Jim Jones

Known for

Acting

Born

May 13, 1931

Birthplace

Crete, Indiana, USA

Died

November 18, 1978 (aged 47)

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.

Best known work

Explained

2018

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

2006

The Killing of America

1981

American Experience

1988

The UnXplained

2019

Seconds from Disaster

2005

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

2018

The Seventies

2015

Inside the Criminal Mind

2018

America's Book of Secrets

2012

Filmography

2026
Motorgasm: a cinematic act of terrorism
as self (archive footage)
2024
Cult Massacre: One Day in JonestownTV
as Self (archive footage) (3 episodes)
2023
Mother UndercoverTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2021
QAnon: The Search for QTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2019
The UnXplainedTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2019
Very Scary PeopleTV
as Self (archive footage) (2 episodes)
2019
605 Adults 304 Children
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Jonestown: Terror in the JungleTV
as Self (archive footage) (4 episodes)
2018
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Inside the Criminal MindTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2018
The Radical Story of Patty HearstTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2018
People Magazine Investigates: CultsTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2018
ExplainedTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2018
Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre
as Self (archive footage)
2016
Forensic JusticeTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2015
The SeventiesTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2012
America's Book of SecretsTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2008
Witness to Jonestown
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Seconds from DisasterTV
as Self (archival footage) (1 episode)
1998
History's MysteriesTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
1998
Killer Cults - Blinded By The Light
1988
American ExperienceTV
as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
1987
True Gore
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
1982
Psychic TV: First Transmission
as Self (archive footage)