Crimes That Made History — Season 1, Episode 9: The Jonestown Massacre: An American Apocalypse

Episode synopsis

1978 Guyana: Reverend Jim Jones holds an apocalyptic mass. Its outcome was the sacrifice of 918 members of the Peoples Temple - an American cult founded in the middle of the 1950s. The entire world was horrified by the journalists' accounts and the images from Jonestown. This tragedy haunted the hopes of small communities and alternative spiritualities in the 70s.

About Crimes That Made History

Crimes and bloody tales that made the headlines usually reveal a lot about the hidden fantasies of their time. From Jack the Ripper to the Andes crash, the ten episodes of this collection shed a black light on a page of history that left a mark on their time.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Jack the Ripper: The Invention of the Serial Killer
• E2Albert Soleilland: A Case for the Death Penalty
• E3Fritz Haarmann: Vampire in the Weimar Republic
• E4The St. Valentine's Massacre: Gang Rule in America
• E5Violette Nozière: The Patricidal Poisoner
• E6Abe Sada: The Fantasy of Japanese Eroticism
• E7Roswell: Back to the UFO
• E8Flight 571: Acceptable Face of Cannibalism
• E10The Death of Princess Di