To mark the 30-year anniversary of the disaster that took 86 lives, Netflix is releasing an immersive documentary about the Waco standoff. On March 22, a documentary titled Waco: American Apocalypse will be published. It explores how cult leader David Koresh brainwashed and mistreated his adherents before the FBI raided his Texas compound after a bloody 51-day siege.
In order to transport viewers to the siege’s front lines, the documentary uses CGI, never-before-seen footage from inside FBI negotiation teams, and unseen footage shot by news crews. Tiller Russell, who also helmed the Netflix docuseries Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, The Last Narc, Silk Road, and Operation Odessa, is the director of Waco.
New Netflix Documentary “Waco: American Apocalypse” Features NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN Footage Of Negotiations During Stand-Off
Following reports that Koresh was allegedly abusing children physically and practicing polygamy inside the Branch Davidians’ compound, the Waco siege took place in the months of February, March, and April of 1993. In the 1980s, Koresh took charge of the cult and persuaded his followers that he was the Messiah and that the end of the world was near.
A former cult member describes how new recruits were initially attracted to the group as “a bunch of people that you could tell really loved each other.” In the documentary trailer’s opening scene. “It was a very caring environment,” the woman explains. It then cuts to Koresh talking to an interviewer about his followers, saying ‘they think I’m the son of god.’
The documentary features interviews with one of Koresh’s “spiritual wives,” another woman who Koresh groomed to be a wife when she was underage, and journalists who took part in the exhaustive frontline coverage of the siege and attack, according to a Netflix news release.
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