Storyville
Season 20 Episode 19 - The Cult that Stole Children - Inside the Family
An incendiary, heartbreaking investigation into one of Australia's most notorious cults, and the scars its survivors still bear today. Anne Hamilton-Byrne was beautiful, charismatic, delusional and damaged. She was also incredibly dangerous. Convinced she was a living god, Hamilton-Byrne headed an apocalyptic sect dubbed The Family, which was prominent in Melbourne through the 60s and 70s. 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 identically 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 the mid 80s, but their trauma had only just begun.
Episodes in Season 20
The Golden Age of Circus: The Show of Shows
85 min
The Great Gangster Film Fraud
85 min
A Death Row Tale: The Fear of 13
85 min
The Toughest Horse Race in the World: Palio
85 min
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
85 min
The Black Panthers
85 min
Bolshoi's Babylon
85 min
My Nazi Legacy
85 min
Being Evel Knievel
85 min
Unlocking The Cage
85 min
Moazzam Begg: Living the War on Terror
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (1)
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (2)
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (3)
85 min
Chasing Asylum - Inside Australia's Detention Camps
85 min
Weiner - Sexts, Scandals and Politics
85 min
Jim - The James Foley Story
85 min
Brides for Sale - Sonita
85 min
The Cult that Stole Children - Inside the Family
85 min
Forever Pure - Football and Racism in Jerusalem
85 min
