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National Geographic and Hulu have announced the premiere of the third installment of the Emmy Award-winning, critically acclaimed franchise One Day in America with the Hulu Original Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown.

The three-part series from Emmy Award-winning 72 Films executive producers David Glover and Mark Raphael, BAFTA Award-winning director Marian Mohamed, and Academy Award-winning filmmakers Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin will premiere June 17 on Hulu and air on National Geographic on Aug. 14.

Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown tells the story of an idealistic religious organization led by the infamous Jim Jones, who set out to establish a utopian community in Guyana. What began as a peaceful movement seeking social justice ultimately spiraled into a mass casualty that left 918 dead.

Told by survivors and eyewitnesses, along with rare footage and rare recordings of Jones, the powerful series takes an immersive look into the final harrowing hours leading up to...

Revisit the tragic and infamous Jonestown massacre in the new trailer for an upcoming docuseries that examines the final hours of Jim Jones’ cult in Guyana.

Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown — the latest installment in Nat Geo and Hulu’s One Day in America franchise — features rare archival footage as well as interviews from witnesses and survivors to explore the downfall of the utopian community turned militarized cult and the group’s final descent to murder and mass suicide that left 918 dead in November 1978.

“There’s not a day...

Serial killers’ personal effects, morticians’ instruments, human and animal skulls, autopsy photos of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, an electric chair, gruesome crime scene images — L.A.’s Museum of Death houses it all.

One particular gallery, dubbed the Suicide Hall, displays memorabilia related to the American cult groups the Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate. In addition to an actual bunk bed where the bodies of Heaven’s Gate members were found covered in sheets, the room features a glass-encased mini exhibit about the Jonestown tragedy, in which more than 900 people,...

This November 18th marks the 40th anniversary of what is now known as the Jonestown Massacre, when more than 900 Americans — members of a San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple — died after drinking a cyanide-laced drink at the urging of their leader, the Reverend Jim Jones, in a secluded jungle settlement in Guyana in South American. Until 9/11, the Jonestown tragedy represented the largest number of American civilian casualties in a single non-natural event.

ABC News presents Truth and Lies: Jonestown, a new special — which premieres September 28th at 8 p.