Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle BBC4

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Anybody else seen this? We saw both parts on BBC4 this week. Mindboggling.

I did. I had no idea how much of the massacre was recorded. It was horrific.

I just watched this on I player this morning.

The recording of the actual massacre was harrowing. I have to say I was surprised at how little I knew about this. I was under the impression it was simply a mass suicide, I didn't realise that there were people wanting to leave or the shooting at the air strip.

I didn't either. I was 17 when it happened. I knew next to nothing about it. I find cults baffling because I can't see how people get drawn into them.

I can't find it, is it storyville?

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000d27r/storyville-jonestown-terror-in-the-jungle-episode-1

Yes, it's Storyville, @FthisS.

I saw one part of it, didn't realise there were two. However I have seen other programmes before about Jonestown and read a book which detailed all the murders. There was also a drama TV film years ago on the subject. which was excellent I've never forgotten it and would watch again, just found it:

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (TV Movie 1980 ...
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It's a terrible story. I wonder if Guyana has ever recovered.

Some v good podcasts on this by “You’re Wrong About”.

Horrifying.

There were many, many years of build up. In the US then escalated after the big move.

Only saw first one as clashed with something else but was interesting.

It was awful. That woman who stabbed her own children to deather, horrific.

Just dreadful, 300 people unidentified mainly children.

ooh excellent. i have listened to a podcast on this will look out for it.

Casefile did a very good podcast on this tragedy.

Watched this yesterday. Shocking.

I was a toddler when it happened, although I knew of it I had no idea how many people actually died - utterly horrific, those poor children.

How have I never heard of this?

Just watched this, I knew about Jim Jones, the church and the subsequent deaths but not the ins and outs.
Absolutely horrifying, those poor children.

I was a child when it happened, and so wanted to watch because I never really understood, all I knew was that something terrible had happened. I too, had no idea about the airstrip or anything.