Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, also called
The Mad Messiah, is a 1980
television miniseries about the
Peoples Temple led by
Jim Jones, and their 1978 mass suicide at
Jonestown. Based on the book by Charles A. Krause, entitled
Guyana Massacre: The Eyewitness Account, the film was originally shown on television on April 15, 1980.