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The Cult of the Family
About the Melbourne-based cult The Family, which was led by the charming and dangerous Anne Hamilton-Byrne: a yoga teacher who claimed to be Jesus Christ reincarnated. Instead of serving wine and bread, Hamilton-Byrne fed LSD to her disciples - adopted children raised as her own throughout the 60s and 70s. She dressed them in identical clothes and haircuts; they resembled the pipsqueaks from "Village of the Damned".
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Episode 1
Unseen, Unheard, Unknown
Tue, Mar 12, 201958 mins
In 1987 a teenage girl escapes from a lakeside compound. She triggers the police to raid the property and rescue her siblings - a group of bleached-blond children. Who are these children? What is this cult called The Family?
Awards
- 2019 - AACTA Award - Best Editing in a Documentary - nominated
- 2019 - AACTA Award - Best Original Music Score in a Documentary - nominated
- 2019 - ATOM Award - Best Documentary General - winner
- 2019 - ATOM Award - Best Factual Television Series - winner
