If you have ever come across such inspirational movies as “The Secret” or books like “Think and Grow Rich” and “The Law of Attraction” - this documentary must be pretty interesting for you as it reviews this phenomena from different points of view.

Why are self-help books so popular? What are we looking for? Are we all desperate? Alan Yentob goes in search of self-help.

Starting with a look at the latest self-help phenomenon, The Secret, Alan Yentob sets out to learn from the big hitters in the self-help world: Susan Jeffers, author of the bestselling Feel The Fear and Do It Anyway; David Burns, whose book Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy has sold over 5 million copies, and Anthony Robbins, who fills stadiums with his can-do performances. “Most people see things worse than they are so they never have to try,” says Robbins. “People say to me ‘I’m sceptical’ and I say no you’re not, you’re gutless.”

The Secret reveals the most powerful law in the universe. The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world's history, and through the lives of all truly great men and women. All that they have ever accomplished or attained has been done in full accordance with this most powerful law.

Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance.

Rhonda Byrne's discovery of The Secret began with a glimpse of the truth through a 100 year old book. She went back through centuries, tracing and uncovering a common truth that lay at the core of the most powerful philosophies, teachings and religions in the world.

What Rhonda discovered is now captured in The Secret, a film that has been viewed by millions around the world. The Secret has also been released as an audio-book and printed book with more than six million copies in print.

The Secret explains with simplicity the law that is governing all lives, and offers the knowledge of how to create - intentionally and effortlessly - a joyful life. This is the secret to everything - the secret to unlimited happiness, love, health and prosperity.

The Secret is based on the Law of Attraction. The previews or “clues” to the film show Charles F. Haanel having “uncovered The Secret… Like the great men before him…”, and his book, The Master Key System focuses heavily on this Law which is one of the book’s key themes.

The Secret Teachers are members of the cast who explain Law of Attraction and claim that it is true. Most of the Secret Teachers are in the self help or motivational speaking industry, amongst these are also two Physicists, Fred Alan Wolf and John Hagelin ...

Past Secret Teachers

The movie also includes quotes of Past Secret Teachers. It claims that these Past Secret Teachers were also believers in Law of Attraction. The following are Past Secret Teachers:
1. Hermes Trismegistus
2. W. Clement Stone
3. Plato
4. Isaac Newton
5. Martin Luther King
6. Carl Jung
7. Victor Hugo
8. Henry Ford
9. Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Thomas Edison