Whatever happened to People's Temple?

It’s the sort of thing that might keep you up at night, but nevertheless, the Jonestown documentary that’s playing at Oak Street Cinema is worth seeing. Lots of folks are too young to remember or know exactly what transpired at Jonestown. Of course, most of us have seen those haunting images of heaped bodies, faced-down and holding one another. This film fills in the rest of the story. A congressman and cameraman were also killed at Jonestown, on the very day of the mass murder-suicide, in fact. And a handful of Jim Jones followers were able to escape into the jungle; this documentary presents their living to tell about it. See Peter Schilling’s review, if you’re so inclined. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple runs through Thursday.