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Waco: The Rules Of Engagement
U.S.A., 1996, 165 min., color
Director & Editor: William
Gazecki
Producers: William Gazecki and Michael McNulty
Executive Producers: Dan Gifford and Amy Sommer
Gifford
Cinematographers: William Gazecki and Rick Nyburg
Music: David Hamilton
 "Waco: The
Rules Of Engagement is an incredibly powerful examination of the events that led
up to the fire at the Davidian Branch compound that took the lives of seventy men,
women and children. Through meticulous research and interviews with both survivors
and government authorities, the film reveals how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms, the FBI, and the Department of Justice waged an unjustified war against
Koresh and his sect and intentionally misled the public about what happened.
The media turned the Branch Davidian sect into dangerous
and subversive fanatics, but the survivors who testify in Waco reveal a different
story. Through these testimonies and analyses from academics and government authorities,
the film examines how sect members perceived this sudden persecution and how the
FBI fumbled attempts to negotiate with them. Ironically, the tactics the agents used
to force the Davidians surrender played into the sect members apocalyptic vision
of their own fate.
Waco is a disturbing account of how those in power and
the media misinform the American public. It also shows how people perceived as "different"
are vulnerable in present day America."
Lisanne Skyler
Sundance Festival Program
1997 PREMIERE
SCREENING SCHEDULE
6:00pm Saturday January 18
Yarrow II
4:30pm Sunday January 19
Sundance Screening Room, Sundance
12:30pm Wednesday January 22
Yarrow II
2:00pm Saturday January 25
Prospector Square Theater
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