Quickly! Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): Do you want to share with them this morning? This feature length film, a hybrid of documentary and drama, tracks the final, 5-day build up to a horrific doomsday - the infamous mass murder/suicides of Jim Jones' People's Temple on November 18th, 1978. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple member Jessica Hankey I do not want to go back in any way, shape or form to the States. We were going to California, our new world. Tim Carter lost his wife and son, sister, niece and nephew. Girl (archival): Yeah. Jim Jones (archival): What about the fact that the Ku Klux Klan has increased one hundred times in its membership? Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: Being in an environment where you’re constantly up, you’re constantly busy, and you’re made to feel guilty if you take too many luxuries like sleeping — you tend to not really think for yourself. Now look at my face. Anthony Simons Visually-Impaired Woman (archival): One finger. They would build a new community free of oppression and violence and it was to be their paradise on Earth, but outsiders threatened to expose the dark side of their leader. Girl’s Mother (archival): Well, I believe it. Jim Jones (archival): We had a lady who visited us a week ago here and was speaking to one at the door, and she was a member of a prominent church, a pastor’s wife, and she said, “I think that the poor should be made to control how many children they bring into the earth.” You remember? I certainly do. San Francisco Chronicle FILM Archives Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, American Experience: Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple, Murder with Friends: The Jonestown Massacre. The message was, “You are betraying me.”. Garnett Day, Minister: Jim was breaking new ground in race relations at a time when the ground was still pretty hard against that. Listen, he was in a dysfunctional family. They have no problem about getting out of here. Deadwood . They were just about to try to destroy us if we weren’t always viligant [sic] about our movement. Forty years on from America’s most infamous massacre, this harrowing documentary traces the Rev Jim Jones’s suicide sect – and hears from the handful who made it out alive Hurry my children! All I wanted to do was see my wife and my son. He said, “Now, did you see any lightning come from the sky and strike me dead?”. By the end of that day, 918 men, women and children will die. They didn’t ask anything. We’ve worked too hard.”. Stephan Jones and Jim Jones Jr., the surviving son of Jim Jones, tell all in a new documentary about the Jonestown massacre. Where? These three guys, they get off the truck and walk around this area as though they were looking for somebody. It's a sad film and a sad subject. He was just their preacher. The racial integration became self-fulfilling at some point; the congregation itself became the draw. It's incredible how we humans can be a gullible heard, and flock to someone that speaks with charisma and that arrogant know-it-all. Yes, it was a failure. 3. I remember someone coming to me and telling me that Congressman Ryan was dead. Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple Member, Author, Seductive Poison: As older people joined, it took a year or so and he’d convince the people that he was doing so much in the community and so why not rather than just tithe your twenty percent, why not sell your home, give the money to the church? Oh, what he’s done for me. Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to … And she died in my arms. Everything was plausible, except in retrospect, the whole thing seems absolutely bizarre. I heard Jim Jones was going to be coming to Philadelphia, and coming to Benjamin Franklin High School. Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple member You gotta read books written by the survivors to get the whole story. The actors all did good work, in particular Rick Roberts as Jim Jones himself (having made the mistake of listening to the actual final Jonestown recording, I was impressed with how faithfully he recreated that particular sequence). Oakland Tribune Member. The fire proved they are out to get us. Five years later, an extended family of eighty people had become an organization of thousands. It was almost like a dark cloud. I could see myself in Jonestown walking, and when I looked to my left, there was my son. S1-3 streaming until 31 Dec 2022. To a politician, it was like a birthday cake times twelve. Vanessa Ezersky We saw this beautiful sign, “Welcome to Jonestown.”. Narrator (anonymous letter, archival): “To whomever finds this note. Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: The first time I visited Peoples Temple, I drove at the urging of a friend — a co-worker — to Redwood Valley. