Waco: The Inside Story

Dr.Docs' Take

FRONTLINE's inside account of the 51-day Waco standoff draws on seven thousand government photos and hundreds of hours of negotiation tapes that had never been public. I value this version because it resists both the government line and the martyr line and just lays out the evidence. Seventy-six people, many of them children, died in that fire, and the questions about who did what are still not fully closed. Sober, documented, and genuinely uncomfortable.

The deadly fifty-one-day standoff between federal agents and the Branch Davidians at Waco remains one of the most contested events in modern American history. This FRONTLINE investigation draws on thousands of photographs, wiretaps and negotiation tapes to reconstruct what happened. It examines the decisions and failures that led to a tragic and fiery end. Rigorous and sobering, it revisits a confrontation that still stirs controversy. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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