Should you watch Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple?
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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Documentary · 2006
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.
The sides of Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
- Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
- Former members and survivors speaking
- The move to Guyana in 1978
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple is good for you if…
- you want to understand how ordinary people followed Jim Jones.
- you like archive footage that shows a story from the inside.
- you can watch a slow descent you know will end in tragedy.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple is bad for you if…
- you can't face the deaths of more than 900 people, children among them.
- you need some hope at the end of a story.
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