
WACO: A New Revelation
In February 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound at Mount Carmel outside Waco, Texas, and the standoff that followed ended 51 days later in a fire that killed 76 people inside. This film revisits the case with researchers combing through evidence the government inquiries left unresolved: infrared footage that appears to show gunfire from outside the building, the sequence of tank incursions on the final day, and the roles played by the FBI, the ATF, and the Texas National Guard as the operation escalated from a search warrant into a military-scale siege. The film lines up official timelines against surviving film, audio, and photographic records to ask whether the fire started inside, as investigators concluded, or was caused by the assault itself. Interviews and archival material build a case that the public account leaves out actions taken by federal commanders on site. It treats Waco as an open case rather than a settled one, with the government's own footage as the central piece of evidence under dispute.