Deprogrammed

Deprogrammed chronicles Ted "Black Lightning" Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His 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, and some sympathetic law-enforcement whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from cults. This documentary questions how much the practice of involuntary deprogramming was a result of moral panic and how much of it was, in fact, a matter of cultic mind-control.