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7.9/10   68 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Jason Sherman (writer)
Release Date:
15 January 2007 (USA) more
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Cast

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Ted Biggs ... Narrator (voice)

Rick Roberts ... Jim Jones
Quentin Krog ... Stephan Jones
Brendan Murray ... Vernon Gosney
Alon Nashman ... Sherwin Harris
Greg Ellwand ... Congressman Leo Ryan
Kevin Otto ... Tim Reiterman
Roxanne McKaizer ... Monica Bagby
Cindi Sampson ... Christine Miller
Victoria Bartlett ... Marceline Jones (as Victoria Bartle)

Nicole Crozier ... Liane Harris

Dean Slater ... Don Harris
Adrienne Pierce ... Sharon Amos (as Adrienne Pearce)
Pope Jerrod ... 'Big' Jim McElvane

Patrick Lyster ... Charles Garry
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100 min
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I thought it was really a documentary, 5 December 2008
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Author: Sylvia Marciniak (sylviastel@aol.com) from United States

I do remember the re-enactment of the events that led up to the Jonestown Massacre but I also remembered thinking that the re-enactments were additional with the documentary interviews with the real characters like survivor and defector, Vernon Gosney, concerned relative Sherwin Harris, and the real Stephan Gandhi Jones, Jim and Marceline's only son who survived by playing on the basketball team of Jonestown. While I appreciated the mixture of both documentary and docudrama, they could have used the Powers Boothe performance in the mini-series because Powers gives an amazing performance on screen that is simply unforgettable which is why it's hard to imagine somebody lesser known incapable of delivering the material. The real names of the characters also helped in the case. I am not going to compare movies but I thought this was the history channel's version of Jonestown.

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