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Jonestown: Paradise Lost( 2007)

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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.

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      Ted Biggs

      Narrator (voice)

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      Rick Roberts

      Jim Jones

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      Quentin Krog

      Stephan Jones

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      Brendan Murray

      Vernon Gosney

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      Alon Nashman

      Sherwin Harris

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      Greg Ellwand

      Congressman Leo Ryan

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      Kevin Otto

      Tim Reiterman

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      Adrienne Pearce

      Sharon Amos

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      Victoria Bartlett

      Marceline Jones

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      Patrick Lyster

      Charles Garry

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    A review by Dave

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    Written by Dave on Fri Feb 10 2017
    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 th...

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    English

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