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Waco: American Apocalypse (TV Miniseries)

Waco: American Apocalypse

2023

Tiller Russell

Documentary

6.2

757

TV Series. Documentary This docuseries includes never-before-seen material from the infamous 51-day standoff between federal agents and a heavily armed religious group in 1993.

	Author	Review
United States	Romey Norton Ready Steady Cut	"This is a great true crime docuseries, easily binge-able in a day/few days depending on your time, and you will be hooked from the start. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"A fascinating watch on many levels (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"A braver documentary [wouldn't be] happy to settle for spectacle and survivors' stories over substance. Which is not to say the survivors' stories aren't moving (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"On the 30th anniversary of the Branch Davidian debacle, 'Waco: American Apocalypse' attempts to put the Texas battle into a sensible context. And it’s a fascinating fool’s errand"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"It’s like a scene out of an Stone or Scott movie, but so much more visceral, because this is not a re-creation of events, this is real. Thirty years later, it’s still a shock to the system (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"[This doc] arrives 30 years after these events took place, and in its wiser moments, it makes clear just how unusual this scenario was for armed forces and rapt media. But Russell's series only offers fuzzy hindsight (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"It brings new light to the 1993 Texas shootout through never-before-seen footage and firsthand testimonials"	POS
United States	Chris Vognar Rolling Stone	"Through interviews with all parties and never-before-seen footage, [Tiller Russell] wants to explore the facts, through all the fog of war and vehement disagreement. And he succeeds more often than not"	POS
United Kingdom	Anita Singh Telegraph	"The interviewees speak fluently and in vivid detail, while never-seen-before footage from the time brings those events sharply into focus (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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