Portrayal in Film
Congressman Leo Ryan has been portrayed in films about the Jonestown mass murder/suicide, including by actor Gene Barry in the 1979 film Guyana: Crime of the Century, and by Ned Beatty in the 1980 made-for-TV miniseries, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. His assassination was also discussed in the 2006 documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, on The History Channel documentaries: Cults: Dangerous Devotion and Jonestown: Paradise Lost, as well as the MSNBC documentary Witness to Jonestown, which aired in November 2008 - the 30th anniversary of Ryan's assassination and the mass suicides at Jonestown.
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