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How to Become a Cult Leader

How to Become a Cult Leader

How to Become a Cult Leader

★ 6.8•2023•1 Seasons•ANIME

DocumentaryCrime

Look inside the cult leader's playbook for achieving unconditional love, endless devotion and the power to control people's minds, bodies, and souls. Disguised as a guidebook for capturing a devoted cult following, this docuseries takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the rise of six famed flock leaders.

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Top Cast

Peter Dinklage

Peter Dinklage

Narrator (voice)

Episodes

Season:

Build Your Foundation

1. Build Your Foundation

Embrace your calling and reinvent yourself by studying the life of petty criminal and folk rock troubadour-turned-murderous legend Charles Manson.

Aired: 7/28/2023

Grow Your Flock

2. Grow Your Flock

Build a fervent following by retracing the steps of Jim Jones, whose messiah complex turned a small healing grift into a dangerously loyal congregation.

Aired: 7/28/2023

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Reform Their Minds

3. Reform Their Minds

32m

Return to Buddhafield and unlock the mastery of manipulation with Jaimie Gomez, a failed actor who built an army of servants by promising enlightenment.

Aired: 7/28/2023

Promise Eternity

4. Promise Eternity

Apocalypse, anyone? Create credible danger and consolidate power by studying the spiritual, sci-fi narrative of Heaven's Gate leader Marshall Applewhite.

Aired: 7/28/2023

Control Your Image

5. Control Your Image

Leverage media coverage to cultivate a pious image like Shoko Asahara, who built the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on positive PR and deadly methods.

Aired: 7/28/2023

Become Immortal

6. Become Immortal

Avoid unhappy endings and cement your legacy by studying Sun Myung Moon, who transformed the Unification Church into a still-thriving economic machine.

Aired: 7/28/2023