Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
8.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Stanley Nelson Jr. Music director Tom Phillips Country United States | 8/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, History Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date October 20, 2006 Writer Marcia Smith (story), Marcia Smith (teleplay), Noland Walker (teleplay) Initial release October 20, 2006 (New York City) Cast Deborah Layton, Rebecca Moore, Stanley Clayton Screenplay Noland Walker, Marcia Smith Similar movies House of Sand and Fog , A Single Man , The Prophecy II , Monster's Ball , Holes , Detachment Tagline An American Tragedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jonestown the life and death of peoples temple
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, is a 2006 documentary film made by Firelight Media, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson. The documentary reveals new footage of the incidents surrounding the Peoples Temple and its leader Jim Jones who led over 900 members of his religious group to a settlement in Guyana called Jonestown, where he orchestrated a mass suicide with poisoned Flavor Aid, in 1978. It is in the form of a narrative with interviews with former Temple members, Jonestown survivors, and people who knew Jones.
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Release
The film premiered at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival where it received the Outstanding Achievement in Documentary award, and was broadcast nationally on Monday, April 9, 2007, on PBS's documentary program "American Experience". The DVD release contains a number of scenes and interviews not in the on-air program.
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