DEPROGRAMMED chronicles Ted ‘‘Black Lightning’’ Patrick’s anti-cult crusade. His practice of ‘‘deprogramming’’, also known as ‘‘reverse brainwashing’’, started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultists- turned-deprogrammers, and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from ‘‘cults’’. This documentary questions how much the practice of involuntary deprogramming was a result of moral panic and how much of it was, in fact, a matter of cultic mind-control.