Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

2015 • 119 minutes

About this movie

The highly anticipated and critically acclaimed documentary GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF is a look inside the controversial religion from Academy Award®-winner Alex Gibney. The film profiles eight former members of the Church of Scientology, exploring the psychological impact of blind faith, how the church attracts new followers and keeps hold on its A-list celebrity devotees. Following the 2013 Peabody Award-winning documentary ‘Mea Maxima Culpa’, his investigation into the Catholic Church, Gibney dives fully into one of the most controversial and secretive religions in the world in GOING CLEAR, exploring what members of Scientology are willing to do in the name of religion. The film touches on a wide range of aspects of the church from its origin, to an intimate portrait of the Church’s founder L. Ron Hubbard, to its recruiting practices, to present day practices by church officials.

Ratings and reviews

Never was! They added CCHR for tax purposes. Hubbard was a really stupid fanatic. Because I'm an actress, I was invited to check it out. OMG! It's so stupid it's laughable. Big, successful scam for lonely, insecure people!

Too many false info. Too many ppl from so many churches have their own problems w/ any church. So when things didn't work out they blame the church & it religious for their problems!

Would suggest reading the book and also researching its cited sources, but this documentary based on it is a fascinating work as well with people sharing their alleged experiences in their own words during the interview segments.