Inside one of Australia's most notorious cults
Director: Rosie Jones
Writer: Rosie Jones
Producer: Anna Grieve
Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic and delusional. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect called The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne from the 1960s through to the 1990s. With her husband Bill, she acquired numerous children – some through adoption scams, some born to cult members – and raised them as her own. Isolated from the outside world, the children were dressed in matching outfits, had identical dyed blonde hair, and were allegedly beaten, starved and injected with LSD. Taught that Hamilton-Byrne was both their mother and the messiah, the children were eventually rescued during a police raid in 1987, but their trauma had only just begun.
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Director: Rosie Jones
Writer: Rosie Jones
Producer: Anna Grieve
Production Companies: Dogwoof, Big Stories, Film Victoria, Screen Australia, BBC
Countries: Australia, United States of America, United Kingdom
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