Sometimes a major Oscar can be a curse in disguise. And a reputation as a movie disaster can be an injustice. Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”–an epic western about the Johnson County ...

Even if it hadn’t been the largest mass suicide on U.S. soil, the deaths of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult in March of 1997 would have been attention-grabbing.

Many people first became aware of the Heaven's Gate cult in 1997, when — after an anonymous tip was called into the San Diego Police Department — the bodies of 39 men and women were found in a ...

With Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults upon us, HBO subscribers will be given an in-depth look into the life and death of the infamous alien-obsessed spiritual group whose 39 members committed mass ...