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Jonestown : the life and death of Peoples Temple / a Firelight Media production for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation ; produced and directed by Stanley Nelson ; teleplay by Noland Walker and Marcia Smith ; story by Marcia Smith.

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Smith, Marcia, author.
Walker, W. Noland, author.
Contributor:
Nelson, Stanley, 1951- producer, director.
Phillips, Tom, composer.
Firelight Media, producer.
British Broadcasting Corporation, producer.
WGBH Educational Foundation, producer.
PBS Home Video, distributor.
Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm), distributor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jonestown Mass Suicide, Jonestown, Guyana, 1978.
Jones, Jim, 1931-1978.
Jones, Jim.
Peoples Temple.
Brainwashing.
Preaching.
Assassination--Guyana.
Assassination.
Guyana.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Edition:
Widescreen.
Other Title:
Life and death of Peoples Temple
Place of Publication:
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, Calif. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, [2007]
Language Note:
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
System Details:
DVD; Region 1; stereo.
digital
optical
stereo
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
A startling look at preacher Jim Jones, his life prior to the mass-suicides in Guyana, and the event that took place leading up to that fateful day in 1978.
Credits:
Cinematography, Michael Chin ; editing, Lewis Erskine ; music, Tom Phillips.
Notes:
Videodisc release of a segment of the television program, American experience.
"In association with BBC"--Container.
Special features: deleted scenes; interview with filmmaker Stanley Nelson.
ISBN:
1415731527
9781415731529
OCLC:
80155110
Publisher Number:
841887052269
705226 Paramount Home Entertainment
AMEX6911 PBS

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