It began on February 28, 1993 with the biggest gunfight on American soil since the Civil War, and ended 51 days later with the deaths of more than 80 people. The siege at a religious compound near ...

The well of true crime stories for Netflix to examine has yet to run dry, and fans of the streaming network's documentaries will have another to add to their watch-list: Waco: American Apocalypse. In ...

“Koresh: The True story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco,” by Stephan Talty (Mariner Books) Thirty years ago, on April 19, 1993, after a 51-day siege by federal agents, the Branch Davidian ...

Each 50-minute episode of Waco: American Apocalypse is driven by intimate and revealing interviews with people from all sides of the conflict. These interviews include one of David Koresh’s spiritual ...

You would think that if there were something newsworthy about “Waco,” a six-episode dramatization of the 1993 Branch Davidian shootout and siege, it would be how it depicts a key event in the ...

In two series timed to the 30th anniversary of the events, the fallout from a standoff between federal agents and an apocalyptic religious sect gets a second look. By Chris Vognar Thirty years ago, a ...

"David Koresh was very complex. There were times where we had good positive conversations. And there were other times where he was extremely angry, extremely paranoid, always narcissistic," says a ...

Three new books marking the thirtieth anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege continue the unending debate over what exactly happened—and why, after all this time, it still matters. One night in the ...

The Branch Davidians were a bunch of weird people who just wanted to be left the fuck alone. The buzzing hivemind of the mainstream maelstrom will scream otherwise on every conceivable platform that ...