Oklahoma City: 102 Minutes of Domestic Terrorism

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For as much as I have read about conspiracy theories, cults, organized and disorganized religion and extremists I wasn't all that up to snuff with Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing. Netflix recently added about twenty new documentaries however most of them are from the PBS vaults and contain previously aired information. Even so, for someone like me - it's pure gold because I missed out on it the first time around. It opens with an audio recording of the bombing as it was heard by those in attendance at a water board meeting. It isn't until the next scene that you see the absolute carnage and the destruction that the chemical packed Ryder truck did to the building. Reality smacks you in the face about five minutes later when you see parents crying and talking about their children that were in the day care center. The documentary is broken into sections that covers how the white power and Aryan Nation members managed to move in and set up shop. They flew under the radar but grew in numbers; they were more than separatists and / or supremacists, they were second, third and fourth generation elitists. Taking their cue from The Turner Diaries, The Order pulled together a small group to put in motion one of the first major terroristic threats in American history. Even with inside information about The Order, the FBI and DEA were sow to make progress in identifying and capturing the remaining members that were living off the grid. If you are into documentaries that have a lot of real life footage and on-point interviews then this is more than worth checking out. It isn't rated but there is some violence; it has a run time of 102 minutes and was re-released in 2017 as part of the American Experience on PBS.