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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Documentary, History, TV Movie - 2006
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
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7.8
94%
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Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
Director:
,
Stanley Nelson
Cast:
,
Jim Jones
,
Claire Janaro
,
Deborah Layton
,
Garrett Lambrev
,
Hue Fortson Jr.
,
Janet Shular
,
Jackie Speier
,
Leo J. Ryan

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Details

Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
86 min
Release date:
26 Apr 2006
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Jonestown is a somber and non-exploitive reconstruction of the events that led the members of the Peoples Temple.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
1 Apr 2007
rotten:
Stanley Nelson revisits the 1978 mass suicide of Jim Jones and his flock in Guyana, savoring the horror but offering no new insights.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
1 Apr 2007
fresh:
Ultimately, the film doesn't entirely answer the massive 'why' at the center of this story -- that answer died on that day in 1978 -- but it's a haunting exploration of an event of unspeakable sadness, which still resonates decades later.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
2 Feb 2007
fresh:
A somber, solid documentary [parading] the whole bleak tale before us again, complete with those disturbing scenes of hundreds of corpses in their tees and shorts and flip-flops strewn about facedown in the mud of Jonestown, Guyana.
– Stephen Hunter,
Washington Post,
1 Feb 2007
fresh:
The last half hour of Jonestown is almost unwatchable. Video footage of the assault on the congressman's delegation gives way to audio of Jones exhorting people to 'die with a degree of dignity' as children shriek in the background.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
12 Jan 2007
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