Marshall Herff Applewhite, founder and co-leader of the religious cult Heaven's Gate, speaks to his followers via television. Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Getty Images ...

Inside lay the corpses of 39 people — all dressed in identical tracksuits and shoes — who died in a mass suicide, owing to the teachings of the infamous Heaven's Gate cult. Learn more about ...

When the officers arrived, the stench of decomposing human bodies greeted them. Inside lay the corpses of 39 people — all dressed in identical tracksuits and shoes — who died in a mass suicide, owing ...

Regardless of your fascination’s root, the best cult documentaries offer ... we’ve rounded up the best docuseries and documentaries that look into Heaven’s Gate, the Manson Family, the ...

Regardless of your fascination’s root, the best cult documentaries offer as much warning as they do spectacle. From utopian communes gone wrong to megalomaniacal leaders who cultivate truly out-there ...