Jonestown - The Terrible Fate of the People's Temple | Free Documentary History 

This documentary delves into the final chapters of the Peoples Temple saga in Jonestown, Guyana. Through a combination of survivor testimonials and dramatic reenactments, it portrays the escalating paranoia and erratic behavior of Reverend Jim Jones as internal and external pressures mount. Congressman Leo Ryan's insistence on visiting triggers a tense standoff as Jones vacillates between allowing and resisting the visit. Unexpected defections during the visit catch Jones off guard, prompting drastic actions. In the end over 900 individuals, including men, women, and children, found themselves entangled in a web of manipulation and coercion, ultimately resulting in a devastating loss of life.

I saw this one on RU-vid back before they decided we can’t handle video shown on the freakin’ NEWS back in the ‘70s. Much more punch seeing what the reality was like. Thanks, YT, for protecting me.

My father acted like Jim Jones. I didn’t fully escape him until I was 50. Narcissists are dangerous people.

I don’t know why, but this story gives me such a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach!! I can watch horror, movies, and have no issue, but this will always get me!!

Super important film ! Thanks for posting 🗽

914 of the 918 dead, including Jones himself, were collected by the United States military in Guyana, then transported by military cargo plane to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, a location that had been used previously for mass processing of the dead from the Tenerife airport disaster. The last shipment of bodies arrived early on the morning of November 27, 1978. The base's mortuary was tasked with fingerprinting, identifying, and processing bodies. The base's resources were overwhelmed, and numerous individuals tasked with moving or identifying the bodies suffered symptoms of PTSD. In many cases, responsibility for cremation of the remains was distributed to Dover area funeral homes. In August 2014, the never-claimed cremated remains of nine people from Jonestown were found in a former funeral home in Dover. As of September 2014, four of their remains had been returned to next-of-kin, and the remaining five had not. Those five were publicly identified in the hope that family would claim their remains; all five remain unclaimed by family and have been interred at the Jonestown Memorial at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, CA, along with the remains of approximately half of those who perished on November 18, 1978.

I was 11 when this happened. I remember seeing the photos in Time magazine. It was surreal.

Excellent documentary 💯💯👏👏

You can find the audio files from a recording device that was placed hidden under his chair, it’s well over an hour long and starts before they get into the drinks…the screaming and delving into chaos further into it isn’t for the faint of heart 😕

And people don’t see the similarities between this and Kenneth Copeland, Stephen Furtick, Benny Hinn, Bill Gaither, and the list goes on and on and on.

Jim Jones had a church a couple blocks away from my family's business in the early 60s, before he went coo-coo. He was well known in the community and helped many people in the area with charity work, a food pantry, housing etc. I believe 50-60 Indianapolis/Indiana natives died in Jones Town, unfortunately.

Never heard of ths fascinating watch

Can you do a video about the troubles in Belfast

powers booth played it well

Don't drink the Kool-aid 😮!!!

El diablo nunca recompensa con algo bueno. Él es miserable y su recompensa miseria.

Wikipedia's context flag is rather interesting. One of the most interesting characteristics of Jonestown is invoked in the documentary multiple times. A remote "settlement"? Not that simple. The Cult of The Peoples Temple & Jim Jones was motivated by his desire to create a socialist utopia, and not so much a place to safely worship. And like your classic profiles of socialist regimes, it was sustained by restricting the whereabouts, movement, communication, discussions and personal interests of it's members residing in Jonestown. After all, there is a cult mentality cultivated in a totalitarian state. And the tenets of totalitarianism is sometimes what is cultivating the cult mentality. In a sense, they are bedfellows. This is how I summarize what Jim Jones perpetrated. And that crime serves as an example of how 'sheepish' followers can be convinced by authority to not only hate others, but to take their own lives, in objection to those people and things they hate. The story of Jonestown and it's false prophet does reveal some thought-provoking similarities to some of the words and action by the current U.S. government, and the chief political figureheads of the rest of the world. One of which may be tied to my suspicion that socialism, not democracy, is experiencing a revival in several governments of the world who are looking to secure their power by imposing more control. When I heard the documentary speak of Jones' "White Knight" loudspeaker announcements to residents, for emergency meetings during the night, I was reminded of the current trends in national emergency declarations over everything from climate fears to viruses, and how this has people feeling. We have the same problem Jonestown residents did. How do we know the difference between a real emergency and a fabricated one, if we are being denied information, and access to some information is being blocked? People who are not fully informed are the most vulnerable. And as it was for Jim Jones, that ignorance was key to him maintaining power over his followers.

When was this documentary made? There's not way it could have been recent. I'm guessing late 1990s/early 2000s.

One of the most awful things I have ever seen. Really frightening that people can be controlled in such a way. Frightening because it can happen again. And Jim Jones is not that much different from a lot of dangerous politicians.

Why is it censored? 😡

Couldn't sensor it 1978. Evil is evil AND alive today. 2024

All these protesters could learn something from Jim Jones. They sure are drinking the Social Media Kool Aid. 😆

This is NOT a documentary; it's a cheap drama with terrible acting. Lolz

This was unbelievable what Jim Jones did to his family and congressional community. Just can sum this up as a paranoid schizophrenic leader. That had no way out except but kill his followers. It was really hard to watch this. But, I did. And to this day is one of the most horrific event in history. I’m sure it had to be hard putting this even together knowing the outcome.🥲