一次大地震令洛杉矶地底深处的火山喷发，向着住宅区流去，维修地下管道的工人被烧死。地质学家艾美和朋友下去隧道勘测时亲身经历了朋友被岩浆喷发带走了生命。一时之间，城市一隅充满了地底爆发的岩浆。危机处理中心总指挥麦克（Tommy Lee Jones 饰）采取了艾美博士的建议开始疏散人群，他们先利用数百万吨空中降水来使来势汹汹的岩浆变成障碍物，阻挡了岩浆的流动。正当大家以为松一口气时，艾美博士认为岩浆并没有真正被阻挡，只是改变了流向，而且正在往充满伤员的医院奔涌。他们只剩下30分钟的时间去处理这个问题，他们能成功吗？
研究火山的科学家哈里在工作中痛失爱妻，四年后他又受命去但丁峰进行地震测试。他测试的结果是火山存在异常活动，有喷发的迹象。但他发出警告的意见为上司所阻。但丁峰小镇的镇长瑞切尔是个单身母亲，她正准备组织一个庆祝活动，因为小镇刚刚获得一个全美最佳居住环境奖。在这种背景下，谁也不愿相信火山即将喷发的事实。但是哈里秉承科学家的良心还是坚持自己的意见。就在疏散工作正在进行的时候，火山爆发了。惊慌的人们纷纷逃离，但瑞切尔却要逆流而上去寻找她的女儿，哈里勇敢地挺身而出，驾车向山上开去……
Katia和Maurice Krafft除了彼此相爱之外，还深深迷恋着火山。二十年来，这对热爱冒险的法国夫妇纵情于与自然之间惊险、刺激的“三角恋”。两人追随全球的火山喷发和余波，用惊艳的摄影和震撼人心的影像记录他们的发现，并通过媒体和巡回演讲与好奇的观众们分享自身经历。最终，Katia和Maurice于1991年日本云仙 (Unzen) 的一次火山爆发中丧命，但他们给世人留下了关于自然的丰富知识和遗产。
一部探索世界上不同活火山的纪录片。
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.
沃纳-赫尔佐格拍摄的描写南极洲生物的纪录片《在世界尽头相遇》(Encounters at the End of the World)即将上映。发行该片的公司分别是思索影业(ThinkFilm)、画面娱乐(Image Entertainment)和科学探索频道(DiscoveryFilms)。《在世界尽头相遇》预定在6月11日正式公映，影片最初在多伦多电影节上首映，这部影片也标志着赫尔佐格又回归到了纪录片的创作领域，2005年，赫尔佐格执导的纪录片《灰熊人》(Grizzly Man)就曾获得过好评。那部电影就是赫尔佐格和科学探索频道合作拍摄的，该片在北美获得了300万美元的票房成绩。赫尔佐格的新作以南极第一城——麦克默多站开始，影片的旅程通过辽阔的南极风景来呈现给观众。该部纪录片的编剧、导演和旁白均由赫尔佐格来担当。思索影业和画面娱乐享有影片的北美发行权，初次之外，《在世界尽头相遇》的DVD和数字网络版权同样由这两家公司所有。影片的执行制片是艾瑞克-尼尔森(Erik Nelson)、德福-汉丁(Dave Harding)和菲尔-菲尔克劳兹(Phil Fairclough)。此外担任本片制片的还有科学探索频道的安德鲁-麦蒂奇(Andrea Meditch)和朱莉娅-霍布斯(Julian P. Hobbs)。
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.
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.
Documentary on the famous French/Belgian pioneer volcanologist.
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.
Inès has lived all her life in the shadow of her sister, a brilliant volcanologist. As a challenge, she decides to join a scientific expedition that plans to climb a volcano.
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.
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.
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.
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.