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Documentaries like Holy Hell

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The 3 reasons people love Holy Hell

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  1. You like a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos.

  2. You want to understand how one man held a whole community.

  3. You're drawn to strange lives, like a guru staging ballets for his followers.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

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  • Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey2022

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos
    • you want to understand how one man held a whole community

    Good for you if you want former members telling the truth about a world they escaped.

  • Deliver Us from Evil2006

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos
    • you want to understand how one man held a whole community

    Good for you if you want survivors and their families to be heard.

  • Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult2020

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos
    • you want to understand how one man held a whole community

    Good for you if you want India Oxenberg telling her own story.

  • Wild Wild Country2018

    • you want to understand how one man held a whole community

    Good for you if you like a fight between a commune and a town that becomes a national case.

  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief2015

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos
    • you want to understand how one man held a whole community

    Good for you if you like hearing people explain how they came to believe, and how they left.

  • My Scientology Movie2016

    • you're drawn to strange lives, like a guru staging ballets for his followers

    Good for you if you like actors re-enacting scenes described by former members.

  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple2006

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos

    Good for you if you want to understand how ordinary people followed Jim Jones.

  • Waco: American Apocalypse2023

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos

    Good for you if you want to understand what really happened at Waco.

  • Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story2022

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos
    • you want to understand how one man held a whole community

    Good for you if you want to understand a real case that shook Britain.

  • House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths2021

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos

    Good for you if you want to understand a real case that shook Delhi.

  • The Devil on Trial2023

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos

    Good for you if you want the real case behind The Conjuring 3.

  • The Vow2020

    • a cult story told from the inside, with its own home videos
    • you want to understand how one man held a whole community

    Good for you if you want to understand how thoughtful people were drawn into NXIVM.

  • Tiger King2020

    • you're drawn to strange lives, like a guru staging ballets for his followers

    Good for you if you like a real story stranger than anything you'd make up.

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