Killer Volcanoes

Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire is about the immense natural force of the great circle of volcanoes and seismic activity that rings the Pacific Ocean and the varied peop

1991

Nature Amazing Places Hawaii

Program One KILAUEA: MOUNTAIN OF FIRE Ecosystems on Big Island Face No Small Challenge Kilauea, violent and beautiful, destructive and creative, con

2010

Encounters at the End of the World

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique

2007

Krakatoa

On the morning of August 27, 1883, the rumbling volcano of Krakatoa stood more than 6,000 feet high, with a diameter of approximately 10 miles. Later

2005

Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled 230 square miles, sent 540 million tons of ash and volcanic rock twelve miles into the air, and blas

1997

Volcano

A moving record of a natural disaster, Volcano documents the effect of a sudden volcanic eruption on the tiny island of Haimaey, off the coast of Icel

1973

Villi Knudsen's Iceland

Features volcano watches in Iceland from 1984-91, showing the country's highlands, Askja, Kverkjoll, Herdubreidarlindir, Sprengisandur, and Jokulsa Ca

1992

V-Day: Volcanic Planet

Earth is a volcanic planet, with over 1,400 active giants spread across the globe. But what would happen if all of them were to erupt at once? From ri

2020

Come il Bianco

2020

A Volcano Odyssey

The epic story of the life of a volcano, capable of both causing the extinction of all things and helping the evolution of species, over 60 million ye

2012

Plymouth Montserrat: The Latter Day Pompeii

On July 18th of 1995, Montserrat's sleeping volcano rumbled back to life after hundreds of years of dormancy. This is the ten year story of that erupt

2005

Lon Marum

A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in th

2012

Fire of Love

A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.

2022

L'Islande terre de feu et de glace

2021

Lava Land - Glowing Hawaii

Hawaii, with its tropical rainforests and diverse coral reef is a spectacular natural paradise for travellers, surfers and all fans of breathtaking sa

2013

Over Hawaii

Go to the Big Island and hover above erupting craters at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, watch flowing orange lava ooze across charred rock and steam

2011

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except

1977

Hawaii: Living on the Edge in Paradise?

During the summer of 2018, hundreds of earthquakes shook the summit of Kiilauea, sparking the volcano's largest eruption in 200 years. To some, it was

2019

The Power of Volcanoes

In the 6th century AD, large parts of the world were affected by mysterious weather events causing temperature drop, crop failures and famines. All th

2016

Volcano!

For more than 20 years, Maurice & Katia Krafft have traveled the world. From Iceland to Hawaii, from Africa to Indonesia, they are usually the first t

1989