Deprogrammed

5.7
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 90 min
  • Premiere: 2015. April 26.

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.

Discover

Ted Patrick

Self - Deprogrammer

Mia Donovan

Self / Narrator (voice)

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

Camera

Mia Donovan

Director of Photography

Nathan Truesdell

Director of Photography

Directing

Mia Donovan

Director

Editing

Omar Majeed

Additional Editing

Production

Mila Aung-Thwin

Executive Producer

Daniel Cross

Executive Producer

Bob Moore

Producer

Sound

Ramachandra Borcar

Original Music Composer

Writing

Mia Donovan

Writer

Camera

Mia Donovan

Director of Photography

Nathan Truesdell

Director of Photography

Directing

Mia Donovan

Director

Editing

Omar Majeed

Additional Editing

Production

Mila Aung-Thwin

Executive Producer

Daniel Cross

Executive Producer

Bob Moore

Producer

Sound

Ramachandra Borcar

Original Music Composer

Writing

Mia Donovan

Writer