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Jim Jones

Acting Born May 13, 1931 Crete, Indiana, USA 24 credits

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.

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American Experience

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The UnXplained

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History's Mysteries

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Film

Provocation

as Self (archive footage)

Full filmography

  • American Experience (1988) as Self (archive footage)
  • Explained (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • The UnXplained (2019) as Self (archive footage)
  • History's Mysteries (1998) as Self (archive footage)
  • Seconds from Disaster (2005) as Self (archival footage)
  • The Seventies (2015) as Self (archive footage)
  • America's Book of Secrets (2012) as Self (archive footage)
  • Forensic Justice (2016) as Self (archive footage)
  • Very Scary People (2019) as Self (archive footage)
  • Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Radical Story of Patty Hearst (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • QAnon: The Search for Q (2021) as Self (archive footage)
  • Inside the Criminal Mind (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown (2024) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Killing of America (1981) as Self (archive footage)
  • People Magazine Investigates: Cults (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) as Self (archive footage)
  • True Gore (1987) as Self (voice) (archive sound)
  • Psychic TV: First Transmission (1982) as Self (archive footage)
  • Mother Undercover (2023) as Self (archive footage)
  • Motorgasm: a cinematic act of terrorism (2026) as self (archive footage)
  • Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Miracle Healers (1976) as Self
  • Witness to Jonestown (2008) as Self (archive footage)