Shiny Happy People - Duggar Family Secrets

A limited docuseries exposing the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of reality tv's favorite mega-family, The Duggars, and the radical organization behind them: The Institute in Basic Life Principles. As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they’re part of an insidious, much larger threat already in motion, with democracy itself in peril.

4 Episodes

Meet the Duggars

Season 1 - Episode 1

The shiny facade of America's favorite giant family, and the ministry that guided their conservative values, is shattered, revealing a troub...

Growing Up Gothard

Season 1 - Episode 2

As IBLP's homeschooling empire grows, it becomes clear that patriarchal, abusive authority is at the core of Bill Gothard and Jim Bob Duggar...

Under Authority

Season 1 - Episode 3

Bill Gothard and Jim Bob Duggar grow their shared vision into an international empire on the backs of young people. Unpaid labor, abuse, and...

Arrows Activated

Season 1 - Episode 4

Despite Gothard's demise and Josh Duggars disturbing new crimes, the movement goes on. Fundamentalists have consolidated political power nat...