I just am not wacko about Waco. I was expecting this documentary to be a little more powerful. Instead I just found it to be dry. I feel like there was so much stuff they could have worked with here such as the backgrounds of the people who lived there and the way the news handled it at the time. Instead I just felt they gave a way to basic story of Koresh and didn't spend enough time focusing on the confusion that took place between the FBI and the people inside during the building.

I thought I was going to get a quasi-trashy, sensationalistic account of the events that led up to the months-long standoff between David Koresh's kooky Branch Davidians and the a cadre of trigger-happy gov't agents. What I got instead was a thorough (understatement!) dissection of how Washington politics and an overzealous group of ATF and FBI agents botched their high-stakes negotiations with the "cultists" and then (supposedly) attempted to cover up their role in the tragedy that followed.

Some of its more inflammatory (!) claims have since been discredited, but this is certainly a powerful doc.

An interesting if dry and obviously biased alternative presentation to the events at the Mount Carmel compound in Feb-April 1993.The FLIR footage and the two independent experts testimony makes an compelling argument that the Branch Davidians did not set the fires that burnt down the compound.The most damning thing for me was the conclusive proof from the video footage shot that day that when the people were trying to escape the building government agents were firing on them.

Excellent documentary.