I am European and I did not follow at all these events, so I was not prejudiced. The hallmark of a good documentary is to provide supported information about real facts and this documentary does that, even if with the usual, biased Netflix-garbled editing.
What I gathered is that one of the many American cults (why do these things happen so often in the US?) was considered dangerous (and rightly so) because they had a huge amount of weapons and during a botched up operation organized by the federal government, 4 agents died and a siege ensued.
The documentary provides lots of videos and registered material from both parties and up until halfway it looked like the operation could have been successful. The biggest mistake was perhaps to arrest that female sect member who came out to be with her kid, which was clearly detrimental to convincing anybody inside to surrender.
The rest is history and they can pass the blame back and forward until the end of the world. I certainly didn't sympathize with the Davidians, in fact, I cannot understand how anybody can mistake a warmonger who had sex with underage girls for the "Second Coming", but the documentary was not about credulous individuals, therefore no answers are provided about that.
What I gathered is that one of the many American cults (why do these things happen so often in the US?) was considered dangerous (and rightly so) because they had a huge amount of weapons and during a botched up operation organized by the federal government, 4 agents died and a siege ensued.
The documentary provides lots of videos and registered material from both parties and up until halfway it looked like the operation could have been successful. The biggest mistake was perhaps to arrest that female sect member who came out to be with her kid, which was clearly detrimental to convincing anybody inside to surrender.
The rest is history and they can pass the blame back and forward until the end of the world. I certainly didn't sympathize with the Davidians, in fact, I cannot understand how anybody can mistake a warmonger who had sex with underage girls for the "Second Coming", but the documentary was not about credulous individuals, therefore no answers are provided about that.