I would say that it was fairly close to what I’d read of the whole situation, and it would something that I’d recommend for a 10th grade civics class. You get a pretty good understanding of how a group of people allow some minor events to go out of control, where level heads could have stepped in....but never did, and the authorities ended up being of zero value.
As for the History Channel doing productions like this in the future....I’m all for it. And I can name off three possible productions (Lewis & Clark’s expedition, the early 1800’s rendezvous episode in Colorado, and the Battle of New Orleans).
The History Channel has had a program on the Battle of New Orleans. I think it was pretty decent on history tho I could not get used to their having a fairly fat guy portraying “Old Hickory”.
It was nothing like a mini series tho.
Have you seen the IMAX production of the Lewis and Clark expedition? Extremely well done. I highly recommend it.