Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century

The Jonestown Massacre (1x8)

Air date: Dec 21, 1993

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.