How to Become a Cult Leader

Name: How to Become a Cult Leader
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Rating: 6.8

★ 6.8 (53 votes)

2023📺 1 Season🎞 6 EpisodesTV Series

Documentary Crime

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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First Aired

2023-07-28

Status

Ended

Network

Netflix

Seasons

Season 1

6 eps

Season 1 Episodes

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E1. 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.

★ 7.0

E2. 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.

★ 7.0

E3. Reform Their Minds

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

★ 7.0

E4. Promise Eternity

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

★ 7.0

E5. 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.

★ 7.0

E6. 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.

★ 7.0

Cast

Peter Dinklage

Narrator (voice)

How to Become a Cult Leader

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Season 1 Episodes

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