How to Become a Cult Leader

6.8(47)|2023-07-28|1 seasons, 6 episodes

DocumentaryCrime

Overview

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.

Episodes

Limited Series(6)

S1E1 · 2023-07-28 · 32m

Build Your Foundation

7.0

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

S1E2 · 2023-07-28 · 32m

Grow Your Flock

7.0

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

S1E3 · 2023-07-28 · 32m

Reform Their Minds

7.0

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

S1E4 · 2023-07-28 · 30m

Promise Eternity

7.0

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

S1E5 · 2023-07-28 · 33m

Control Your Image

7.0

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

S1E6 · 2023-07-28 · 29m

Become Immortal

7.0

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

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Peter Dinklage

Narrator (voice)