Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple Image
  • Summary: This documentary tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana, to California, and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America, in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society. (Seventh Art Releasing)
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  1. Reviewed by: G. Allen Johnson
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    One of the year's most important documentaries, a real must-see.
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    A riveting and impeccably researched documentary.
  3. The Peoples Temple congregation was sizably African-American. But when it comes to how those followers turned into a zombie Kool-Aid death cult, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple leaves you with more questions than you went in with.

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