Online Resources – Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple

This is a listing of video and audio on Jonestown which is available online.

Articles from the jonestown report which discuss a number of the works listed below appear in the Jonestown in the Arts section, both on the Film & Documentaries page and the Music & Audio page.

Due to the sometimes ephemeral nature of YouTube – the location of many of these videos – the managers of this website ask that you contact us if you discover any broken links or videos which have been either redirected or withdrawn so that we may correct them.

The categories of videos include:

News footage (November-December 1978);
Raw footage;
News footage (Post 1978);
Interviews;
Interviews Related to Peoples Temple;
Peoples Temple Footage;
Tapes;
Jonestown Movies;
Documentaries and Films;
Cult Commentaries Related to Peoples Temple;
Post-Tragedy Tours of Jonestown, Guyana;
Conspiracy and Alternative Theories;
Peoples Temple/Jim Jones in 21st Century;
Music & Art;
Other videos.

News footage (November-December 1978)

An hour-long compilation of NBC footage – primarily scenes from Jonestown that NBC cameraman Bob Brown filmed, but also including some early scenes from the military’s walk-through of Jonestown afterwards – appears as the first clip at https://www.nbcuniarchives.com/search?q=jonestown. There is a great deal of material not previously released, almost all of it of the living people of Jonestown. There are also some omissions, such as most of the footage from the airstrip (including the few seconds from the shootings themselves), plus the entirety of the interview between Don Harris and Jim Jones, as well as the film from Congressman Leo Ryan’s first few days in Georgetown. But the clarity of the film and the vibrancy of the colors puts a human dimension on the tragedy which is unique and irreplaceable.

Also:

NBC News Archive footage of JONESTOWN (59:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm7k2Eq-vD0

Jonestown, Guyana – www.NBCUniversalArchives.com (0:59)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aubYoN2Bvt8

Jonestown Singer (0:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZhNU64Vy1M

Airstrip shootings (0:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU_JZfq5JmY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJSv0gDPVLA

News Item (c8c1aca0-36ac-6d06-89be-823a9adabb93) Larry Layton brought to jail (0:47)
https://youtu.be/QqO8Se0jqtE

The Return Of The Body Of Congressman Leo Ryan From Guyana (0:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIEcwmR1_Y

KGO News Scene 1978 (7:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OapPeL-69Ns

CBS, Channel 5, Eyewitness News, San Francisco, 11/19/78 (2:33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0phNX3QqTk&feature=youtu.be

AP News Footage, Reactions of Mark Lane, Teresa Cobb, Jeannie Mills, 11/20/78 (2:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxa4IBFB3Og&feature=youtu.be

News Conference With Stephan Jones After Jonestown Massacre (MSNBC) (8:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXhb0YYOWds

Tim Carter – Michael Prokes – Mike Carter – Templo del Pueblo Jonestown
Spanish TV show on Temple, post tragedy interviews (8:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLJ5R9KKtk

Jonestown Aftermath – 1978 (AP) (1:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y75nRDQGdGM

KQED’s A Closer Look: People’s Temple, November 20, 1978 (26:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1YXvKk8t3c

Jonestown An Eyewitness Account (Interview with Stanley Clayton) (10:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7Vfh-kj8w

Nov. 19, 1978: Jonestown Airstrip Shootings (7:19)
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/nov-19-1978-jonestown-airstrip-shootings-12162950

NBC Jonestown November 22, 1978 (special report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNOzHnUwTCM

Jim Jones – Rosalynn Carter – George Moscone – Mark Lane – CIA – People’s Temple Waco (2:33)
https://youtu.be/M0phNX3QqTk

Death At Jonestown (December 1, 1978, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) (10:12)
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1855259449

Bill Worden-WKTV-Jonestown Massacre-1978 (0:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIXcUhsNns

Jim Jones Attorney Mark Lane (2:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvq2coKLNU

NBC~Jim Jones & Peoples Temple “Atrocities” ~Dr. Walter Martin interview (2:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CR_znjEurU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp4WxJjjhYI

Collection of films relating to 1978 news coverage
http://www.oddballfilms.com/keywords/peoples-temple
e.g., http://www.oddballfilms.com/clip/90001_bano_13807_07

CNN Photo Gallery
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/15/world/gallery/jonestown-massacre/index.html?sr=fb070915jonestownmassacre230pGalLink

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Raw Footage

Much of the “home movies,” Brownie-8 films, old videos, and other amateur motion pictures of Peoples Temple life, both inside and outside the sanctuary of the church, has been lost. A few of the remaining copies of film stock may be accessed through the Internet Archive site. Footage from Jonestown itself may be found through the California Historical Society page on the Internet Archive.

