Jim Jones, a charismatic but tyrannical preacher, leads his followers into the remote commune of Jonestown, Guyana.
Charles Manson, a former con man turned guru of a hippie commune isolated in the Californian desert, has followers who are willing to kill for him.
Moonies are told that they are on a mission to save humanity; but in reality, they are just building an empire for their Messiah, Sun Myung Moon, the all powerful reverend of the Unification Church.
David Koresh, the so-called Sinful Messiah of Waco, Texas, prepares his followers for a battle with the federal government, but he also sleeps with whomever he chooses, including preteen girls.
At the border of Utah and Arizona, a remote theocratic community has been thriving for decades; they live in full obedience to a spiritual leader by the name of Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ.
David Berg's entire belief system and his lifestyle are so uniquely shocking.