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- 2023
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- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The three-part documentary series directed by Tiller Russell includes video from the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit, previously unreleased raw news footage, interviews with journalists, ATF and FBI agents involved in the Waco siege.
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Waco: American Apocalypse
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 22, 2023
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Summary The three-part documentary series directed by Tiller Russell includes video from the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit, previously unreleased raw news footage, interviews with journalists, ATF and FBI agents involved in the Waco siege.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
73
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
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0% Negative
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In addition to some impressive computer-generated imagery, never-before-seen footage of the FBI negotiation units during the standoff and previously unreleased news footage, “Waco: American Apocalypse” features a number of sobering and insightful, in-depth interviews.
It is a thorough, balanced, immersive and eerily atmospheric examination of a horrific stand-off in which 86 people, including 25 children, died.
The interviewees speak fluently and in vivid detail, while never-seen-before footage from the time brings those events sharply into focus.
Waco: American Apocalypse sticks mostly to the nuts and bolts of the Waco siege, making for an effective narrative about an incident that was one of 1993’s top stories.
Through interviews with all parties and never-before-seen footage, he wants to explore the facts, through all the fog of war and vehement disagreement. And he succeeds more often than not.
The first episode concentrates almost entirely on the first raid, virtually recreating it in real time. What it doesn’t do here or in the succeeding episodes is contextualise or dig deeper into events. ... A braver documentary might have wanted to investigate a route from Mount Carmel 1993 to Capitol Hill 2021 but this one is happy to settle for spectacle and survivors’ stories over substance. Which is not to say the survivors’ stories aren’t moving.
Russell’s series only offers fuzzy hindsight—it does not suggest we’ve established a more tactful way to understand these experiences but found another flashy way to package a sensational true story.
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Production Company:
- Looseworld
- Original Productions
- The Cut
- Tillerman Films
Initial Release Date: Mar 22, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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Awards
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
