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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

2006

Drawing on rare footage and survivor accounts, this documentary traces the rise of preacher Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple to their isolated settlement in the Guyanese jungle, where in 1978 more than 900 followers died in a mass murder-suicide. A chilling history.

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A documentary about the Peoples Temple settlement and mass deaths at Jonestown, Guyana.

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