Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)

Directed by Stanley Nelson

Written by Marcia Smith

Produced by
Kristin Lesko .... associate producer

Original Music by
Tom Phillips

Film Editing by
Lewis Erskine
Aljernon Tunsil

Sound Department
Paul James Zahnley .... sound re-recording mixer

Stunts
Dan Hurst .... stunt performer (as Daniel Hirst)

Other crew
Sherry Alwell .... transcriptor
Julia Conley .... intern

On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide/murder in history. What drew so many people across racial and class lines to the Peoples Temple? How could a diverse group of 900 people be convinced to commit suicide? What was a California congregation doing in the jungles of Guyana? And who was Jim Jones to command such loyalty that parents would murder their own children? Using never before seen archival footage and survivor interviews, "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana, to California, and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America, in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society and rid the world of injustice.

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