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Cults: Saying No Under Pressure

Mar 18, 1991

0h 30m

★ 8.0

Overview

Describes how to resist the deception and pressure used to recruit members into cults and keep them there. It also provides advice on how to resist these tactics. The video is designed for young people, parents, educators, counselors, clergy, law enforcement officials, and others.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

sunburst visual media

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Cast

Narrator

Charlton Heston

Male Student (as Michael Schwartz)

Michael Ian Black

Jennifer

Jen Rudin

Self (Magician)

Bob Fellows

Self - Professor of Psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles (as L. Jolyon West M.D.)

Louis Jolyon West

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