Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath
TV-14
8.9
2016
Documentary
Leah Remini, along with high level former Scientology executives and Church members, explores individual accounts from ex-Church members and their families through meetings and interviews with Leah. Each episode features stories from former members whose lives have been affected by the Church's harmful practices, even well after they left the organization.
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- Cast:
- Leah Remini
Episode 12 : Waiting for Justice
August. 26,2019
Filmed for the first time in front of a live studio audience, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder explore stories of how Church of Scientology policies have hindered members from reporting instances of abuse and sexual assault to the authorities.
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Episode 11 : Church and State
February. 05,2019
Leah and Mike speak with Jay Wexler, an expert in constitutional law, to discuss the remarkable story of Scientology’s journey to tax-exempt status. Mike and Leah also talk with Lt. Yulanda Williams, a police officer, about law enforcement’s community engagement strategies.
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Episode 10 : Buying a Town (2)
January. 29,2019
Leah and Mike travel to Clearwater, Florida, spiritual headquarters for the Church of Scientology. Speaking with some of the city’s most prominent Scientology critics, they explore how the controversial 1995 death of Scientologist Lisa McPherson marked a turning point in the Church’s history.
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Episode 9 : Buying a Town (1)
January. 22,2019
In 1974, operating under an alias, the Church of Scientology moves into Clearwater, Fla., and proceeds to make the city its spiritual headquarters; in 1977, an FBI raid uncovers the church's secret plans to take over the city.
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Episode 8 : Gilman Springs Road
January. 15,2019
In a remote corner of Riverside County, Calif., lies Scientology's International Base, a compound that houses the church's most dedicated members. In this episode, Leah Remini and Mike Rinder, a former occupant of International Base ("Gold Base"), speak with four other former high-ranking residents who reveal their shocking stories behind the locked gates.
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Episode 7 : The Collection Agency
January. 08,2019
Leah and Mike speak with former Scientologists who share how they were exploited for money for their exclusive membership. Their stories range from those who are thousands of dollars in debt, to those who were left financially and emotionally bankrupt. We'll also hear from a former member of the church whose job it was to solicit money from parishioners by what she describes as "any means necessary."
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Episode 6 : Ideal Orgs
January. 01,2019
The church purchases large buildings to use as upgraded church locations, celebrated as Ideal Orgs; the church claims that the new buildings signal the rapid expansion of Scientology, but former members and critics say otherwise.
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Episode 5 : Where Is Shelly?
December. 18,2018
After Leah remarked on the absence of church leader David Miscavige’s wife, Shelly, the question set off a chain of events that ultimately led to her leaving Scientology. More than a decade later, Shelly still has not been seen in public.
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Episode 4 : Unlikely Pairing
December. 11,2018
Leah and Mike explore the new symbiosis between the Nation of Islam and Scientology.
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Episode 3 : Spies Like Us
December. 04,2018
A Florida private investigator school recruits Cierra Westerman to spy on critics of the Church of Scientology; Cierra details how investigators dug through trash, installed tracking devices on cars, and infiltrated the lives of the church's critics.
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Episode 2 : Star Witness
November. 27,2018
The heavily guarded Scientology compound known as Gold Base in Riverside County, California, houses up to 1,000 members of the church's elite inner core; Valerie Haney tells how conditions at the base led her to contemplate suicide.
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Episode 1 : Emotional Aftermath
November. 18,2018
We see Leah, Mike and their closest family members, in ways we’ve never seen before as they share—for the first time—the emotional toll leaving Scientology has taken on them and their families and the challenge of unlearning the systems and practices that were ingrained in them for decades.
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