Let All the Stories Be Told (2005)

On November 18th, 1978, college students David Dower and his future wife Denice Stephenson were shocked by breaking news reports that several hundred Americans had been found dead in the jungles of Guyana, apparent victims of a mass suicide. The dead were identified as 913 residents of the agricultural project called Jonestown, led by the Reverend Jim Jones. In January of 2001, Dower commissioned Leigh Fondakowski to create and direct a new play about Jonestown. Fondakowski, along with a team of three writers and an archivist, began by combing through the collection of People's Temple materials at the California Historical Society, where they unearthed oral histories taken in Jonestown.