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Status
Released
Release
2015
Runtime
1h 30m
Available options inUS
Ted "Black Lightning" Patrick's practice of "deprogramming," also known as "reverse brainwashing," started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultists-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from cults.
14 Cast Members
Ted Patrick
Self - Deprogrammer
Mia Donovan
Self / Narrator (voice)
Matthew Robinson
Self
Aaron Christ
Self - The Christ Family
Steve Capellini
Self - Former member of The Unification Church (Moonies)
Stephen A. Kent
Self - Professor of New Religions
Jim Siegelman
Self - Author
Flo Conway
Self - Author
Cheryl Prokosh
Self - Former member of The Christ Family
Kathy Crampton
Self - Former member of the Love Family
Rick Alan Ross
Self - Deprogrammer/Cult Expert
Dan Eyink
Self - Rudrananda Ashram
Sondra Sacks
Self - Ted Patrick’s Secretary
Ruth Patrick
Self - Ted Patrick’s Wife
