The insurrection you thought you understood? You don't know half of it.
After a six-week trial, four men have been convicted in the United States in a high-profile case connected to the storming of Capitol Hill in Washington two years ago. The four members of the far-right Proud Boys group were convicted on a charge of seditious conspiracy, defined as a plot to overthrow the government. US Prosecutors have now charged more than 1,000 people with offences in relation to the January 6, 2021 attack, but there is little agreement in a bitterly divided America about exactly what happened on that day. The dispute threatens to poison American democracy. The BBC's David Grossman was there as events unfolded and filmed the Proud Boys and spoke to their leaders. He assesses what this infamous date means for the United States.
Direction
Gatehouse's unrelenting access to Proud Boys leadership.
Editing
Trial footage intercut with real-time insurrection chaos.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
BBC Newsnight's Gabriel Gatehouse had been tracking far-right extremism since 2016, making this rare embedded access possible through established source relationships.
The documentary aired as the seditious conspiracy trial was still unfolding, meaning viewers saw verdict reactions in real-time — a collapsing timeline between journalism and history.
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