If you loved The Battered Bastards of Baseball, try Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theysit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Battered Bastards of Baseball, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is

Los Angeles, a sunny afternoon, a Scientology pamphlet on a sidewalk. Ex-members recount recruitment tactics and inner workings of the church. Gibney contextualizes the church's rise within America's 1970s spiritual landscape.

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