The events surrounding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, tracing its roots in anti-government sentiment and examining its lasting impact.The events surrounding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, tracing its roots in anti-government sentiment and examining its lasting impact.The events surrounding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, tracing its roots in anti-government sentiment and examining its lasting impact.
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Overall a an okay to good documentary until the last 10 minutes when the filmmakers are trying to make a connection with January 10th but coming to a misguided conclusion.
The similarities aren't that people got radicalized (they weren't on Jan'10 btw) but that both events seemed to be instigated by the FBI. The bomber literally spills the beans to a letter to a mother of a victim that the head of operations. The documentary glosses over it, the same way that they gloss over Carol Howe becoming an informant for the bureau of tobacco and firearms (ATF). The same organization that perpetrated Waco and radicalized those guys in the first place. How can this documentary so blind?
Why I still give this some stars is that some of the interviews with the victims are very eye-opening and encouraging. Especially the part where the victims try to investigate on their own, again, the documentary never bothers to follow through with this thread but instead makes a huge leap to Jan'10. An event that is quite recent and still needs some proper evaluation and investigation by historians as well as journalists to see the full picture, but there are some similarities with the fact that which if the "instigators" went to jail and which didn't (because they are working for the Bureau).
4 out of 10.
The similarities aren't that people got radicalized (they weren't on Jan'10 btw) but that both events seemed to be instigated by the FBI. The bomber literally spills the beans to a letter to a mother of a victim that the head of operations. The documentary glosses over it, the same way that they gloss over Carol Howe becoming an informant for the bureau of tobacco and firearms (ATF). The same organization that perpetrated Waco and radicalized those guys in the first place. How can this documentary so blind?
Why I still give this some stars is that some of the interviews with the victims are very eye-opening and encouraging. Especially the part where the victims try to investigate on their own, again, the documentary never bothers to follow through with this thread but instead makes a huge leap to Jan'10. An event that is quite recent and still needs some proper evaluation and investigation by historians as well as journalists to see the full picture, but there are some similarities with the fact that which if the "instigators" went to jail and which didn't (because they are working for the Bureau).
4 out of 10.
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