Cult is what large religions call small religions.

Remember, socialism is a horrible thing. Thankfully the Demoncrats didn’t succeed this year. All these Woke Progressives are Jim Jones in sheeps clothing.

Oh please religious organizations ask for $$$ weekly even if you leave after "church" services. 😢Organized religion the biggest grift man ever created. Tax the churches and the charlatons will fall.

He was a snake oil salesman omw. Someone was filling his pockets.

What address is that church and is it still standing?

You are wrong in giving it all away. Trust no one.

This is well-made, although tragically sad. I understand better now how those poor people were manipulated.

5:30 God she so pretty

They were slaves just like we are out here working for the rich.

Church is still the same way. People leave the buildings for the same reasons. Its 2024.

This is just so sad..simple words,I know, but it is. Rest in Peace to all the innocent victims of this sad tragedy 🙏

Jim Jones has nothing on these modern day super churches ⛪️ like lakewood church houston tx

The retelling of history so close in time to the actual events presents an incredibly rich portrait.

There are a lot of fake Christians. Jim Jones was one of them. He’s an example of the harm they can do. Bad people hiding behind Christ’s name. Why bother????

Very sad and tragic story those poor young children dying like that nitemare

The father at the end searching for his daughter 😢😭, these good people were deceived terribly by that devil

More cruel than any mechanical torture device....Humanity's fictional organized religion. Absolutely hateful. Evil.

There’s a YT channel named STUFF OF LIFE run by professor Preston Jones. No relation. He has interviewed a several members and several military and local Port Kaituma residents present on that horrible day. My favorite is a guy that NEVER gets mentioned named David Parker Wise. He was the head Pastor at the L.A. church. He was not an ordained minister but he knew the scriptures and he was very sincere. He is a wealth of knowledge and wisdom. The things that he speaks of have never been spoken of elsewhere. The L.A. congregation was smaller so there’s not as much info when compared to the San Francisco Church goings on. The guy is VERY eccentric and a brilliant man. He seems to have a humongous heart and endless compassion for others. Professor Jones scored a coup with this guy. I’m going to DM Prof. Jones to ask him to please consider interviewing Ms. Williams and Ms. Wagner-Wilson. Wish me luck.

There are a few other good videos that are more recent than this EXCELLENT documentary. The Clay Cane YT Show has 2 interviews with former members Yulanda Williams and Leslie Wagner-Wilson. Both ladies managed to escape Jonestown, but in very different ways. Yulanda talked him into letting she and her family leave. They are the ONLY ones that were given permission. And Leslie W-W was one of the 8 brave people who walked hours and hours through that unrelenting triple canopy jungle to freedom. Their personal stories are riveting. I just wish the interviews were longer. There was also a fellow JT survivor named Herbert Newell who was on the JT Kudzu trawler boat when the MURDERS happened. Check them out.

Leftist utopia: i present you the end result.

He didn't care about each person he manipulated their desire for belonging. Psychopaths are good at it...

Tragic and yet fascinating document of its time. "You discipline children when they've done something wrong. ... I whip my children." Then she goes on saying how how much she hated Jim Jones for doing the same thing

The constant wearing of sunglasses to hide his drug addled eyes should have been red flag enough for anyone with half a brain … 😎

Why is bro pronouncing the silent H's in words like whip

This documentary was so sad to see so many people not satisfied with what God gave them. Many were looking for a way out of the social actions of the time. Those depressed are very easy manipulated. Back then depression was bot spoke of. It was deemed taboo. You just had to suffer by yourself.

These people were looking for more than religion. They all seemed sad, lonely and depressed over their lives. Very sad they looked in wrong place.

What’s crazy is he built a great place, independent, free of racism, free food, housing, it was a beautiful community until he made it about himself. So sad.

Theres so many churches like this nowadays. Find jesus read his word dont be decieved by people or worldly things.

Hard to believe this one man took over 900 people to a foreign land and killed them all. Yes, they were all Deceived and were killed in the end.

Amen absolutely as soon as some claims to be the Christ run run run !

Just seeing this today, 2024, . Now pay attention to the non religious Scientology. David Miscavige is pure evil. Run for your life if they approach you. Protest are going against them world wide. They own the city of Clearwater,Fl. Tom Cruise is right under Miscavige. He too is very evil. They get tax exempt but they are NOT a church. They are a cult and will destroy you.

This interview almost sounds like someone from MAGA speaking. I've heard similar stories from ex Trumpers.

Thank you for this Mel!

This still misses the elephant in the room, Jim Jones openly spoke against God and for socialism and the social justice movement that is rampant today, stop watching these documentaries and start watching his Godless "sermons'...

This is the most insightful documentary I've seen on this subject, and it was made in 1979. Decades of time were not needed to process what is obvious.

Sounds alot like scientology.

A man who created a town and called it as himself… I mean big red flag: narcissistic personality here!

The drug program in the temple was simply getting severely punished and beaten if you got caught. So no wonder it worked..

Why would you be in a group where you don’t get anything??! 😂🤣

I've seen quite a few documentaries about Jones and Jonestown, but not this one. I think one thing this does that the others don't is show exactly how these people got reeled in. Many did and still do judge those who followed Jones, especially those who died in 1978. I've been guilty of doing so myself. We all like to think there's no way we'd have fallen for this. But we have hindsight that those who followed Jones didn't. He was ahead of his time with integration, and used that to his advantage. He knew that Christians should actually be *doing* things to help people, not just praying someone else will help. He knew exactly how to reel people in, and then how to demoralize them with psychological, sexual, and physical abuse. This documentary really underscored that. We want to think we're smarter, stronger, and better than those who followed Jones, but it really could happen to any of us.

The first 10 minutes make me want to join People’s Temple

I felt Sorry for Mister Gurvich...Man was totally devestated,

jim was WOKE

are Jim's sermons available to listen to?

The Bible has always warned about false christs, this religious leader was one of the many antichrist that have come to this planet to deceive and to be deceived. The last one will be the worst. Reading , praying, fasting and follow sound doctrine in the right church will help to be away this false doctrine. Only Our Lord Jesuschrist is the only way, the only truth and the life. Greetings from Ecuador ❤

When they say that they are sent by God....Run Fast as You can 😮...no one is sent from God ....They put themselves in the Place they are 😮

No mention of Jim Jones’s CIA ties and top ranking members CIA connections.

I don't understand how they couldn't understand he was evil while still in California and he was having people beat up on each other! WTAF?

Just recently found this and now I realise that the resemblance between Jim Jones' cult and Islam is so uncanny. Except Islam creates SO MANY Jonestown Tragedies against those so-called apostates, infidels, and "non-believers".

Just dum Democrats