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With previously unseen footage and interviews with former members of the Peoples Church, this documentary explores the events leading up to the Jonestown Massacre in 1978. A cult which developed a large following in the 1970s, the Peoples Church was led by Jim Jones, who brought his congregation to an idyllic community in Guyana before inciting them to mass suicide.
Theatrical Release: October 20, 2006
Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple Reviews:
"[With] extensive footage from the night before the tragedy....There's harrowing footage from the next day too, as it all falls apart."-- Tom Charity, Sight and Sound
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[U]tilizing riveting, rarely seen video taken at the Jonestown compound in Guyana on the day of the tragedy, he manages to produce a definitive account....The movie is filled with amazing archival footage..."-- Mark Keizer, Box Office
"This is a movie that makes you shudder....This film paints a portrait of Mr. Jones, who died with his flock in Guyana, as a man with two faces."-- Stephen Holden, New York Times
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