A compilation of stock footage – most of it available for purchase – is at http://www.stockfootageonline.com/index.php?q=keyword_search&edtKeyword=jonestown&section=keywordsearch&rdbKeyword=1. It consists primarily of newsreel footage and interviews from the week prior to the deaths in Jonestown and in the aftermath of the tragedy.

News Footage (post-1978)

The Jonestown Massacre (2:18) (one year anniversary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4b53mvfBls

The Jonestown Tragedy (CBS) (2:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMlzzymawC0

CBS Special Report: The Horror of Jonestown (49:02)
https://youtu.be/pJh2XQbbs40

USA: Jonestown Guyana Massacre Marked 20 Years On (2:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGzOp7tWGo4

GUYANA/USA: Jonestown Massacre 20 Years On (3:04)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13a_jzw64kQ

USA: Jonestown Guyana Massacre 20 Years On (4) (2:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji8pW3Yd9O8

Jonestown – Report 25 Years Later (3:59)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OCgegzvJ4Q

The Real Kool-Aide Drinkers (2:56) (NBC 30th)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRAyk2nC4o8

Jonestown Massacre 30th Anniversary (3:44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rgFCkkPg8

30th anniv of Jonestown massacre when more than 900 died, survivor, file (2:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qwxmHewhQs

Reporter recalls father heading to final story (30th anniv.) (5:02)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD3a1YKYKhY

Slain reporter’s legacy kept alive by son (4:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8P-UPAFq4

Jonestown memorial service, Oakland, Ca. (2011) -2 (15:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJk6iStcleM

Jonestown memorial service 2011, Oakland, Ca.- part 3 (13:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3zxhB1n940

Jonestown memorial service, Oakland, Ca. 5/2011 -5 (2:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHodf7g4N9U

jonestown interview 1 (1:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouxAAm5-RlA

Memorial Dedicated to Victims of Jonestown Murder Suicide (1:16) (News coverage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeEPwnkaD4I

Congresswoman Frederica Wilson introduces Resolution to honor Leo Ryan and Jackie Speier (1:18) (35^th anniv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynIMzOT7Ho

Congresswoman Jackie Speier Recalls Jonestown Massacre, 37 Years Later (2:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSBgTAti0J0&feature=youtu.be

Rep Cheri Bustos Interviews Rep. Jackie Speier on Jonestown and Need for Action on Gun Violence (14:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td5j8SgjYrw

Leo J Ryan Park, Foster City, California, USA (2:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWPP2XKZEJM

Jonestown Massacre Remains Discovered in Del. (2014) (1:43)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh72SXgjWcU

Discovery of Jonestown Victim’s Remains Hits Home for Antioch Man (1:29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sGyKE7DsLk

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Interviews

Jonestown Massacre – Stephan Jones (The Set-Up) (14:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJURAVi6wpA

Interview with Stephan Jones (3:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4lqnkcTm44

Jonestown survivor reveals how he avoided death (35 years later, KITV, Vern Gosney interview) (4:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ql3yrDs6Cc

Understanding Jonestown & Peoples Temple (Hawaii presentation with Laura Kohl and Vernon Gosney) (1:53:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y29_QGWSYQ

Invitation to Vernon Gosney’s Jonestown Talk on Nov 18, 2013 (4:08)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TORrq1qIq3w

Introduction to Jonestown (12:44) (36^th anniv. Commentary) (2014 intro to Vernon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orFNN29aZMY

EXCLUSIVE – 35 Years Later: Escape from Jonestown (0:15) (Vern Gosney)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7XGlmRlzxQ

Jonestown and the Mind Control Cult of Jim Jones: A Survivor’s Story (25:19)
Interview of Vernon Gosney with Steve Hassan 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-VGMoopL9I

Jonestown Survivor Speaks Of Her Harrowing Escape (Leslie Wilson) (16:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICQYntQTp-M

The Mic Show with special guest Leslie Wagner-Wilson (1:05:03)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t8IevyQjdQ

