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Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • 42m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
1.8K
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Jason John Cicalese in Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018)
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Docuseries looking back on the Jonestown Massacre on the 40th anniversary.Docuseries looking back on the Jonestown Massacre on the 40th anniversary.Docuseries looking back on the Jonestown Massacre on the 40th anniversary.

  • Stars
    • Vernon Gosney
    • Leslie Wagner-Wilson
    • Tim Carter
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    1.8K
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    • Stars
      • Vernon Gosney
      • Leslie Wagner-Wilson
      • Tim Carter
    • 8User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Vernon Gosney
    • Self
    • 2018
    Leslie Wagner-Wilson
    Leslie Wagner-Wilson
    • Self
    • 2018
    Tim Carter
    Tim Carter
    • Self
    • 2018
    Jim Jones Jr.
    Jim Jones Jr.
    • Self
    • 2018
    Stephan Jones
    Stephan Jones
    • Self
    • 2018
    Jeff Guinn
    Jeff Guinn
    • Self - author of 'The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple'
    • 2018
    Mary McCormick Maaga
    Mary McCormick Maaga
    • Self - author of 'Hearing the Voices of Jonestown'
    • 2018
    Grace Stoen
    Grace Stoen
    • Self
    • 2018
    Laura Johnston Kohl
    Laura Johnston Kohl
    • Self
    • 2018
    Jordan Vilchez
    • Self
    • 2018
    Jackie Speier
    Jackie Speier
    • Self
    • 2018
    Marshall Kilduff
    Marshall Kilduff
    • Self - journalist, San Francisco Chronicle
    • 2018
    Phyllis Wilmore Zimmerman
    • Self
    • 2018
    Ian Whitt
    Ian Whitt
    • Larry Layton
    Jason John Cicalese
    Jason John Cicalese
    • Reverend Jim Jones
    Maiya Palmer
    • Leslie Wilson
    Jack Schrader
    Jack Schrader
    • Vernon Gosney
    Matt Zako
    • Leo Ryan
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    9paul2001sw-1

    Reasons to believe

    The revolution will be televised. I'm quite a sucker for films about cults, but the remarkable thing is how many of them were caught on film. But the Peoples Temple was the cult-uber-ales, which ended in the murder-suicide of almost a thousand of its members; and even this is mostly on the record, including live action footage taken as Jones's followers shot and killed a U.S. representative. The documentary thus almost makes itself, although it's well put together, with interviews carried out with some survivors of the massacre. None of these now see any good whatsoever in the Temple (unlike some other cults who still retain some support amonst their ex-members); and they explain their past decisions as a mixture of beguilment and coerction. Founder Jim Jones had a certain charisma, albeit a creepy one; but the take home message is that people see what they need to (or, in the words of Bruce Springsteen, "at the end of every long hard day people find some reason to believe"). The scale of the tragedy makes the story compelling; you'd like to think it couldn't happen again, but you'd probably be wrong.
    8skepticskeptical

    Cult dynamics

    Jonestown is a surprisingly good miniseries on the People's Temple cult started and ended (through mass suicide and murder) by Jim Jones. Very insightful and really helps to explain what sounds at first like an impossible event in Guyana.
    9bowedeclan

    Why?

    Why was this man not locked up? How many years did he get away with conning and fooling the people, he was a con man and a junkie, the feds should of been on this man case years before they got to the jungle, getting invited to Jimmy Carter's inauguration I think tells its own story of where the country was at, the man should of been locked up.
    8catnapbc

    A must-see

    If people think this kind of insanity cannot happen again, they aren't paying attention to what is being said or done in this documentary. The personality cult and 'philosophy' behind this madman is being recreated today, in a number of countries, including the U. S. When so many people mindlessly follow one person and give up their personal freedoms, then the road to destruction and oblivion is not far behind. A well-produced series with lots of original footage and a powerful reminder of what happens when you lose your way in life and let someone else dictate your path. Sad, scary and yet true. This story needs to be retold and be part of school curriculum.
    9jimlacy2003

    Have people forgotten the lesson?

    I was a little kid when this happened and I still remember it well. At least what was said of it in the media at the time.

    In this documentary you watch it along with some of the people who were there from the beginning to the tragic end. So it's a different, more factual, and realistic view vs the more entertainment driven reenactment documentaries shown previously.

    It's painful to watch, to revisit again, but maybe it should be required watching for students to learn from.

    The lesson is us human beings haven't change that much in the last 70 years or so. There are evil minded that learn how to manipulate people. Know the human nature tricks of how to condition and train them with fear, anxiety, and lies. To combat this we know how to recognise the characteristics of cults, the psychopaths, and don't let them gain a position of power.

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      Based on the same real life events as Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006), Jonestown (2013), Jonestown: Paradise Lost (2007), Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre (2018), Jonestown Cult Suicide (2012), Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980), The Jonestown Haunting (2020), Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple (2007), The Jonestown Massacre (2016) and Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost (2018).

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    • Release date
      • November 17, 2018 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Jonestown: Självmordssekten
    • Production companies
      • Appian Way
      • Stephen David Entertainment
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