The 1994 documentary Children of God may be a bit older than among the others on our checklist, however that doesn’t imply it isn’t fascinating - and truly horrifying. After all, The Vow isn’t excellent: There’s certainly some bias - the series’ director, Mark Vicente, clearly didn’t need to paint himself in an irredeemable gentle, even though he was a pretty excessive-rating NXIVM member - and some of the darkest truths about the sex-trafficking cult’s secret society aren’t delved into in earnest. Other former cult members share their experiences too and, unlike The Vow, Seduced is punctuated by interviews with cult consultants, therapists and deprogrammers, all of whom help to paint a fuller, more trustworthy image of NXIVM’s abusive secret sorority and the methods during which Keith Raniere’s insidious, misogynistic doctrine shaped all facets of the alleged self-help organization. Like the parents spotlighted within the Vow, India was roped into a grasp-slave secret sorority that abused and branded its members. Even after 9 hours of The Vow, you might be left wanting more in regards to the NXIVM scandal. Though feminism as a movement was at a rise within the late 1800s and early 1900s, Black girls have been often left behind and disregarded by the White feminists of this movement.
