
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonOne of the year's most important documentaries, a real must-see. |
| PremiereAaron HillisA conventional but genuinely heartrending exposé of the Indiana boy who grew to be a powerful religious cult leader, director Stanley Nelson's thoroughly researched doc is not a posthumous character assassination, which would be all too easy and unnecessary. |
| New York PostKyle SmithFive people did escape, and they contribute their stories to the spellbinding documentary. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghNelson's film eschews sensationalism, and knowing how the story ends in no way diminishes its visceral impact. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThis calm and thorough film has just the right attitude and tone to deal with a most incendiary story. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirI can't imagine anyone not being both horrified and fascinated by Stanley Nelson's Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyA riveting and impeccably researched documentary. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill WhiteStanley Nelson's documentary shows how a religion becomes a cult, and how people are deceived by an ideal. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrHarrowing and inexorable, the film recaptures the progressive insanity of Jim Jones and the hundreds of worshipers in his thrall, and it certainly gives you willies to last for days. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachChilling doesn't begin to describe Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple...But the film never gets behind the chill. |