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: When vice presidential candidate, Walter Mondale, came to San Francisco, Jim Jones was part of the entourage that boarded his private jet. JONESTOWN: TERROR IN THE JUNGLE premieres Sat., Nov. 17 at 9/8c on SundanceTV. Jonestown: Paradise Lost (79) IMDb 7.2 1h 44min 2006 13+ This feature length film, a hybrid of documentary and drama, tracks the final, 5-day build up to a horrific doomsday - the infamous mass murder/suicides of Jim Jones' People's Temple on November 18th, 1978. We were alive in those services. There were maybe eight or nine other people who were dying, or in the process of dying. Jim Jones (archival): He’s the one that I’m just talking about. What happened there in those few moments made it clear that nobody was safe. And he was getting more and more paranoid. Jim Jones, Jr., Peoples Temple member And we feel that no one really tried Christianity too effectively in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: We were there, supposed to interview some of the family members to ask them why they cannot leave. He had books. Corbis Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple Member: Peoples Temple truly had the potential to be something big and powerful and great, and yet for whatever reason, Jim took the other road. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: A father would turn in a son. Neva Sly Hargrave lost her husband and son. A heroic congressman travels to Jonestown; Temple members plot their escape. That there were outside forces who didn’t want us to do what we were doing. And then the question went on, “Well, how many of you in here have had him to do that?” And whether they were lying or just following suit, hands of the men just went up around the room. How do you like everything so far?” And, “Oh, I like it a lot.” And, “you know, it’s really cool.” I don’t remember exactly. Indianapolis Recorder Collection, Indiana Historical Society But some people like publicity. But this is a loyalty test and you need to turn them in.”. Want to watch 'Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple' on your TV or mobile device at home? Well, I slept an hour-and-a-half.”. Something terrible had happened, because everyone had red eyes except for Jim Jones. Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple member KGO TV Audio Languages. What do you see? Bryan Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: He was there for three evenings, and the third evening I went off on the bus and came to California. My sister Carolyn had invited my parents and my younger sister and I to visit her in Potter Valley. We have about every level of society, all socio-economic income strata — professional down to the ordinary field worker, field laborer. They so don’t want us to do what we’re doing; they’ve burned down the Temple. He was talking better this and better that. Come and I’ll give you a home. And that’s the kind of religious thing that I am excited about, and have some respect for. Eugene Smith, Peoples Temple Member: When Jim Jones wasn’t there, things tended to be a little bit lighter. There were about a hundred and twenty people. Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple Member, Author, Seductive Poison: What was once a really boring meeting, all of a sudden, became like really interesting when Jim Jones became the head of it — because we all came down on the buses. ❤, Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. 42min. And I thought it had a lot more to do with Jim’s sense of rehearsal. We got a nice name for it now. 2006. Woman (archival): Don’t you touch my kids! No! They stared at us for a little bit, but they didn’t say one word. Phyllis Wilmore-Zimmerman, Childhood Friend: Jimmy’s father did not work, did not have a job, and was a drunk. Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: The reward for the election of George Moscone was the appointment of Jim Jones as Chairman of the City Housing Authority. And we will all die, right here in the church, together as one.” The women were just screaming, “Oh no, my baby, my baby,” and others just sat there. Get the latest news, features, updates and giveaways straight to your inbox . You know, we just had fun with it as it grew. I was really shaking, but I didn’t move. And just right when I got ready to reach to touch his head, he pulled the bag up like this. This docudrama was well done, although I've seen other actors portray Jones a little better. Susan Sutton, Indiana Historical Society As a child I was undoubtedly one of the poor in the community, never accepted. Stephen Sung, Sound Technician: The gun’s dead and all we can hear — this one engine was still running. Many more must drink.”. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: He said, “If you see me as your friend, I’ll be your friend. The moment it stopped, they start shooting right away. Juanell Smart lost her four children, mother, and uncle. Five people were killed on the airstrip. Yes, we tried it. Tim Reiterman, Journalist: Jim Jones, I think, realized that ultimately Ukiah was not the sort of climate where Peoples Temple would thrive. Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2020. With this documentary, you see the fallout of crimes Michael Travesser admitted to in the first documentary, including the trial and sentencing. But this familiar format also emphasizes the movie's universality. