Jim Jones
Biography
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American preacher, political activist and mass murderer. He led the Peoples Temple, a new religious movement, between 1955 and 1978. In what he called "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle orchestrated a mass murder–suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Jones and the events which occurred at Jonestown have had a defining influence on society's perception of cults.
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Movies (11)
605 Adults 304 Children
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Witness to Jonestown
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Killer Cults - Blinded By The Light
1998
True Gore
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
1987
Psychic TV: First Transmission
as Self (archive footage)
1982
Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy
as Self (archive footage)
1979
The Miracle Healers
as Self
1976
People's Temple
1973
TV Shows (16)
Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Mother Undercover
as Self (archive footage)
2023
QAnon: The Search for Q
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The UnXplained
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Very Scary People
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Inside the Criminal Mind
as Self (archive footage)
2018
The Radical Story of Patty Hearst
as Self (archive footage)
2018
People Magazine Investigates: Cults
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Forensic Justice
as Self (archive footage)
2016
The Seventies
as Self (archive footage)
2015
America's Book of Secrets
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Seconds From Disaster
as Self (archival footage)
2005
History's Mysteries
as Self (archive footage)
1998
American Experience
as Self (archive footage)
1988