JT Survivor: Leslie Wagnor [Wagner] Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3KTmlTjTY

Deborah Layton 4 Min Clip from lecture at IVC ‘Stanford’ (4:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjPEsXoyPpk

Utopia Lost: Laura Johnston Kohl and the People’s Temple (4:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtUuj7bmQMw

Journey For Truth-Jonestown Cult Mass Suicide (Interview with Laura Kohl) (32:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeV9n6kd7jk

Tanya Beckett:–: BBC Witness – 06 Dec. 2015 – Jonestown Massacre (9:50) (Kohl interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuo_fiCX-nI
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34746629

Local Jonestown Massacre survivor speaks out amid new discovery of victim remains (Laura Kohl, 2014) (2:03)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN_fEgE8K3Y

Interview with Laura Kohl “My Jonestown Experience” (46:48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-NjSM1j2p4

The Ochelli Effect 1 8 2015 A survivor from JONESTOWN Laura Kohl (1:59:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDVr-ovEAwc

Jonestown Survivor Laura Kohl Interview (made with Spreaker)
(part 1 of 4) (15:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9DtUM3b1sc
(part 2 of 4) (15:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L6wG9v8gDA
(part 3 of 4) (15:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt6zYgYAA9U
(part 4 of 4) (8:10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d84GN9CZiw

Cults & Conspiracies, presented by Hulu’s The Path (Interview with Laura Kohl 2017) (50:45)
https://www.facebook.com/SuperNewsLive/videos/1199459593436511/
A story about the interview on the Movie Pilot website appears here.

Afterwards 16: Jonestown Survivor: Laura Johnston Kohl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5zVOat-CZ0

PTSD – Interview with Tim Carter (made with Spreaker)
(part 1 of 5) (15:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJM7hOtM3OI
(part 2 of 5) (15:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcrAztKqx9o
(part 3 of 5) (15:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCtVpJ5GOE
(part 4 of 5) (15:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6fz5toLW7c
(part 5 of 5) (12:54) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD8YlPq2Fvk

Most Evil – Jonestown Follower (Tim Carter) (3:18) (Dr. Stone, 30 years later)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLWOhNvDmMI

Jonestown Lullaby by Teri Buford O’Shea (2:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_si0bg_Z7Y

Jim Jones & The Hue Fortson Family – The “Jim Jones” Town Story (11:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5bhTdqboew

Jim Jones Story by Hue Fortson Jr. #1.avi (8:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1n8qs0k4Fg

Jim Jones Story by Hue Fortson Jr. #2.avi (8:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl3RJr8YFeg

Jim Jones & The Hue Fortson Jr. Family? (12:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUxEBFlYEFE

S O V Classic 5.27.1998 Guest Pastor Hue Fortson (11:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULcoVWHNHaY

Jim Jones Massacre Survivor tells his story (Hue Fortson) (44:53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-VGMoopL9I

Jonestown Survivor Gets a Healing Read | Long Island Medium (Tracy Parks) (TLC) (3:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVpGtEpuB7I

CNN Interview with Tracy Parks, including “CNN Back Story,” with account of Parks’ trip to Guyana to participate in documentary (9:20)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ei1q_bks-1113-2-soledad-obrien_news

Interview with David Parker Wise, former member of Peoples Temple (12/13/15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhCMkUx7Cc

30 Years Later, Survivor Recounts Jonestown (Interview with Yulanda Williams) (2:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPM5WBHOSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzyyRPdFVSM

The Jonestown Tragedy (The Real Jim Jones) (2:05) (Steve Sung Interview, 30^th anniv.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2tTc27C5I

Jackie Speier Recalls Jonestown Massacre, 37 Years Later (2:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSBgTAti0J0

Jonestown Survivor: I was Shot Five Times (CNN conversation with Jackie Speier)
http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/07/07/jim-jones-jonestown-the-seventies.cnn

Conversation with Congresswoman Jackie Speier (2016) (54:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8F2il0LpI

Reporter Injured at Jonestown Remembers Massacre (Interview with Tim Reiterman) (2:21)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Afo_GT-f0

Cecil Williams Remembers Jim Jones & His People’s Temple (5:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmlO5SIyqYk

Baba Dick Gregory: The Truth About Jim Jones & Jonestown (7:24)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XWCRtrU_M

