Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016) is a Joe Berlinger documentary you can watch online on iFILM. With rare backstage access, the camera follows Date with Destiny, the six-day seminar that draws roughly 2,500 people from around the globe into one room.

Berlinger skips the glossy promo and films the actual work. From the stage, Robbins pulls participants out of dead ends with money, relationships, addiction, even suicidal thoughts — live, in front of the whole crowd. People sob, break down, and exhale for the first time in years. The six-foot-seven coach shouts, swears and embraces in turn, and the film is honest about how divisive his methods can be.

Berlinger, best known for the true-crime work of Paradise Lost, approaches the self-help industry without rose-tinted glasses, showing it from the inside rather than the brochure. It lands best for viewers skeptical enough of motivational gurus to want to see what really goes on. Stream Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016) online on iFILM.