The movie opens Friday. Ran on: 11-03-2006 Jim Jones, who followers thought could heal them, is touched by members of the Peoples Temple in Los Angeles in 1974. California Historical Society ...

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The Oscar-winning movie star will play one of the most notorious mass murderers of the 20th century. Leonardo DiCaprio To Play Jonestown Cult Leader Jim Jones Sound+Vision ...

Based upon the real life story of Reverend Jim Jones, a self-proclaimed prophet who founded the Peoples Temple. In the 1960s, he began as an idealist helping minorities and working against racism.

Leonardo DiCaprio Will Play Religious Cult Leader Jim Jones In New Movie From Kangaroo Jack Writer. More than 900 people died in a mass suicide event in November 1978 at Jonestown.

Leonardo DiCaprio has been cast as Jim Jones in an upcoming film about the Jonestown mass suicide that took place in 1978. DiCaprio will produce and star in the MGM film about the controversial ...

Leonardo DiCaprio to Play Cult Leader Jim Jones in MGM Film The Oscar-winning actor is in final talks to play the controversial figure behind the 1978 mass suicide at Jonestown that claimed 909 lives.