Walter Rodney- Jonestown
Part 1 (45:04) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XUtAJVCSWQ
Part 2 (45:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh-JTgagUSI
Part 3 (12:45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pBXzmgJpMo

A People’s Temple Panel Discussion and Collection Viewing (CHS) (1:19:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzE3Ra7ag4c
https://www.c-span.org/video/?328890-1/jim-jones-jonestown

Jonestown Part 1 (Simmons interviews Rebecca Moore) (3:28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqRlJ_-XbDA

Jonestown Part 2 (Simmons interviews Rebecca Moore) (6:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBt8HYScCcc

Griot Institute, “Jonestown Reconsidered, 35 Years Later” (Feb 2013)

Fielding McGehee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEERTs_kMNs

Rebecca Moore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7CR9Cdq0fQ

Stanley Nelson Lunch Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHeCLBb4F4M

Leigh Fondakowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_WuZGOn_xs

Jordan Vilchez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eARpKa4mlE

Tim Carter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU4e2b_TcDs

Julia Scheeres

Stephan Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkHaQFPsDZI

Jonestown Reconsidered Student Response
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9tduH5BKpA

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Interviews Related to Peoples Temple

Jay w Author James Kelley-Psychopathology of Jim Jonestown (Jay’s Analysis.com) (1:31:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmR-oRSk8E

Jim Jones and A Thousand Lives of Jonestown with Best Selling Author Julia Scheeres (Truth be Told) (50:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyWvWmNTic

Julie Scheeres on the Untold Story of What Happened at Jonestown (3:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXsG2G-QoqQ

Julia Scheeres, Author “A Thousand Lives” (5:53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSnGp7C4O4

Story Hour in the Library featuring Julia Scheeres (50:53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TB9aaSm22U

The Road to Jonestown

Jeff Guinn on his book “The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple” (5:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbPggJjnvpM

Jeff Guinn Talks About His New Book ‘The Road To Jonestown’ (5:51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsBniGHvxvE

The Road To Jonestown | Book Review (5:29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHEQeuyWwjM

Author Jeff Guinn, Sept., 2017 (24:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RUaVUrFk24

Cults & Crimes Series: Jonestown Mass Suicide: Revisiting The Cult That Ended With The Deaths Of 900 | TODAY (5:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zI9ub9AgF0

Black Women, Peoples Temple and Jonestown (15:45) (MoAD Panel, July 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQWZfHjFnWA

David Conn: Cult Expert, Jim Jones, Peoples Temple, Jonestown Guyana (Opperman Report) (1:37:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PchE46SQQs

Aftershow: David Conn 2014 05 09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV8eTue8BNw

David Conn : Jim Jones & the Jonestown Cultic Horror (1:10:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNgTKIZR3tA

TMR 123 : David Conn : Jim Jones & The Jonestown Cultic Horror
http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2015/738-ep090

Jim Jones Cult: 900 People Dead But Did You Know… (The Josh Tolley Show) (interview with Conn) (21:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVWsr2vqir4

Jim Jones & Obama – Cult Leaders (35^th anniv.) (Conn Interview) (10:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM5HVwwMGa0
(Full Interview) (58:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_1304800475&feature=iv&src_vid=aM5HVwwMGa0&v=OweHeOfialI

Under the spell of Jim Jones: Inside the tragedy of the Jonestown massacre (Today Show interviews author Jeff Guinn and Jim Jones Jr.) (5:05) (April 2017)
http://www.today.com/news/under-spell-jim-jones-inside-tragedy-jonestown-massacre-t109982

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Peoples Temple Footage

People’s Temple (David Gottleib & Jim Ruxin 1972 doc) (21:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-I7cTIlqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-I7cTIlqM&t=90s
[Note: For information about the footage in this, and a second documentary by Ruxin and Gottleib, contact Mr. Ruxin through this website.]

