Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Year: 2007
Genre: History, Documentary
Studio:
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Cast: Ted Biggs, Rick Roberts, Quentin Krog, Brendan Murray, Alon Nashman, Greg Ellwand
Runtime: 101 minutes
Release: Jan 15, 2007
IMDb: 6.80/10 by 23 users
Popularity: 1
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Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0

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 the darkest days in United States history.