Plot
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.
Cast
as Narrator (voice)
as Jim Jones
as Stephan Jones
as Vernon Gosney
as Sherwin Harris
as Congressman Leo Ryan
as Tim Reiterman
as Sharon Amos
as Marceline Jones
as Charles Garry
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Reviews
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 condi…