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Stanley Nelson’s powerful documentary interviews former members and survivors of self-declared prophet Jim Jones’s utopian cult. Up-close footage of bystanders being gunned down shortly before the 1978 mass suicide is jolting—but no more so than the memories of that day’s once-idealistic survivors.
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On Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide/murder in history. What drew so many people across racial and class lines to the Peoples Temple? How could a diverse group of 900 people be convinced to commit suicide? What was a California congregation doing in the jungles of Guyana? And who was Jim Jones to command such loyalty that parents would murder their own children? Using never before seen archival footage and survivor interviews, "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana, to California, and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America, in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society.
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Release Date: 10/20/06 (Future Release)
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