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.

Director:

Tim Wolochatiuk

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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Key words:

guru
mass suicide
sect
portrait of a dictator
mass tragedy
historical documentary
documentary portrait
sect leader

Cast

Ted Biggs

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Narrator (voice)

Rick Roberts

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Jim Jones

Quentin Krog

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Stephan Jones

Brendan Murray

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Vernon Gosney

Alon Nashman

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Sherwin Harris

Greg Ellwand

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Congressman Leo Ryan

Kevin Otto

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Tim Reiterman

Adrienne Pearce

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Sharon Amos

Victoria Bartlett

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Marceline Jones

Patrick Lyster

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Charles Garry

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Reviews (1)

D
Dave
Written 8 year(s) ago
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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 the darkest days in United States history.