Rev Jim Jones – People’s Temple Christian Church, Los Angeles, CA (9:28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOv_hSJJ3vo

A People’s Temple meeting with Jim Jones (29:34)
https://archive.org/details/cabemrc_00007

People’s Temple Christian Church – Los Angeles, CA (2:08) (1972 doc with shots of LA Temple)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2gRwX_X62E
https://youtu.be/c2gRwX_X62E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2gRwX_X62E&t=7s

Videos provided by Julia Scheeres

Rare Jonestown footage (6:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTOuo837nX0

Jonestown Community Interviews (7:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTxiVcouW30

Group Testimonials from Jonestown (12:21)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVllZNj1fqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVllZNj1fqg&t=9s

Jonestown Schoolchildren Craft Show (1978) (3:42)
https://youtu.be/lFguo0TRNdw

Jim Jones Gives a Tour of Jonestown (9:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6JIW3Dx7do

The Children of Jonestown (4:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQqfqyewAH4

Group Singing at Jonestown (1:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazZsw53vzw

Jim Jones Gives a Tour of Jonestown’s Food Supply (0:46)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najBMAItPYU

Group Dancing at Jonestown (0:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJlfzul00vg

A Child’s Testimonial from Jonestown (0:28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jkfFmK7zNM

Jonestown Pig Farming (1977) (2:12)
https://youtu.be/FMEBEi1446Y

Guyanese Officials Visiting Jonestown (Original 1975 Film) (2:13)
https://youtu.be/3jSoBimPM24

Final Jonestown Basketball Game – Before the Tragedy (1978) (3:33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd5dWqznxqQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd5dWqznxqQ&index=19&list=PLVaQd9fFqSMZSl2WhsFqWa8eXHtYkCgMX

Jim Jones preaching at a Georgetown, Guyana Church (1977) (2:01)
https://youtu.be/6MS-owDBqXg

Jonestown Resident and Seeding Machine (1:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F7Ak0Z91BY

Jonestown Schoolchildren – Jim Jones in background (1:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj7rflAa3ZI&list=PLVaQd9fFqSMZSl2WhsFqWa8eXHtYkCgMX&index=21

Building Jonestown (Children Playing in Background) (1:04)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LED-8Oyc3EM&index=22&list=PLVaQd9fFqSMZSl2WhsFqWa8eXHtYkCgMX

Jonestown Home Movies 1977 A (3:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGwBpRdk3i4

Jonestown Residents Giving a Tour (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGcg0S2MaA

Original Jonestown Promotional Film 1977

Part 1 (2:39) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWG28ImlMF4
Part 2 (2:25) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEPWckZlzNc
Part 3 (3:28) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4OLrK-1H7U
Part 4 (3:02) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmgAyRa-_PA
Part 5 (2:35) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5u_c3-XkPw

Jonestown Entertainment Night at the Pavilion (1978)

Part 1 (3:43) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbyj9olfhMA
Part 2 (3:45) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06t_ElyLgcA
Part 3 (3:43) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKivUhzZRE4

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Tapes

Death Tape

Archive of FBI Q 042
https://archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16

Other “Death Tape” Q 042 videos (oftentimes with images) are here.

He’s Able – Peoples Temple Choir

Full album + I will fight/Let the night roar ‘speech’ + death tape (On the 13th track ‘Mass Suicide’)

Different selections from He’s Able also appear here.

Other Jonestown recordings, most of which originated on this site, appear here.

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Jonestown: Life & Death of Peoples Temple

Jonestown: Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006), directed by Stanley Nelson, was produced for the American Experience series on PBS. Its website appears here. Among its features is the transcript of the film, available both in online text and as a pdf. The site also includes numerous articles and information on purchase of the film.

Jonestown: Life & Death of Peoples Temple (1:24:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpjSskqiu9M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBxRhvOwDI

Jonestown: Life & Death of Peoples Temple (Trailers, Reviews and Interviews)
Trailer (2:17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3cx3U0gYE
Trailer (1:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_d1eVv0E8
Trailer (1:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1U1eJdNUjM

Oreius Movie Reviews: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (6:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SYO7x9vGh4

MGU Interview: Jonestown director Stanley Nelson (28:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n3JcXA1zxg

Guyana Tragedy

Guyana Tragedy The Story of Jim Jones (TV Movie) (3:09:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l992U04zC4w

The Guyana Tragedy 1980 CBS Movie Intros (Taped from original April 1980 broadcast on CBS) (2:27)
https://youtu.be/Ntdi6q-CUpM

Guyana: Crime of the Century

Guyana: Crime of the Century – Full Italian Movie (2013) (1:48:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8lKqx7xyOU

RR7912B Guyana/Mexico: Filming The Jonestown Massacre (17:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pao_N5bL7ps

Guyana: Crime of the Century (Trailers and Review)

Guyana Cult of the Damned (1979) trailer (2:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PpCu6ePil0

Guyana [Movie Trailer] (2:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwmbzrPepqk

The Cinema Snob – “Il massacro della Guyana” SUB ITA (19:08) (Review)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXoQkRqntP8

Jonestown: Paradise Lost

Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a docudrama that made its world premiere on Canadian television before being shown on The History Channel.

