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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.
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Audiences 45GoodWatch 49
IMDb6.1
Audience score29%
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 137 countries
+127Released
2015
April 26, 2015
11 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
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- United States
14 of 14
- TPTed PatrickSelf - Deprogrammer
Mia DonovanSelf / Narrator (voice)- MRMatthew RobinsonSelf
- ACAaron ChristSelf - The Christ Family
- SCSteve CapelliniSelf - Former member of The Unification Church (Moonies)
- SAStephen A. KentSelf - Professor of New Religions
- JSJim SiegelmanSelf - Author
- FCFlo ConwaySelf - Author
- CPCheryl ProkoshSelf - Former member of The Christ Family
- KCKathy CramptonSelf - Former member of the Love Family
- RARick Alan RossSelf - Deprogrammer/Cult Expert
- DEDan EyinkSelf - Rudrananda Ashram
- SSSondra SacksSelf - Ted Patrick’s Secretary
- RPRuth PatrickSelf - Ted Patrick’s Wife
Directing · 1
- Mia Donovan Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Production · 3
- Mila Aung-Thwin Executive Producer
- Daniel Cross Executive Producer
- Bob Moore Producer
Camera · 1
- Nathan Truesdell Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Hannele Halm Editor
- Omar Majeed Additional Editing
Sound · 1
- Ramachandra Borcar Original Music Composer
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