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Beyond JFK: A Question of Conspiracy Chasing the Dream: A Bull Riding Adventure Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film
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The documentary cuts back and forth between footage of the Senate trials on Waco, footage the Davidians shot with cameras provided by the FBI during the standoff, and news footage that aired throughout the saga. The directors give the FBI and the ATF a chance to voice their side of the matter, but an overwhelming amount of the evidence presented suggests the raid was botched from the get-go and only got worse from there. Regardless of personal perceptions of the Davidians (and they don't come off too badly here), it's apparent that they might not have been the blood thirsty fringe element portrayed by the media. Watching the testimony of the survivors mixed with the explanations of independent experts, one feels a building sense of nausea waiting for the final outcome. Unlike the events of that fateful day when the standoff came to a fiery and quick end, the recounting of the tragic climax is carried off slowly and deliberately. The filmmakers spend a good 30 minutes making a very convincing case that the FBI lied in reporting the fire was set by the Davidians. The militant religious group is one of the more recent Texas stereotypes, but in this case, they seemed like the sane ones.
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ecounting
the 1993 tragedy at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco with painstaking
detail, Waco: The Rules of Engagement is as haunting a documentary
as you'll see. If the film is to be regarded as truth, the fact that
the gross miscarriage of justice unfolded here at home while most of
us sat back and took the government's word for it only makes it that
much more disturbing. 
