Oklahoma City

Name: Oklahoma City
Genre: History, Documentary
Released: February 3, 2017
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 74

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Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) | Release Date: February 3, 2017 | Not Rated

Summary: On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. Moments later, 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast. Oklahoma City traces theOn April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. Moments later, 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast. Oklahoma City traces the events — including the deadly encounters between American citizens and law enforcement at Ruby Ridge and Waco — that led McVeigh to commit the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. With a virulent strain of anti-government anger still with us, the film is both a cautionary tale and an extremely timely warning. [PBS]… Expand

Director: Barak Goodman

Genre(s): History, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Joshua Rothkopf

Feb 2, 2017

You must see Oklahoma City, if only to know the enemy. They’re not stuck at the airport. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Feb 1, 2017

What makes Oklahoma City a haunting experience is that the movie, in laying out the road that led to his humanity withering and dying, demonstrates a disquieting continuity between the anti-government wrath of Timothy McVeigh and the fervor of anti-government wreckage that has just been given a new credibility in America. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Feb 2, 2017

A chilling documentary that firmly positions McVeigh not as some delusional loner but rather as a product of a far-right subculture that looked on the U.S. federal government as one of the most dangerous forces on the face of the Earth. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Feb 1, 2017

While Goodman’s feature doesn’t focus our recently inaugurated president, it serves as a blunt reminder of what has happened, and could happen again, when misinformation is spread to dangerous, angry, homegrown radicals. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Feb 2, 2017

Oklahoma City suggests that conspiracy theories today have consequences for tomorrow — a message with terrifying implications in an age of fake news. Read full review

Stephen Farber

Feb 1, 2017

Beyond its message, however, and despite some unfortunate omissions in the history it recounts, the film succeeds as one of the most gripping and suspenseful docs of recent years. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Feb 1, 2017

Oklahoma City has little to offer any viewer already familiar with the basics of these three events, each of which gets fairly superficial treatment here. Read full review

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geewah

Jun 6, 2021

A well made, thorough doco that highlights the fact that McVeigh was no loner but the product of far-right extremism and the threat that it poses.

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sebtg

Jan 14, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well made, props to the staff behind the scenes, but that's it. This PBS doc is propagandist(('s)and or whatever) celebrating another year in the shadows of secrecy.
The truth is the only important matter when OKC is mentioned and there exists very little of it within this film.… Expand

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