Jonestown: Paradise Lost (1:39:37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWqACvTknls

Although split into nine parts – and with Dutch subtitles – the film also appears in its entirety with automatic sequential queueing here

The sequential breakdowns appear here.

The Sacrament

The Sacrament (1:23:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXy4X82hU0I (Opens to preview, available for$2.99)

The Sacrament (2014) Official Trailer (2:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fTJHAcX5VQ

The Sacrament Official Trailer #1 (2014) – Ti West Horror Movie (2:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM56RubwTHg

The Sacrament Featurette – Making Of (2014) – Eli Roth Horror Movie HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U66yI6MwW0w

The Sacrament – Featurette (3:46)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCErUAOiCBE

TIFF 2013 Film Review (and vlog): THE SACRAMENT (17:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N2d9GxgNsE

The Sacrament Interview With Ti West, A.J. Bowen, Joe Swanberg and Amy Seimetz [HD] (10:12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmr0PtkncWY

The Sacrament w/ Ti West (11:19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okOXHN2COBY

Ti West interview – The Sacrament (6:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHIXtzzSlQ

The Sacrament Q&A at Glasgow Frightfest with Ti West (18:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VamKMnRAHB4

Additional trailers, reviews and interviews with the filmmakers appear here.

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Documentaries and Films

Deceived – The Jonestown Tragedy (1979 documentary film based on book of the same name by Mel White) (45:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ-FkTLPrAw&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ-FkTLPrAw&t=550s

Deceived: A Film Forum Discussing how Easily People are Deceived
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8WZxsIm1O0&feature=share

Jim Jones Cult – The Peoples Temple & JonesTown (History Channel) (26:56)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJdTt2lBV0

The Worst Massacre In American History – Jonestown Massacre- Mass Murder Full Documentary (44:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8si4ynt1ds

The Final Report-Jonestown Documentary (44:46)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7xnWu0CdD0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4byA-lnZYq8

Jonestown Cult Suicides – Cult Documentary (47:19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEClyb3Gl6U

The Truth About Jonestown (Superstation) (35:59) (Polish subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIkJkeDPK5Y

The Jonestown Massacre
(1of4) (9:28) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkEJbcusr9k
(2of4) (9:29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLGjA7GHTc
(3of4) (9:29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxa41TaZJYI
(4of4) (9:29) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VApqsyykrp4

The Jonestown Massacre (Great Crimes and Trials) (23:51)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL2eE7914Pk

Return to Jonestown (ABC)
Part 1 (14:52) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Bn_gIayH8
Part 2 (14:15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rVdCSIi6V8
Part 3 (9:42) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQbtqvqztRg

6-07 In Search Of… Jim Jones (Part 1 of 3) (7:46)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ebMx29BwIQ
6-07 In Search Of… Jim Jones (Part 2 of 3) (6:48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvlupfRr5Y
6-07 In Search Of… Jim Jones (Part 3 of 3) (7:15)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xPu8iRnIIg

6.7.1-Jim Jones-In Search Of… (10:55)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRAyMciHhSo
6.7.2-Jim Jones-In Search Of… (10:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKpfJxoeAA

Jonestown: The faithful drink the Kool Aid (CNN – Escape from Jonestown segment) (7:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4MH0OBy92Q

Jim Jones Jonestown, ” Massacre Final Report”: Serial Killer Documentary (4:06) (segment)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVma1mOxgT8

‘Seconds from Disaster – Jonestown’ The National Geographic Channel (5:39)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RE3CF7Qp3E

Jonestown: The Women Behind The Massacre | February 26, 2018| A&E (promo) (2:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7UckNeh7o

The Jonestown Massacre: A Timeline | A&E (2:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dll9w_WIlTE

Return to Jonestown | Leslie Wagner-Wilson and Thom Bogue revisit site 40 years after the tragedy | Sunday Night (Australia) (2018) (29:48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNY2yGA1fNQ&feature=youtu.be

Truth and Lies: Jonestown, Paradise Lost (September 28, 2018)

Part 1: Who was the Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones? (11:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0B1sMfxWYw

