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.

Known For

American Experience

Explained

The UnXplained

Seconds from Disaster

The Seventies

History's Mysteries

America's Book of Secrets

Forensic Justice

All Movies (13)

• Motorgasm: a cinematic act of terrorism2026 · as self (archive footage)
• 605 Adults 304 Children2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Witness to Jonestown2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Killer Cults - Blinded By The Light1998
• True Gore1987 · as Self (voice) (archive sound)
• Psychic TV: First Transmission1982 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Killing of America1981 · as Self (archive footage)
• Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy1979 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Miracle Healers1976 · as Self
• People's Temple1973

All TV Shows (16)

• Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Mother Undercover2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• QAnon: The Search for Q2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• The UnXplained2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Very Scary People2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Inside the Criminal Mind2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Radical Story of Patty Hearst2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• People Magazine Investigates: Cults2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Explained2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Forensic Justice2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Seventies2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• America's Book of Secrets2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• Seconds from Disaster2005 · as Self (archival footage)
• History's Mysteries1998 · as Self (archive footage)
• American Experience1988 · as Self (archive footage)