Decoding the Past: Cults - Dangerous Devotion
- imdbID:
- tt1535004
- Director:
- Sandya Viswanathan
- Writer:
- N/A
- Year:
- 2006
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Country:
- United States
Categories
- 🎓 Cinema Experts
- 💎 Cinema Gems
- 🌍 Countries
- 🎭 Genres
-
🏷️ Tags
- 📁 1970s counterculture
- 📁 1970s in crime
- 📁 1970s in cults
- 📁 1970s in mass murder
- 📁 1970s in religion
- 📁 1970s in south america
- 📁 abuse
- 📁 abuse normalization
- 📁 african american
- 📁 agricultural
- 📁 agricultural project
- 📁 agriculture
- 📁 airstrip
- 📁 alienation
- 📁 alleged equilibrium
- 📁 alleged harmony
- 📁 alleged paradise
- 📁 ambush
- 📁 ambushed
- 📁 american
- 📁 american abroad
- 📁 american cult
- 📁 american religious movement
- 📁 anguish
- 📁 anti establishment
- 📁 apocalypse
- 📁 apocalyptic beliefs
- 📁 apostasy punishment
- 📁 armed
- 📁 armed guard
- 📁 assassination
- 📁 assembly
- 📁 audience
- 📁 audio tape
- 📁 authoritarian
- 📁 authoritarian leader
- 📁 authoritarian obedience
- 📁 authority
- 📁 belief
- 📁 belief reinforcement
- 📁 bizarre
- 📁 blind faith
- 📁 blind obedience
- 📁 blind trust
- 📁 body
- 📁 boy
- 📁 brainwashed
- 📁 brainwashing
- 📁 brainwashing techniques
- 📁 caribbean
- 📁 charisma
- 📁 charismatic
- 📁 charismatic authority
- 📁 charismatic leader
- 📁 charlatan
- 📁 charlatanism
- 📁 charm
- 📁 child
- 📁 church
- 📁 civil rights era
- 📁 closed community
- 📁 closed group
- 📁 coercion
- 📁 coercive
- 📁 coercive control
- 📁 coercive control laws
- 📁 coercive persuasion
- 📁 cognitive dissonance
- 📁 collective
- 📁 collective fear
- 📁 collective hallucination
- 📁 collective memory
- 📁 collective obedience
- 📁 collective submission
- 📁 communal
- 📁 communal house
- 📁 communal living
- 📁 commune
- 📁 community
- 📁 complaint
- 📁 conditioned obedience
- 📁 confusion
- 📁 congregation
- 📁 conspiracy
- 📁 control
- 📁 corpse
- 📁 counterculture
- 📁 crazy leader
- 📁 cried
- 📁 crime in guyana
- 📁 crime in south america
- 📁 crowd
- 📁 crying
- 📁 crying boy
- 📁 crying girl
- 📁 crying man
- 📁 crying woman
- 📁 cult
- 📁 cult awareness
- 📁 cult defector
- 📁 cult dynamics
- 📁 cult history
- 📁 cult leader
- 📁 cult legislation
- 📁 cult member
- 📁 cult surveillance
- 📁 cult victim
- 📁 cults in guyana
- 📁 cults in south america
- 📁 cults in the united states
- 📁 danger
- 📁 dangerous charisma
- 📁 dangerous cult
- 📁 dead
- 📁 dead boy
- 📁 dead children
- 📁 dead girl
- 📁 dead man
- 📁 dead woman
- 📁 death
- 📁 death ritual
- 📁 death tape
- 📁 deception
- 📁 defected
- 📁 defecting
- 📁 defection
- 📁 defector
- 📁 dehumanization
- 📁 dehumanize
- 📁 dehumanized
- 📁 deity
- 📁 delusion
- 📁 denial
- 📁 dependency
- 📁 dependency creation
- 📁 deprivation
- 📁 deprogramming
- 📁 despair
- 📁 desperation
- 📁 despotic
- 📁 destructive
- 📁 destructive cult
- 📁 devotion
- 📁 die
- 📁 died
- 📁 disillusionment
- 📁 disinformation
- 📁 dissent
- 📁 dissonance
- 📁 distress
- 📁 documentary
- 📁 dogma
- 📁 doomsday
- 📁 doomsday cult
- 📁 emotion
- 📁 emotional
- 📁 emotional abuse
- 📁 emotional blackmail
- 📁 emotional control
- 📁 emotional dependence
- 📁 emotional exhaustion
- 📁 emotional isolation
- 📁 emotional obedience
- 📁 environmental control
- 📁 escape
- 📁 escaping
- 📁 ethical debate
- 📁 evacuation
- 📁 evangelism
- 📁 exhaustion
- 📁 experiment
- 📁 exploitation
- 📁 external enemy
- 📁 extradition
- 📁 extreme
- 📁 extremism
- 📁 eyewitness
