2006 · documentary · history · tv-movie
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Directed by Stanley Nelson1h 26m2006
Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where he orchestrated a mass suicide via tainted punch.
Our read: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary · history · tv-movie entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme documentary / history, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
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