Great Crimes and Trials

Season 1 Episode 8: The Jonestown Massacre

It was a crime that defied the imagination. In November 1978, deep in the jungles of Guyana the Rev Jim Jones gathered nearly 1,000 devoted followers around him, and with a simple promise persuaded them to commit the greatest ‘revolutionary’ mass suicide of the 20th Century.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

3

Episodes:

78

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

30 min

First Air:

1993

Rating:

9.0