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple member Deborah Layton, Peoples Temple Member, Author, Seductive Poison: The membership increased substantially as he procured more and more Greyhound buses and fixed them up, and every summer he began this cross-country tour. Claire Janaro, Peoples Temple member Janet Shular, Peoples Temple Member: People lifted Jim to a level of adoration because many believed that he had healed them of cancer. Without our pastor, Jim Jones, to teach me the right way, I would not be in college right now. Marshall Kilduff, journalist It was very somber. They were a span of ages, a span of races. Eugene Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: I told Edith, “If you follow Jimmy to California, you’re crazy.” So what did Jimmy do, but took her to a psychiatrist and sent me a certified letter that she is of sound mind, and she is not crazy. To live in a heartless society after experience this trauma can only have been torture. I had a copy of the Congressman’s will and placed it in a particular drawer in my desk, just in case. Mary Leggett, M’s Bed and Breakfast Fielding McGehee, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: She’s calling Jim Jones on some of the things that he has promised them that they were going to do. My biggest problem was getting somebody to sort of talk to me about the Church in kind of conversational terms. Jay Fialkov Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple Member: Jim said that all of us were homosexuals, everyone except — he was the only heterosexual on the planet. Jones was sitting, looking over his sunglasses, but he had a smile on his face like he’s really enjoying this woman being torn down. I would never have imagined that 24 hours later, they would all be dead. And she called the manager of the station up and they talked to me about leaving. It’s obvious that Martin Luther King was murdered by conspiracy…Malcolm X, Senator Kennedy…. Just vulcanize yourself.”. Kristine Kravitz, Peoples Temple member On-screen text: Peoples Temple Farm, Ukiah — Redwood Valley, California. The government was infiltrating and wiretapping and trying to kill people or assassinate people. Get the solution together.”. And once I laid her down and she told me how she wanted to lay with her grandmother, I — at that point, knew that I didn’t have no reason to be here no more. Jon Vargo, Video Arts/San Francisco, Re-Recording Mixer Jim Jones Jr., Personal Collection Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Paradise wasn't lost at Jonestown because they were in hell with Jones years before they even got there. Courtesy of Rhino Entertainment Company Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2020, Do not be a follower, be a leader!! Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: When Ryan came, he came on a Friday night and we put on a reception for him. And once he started doing that, it became clear that he could get a following. We must never allow that because this is the kind of thing that ushers in the terror of a Hitler’s Germany. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: When word got out that people were leaving, all hell broke out. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: December of ’75, ninety of us went by plane, into Guyana, and saw where we were building the community there. Getty Images The margin of victory was probably no more than 4,000. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: And often on Saturday night, we’d have planning commission meetings until 2 or 3 in the morning. Peoples Temple welcomed people of every race and ethnicity. They were well looked after. “My mother, my grandmother, my sister, my brother, they gone.” You know she said, “Just take me. He was taking drugs. AUDIO: English | SUBTITLES: English. With Vernon Gosney, Leslie Wagner-Wilson, Tim Carter, Jim Jones Jr.. Docuseries looking back on the Jonestown Massacre on the 40th anniversary. I’m not going to let you do this alone.”, Marshall Kilduff, Journalist: I finally heard from some ex-members who heard I was interested in writing a story about the Temple for New West magazine, and they took a chance. Jim Jones (archival): Now my home is stone block and there’s not a piece of new furniture in it. JONESTOWN: TERROR IN THE JUNGLE Trailer Jim Jones forms The Peoples Temple. Female Peoples Temple Member (archival): He said, “I really want to get away from him. Let all the story of this Peoples Temple be told.”. And — and all these people that were like my age, they were clean. Approximately eighty Jonestown residents, including three of Jim Jones’ sons, were away that day and survived. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): We laid it down…we got tired. The Jonestown Haunting (2020) 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror A survivor of the Jonestown massacre returns to the site 10 years later and discovers the cult's former home has … We must all learn from this so those people did not die in vain. With various assassinations — Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy — there was definitely a feeling of hopelessness. A very well done documentary / reenactment, Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015. 