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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple A fascinating, unsettling, and educational documentary that incorporates still photographs, never-before-seen archival film footage, and disturbing, candid interviews with childhood friends, former members and surviving relatives of the Peoples Temple, journalists, writers, a minister, and a sociologist to give an in-depth and insightful look into the commanding, influential, and mesmerizing preacher Jim Jones who got his brainwashing start in Indiana; built his Peoples Temple in Ukiah, Calif., in 1965; moved on to San Francisco with his devoted followers in 1974; and in 1977, he eventually relocated his congregation to an isolated compound in the jungles of Guyana, South America, where his continued alcohol and drug use led to his increasing paranoia and the ultimate death of 909 Peoples Temple members via cyanide poisoning and his own death via a bullet on Nov. 18, 1978.   Redhead: Year: 2006 Rating:  NR View Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple on the Internet Movie Database