Portrait of Jim Jones

Jim Jones

Acting

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.

Born: May 13, 1931

Place of Birth: Crete, Indiana, USA

Filmography

2024
Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown

as Self (archive footage)

2023
Mother Undercover

as Self (archive footage)

2021
QAnon: The Search for Q

as Self (archive footage)

2019
The UnXplained

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Very Scary People

as Self (archive footage)

2019
605 Adults 304 Children

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

as Self (archive footage)

2018
2018
Inside the Criminal Mind

as Self (archive footage)

2018
The Radical Story of Patty Hearst

as Self (archive footage)

2018
People Magazine Investigates: Cults

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Explained

as Self (archive footage)

2018
2016
Forensic Justice

as Self (archive footage)

2015
The Seventies

as Self (archive footage)

2012
America's Book of Secrets

as Self (archive footage)

2008
Witness to Jonestown

as Self (archive footage)

2005
Seconds From Disaster

as Self (archival footage)

1998
History's Mysteries

as Self (archive footage)

1988
American Experience

as Self (archive footage)

1987
True Gore

as Self (voice) (archive sound)

1982
Psychic TV: First Transmission

as Self (archive footage)

1979
Deceived: The Jonestown Tragedy

as Self (archive footage)