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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006)
Jonestown
This documentary shows how the Peoples Temple, created by Jim Jones, started to be an integrated church and was thought to be a welcoming church, and it also showed how it ended with the suicide and killing of the members. The documentary also shows the early life of Jim Jones and how the Peoples Temple may have gone wrong due to events in Jim Jones' life. Jim Jones believed he created something special and its members believed in it too. The Peoples Temple began in Indiana and it was later moved to San Francisco. It was believed that the reason they moved there was due to the belief of a nuclear war and how they could be safe in the valley. In San Francisco, they grew and later began to be investigated. During this time, Jim Jones quickly began to move to a town that he would create called Jonestown in the country of Guyana in South America. While in Jonestown many would began to go there and live in peace. Some political members went down to investigate and were killed trying to leave. Soon after almost all of the Peoples Temple, members were forced to drink poisoned kool-aid or they were shot. Many were shot trying to escape into the Jungle. The Peoples Temple started as a good idea but later became a tragedy.
The documentary does a great job of telling the story how it happened and how it began, and ended. The filmmakers were able to get some surviving members of Jonestown along with some people that belonged to the Peoples Temple to talk about Jim Jones and how he and the Peoples Temple became corrupt. This film does a great job in letting the viewer know what is going on. If you had no idea, what the Peoples Temple was and saw this you would become well informed. The film also goes in great depth to show Jim Jones in every way. It shows him as a sad child to someone trying to make something out of himself by creating this church to a man with too much power and too many people believing that he can do what he wants.