Jim Jones
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
American Experience
Self (archive footage)
1988
Series
Explained
Self (archive footage)
2018
Series
The UnXplained
Self (archive footage)
2019
Series
Seconds from Disaster
Self (archival footage)
2005
Series
The Seventies
Self (archive footage)
2015
Series
History's Mysteries
Self (archive footage)
1998
Series
Forensic Justice
Self (archive footage)
2016
Series
America's Book of Secrets
Self (archive footage)
2012
Series
Very Scary People
Self (archive footage)
2019
Series
The Radical Story of Patty Hearst
Self (archive footage)
2018
Series
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle
Self (archive footage)
2018
Series
Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown
Self (archive footage)
2024
Series
Inside the Criminal Mind
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Witness to Jonestown
Self (archive footage)
2008
Series
People Magazine Investigates: Cults
Self (archive footage)
2018
Series
QAnon: The Search for Q
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Killing of America
Self (archive footage)
1981
Film
True Gore
Self (voice) (archive sound)
1987
Film
Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
The Miracle Healers
Self
1976
Film
Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Psychic TV: First Transmission
Self (archive footage)
1982
Series
Mother Undercover
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
605 Adults 304 Children
Self (archive footage)
2019
Killer Cults - Blinded By The Light
1998
Film
Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy
Self (archive footage)
1979
Film
People's Temple
1973
Film
Motorgasm: a cinematic act of terrorism
self (archive footage)
2026