- 📁 failed experiment
- 📁 failed new society
- 📁 failed new society project
- 📁 failed utopia
- 📁 faith
- 📁 faith based obedience
- 📁 faith healing
- 📁 fake healing
- 📁 false hope
- 📁 false martyrdom
- 📁 false prophecy
- 📁 false salvation
- 📁 false utopia
- 📁 family relationships
- 📁 fanatic
- 📁 fanaticism
- 📁 fatigue
- 📁 fear
- 📁 fear based obedience
- 📁 flee
- 📁 fleeing
- 📁 follower
- 📁 food control
- 📁 footage
- 📁 forced
- 📁 forced labor
- 📁 forensics
- 📁 forest
- 📁 fraud
- 📁 gaslighting
- 📁 gathering
- 📁 geographic isolation
- 📁 georgetown guyana
- 📁 girl
- 📁 government
- 📁 government investigation
- 📁 grief
- 📁 group identity
- 📁 group loyalty
- 📁 groupthink
- 📁 gruesome
- 📁 gruesome end
- 📁 gruesome incident
- 📁 guilt
- 📁 guilty
- 📁 guyana
- 📁 guyana history
- 📁 guyana massacre
- 📁 guyana tragedy
- 📁 guyanese
- 📁 hallucination
- 📁 harm
- 📁 harmed
- 📁 historical context
- 📁 historical lesson
- 📁 historical tragedy
- 📁 historical warning
- 📁 history of guyana
- 📁 history of suicide
- 📁 hope
- 📁 horrible
- 📁 horrible end
- 📁 horrific
- 📁 horrific end
- 📁 horrific incident
- 📁 house
- 📁 human
- 📁 human remains
- 📁 human rights abuse
- 📁 hysteria
- 📁 identification
- 📁 identity
- 📁 identity erasure
- 📁 ideological
- 📁 ideological obedience
- 📁 ideological submission
- 📁 imposed
- 📁 imposed obedience
- 📁 incident
- 📁 individual obedience
- 📁 indoctrination
- 📁 induced obedience
- 📁 infamous
- 📁 infamous cult
- 📁 infamous group
- 📁 influence
- 📁 information control
- 📁 information monopoly
- 📁 innocent
- 📁 innocent life
- 📁 innocent victim
- 📁 insane leader
- 📁 insane leadership
- 📁 insane man
- 📁 insanity
- 📁 internalized obedience
- 📁 international scandal
- 📁 internationally infamous
- 📁 interview
- 📁 interviewed
- 📁 investigation
- 📁 isolation
- 📁 isolationism
- 📁 jim jones
- 📁 jim jones cult
- 📁 jim jones follower
- 📁 jonestown
- 📁 jonestown crime
- 📁 jonestown guyana
- 📁 jonestown incident
- 📁 jonestown mass murder
- 📁 jonestown mass suicide
- 📁 jonestown massacre
- 📁 jonestown tragedy
- 📁 journalism
- 📁 journalism in guyana
- 📁 journalist
- 📁 journalist in guyana
- 📁 jungle
- 📁 killed
- 📁 killing
- 📁 lack of criticism
- 📁 leader
- 📁 leader worship
- 📁 leader worshiping
- 📁 leadership
- 📁 letter
- 📁 lie
- 📁 lost identity
- 📁 lost lifes
- 📁 loudspeaker
- 📁 loyalty
- 📁 loyalty based obedience
- 📁 loyalty test
- 📁 machine gun
- 📁 mad
- 📁 mad leader
- 📁 magnetism
- 📁 manipulation
- 📁 mass control
- 📁 mass death
- 📁 mass hysteria
- 📁 mass migration
- 📁 mass murder
- 📁 mass murder in guyana
- 📁 mass murder in the 20th century
- 📁 mass murder suicide
- 📁 mass suicide
- 📁 mass suicide in guyana
- 📁 mass suicide in the 20th century
- 📁 massacre
- 📁 massacres in 1978
- 📁 massacres in guyana
- 📁 massacres in south america
- 📁 massacres in the 20th century
- 📁 media sensationalism
- 📁 meet
- 📁 meeting
- 📁 megaphone
- 📁 memorialization
- 📁 memory
- 📁 mental obedience
- 📁 messiah complex
- 📁 messianic
- 📁 messianic delusion
- 📁 messianism
- 📁 migration
- 📁 mind
- 📁 mind control
- 📁 missionary post
- 📁 moral collapse
- 📁 moral disengagement
- 📁 movement
- 📁 murder
- 📁 murder suicide
- 📁 murderer
- 📁 mysticism
- 📁 mystique
- 📁 nature
- 📁 need for belonging
- 📁 new society
- 📁 new society project
- 📁 nightmare
- 📁 normalized obedience
- 📁 november
- 📁 november 17 1978
- 📁 november 18 1978
