Built around the idea known as the Law of Attraction, this Australian documentary gathers a wide roster of authors, speakers and self-help figures to make its case directly to camera.
What is The Secret about?
Rather than following a single storyline, the film moves between short interview segments with figures such as Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale and Neale Donald Walsch, each explaining a version of the same underlying claim: that focused thought and intention can shape a person's circumstances. Between interviews, staged vignettes illustrate everyday scenarios — money worries, health concerns, stalled careers — recast as opportunities to apply the principle being discussed. Drew Heriot directs the whole as a persuasive piece aimed squarely at a general audience rather than an academic one, favouring plain language and repetition over debate.
About the cast
The film features no actors in a conventional sense; its cast is a list of real authors and speakers — among them Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, John Assaraf, Loral Langemeier, Marie Diamond, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Neale Donald Walsch and Jack Canfield — appearing as themselves to present their own material.
Context & significance
Produced in Australia in 2006, the documentary became one of the more widely discussed self-help releases of its decade, credited by supporters with popularising the Law of Attraction for a mainstream audience well beyond the self-help section. Its structure — first-person testimony intercut with dramatised scenes — was widely copied by later films in the same genre, making it something of a template for the format rather than simply one entry in it. Reactions to the film were divided from the start, with some viewers describing it as a useful, accessible starting point and others finding its central claim overstated; the film itself makes no attempt to address that split, presenting its argument in a single, confident register throughout.
Watching The Secret on Ktime
The Secret is available on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, alongside its original English track, and streams free to watch once a viewer logs into a K-Time account. The Farsi-language interface makes it straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers to search out and follow.