sacked their editor

This historical drama, directed by Uli Edel and based on the book of the same name by Stefan Aust, takes us scrupulously through the heyday of the group, in the nineteen-seventies, each deed more brazen and brutal than the last: the bombing of a newspaper office, the daylight murders of prominent German citizens, the siege of an embassy in Stockholm, the hijacking of a Lufthansa jet, and so forth.

NEWYORKER: The Baader Meinhof Complex