Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence

2023

Recommended
100%
59%
3 episodes
Documentary

A group of bright Sarah Lawrence College students fall under the dark influence of a friend's father, Larry Ray. With... More

A group of bright Sarah Lawrence College students fall under the dark influence of a friend's father, Larry Ray. With unprecedented access to the survivors who lived with Ray, the series follows the cult from its origins through its still-unfolding aftermath.

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Where to watch Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence

Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence is available... More to stream in New Zealand now on Disney+.

Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence episodes

The Arbiter of Truth

Eight sophomores arrive at college to find the dad of... More a student on their dorm-step: ex-con Larry Ray. Before long, Ray becomes their ninth roommate - and lures them into a dangerous cult.

Truth Wins

As the students fall deeper under Larry’s spell, they follow... More him to New York City, where he co-opts an apartment uptown. As Larry grows more controlling and even violent, the students’ realities are upended.

Larryland

After Larry is evicted, the cult relocates to New Jersey,... More where Larry commits his most hideous crimes yet. When he is finally arrested, the two women closest to him choose disparate paths to survive.

Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence | Ratings & Reviews

Puzzling. Shocking. Horrifying. This three-part true crime series brings a hard-to-believe tale into chilling reality. Bravely told by those he brainwashed, this story of a man named Larry with frightening powers of persuasion will creep into your mind and stay there.

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"With a startling rawness and directness, Heinzerling’s work makes a case for itself as an unusually sensitive and strong outing in its genre."

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Variety

"Documentaries about cults are never breezy affairs, but Stolen Youth is a particularly tough watch."

"Terrifying..."

"At times uncomfortably raw, and thus (for those who can stomach it) extremely watchable."

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CNN

"Stolen Youth gets tricky -- and absorbing and salutary -- and becomes something other than the regurgitation of the sordid, sensational and expansively scandalous."

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