Film

Deprogrammed

5.820151h 30mDocumentary

Director: Mia Donovan
Year: 2015

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.

Top cast

Ted Patrick

Self - Deprogrammer

Mia Donovan

Self / Narrator (voice)

Matthew Robinson

Self

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

Directed by

Mia Donovan

Written by

Mia Donovan

Produced by

Bob Moore