42min. June Cordell, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: It didn’t make no difference what color you were. Tim Carter, Peoples Temple Member: The songs that we sang that night — it was people saying, “This is who we are and this is what we are about.”. This New York Times Critic's Pick tells the story of the people who followed cult leader Jim Jones to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America, in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society. You join a religious organization, you join a political movement, and you join with people that you really like. Chuck Wilmore, childhood friend of Jim Jones 2007, Crime - 100 min 14 Comments. If you’re in need of transportation, you get that. You’re not taking my kids! Edith Parks walked up to Jackie Speier and said, “I’m being held prisoner here, I want to go home.”. Previous. Jim Jones (archival): Why of course you’d go, you went to Mexico with me. Jones had several hundred people who would go door-to-door Election Day. Scott Kardel, Project Administration A diverse group, the members of Peoples Temple shared a common goal: to create an egalitarian society free of problems of class and race. Watch; Edit; Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a 2007 documentary television film on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. A documentary on the 40th anniversary of the largest murder-suicide in American histo... more Start watching Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost Stream thousands of shows and movies, with plans starting at $5.99/month. Jim Jones (archival): Somebody is gonna get on the freedom train in Philadelphia! And Jones happened to be coming out of his room and he said, “Hi Tim, how are you doing? Traditional Take that step. So she looked in the Indianapolis Star, and in that Indianapolis Star was Jim Jones’s ad that he had some monkeys to sell. Watch with Sundance Now. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: There was always threats. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: And he said, “What you need to believe in is what you can see.” He said, “If you see me as your friend, I’ll be your friend. They lie. This particular flick, starting with it's title, implies that everything was fine until they got to Jonestown when the last stop is what it really was. The powerful two-hour special “Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre,” focuses on four women in Jim Jones’ inner circle who helped plan the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, one of the largest murder-suicide events in modern … It was very quiet. Just take me and just lay me down next to my grandmamma.”. I couldn’t say goodbye to my son or my husband because at that point, it was like the Gestapo — the families were turning in each other. The dark side of Jim Jones is exposed; the cult flees to Jonestown. Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017. Timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1978 Jonestown mass murder-suicide that killed more than 900 Americans, this four-part documentary tells of leader Jim Jones' transformation from charismatic preacher and civil rights advocate into narcissistic demagogue who championed the biggest mass suicide in U.S. history. Powerful documentary/movie. A conservative candidate and a liberal candidate, George Moscone. Pyramid Media Two of them are in the film.”. He just wanted to see if we were truly committed to our cause, and that was how we would show it. As many others did.”, In an audiotape that was recovered from the disaster site, Jones declares, “We committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world.”, But was it suicide — or murder? You bring them back! So you had to credit a big chunk of decisive votes to Peoples Temple. Mike Touchette, Peoples Temple Member (archival): Hello family. An evangelical preacher led nearly a 1,000 followers from the United States deep into the jungles of South America. The message of Peoples Temple was, “No, the dream is alive.”. c/o Carlin America, Inc. Jim Jones plans his final stand. We had Indians in front of us with machetes, and we had Indians behind us with machetes. Jackie Speier, Aide to Congressman Leo Ryan: More people wanted to leave. Male Peoples Temple Member (archival): I would ask you, could I go home and make a trip to see my people? Eugene Smith, Peoples Temple Member: My wife had gone over three months prior. Don’t do this! Watch more on NOW TV. Frank Johnston, The Washington Post “They saw themselves changing the world, with the church as a tool,” he says, noting that Jones offered prospective members jobs, homes, and a sense of common purpose — striving to create a just world. Jim Jones (archival, subtitles): I agree, Christine Miller, Peoples Temple Member (archival, subtitles): You know…. He wasn’t going to be gaining large numbers of members. S1-3 streaming until 28 Jan 2021. He had a desk. Are you people going to — leave us. I think he said it was his kidneys at the time. John V Moore As this documentary doesn't show even half of the stuff that went on in the People's Temple long before they even got to Jonestown. From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978. At one point, he said, “Well, of course you can go if you want.” But clearly, that was not the message. Traditional Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. He told them that things were just getting worse in the United States, they couldn’t go back home. