(RNS) Thirty-eight years ago this week, more than 900 people died, most of them by 'revolutionary suicide,' at Jonestown, Guyana. A new film fleshes out the experiences of the African-American women ...

Leonardo DiCaprio will add another biopic role to his long-running career. The Oscar-winning actor is set to play 1970s cult leader Jim Jones, the man responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, in a new ...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play cult leader Jim Jones in “White Night,” a psychological thriller, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Jones was the leader of the infamous People’s Temple cult that ...

Stanley Nelson's unflashy, straightforward account of Jim Jones and his great social experiment -- which notoriously culminated in the largest mass murder/suicide in modern memory -- "Jonestown" ...

Noland Walker, co-screenwriter of a new documentary called Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, talks about his examination of what led to mass suicide at Jonestown. This is TALK OF THE ...

The facts haven’t changed in 38 years. On Nov. 18, 1978, more than 900 men, women and children died in a South American jungle, lured by the utopian promises of the group known as the Peoples Temple ...

Topic: Chronicle of the rise and fall of Peoples Temple and its charismatic leader, Jim Jones, who in November, 1978 convinced his hundreds of followers in Jonestown, Guyana, to commit mass suicide.

In December of 1978, several months after I moved from England to Boston and four short weeks after news broke of the Jonestown massacre, I was traveling with a new beau through Northern California, ...