Waco is an American television miniseries that premiered on January 24, 2018, on Paramount Network. The six-episode series dramatizes the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and David Koresh's religious faction, the Branch Davidians, in Waco, Texas, that culminated in a fatal fire. A sequel titled Waco: The Aftermath premiered on April 16, 2023, on Showtime.
Waco is a dramatized exploration of the 1993 standoff between the FBI, ATF and David Koresh's religious faction, the Branch Davidians. It investigates the tragedy before and during the standoff, from a variety of viewpoints of those most personally associated with the two sides of the dispute.