Wild Wild Country

(2018)

★ 7.7 IMDb · 316 votes

Genres: Documentary, Crime

Year: 2018

Runtime: 67 мин

Country: United States of America

Cast: Ma Anand Sheela, Jane Stork, Jon Bowerman, Ma Prem Sunshine, Philip Toelkes, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, George Meredith, Krishna Devi

Plot

When a controversial cult leader builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.

When a controversial guru builds an utopian city in the Oregon desert, it causes a massive conflict with local ranchers. This docuseries chronicles the conflict, which leads to the first bioterror attack in the United States and a massive case of illegal wiretapping. It is a pivotal, but largely forgotten, time in American cultural history that tested the country's tolerance for the separation of church and state.