Development of planet Earth | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The Impossible (2012)

Thailand, Boxing Day 2004: A tsunami devastates the coast and separates members of a holidaying family of five. Their traumatic experiences give a glim...

01: Volcano | Earth: The Power of the Planet

Dr Iain Stewart tells the story of planet Earth. Although they appear to be destructive, volcanoes have been crucial to the deve...

Episode 1 | Expedition Volcano

Chris Jackson, Xand van Tulleken and Aldo Kane take part in an expedition to Nyiragongo - one of the world's most dangerous and spectacular vo...

Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened

This documentary investigates the science behind the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011 with one of the biggest eart...

Pompeii: The Last Day

Dramatised reconstruction using special effects to re-enact one of the most destructive volcanic eruptions in history.

Supervolcano

Drama-documentary charting the possible consequences of one of nature's most cataclysmic events, a supervolcanic eruption under Yellowstone Park.

Surviving Haiti | This World

Filmed over the six months after the Haiti earthquake, This World follows four of the few who were rescued from a death beneath the rubble.

04: Volcanoes | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...

Iain Stewart takes a grand tour of the world's most extraordinary volcanoes, rightly considered among the most destructive...

Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special with Iain Stewart | Horizon

Professor Iain Stewart examines the powerful geological forces that unleashed the devastating Japanese earthq...

02: Earthquakes | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...

Iain Stewart reveals the stories and science behind some of the world's most dramatic earthquakes, including how 1960s C...

Aftershock: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake | Panorama

More than 30,000 people are known to have been killed in the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria. Panorama asks if...

04: Japan | Journeys into the Ring of Fire

Iain Stewart tours the perilous and spectacular landscape of the Pacific Rim, visiting Japan to see how the huge population live o...

01: The Centre of the Planet | Richard Hammond's Journey To...

Richard Hammond uses a giant 3D virtual Earth, stunning CGI, the latest satellite imagery and beautiful locati...

Coastal Erosion | From Above

Crumbling into the sea - the Isle of Wight, from above.

Iceland Erupts: A Volcano Live Special | Volcano Live

Kate Humble heads to Iceland and meets the scientists monitoring the country's most dangerous volcanoes. She also inves...

01: The Bodies | Pompeii: The New Dig

At Pompeii, Italian archaeologists begin the biggest dig in a generation, where they find a bakery, a wealthy house and a fresco of a s...

Eruption at Mount St. Helens | Surviving Disaster

Mount St Helens' in Washington State stood almost 10,000 feet high and in 1980 had not erupted for over one hundred years.

01: Volcano | A Perfect Planet

A look at how without volcanoes, there would be no life on Earth. Although destructive, magma from the planet's molten core builds land, and m...

Episode 2 | Expedition Volcano

Chris Jackson and his fellow geologists head for the volcano Nyamulagira - one of the most active yet least explored volcanoes on the planet.

Part 1 | Supervolcano: The Truth about Yellowstone

Documentary exploring some of the issues raised in the accompanying 'Supervolcano' drama. Yellowstone National Park contai...