Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Jim Jones, a magnetic preacher, builds the Peoples Temple religious commune in California, promising social justice and equality. His followers, largely poor and marginalized, see him as a messiah. Through rare archival footage and interviews with survivors, the documentary traces the community's path from an idealistic project to its tragic end in the Guyanese jungle. It meticulously examines the mechanisms of control, blind devotion, and that fatal threshold where utopia curdles into totalitarian nightmare.