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Stories Set in Guyana
Guyana is South America's English-speaking outlier, mostly rainforest, rivers and small coastal towns. One event overshadows everything else told about it: the 1978 Jonestown mass murder-suicide, which made the country's name shorthand for cult tragedy. Documentaries like Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple keep returning to it. Open Guyana on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 8 books and 8 movies set in Guyana.
Escape From Jonestown
In 1978 more than 900 people were led to their death by Rev. Jim Jones in a mass murder-suicide pact. Those who survived tell their story of pain and loss.
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Featuring never-before-seen footage this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple headed by preacher Jim Jones who in 1978 led more than 900 members to Guyana where he orchestrated a mass suicide…
Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre
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.
Jonestown: Paradise Lost
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown the Peoples Temple and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts it recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18…
Cut and Run
A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
Vox
Silence can be deafening.Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins.Now the new…
In Gold We Trust
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle gold fever takes over.
Legion
One by one the bizarre murders frustrate and torment Lt. Kinderman , the homicide detective from The Exorcist. A boy, crucified; a priest, decapitated; another priest slain; a nurse, slaughtered — all bear the Zodiac…
Legion
One by one the bizarre murders frustrate and torment Lt. Kinderman , the homicide detective from The Exorcist. A boy, crucified; a priest, decapitated; another priest slain; a nurse, slaughtered — all bear the Zodiac…
Journey
Everyone knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman. Jack is the head of her network. To the world, theirs is a storybook marriage. But behind the doors of their lush Georgetown home a…
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