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Jonestown: Paradise Lost

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.

Top Cast

  • Ted Biggs

    Ted Biggs

    Narrator (voice)

  • Rick Roberts

    Rick Roberts

    Jim Jones

  • Quentin Krog

    Quentin Krog

    Stephan Jones

  • Brendan Murray

    Brendan Murray

    Vernon Gosney

  • Alon Nashman

    Alon Nashman

    Sherwin Harris

  • Greg Ellwand

    Greg Ellwand

    Congressman Leo Ryan

  • Kevin Otto

    Kevin Otto

    Tim Reiterman

  • Adrienne Pearce

    Adrienne Pearce

    Sharon Amos

  • Victoria Bartlett

    Victoria Bartlett

    Marceline Jones

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.

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  • Dave
    Dave
    Feb 10, 2017

    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.

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