Em Los Angeles surge um novo vulcão activo, causando grande destruição e criando um rio de lava que atravessa as ruas e destrói tudo o que surge no seu caminho.
Harry Dalton é um vulcanologista que vai até à cidade de Dante's Peak investigar a actividade sísmica invulgar do Cume de Dante, um vulcão supostamente extinto. Lá encontra a oposição de Rachel Wando, a presidente da Câmara Municipal que receia que a cidade entre em pânico e perca investimentos e empregos. Porém, o pior está realmente a acontecer: o vulcão está prestes a acordar.
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 locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.
Werner Herzog e o vulcanólogo Clive Oppenheimer embarcam em uma jornada global para explorar alguns dos vulcões mais míticos do mundo na Indonésia, Etiópia, Islândia e Coreia do Norte. Falando com os cientistas e os povos indígenas, eles buscam entender a relação complexa e profundamente enraizada entre a humanidade e uma das maiores maravilhas da natureza. O documentário combina reportagem, história e filosofia em uma experiência cinematográfica fascinante.
A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.
Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.
Short documentary on the volcano Erta Ale.
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 blasted one cubic mile of earth from the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Illustrates the terrifying fury of the most destructive volcanic disaster in American history through aerial photography and survivors' own words. Shows examples of nature's plant and animal recovery seventeen years later.
Geologists encounter a giant alligator while investigating an active volcano in Hawaii.
Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. One day Lara decides to stay a little longer to finish an exam and she remains alone. Returning, she has an accident, falling inside a hole in the ground and remains blocked inside there, where no one can neither see nor hear her.
Set in Zaire, the film follows an expedition exploring the crater of the Niragongo volcano of the Virunga chain, whose eruptions are known for their violence and their massive lava flows.
Filmmaker Werner Herzog combs through the film archives of volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft to create a film that celebrates their legacy.
Documentary on the famous French/Belgian pioneer volcanologist.
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 to reach the scene of an eruption. Join them as they risk their lives to document the birth of a volcano.
Narrative adaptation of the 2022 documentary Fire of Love.
The story means to develop through an uncovering of layers - strata. As writer Krumbachova stated: "With nature as a prison, an impassable barrier ... where every action is physically and psychically limited by the environment ... people are reduced to fragments of basic instinct and intelligence." Promoted as a psychological thriller, Strata provides little tension nor any real climax. The characters are ideas - not believably real.
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 years.
Top volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir faces two disasters at once: a volcanic eruption that threatens the safety of the capital city and a love affair that could destroy her marriage.