Storyville

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

Episode 1

BBC Four

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

First broadcast: Tue 7^th Jan 2020, 21:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Tue 19^th Mar 2024, 22:00 on BBC Four HD

Available for 9 months

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A Storyville documentary. Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to perform 'revolutionary suicide' in northern Guyana? Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:: Leonardo DiCaprio
Executive Producer:: Jennifer Davisson
Director:: Shan Nicholson

Storyville

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle

Episode 2

BBC Four

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

First broadcast: Wed 8^th Jan 2020, 21:00 on BBC FourLatest broadcast: Tue 19^th Mar 2024, 23:20 on BBC Four HD

Available for 9 months

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A Storyville documentary. The Jonestown project quickly begins to implode. Jones’s excessive drug use, irrational behaviour and the isolation of his followers raises the alarm back home. Show more