Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre

2018 2h 0m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 6

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The story of four women in Jim Jones’ inner circle who helped plan the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, one of the largest murder-suicide events in modern history which left 918 men, women and children dead.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Jim Jones
Self (archive footage)
Leo J. Ryan
Self (archive footage)
Jessica Savitch
Self (archive footage)

Credits

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Director: Nicole Rittenmeyer
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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3 / 5

CAST

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Jim Jones and Leo J. Ryan and Jessica Savitch carry the top of the cast.

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4 / 5

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt8020376 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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5 / 5

WILD

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Only 6 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Nicole Rittenmeyer directs. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 8 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Jim Jones and Leo J. Ryan and Jessica Savitch carry the top of the cast.
4IMDB entry: tt8020376 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
5Only 6 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 120 min · 2h 0m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre (2018)

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Horseface2024-04-08
★ 1/10
A woke and racist revisionist take on the female members of the inner circle around Jim Jones, complicit in the mass murder of almost 950 people. Watching this, you get the sense that if Hess, Göbbels, Höss, and the other lackeys of the Nazi machine were women, the people behind this documentary wouldn't have had time to make it, they'd be busy making a documentary on how they were innocent victims of Hitler and had no responsibility for their actions. Or, if Hitler were a woman, how she'd, too, been a victim of some other contemporary straight white male. The women around Jim Jones were opportunistic selfish whoring hedonists, breaking up their own families and friendships to get a chance at a successful sociopath's dick. They were complicit and active participants in the murder of almost a thousand people, but according to this revisionist piece of trash, they were simply victims of another straight white male demon, selflessly seeking "social justice" and "race equality." The truth is that this cancerous piece of documentary filmmaking is another cog in the racist revisionist woke machine that is leaving Martin Luther King Jr. spinning ever faster in his grave. If you want to truly understand how a person - any person, regardless of race and gender - comes to be complicit in mass murderous atrocities, read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning. Don't watch this garbage.

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