Desperate People's Temple members saw his visit as a chance to escape Jonestown and its erratic and dangerous leader. Sensing the end, Jones triggered a tragic chain of events, forcing his followers to a dark conclusion. Uploaded by devil. Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.
Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Top Top-rated. Photos 7. Top cast Edit. Vernon Gosney Self as Self. Leslie Wagner-Wilson Self as Self.
Tim Carter Self as Self. Jim Jones Jr. Self as Self. Stephan Jones Self as Self. Grace Stoen Self as Self. Laura Johnston Kohl Self as Self.
Jordan Vilchez Self as Self. Jackie Speier Self as Self. Phyllis Wilmore Zimmerman Self as Self. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Released 40 years after the events of the Jonestown mass murder-suicide that killed more than Americans, this four-part documentary tells the history of the the Peoples Temple religious group.
It follows the group's leader Reverend Jim Jones from his roots as a charismatic preacher and civil rights advocate in Indiana into a narcissistic demagogue who led the biggest mass suicide in U.
The story is based on the book by "Road to Jonestown" by Jeff Guinn. Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle Hide Spoilers. The revolution will be televised.
I'm quite a sucker for films about cults, but the remarkable thing is how many of them were caught on film. But the Peoples Temple was the cult-uber-ales, which ended in the murder-suicide of almost a thousand of its members; and even this is mostly on the record, including live action footage taken as Jones's followers shot and killed a U.
The documentary thus almost makes itself, although it's well put together, with interviews carried out with some survivors of the massacre. None of these now see any good whatsoever in the Temple unlike some other cults who still retain some support amonst their ex-members ; and they explain their past decisions as a mixture of beguilment and coerction.
Founder Jim Jones had a certain charisma, albeit a creepy one; but the take home message is that people see what they need to or, in the words of Bruce Springsteen, "at the end of every long hard day people find some reason to believe". The scale of the tragedy makes the story compelling; you'd like to think it couldn't happen again, but you'd probably be wrong.
Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. I was a little kid when this happened and I still remember it well. At least what was said of it in the media at the time. In this documentary you watch it along with some of the people who were there from the beginning to the tragic end.
So it's a different, more factual, and realistic view vs the more entertainment driven reenactment documentaries shown previously.
It's painful to watch, to revisit again, but maybe it should be required watching for students to learn from.
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