Before Wild Wild Country, two documentaries gave the Rajneesh cult sympathetic treatment

The New Republic

"The first attempt, thankfully lost in the mists of history, played like outright pro-Rajneesh propaganda," says Win McCormack. "The second, underwritten by the Oregon Public Broadcasting system several years back, all but exonerated the cult of its multitudinous wrongdoings." McCormack adds: "The Duplass brothers’ new series represents a huge advance over those previous, thoroughly tendentious treatments, in two major ways. First, the filmmakers have done yeoman’s work in researching, finding, selecting, and editing into a coherent framework a vast amount of archival news footage, an accomplishment that makes the production a pleasure to watch. Second, through in-depth interviews with former and still-current adherents of the cult, and residents of the area still around to tell the tale, they have succeeded—insofar as it could ever be possible—in allowing representatives on both sides to have their say." ALSO: The Rajneeshpuram Commune is now a Young Life Christian youth camp.