Mar 18, 1991
30 min
Full-HD

Cults: Saying No Under Pressure (1991)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

sunburst visual media

Charlton Heston

Narrator

Michael Ian Black

Male Student (as Michael Schwartz)

Jen Rudin

Jennifer

Bob Fellows

Self (Magician)

Louis Jolyon West

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

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