Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (Season 1)

Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle (2018) is a documentary mini-series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Shan Nicholson. On the night of November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple sect died in a jungle settlement in Guyana. Hours earlier, Congressman Leo Ryan — who had flown in to investigate reports of abuse — was shot at the airstrip.

The series draws on declassified audio recordings, archival footage, and first-hand testimony, including that of Jackie Speier, Ryan's aide who took five bullets and survived. Episode by episode it reconstructs how Jones went from an idealistic minister in Indianapolis to the man who ordered the deaths of his own congregation. The tagline fits: Minister. Messiah. Monster. Stream Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle online on iFILM.