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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones is a american film of genre Drama directed by William A. Graham released in USA on 15 april 1980 with Powers Boothe
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 15 april 1980
Length 3h12
Directed by William A. Graham
OriginUSA
Themes Films about religion
Rating74%
Guyana Tragedy: The Jim Jones Story, also called The Mad Messiah, is a 1980 television miniseries about the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones, and their 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown. Based on the book by Charles A. Krause, entitled Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account, the film was originally shown on television on April 15, 1980.
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The film draws on Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account and reports from The Washington Post at the time, to describe the life of Jim Jones from a 1960s idealist to the November 1978 mass murder/suicide of members of Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. In the beginning of the film, Jim Jones is seen helping minorities and working against racism. Later, after a move to San Francisco and increased power and attention, Jones becomes focused on his belief in nuclear holocaust, and moves hundreds of his followers to Guyana. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is notified that some individuals are being held against their will, and after going to investigate, the Guyana tragedy itself is depicted.Actors
Powers Boothe
(Jim Jones)
Ned Beatty
(Leo Ryan)
Brad Dourif
(David Langtree)
LeVar Burton
(Richard Jefferson)
Colleen Dewhurst
(Myrtle Kennedy)
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