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1999 festival winner, EBE award, "Best Documentary" (also, selected to screen in the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, in NY, Nov. 1999)

The 10th Anniversary Edition of Heaven’s Gate: The Day After – The Untold Story of The Heaven’s Gate Cult is finally finished. It comes with a free BONUS interactive DVD which contains all of the classroom videos, the exit videos, hundreds of classroom Heaven’s Gate classroom audios, the original Heaven’s Gate web site, the final Heaven’s Gate web site and more. There are hundreds of pages of previously undiscovered material and much of it has never been seen by the public. Literally anything and everything you want to know about this cult is there.

On March 22, 1997, Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth, at 122 million miles. DO and his followers meticulously cleaned the house, took out the garbage, polished the silver and packed their things. The sign was above; the time was now. Outside, the bougainvillea were in full bloom as the group began executing “The Routine,” a document they’d created that precisely choreographed how teams would help each other to wash down phenobarbital-laced helpings of applesauce and pudding with vodka, a lethal combination that did its work painlessly. “Lie back and rest quietly,” the ritual instructed, which they did, covered in purple shrouds, a $5 bill tucked in their wallets, waiting for the “elixir of life” to cause drowsiness, then a coma, and finally a circulatory-system collapse. No one knows the exact timeline, but within three days, all the members of Heaven’s Gate were dead.

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