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Jonestown: Paradise Lost

In this gripping drama, a charismatic cult leader named Jim Jones convinces hundreds of followers to join him in a supposed utopian community in Guyana, only to orchestrate a tragic mass-suicide that results in the loss of nearly 1,000 lives.

The film is a hybrid of documentary and drama, chronicling the 5-day countdown to a devastating doomsday, the tragic mass murder-suicides of Jim Jones' People's Temple on November 18th, 1978, where 918 lives would ultimately be lost.

Info about Jonestown: Paradise Lost

Studio(s): Film Afrika Worldwide, Cineflix International

Originally Released: United States, Jan 15, 2007

Genres:Documentary, History, Drama