Part 2: How Jim Jones rose to power within his Peoples Temple (8:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtH6VIfnAQ

Part 3: Jim Jones was ‘a predator,’ ex-members allege (8:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrd0h8-a6A

Part 4: Ex-members claim Jim Jones practiced faux suicides (6:16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zco4jN7zouI

Part 5: Jim Jones sets up Jonestown compound in Guyana (5:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NveT_KQeu5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NveT_KQeu5w&t=12s

Part 6: ‘They were absolutely trapped’ in Jonestown (8:15)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/jonestown-part-absolutely-trapped-jonestown-58160660

Part 7: What happened the last night before the massacre at Jonestown (7:47)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/jonestown-part-happened-night-massacre-jonestown-58160659

Part 8: Survivors recall shooting that killed congressman, journalists (5:36)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/jonestown-part-survivors-recall-shooting-killed-congressman-journalists-58160601

Part 9: Leader Jim Jones, hundreds of followers die in mass murder-suicide (6:40)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/jonestown-part-leader-jim-jones-hundreds-followers-die-58160596

Jim Jones: Journey Into Madness (A&E Biography) (2000) (43:34)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7E3otRWOIM

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Cult Commentaries Related to PT

From Jonestown to Waco (26:09)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI4R1g3YT-s

Heaven’s Gate and Jonestown (4:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2pXLT5CBgE

Scientology/David Miscavige/Int Base and People’s Temple/Jim Jones/Jonestown—Comparison (10:01)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxSuC9hqhY

Scientology and Jonestown (7:29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axx3mSYwpv8&feature=youtu.be

Palmarian Church : Jim Jones & Peter II (5:21)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77XGY1YdMIc

Psychology of cults and Jim Jones (8:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJzJwNUa_tA

Cults: The Rise and Fall of Jonestown (14:19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFoZwDEBKAE

Branham’s 1977 and Jonestown (7:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aie-bK0GZfE

Jim Jones And William Branham: The Open Door (9:09)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1xXHL5CFgg

Jim Jones and the Malachi 4 Elijah Prophecy (8:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjFyOwbF34

CONTROL: Jim Jones, Jehovah’s Witnesses, & the Watchtower (13:26) (end of Nelson documentary, with short association with techniques of Jehovah’s Witnesses)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCfCrMybWqM

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Post-Tragedy Tours of Jonestown, Guyana

Visit to Jonestown (25 years later) (Gouviea)
Part 1a (9:54) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPcmfLxnm6c
Part 2 (9:46) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohurOmA-6BY
Part 3 (9:49) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fbCwTdp974
Part 4 (9:36) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u4_vRzMo3A

Tour of Jonestown, Guyana
(part 1 of 7) (1:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvM4r4KURZY
(part 2 of 7) (2:49) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOy1sy8Teg
(part 3 of 7) (0:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13zJ3afPFhI
(part 4 of 7) (3:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxdXu-TYvE
(part 5 of 7) (1:37) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS3l-o5uVD8
(part 6 of 7) (1:52) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXR4Dw1xTGk
(part 7 of 7) (1:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbp9FF8vQEI

Driving from Port Kaituma to Jonestown
(part 1 of 3) (3:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIvyz6HkV4w
(part 2 of 3) (4:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzVKOprHE8
(part 3 of 3) (0:46) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iajkFtQMK4E

Pieces of Jonestown (2010) (3:28)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ1Hvnau70

The Wild Coast: An Exploration of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana (53:33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0x5vBbzjrI

Jonestown: After the Storm (A Short Film by Nicholas Peart) (2014) (7:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YUTGHhHQa0

Off Kilter Show 1 Part 3 (9:58) (SF Crime Tour, 2 minutes in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT6FuNQJeeM

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Conspiracy and Alternative Theories

Mind Control Experiment (12-01-1978) PT 1 of 3 (1:04:06)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLYYqFDe8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP2igjaCyng

Mae Brussell: Jonestown Was a CIA Mind Control Experiment (12-08-1978) PT 2 of 3 (1:02:31)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DUuShMExnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7_fm29lY5c

Mae Brussell: Jonestown Was a CIA Mind Control Experiment (12-15-1978) PT 3 of 3 (1:03:39)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CHSUS2F0EY

Dr. Peter David Beter Audio Letter 40 : Jonestown; Battle of Guyana; Nuclear War – November 30, 1978 (51:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv6MtdpuPFc