- 📁 november 1978
- 📁 obedience
- 📁 obedience to authority
- 📁 oratory
- 📁 over 900 deaths
- 📁 overcrowd
- 📁 overcrowded
- 📁 panic
- 📁 paranoia
- 📁 paranoid
- 📁 paranoid leader
- 📁 paranoid narrative
- 📁 peoples temple
- 📁 peoples temple agricultural project
- 📁 peoples temple member
- 📁 perish
- 📁 perished
- 📁 Person
- 📁 persuasion
- 📁 photograph
- 📁 physical obedience
- 📁 pile of bodies
- 📁 pile of corpses
- 📁 poison
- 📁 poisoning
- 📁 political obedience
- 📁 politics
- 📁 port kaituma
- 📁 post cult life
- 📁 post cult recovery
- 📁 preach
- 📁 preacher
- 📁 preaching
- 📁 press
- 📁 programmed obedience
- 📁 project
- 📁 prophecy
- 📁 pseudoscience
- 📁 psychological abuse
- 📁 psychological conditioning
- 📁 psychological dependence
- 📁 public shock
- 📁 punish
- 📁 punished obedience
- 📁 punishment
- 📁 quack healing
- 📁 quackery
- 📁 radical
- 📁 radical plan
- 📁 radical utopia
- 📁 radicalisation
- 📁 radicalism
- 📁 radicalization
- 📁 radio
- 📁 rainforest
- 📁 recording
- 📁 reference to anti racism
- 📁 reference to california
- 📁 reference to communism
- 📁 reference to guyana
- 📁 reference to jim jones
- 📁 reference to jonestown
- 📁 reference to jonestown guyana
- 📁 reference to marxism
- 📁 reference to socialism
- 📁 reference to suicide
- 📁 reference to the jonestown incident
- 📁 reference to the peoples temple
- 📁 regular people
- 📁 religion
- 📁 religion exploitation
- 📁 religious
- 📁 religious cult
- 📁 religious fanaticism
- 📁 religious freedom
- 📁 religious group
- 📁 religious movement
- 📁 religious obedience
- 📁 relocate
- 📁 relocating
- 📁 remains
- 📁 remote place
- 📁 remote settlement
- 📁 remote town
- 📁 repatriation
- 📁 repression
- 📁 repressive
- 📁 resistance
- 📁 reverend
- 📁 rewarded obedience
- 📁 ritual
- 📁 ritual control
- 📁 ritual obedience
- 📁 ritualization
- 📁 rumor
- 📁 sacrifice
- 📁 savior figure
- 📁 scandal
- 📁 scream
- 📁 screaming
- 📁 search for survivors
- 📁 self deception
- 📁 self delusion
- 📁 self described paradise
- 📁 self described sanctuary
- 📁 self described socialism
- 📁 self described socialist paradise
- 📁 self justification
- 📁 self sacrifice
- 📁 sensationalism
- 📁 sermon
- 📁 settlement
- 📁 shocking
- 📁 shocking event
- 📁 shocking news
- 📁 shoot
- 📁 shooting
- 📁 shortwave radio
- 📁 shot
- 📁 sinister
- 📁 sinister plan
- 📁 sleep deprivation
- 📁 social control
- 📁 social disillusionment
- 📁 social engineering
- 📁 social pressure
- 📁 sorrow
- 📁 south america
- 📁 speech
- 📁 spiritual
- 📁 spiritual abuse
- 📁 spiritual coercion
- 📁 spiritual exploitation
- 📁 spiritual manipulation
- 📁 spiritual obedience
- 📁 strict
- 📁 subgenre
- 📁 submission
- 📁 suicide
- 📁 suicide cult
- 📁 suicide in guyana
- 📁 surveillance
- 📁 survival
- 📁 survivor
- 📁 survivor trauma
- 📁 survivors
- 📁 temple
- 📁 temple defector
- 📁 temple member
- 📁 temple opponent
- 📁 testimonies
- 📁 testimony
- 📁 thought reform
- 📁 total obedience
- 📁 tower speaker
- 📁 tragedy
- 📁 tragic
- 📁 tragic event
- 📁 transcript
- 📁 trauma
- 📁 tree
- 📁 true crime in 1978
- 📁 true crime in guyana
- 📁 true crime in south america
- 📁 trust
- 📁 uniform thinking
- 📁 unimaginable
- 📁 unimaginable end
- 📁 unimaginable horror
- 📁 us vs them
- 📁 utopia
- 📁 utopia gone wrong
- 📁 utopian vision
- 📁 victim
- 📁 victims
- 📁 voluntary obedience
- 📁 vulnerability
- 📁 vulnerable
- 📁 witness
- 📁 witnesses
- 📁 woman
- 📁 women
- 📁 year 1978