In 1978, Reverend Jim Jones led a doomsday gathering in Guyana, resulting in the tragic deaths of 918 followers of the Peoples Temple, an American cult established in the 1950s. The shocking reports and visuals from Jonestown left the world in disbelief and horror. This heartbreaking event cast a shadow over the aspirations of several small communities and alternative spiritual movements throughout the 1970s.
Show
Crimes That Made History
Episode
S01E09
Air Date
Nov 17, 2017
Season 1 Episodes
S01E01
Jack the Ripper: The Invention of the Serial Killer
S01E02
Albert Soleilland: A Case for the Death Penalty
S01E03
Fritz Haarmann: Vampire in the Weimar Republic
S01E04
The St. Valentine's Massacre: Gang Rule in America
S01E05
Violette Nozière: The Patricidal Poisoner
S01E06
Abe Sada: The Fantasy of Japanese Eroticism
S01E07
Roswell: Back to the UFO
S01E08
Flight 571: Acceptable Face of Cannibalism
S01E09
The Jonestown Massacre: An American Apocalypse
S01E10
The Death of Princess Di