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Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown, a 2024 National Geographic documentary miniseries; Mass suicides: Heaven's Gate in San Diego, California; Order of the Solar Temple in Canada and Switzerland; Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda; Puputan, mass ritual suicide in Bali, Indonesia; Malindi cult in Kilifi County ...
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
But in the new documentary, Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown, streaming on Hulu on June 17, ... People lie on the ground dead from being forced to commit suicide. Over 900 people died by the ...
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, is a 2006 documentary film made by Firelight Media, produced and directed by Stanley Nelson.The documentary reveals new footage of the incidents surrounding the Peoples Temple and its leader Jim Jones who led over 900 members of his religious group to a settlement in Guyana called Jonestown, where he orchestrated a mass suicide with poisoned ...
In a new National Geographic documentary on Hulu, survivors discuss their memories of the jungle ‘utopia’ in Guyana where Reverend Jim Jones caused the death of nearly a thousand of his ...
Forty years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, self-styled holy man Jim Jones oversaw the mass slaughter of nearly 900 members of his church or, more accurately, cult — the Peoples Temple, marking the ...
The entrance to Jonestown (photo:Jonestown Institute). While Jones' exit was hasty, the exodus of most Temple members had been carefully prepared. [105] The San Francisco field office of Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) received hundreds of requests for passports in the weeks before the New West article was published. [106]
Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a 2007 documentary television film on the History Channel about the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones.From eyewitness and survivor accounts, the program recreates the last week before the mass murder-suicide on November 18, 1978.