Jonestown – CIA Mind Control 1 of 2 (9:44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HULqx4SP46Y

Jonestown – CIA Mind Control 2 of 2 (9:44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikn3AMaZ_Qk

Mind Control Project – The CIA Linked to the Jonestown Massacre 1/2 (15:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSYt_epOLzc

Mind Control Project – The CIA Linked to the Jonestown Massacre 2/2 (4:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yun0FT14FaQ

The CIA Linked to the Jonestown Massacre, Jim Jones, Suicide or Murder? | The Truth Talks (20:21)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSY54rZZY0E

Jonestown And The CIA: The Kool Aid Deception (Truth Talk News) (41:33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3G4ZGY-7Lw

Jonestown CIA Mind Control Experiment 1 2 (9:44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL31_qXia_8

Jonestown: Successful MKUltra Drug Trial (6:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOyZR9l3zc

MK-ULTRA Cults: Church of Set, Jonestown, the Process Church, and the Franklin Conspiracy. (10:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxbQtnvw8jU

Perp Studies 101 – Part I – Jonestown: A Perp Bench Test (55:41)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo51mfYn8mM

What They Won’t Tell You About Jonestown – Part 1: Joseph Holsinger: Legal Aid To Congress Leo Ryan (7:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WXzqBdQj3k

What they won’t Tell You about Jonestown – Part 2: John Judge: Jonestown Investigator 5-23-80 (5:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e75CZcNz_Bg

John Judge Jonestown Massacre – MK Ultra (5:32)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hnAykonktA

RFK, Jim Jones and the CIA (29:53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMyJzvzTK_M

Jonestown (Conspiracy) (35:13)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUgmRMLOcEU

Other conspiracy and alternative theories appear here.

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Peoples Temple/Jim Jones in 21^st Century

How The Jim Jones spirit lives on in False Prophets [Altha Maclin | Ruth Thompson] (9:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj5Z3yNYXsA

Comparing modern day preachers to Jim Jones Cult Leader Part 1 (10:08)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf6r2xszngI

Comparing modern day preachers to Jim Jones Cult Leader Part 2 (8:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afvW6Wo2ly0

Jim Jones, The Most Admired Democrat of The 1970s, Censored Info (10:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzyXNWYmfXg

Reverend Jim Jones’ Battle Call For Marxist Democratic Socialist Revolution! 2016! (11:36)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuUP3FIoNjM

Jim Jones & Jonestown – Devolution from Political Force to Revolutionary Suicide (9:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGtGmPMGJ8

Modern Religious Utopias (1:47:30)
(2013 video lecture by Amy Koehlinger at Oregon State University comparing Father Divine’s Peace Mission and Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?316177-1/modern-religious-utopias

The Son of Man speaks on Jim Jones (aired Sunday, Nov 18 2012) (2:59:30)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIznTvmpi4E

Christians have Jim Jones mentality, bigoted, cultic, and intolerant..!! (6:22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAPRbnSGuc

False miracles and prophecies in the bible.wmv (5:52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2dgAGgbEM8

Fake Bible Poison Miracle Killed 900 Christians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Xdl4WTbmU

BioGraphics: One Life at a Time/Jim Jones: Progressive to Predator (19:03) (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVSrfXkoKNw&feature=youtu.be

How ISIS Resembles the Doomsday Cults of the 1970s (2017) (9:35)
New York Times Retro Report

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Music & Art

Cults – Go Outside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAM9diyVRiM

Mao Tse Tung Said-Alabama 3
(5:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWBjwgxEawo
(Live) (6:05) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpGgLyfDERI
(Live) (6:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLo9YE5hd6Q

Music of Diego Harmon

Rev. Jim Jones (Filthy Capitalists)
Rev. Jim Jones (Loves good guns better)
Rev. Jim Jones (Trying to leave Jonestown)

Rev. Jim Jones (Congressman Ryan) (4:21)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALaS_DZikQ
Rev Jim Jones (Filthy Capitalists) (4:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rEGt2NePl0

Hyacinth (piece of poetic nonfiction) (7:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhhrDgUbLO8 (also at https://vimeo.com/channels/209673)

Other music videos appear here.

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Other videos

Student videos appear here.

Foreign videos appear here.

Miscellaneous videos and commentaries appear here.

Last modified on December 1st, 2018.