Death & Taxes (1993) Gordon Kahl Documentary

Before Ruby Ridge and Waco, there was Gordon Kahl. This top-rated documentary at the 1994 Melbourne Film Festival takes us from an unlikely gun battle between the IRS and North Dakota farmer Gordon Kahl, to an historic cross country FBI manhunt, ending finally in Kahl's mysterious and violent death in Arkansas in 1983. All of this, over taxes?

Exhaustively researched by Jackson over nearly 10 years, this 1993 documentary covers in great detail the subsequent local law enforcement investigations which uncovered serious inconsistencies between the physical evidence, new evidence derived from Kahl's exhumation, and the official story coming out of the IRS.

Eighteen years later, in an America fighting the death of democracy with growing distrust of government law and tax targeting, the focus of this documentary film is more relevant than ever. We hope the movie trailer will inspire you to immerse yourself in this riveting true story, with interviews of Gordon's wife Joan Kahl and son Yorie Kahl, local law enforcement, forensics experts, and IRS and FBI officials.

Death & Taxes is still regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive study available on the subject by serious followers of these events.

This film was independently funded by https://www.taoslandandfilm.com/ and only available in poor quality online. If you like it, you should buy it from the official website. The film-maker offers new copies in both a VHS collector's edition and in DVD format. There is also a 6 part (11+ Hour) Gordon Kahl miniseries available on the website.