On November 18, 1978, over 900 people died at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Guyana in the largest mass suicide in history. Jim Jones convinced his followers to collectively ingest a lethal dose of cyanide-laced drink to escape a world that, by his estimation, could no longer serve them. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple traces the optimistic rise and devastating collapse of this utopian movement. How did such a compelling attempt at racial, political, and social harmony ultimately implode? With never-before-seen archival footage and wrenching accounts from survivors, Stanley Nelson carefully exposes the dichotomy of Jones’s haunting cult of personality. Shockingly, the architect of this shared dream was at once positively inspiring and horrifically deceitful. As evident here, there are many who will be forever marked by his vision.  ST