Feature2007·101m·6.8

Jonestown: Paradise Lost

HistoryDocumentaryCrimeDrama

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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Cast

Ted Biggs

Narrator (voice)

Rick Roberts

Jim Jones

Quentin Krog

Stephan Jones

Brendan Murray

Vernon Gosney

Alon Nashman

Sherwin Harris

Greg Ellwand

Congressman Leo Ryan

Kevin Otto

Tim Reiterman

Adrienne Pearce

Sharon Amos

Victoria Bartlett

Marceline Jones

Patrick Lyster

Charles Garry

Details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Languages
English
Budget
Revenue
Age rating
Quality
4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision

Crew

Director

Tim Wolochatiuk

Writers

Jason Sherman

Gallery

Reviews

Dave

2/10/2017

7.0

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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