Jonestown Cult Suicides (2007)

The True Story: Jonestown Cult Suicides (2007)

Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and testimony from survivors – including cult-leader Jim Jones’s own son Stephan – the terrific documentary series ‘The True Story‘ tells the horrific story of what really happened on that fateful day of  November 18th 1978, when over 900 members of the religious cult The People’s Temple  apparently committed mass-suicide…

“Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when on November 18, 1978; 918 people died in the settlement, in a nearby airstrip, and in Georgetown (Guyana’s capital). The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations…
A total of 909 Temple members died in Jonestown, all but two from apparent cyanide poisoning, in an event termed “revolutionary suicide” by Jones and some members on an audio tape of the event and in prior discussions. The poisonings in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at a nearby Port Kaituma airstrip. The victims included United States Congressman Leo Ryan. Four other Temple members died in Georgetown at Jones’ command.”… Wikipedia