Coming in close to 30 years after the Jonestown Massacre, this is a dramatic retelling (with actual footage mixed in) of the fateful hours leading to the end of the People’s Temple Agricultural Project. Rick Roberts give a strong performance as Jones, a man who is seeing is dream of a socialist paradise dissolve after finding out more and more of his “people” want to defect once the horrid conditions and practices are brought to light. The real powerhouse is Greg Elland as Congressman Leo Ryan, playing him as an unnervingly cool and heroic would-be savior, only to end as a victim to one of t…
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Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Overview
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.
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Release date
15/01/2007
Votes
26
Popularity
1.0
Ted Biggs
Narrator (voice)
Rick Roberts
Jim Jones
Quentin Krog
Stephan Jones
Brendan Murray
Vernon Gosney
Alon Nashman
Sherwin Harris
Greg Ellwand
Congressman Leo Ryan
Kevin Otto
Tim Reiterman
Adrienne Pearce
Sharon Amos
Victoria Bartlett
Marceline Jones
Patrick Lyster
Charles Garry
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