Cults and Extreme Belief
TV-14
7.4
2018
Documentary
Elizabeth Vargas, alongside former members of controversial organizations, goes on a search to uncover how these sects use their influence to prey upon people's desperation to create powerful and often destructive belief systems. Each episode will take an immersive look at one currently active group through the eyes of past devotees and get perspective from believers and leaders that are still inside.
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- Cast:
- Elizabeth Vargas
Episode 9 : The Survivors Speak Part 2
July. 22,2018
Former members of different groups meet to discuss their shared experiences with Elizabeth Vargas.
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Episode 8 : The Survivors Speak Part 1
July. 15,2018
Former members of different groups meet to discuss their shared experiences with Elizabeth Vargas.
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Episode 6 : Twelve Tribes
June. 26,2018
Despite their hippie persona and rustic community businesses, The Twelve Tribes have long stood accused of physically abusing children and subjugating of women. Now disconnected from her family, ex-member Samie Brosseau, works to expose the Twelve Tribes abusive practices today.
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Episode 5 : World Peace and Unification Sanctuary
June. 19,2018
Former “Moonie” Teddy Hose, tries to alert the public to a gun-obsessed Unification Church offshoot known as the Sanctuary Church of Newfoundland, Pa. Sean Moon, the charismatic leader and a son of the late Reverend Sun Myung Moon, preaches an extreme gospel featuring his father as “returning Jesus” and guns at the center of worship.
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Episode 3 : Children of God
June. 05,2018
Amy Bril recounts her childhood growing up in the Children of God, a group notorious for pedophilia and “religious” prostitution. Amy and others born and raised in the group are banding together to address a suicide epidemic among fellow survivors.
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