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. A friend at high school said his father was one of the last State Department people to visit Jonestown. Nelson was drawn to making this film by a persistent question: What drove thousands of people to join Peoples Temple? USC, School of Cinema-Television, David Gottlieb and Jim Ruxin Members are captivated as his lust for power becomes unstoppable. Take that step. Vernon Gosney, Peoples Temple Member: Jim Jones represented the Peoples Temple as a progressive movement that was threatened. Jim Jones (archival): Come forth, my dear. Give us our liberty or give us our death. Grace Stoen, Peoples Temple Member: I had become friends with some of the various defectors, and one of the defectors told me that she was going to speak publicly about Jones. The documentary is one of many titles in the fascinating subgenre of controversial religious documentaries. Storyville: Jonestown documentary on BBC4. Kind of the kid who ran wild in the street, you know what I mean? On a certain level, it’s normal, you know? This would be the place to implement the dream of racial equality. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I was one of those kind of guys that — I used drugs. Rebecca Moore, Relative of Peoples Temple Member: There was this pervasive sense of being under attack in Jonestown. I hope that our society becomes more compassionate so not only Jonestown's end could never happen again, but that our community would never be that cold to those returning from the horror. It has been reported that the documentary will feature interviews with Jones family members and people who were involved with the cult before the massacre. Willie Brown, California State Assemblyman (archival): You have managed to make the many persons associated with Peoples Temple part of a family. So it was through that that she met Jim Jones, and came back saying that he had invited her to church this next Sunday. Jordan Vilchez, Peoples Temple Member: It’s like a child in a dysfunctional family. Dominique A. Delphine (formerly Joyce Shaw), Personal Collection Okay, if that’s where they at, that’s not where I’m at.” Because I’m thinking, “My wife — I’m happy with my wife. If I needed clothes, that was taken care of. Published by EMI Longitude Music O. James Fox Collection, Indiana Historical Society It was emotional. We got to get out of here. A small number of survivors, including Jones' son, are interviewed on screen, and segments based on their memories are reenacted using a large cast of amateur actors. How is it going? You could sit here and talk all day long and no words could describe the peace, the beauty, the sense of accomplishment and responsibility and camaraderie that’s here. A Storyville documentary. And I went Wednesday night and I listened to him, and I was impressed by how it was such an interracial group and people were really happy. Composed by George M. Cohan They lie. Kristine Kravitz, Peoples Temple Member: Jim Jones talked about going to the Promised Land and then, pretty soon, we were seeing film footage of Jonestown. I was there the afternoon that Edith drove away. Laura Johnston Kohl, Peoples Temple Member: And Friday, I’d go to work and I’d get off of work, and I’d hop on the bus or drive the bus to San Francisco. He was going to let him in. Lionel Wedekind The powerful two-hour special . True love never commits acts of violence or causes death to anybody!! As you see me as your father, I’ll be your father, for those of you that don’t have a father.” He said, “If you see me as your savior, I’ll be your savior.” He said, even so, “If you see me as your God, I’ll be your God.”. Tue 7 Jan 2020 00.59 EST. Hue Fortson Jr., Peoples Temple Member: There was an interracial group. Joyce Shaw-Houston, Peoples Temple member And that’s beautiful. 1 hr 44 min. Composed by Charles Stepney, Maurice White, and Verdine Adams White Everything was new and unique and —- and just fun. Stanley Clayton, Peoples Temple Member: I ain’t never used the term “suicide,” and I’m not gonna never use the term “suicide.” That man killed — was killing us. Next. They had a little medical clinic, a little daycare area. Male Reporter (archival): What about now? We let them, the enemies, defeat us. Neva Sly Hargrave, Peoples Temple Member: And she starts taking forward steps. So we have to be even stronger. Jonestown cult survivor recalls horrifying massacre. Jim didn’t understand that there was no way he could talk her down from whatever this article was going to say. In a new A&E documentary, Leslie Wagner-Wilson tells the story of how she survived the deadly Jonestown cult. 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