Jonestown: Paradise Lost

Dr.Docs' Take

Jonestown, the build-up to 18 November 1978, when more than nine hundred followers of Jim Jones died in the Guyanese jungle in what the world was told was mass suicide but was, for the children, plainly murder. I set the jokes aside entirely here. It is the definitive study of how charisma and isolation can lead ordinary people, step by reasonable step, into the unthinkable. Watch it with a clear head and a heavy heart.

This dramatised documentary tracks the final days leading to the Jonestown tragedy, where more than nine hundred followers of cult leader Jim Jones died in the jungles of Guyana in 1978. It reconstructs the build-up to one of history's most horrifying mass deaths. It explores how devotion turned into catastrophe. It is a chilling watch about cults, control and the darkest end of blind faith. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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