HistoryDocumentary

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.

Release Date : 2007-01-15

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

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Cast

Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Ted Biggs

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jim Jones

Original Name : Rick Roberts

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stephan Jones

Original Name : Quentin Krog

Gender : Male

Character Name : Vernon Gosney

Original Name : Brendan Murray

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sherwin Harris

Original Name : Alon Nashman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Congressman Leo Ryan

Original Name : Greg Ellwand

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tim Reiterman

Original Name : Kevin Otto

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sharon Amos

Original Name : Adrienne Pearce

Gender : Female

Character Name : Marceline Jones

Original Name : Victoria Bartlett

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charles Garry

Original Name : Patrick Lyster

Gender : Male

Reviews

Dave

@BreakingTraining77

2021-06-23

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.