22. Docs - Religion & Cults
by ccarl | created - 21 Nov 2018 | updated - 03 Feb 2019 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Jesus Camp (2006)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary
A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | Stars: Mike Papantonio, Lou Engle, Becky Fischer, Ted Haggard
Votes: 28,764 | Gross: $0.90M
2. Heaven (1987)
PG-13 | 80 min | Documentary
A series of interviews are conducted concerning people's beliefs towards the possibility of an afterlife. The interviews are filmed against a set of strange backdrops, and are intercut with... See full summary »
Director: Diane Keaton | Stars: Michael Agbabian, James Allport, Lazaro Arvizu, Stephen Augustine
Votes: 292
3. The Profit (2001)
(Banned) | 128 min | Drama
This period piece is a fictional biography of a cult leader's rise to power and his subsequent descent into isolation and paranoia.
Director: Peter N. Alexander | Stars: Eric Rath, Cliff Roca, Tom Luce, Christine Eads
Votes: 485
4. Holy Hell (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Drama
An inside look at Buddhafield, a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.
Director: Will Allen | Stars: Will Allen, Dimitrius Pulido, Phillipe Coquet, David Christopher
Votes: 6,056 | Gross: $0.02M
5. Children of God (1994 TV Movie)
63 min | Documentary
A family describes their time within a religious cult, one that perpetuated pedophilia, sexual abuse, and prostitution.
Director: John Smithson | Stars: Helen Mirren, Sylvia Padilla, Debbie Padilla, Miriam Padilla
Votes: 656
6. American Commune (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
In 1970, 1,500 hippies and their guru Stephen Gaskin founded a commune in rural Tennessee. Members forked over their savings, grew their own food, delivered their babies at home and built a... See full summary »
Directors: Rena Mundo Croshere, Nadine Mundo | Stars: Rena Mundo Croshere, Nadine Mundo
Votes: 238
7. Deprogrammed (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Deprogrammed chronicles Ted 'Black Lightning' Patrick's rise as the notorious 'Father of Deprogramming'.
Director: Mia Donovan | Stars: Balavanta Das, Hridayananda Das Goswami, Ted Patrick
Votes: 534
8. The Cult at the End of the World (2007 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
Michael Travesser says he's the Messiah and that God has told him the world will end with an apocalyptic event at midnight on 31 October 2007. As leader of a cult in a remote corner of New ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Anthony | Stars: Alex Hannaford, Danielle Sayer, Esther Sayer, Michael Travesser
Votes: 222
9. God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Director: Julia Sweeney | Stars: Julia Sweeney, Quentin Tarantino
Votes: 1,016 | Gross: $0.06M
10. Letting Go of God (2008)
130 min | Documentary
Letting Go of God is a humorous monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. She begins in the Catholic church, the religion her family raised her in, and takes a Bible study ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Sweeney
Votes: 687
11. Brief History of Disbelief (2004– )
178 min | Documentary
A mini-series which follows the history of atheism.
Stars: Bernard Hill, Jonathan Miller, Richard Dawkins, Simon Schaffer
Votes: 511
12. Dawkins: Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012– )
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary
Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God's purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Dawkins, Ricky Gervais
Votes: 611
13. Sister Mary Explains It All (2001 TV Movie)
77 min | Comedy, Drama
A bigoted, fanatical nun comes face to face with the lives she ruined through her teachings when a quartet of her traumatized former students return to perform at her Christmas Eve church lecture.
Director: Marshall Brickman | Stars: Diane Keaton, Brian Benben, Wallace Langham, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 686
14.
Pocket Sized Apologetics (2018– )
Episode:
Subjective vs Objective Truth
(2018)
Family
Some truths are "subjective" and others are "objective." The truths of Christianity claim to be objective. Apologist Ken Coughlan defines the difference between the two.
Director: Kenneth J. Coughlan | Star: Kenneth J. Coughlan
15.
The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Without God There Can Be No Objective Morality
(2018 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Star: Matt Walsh
16.
The Onion (2007– )
Episode:
Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming
(2010)
Comedy
Director: J.J. Adler
17. Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary
A documentary looking at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Paul Haggis, Jason Beghe, Spanky Taylor, David Miscavige
Votes: 40,875
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