Synopsis
A Storyville documentary in which film-maker Werner Herzog pays homage to French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who were killed in a pyroclastic flow in Japan in 1991.
- Programme: Storyville
- Episode: The Fire Within
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2022
Licence: ERA Licence required
Free to watch for UK schools, colleges and universities with an ERA Licence
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
Add Notes
More clips from Storyville
Blackfish - The Whale that Killed | Storyville
Blackfish - The Whale that Killed | Storyville
Documentary which unravels the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who - unlike any orca in the wild - has taken the ...
Blue Box | Storyville
Blue Box | Storyville
Brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel.
Brave New World | Storyville
Brave New World | Storyville
There are many moral and ethical concerns about the extent to which science should utilise our knowledge of genetic engineering.
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 1 | Storyville
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 1 | Storyville
The untold story of the Brexit negotiations... from the other side, with exclusive access to the EU parliament's representat...
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 2 | Storyville
Brexit: Behind Closed Doors: Part 2 | Storyville
The untold story of the Brexit negotiations... from the other side, with exclusive access to the EU parliament's representat...
Buddhism: Wheel of Time | Storyville
Buddhism: Wheel of Time | Storyville
The Dalai Lama prays with the faithful in director Werner Herzog 's film. He follows the Buddhist Kalachakra - on the Nepalese/ Indian f...
Discovering the holy grail | Storyville
Discovering the holy grail | Storyville
A yoghurt company discovered their holy grail, which just happened to be CRISPR: a microbial immune system.
Engineering the genome | Storyville
Engineering the genome | Storyville
Gene therapy, is contoversial, complex, yet valuable science.
Facing Franco's Crimes: The Silence of Others | Storyville
Facing Franco's Crimes: The Silence of Others | Storyville
The struggle of the victims of Franco's dictatorship in Spain, as they fight a government-sanctioned ‘pact of forg...
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon: Part 1 | Storyville
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon: Part 1 | Storyville
Series looking at pioneering synthetic organ surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who has been accused of using ...
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon: Part 2 | Storyville
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon: Part 2 | Storyville
In 2012, his work seems at risk when he discovers faults with the new synthetic organs, but he still h...
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon: Part 3 | Storyville
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon: Part 3 | Storyville
By 2014, four Karolinska doctors started to question Macchiarini's transplantation of plastic tracheas...
Flee (2021) | Storyville
Flee (2021) | Storyville
A Storyville documentary, mostly animated, that charts the extraordinary true tale of Ali, a gay Afghan man, and the desperate measures he is forced...
Franco and the Pact of Forgetting | Storyville
Franco and the Pact of Forgetting | Storyville
An introduction to the Spanish Civil War and it's legacy, with the 1975 Pact of Forgetting.
Franco's victims | Storyville
Franco's victims | Storyville
Witness statements are gathered from victims to be used in a court case in Argentina.
Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones | Storyville
Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones | Storyville
An investigation into the mysterious death of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who revealed the starvation deaths of millions in 1930s...
Hollywood and the Holocaust | Storyville
Hollywood and the Holocaust | Storyville
Director Danny Anker investigates the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany in...
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle: 1 | Storyville
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle: 1 | Storyville
Why did Jim Jones, a charismatic American preacher and leader of the People's Temple, compel his members in 1978 to perform '...
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle: 2 | Storyville
Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle: 2 | Storyville
The Jonestown project quickly begins to implode. Jones’s excessive drug use, irrational behaviour and the isolation of his fo...
Leaving The Cult | Storyville
Leaving The Cult | Storyville
The story of three teenage boys who manage to escape a polygamist Mormon cult in Utah. The boys talk about the extraordinary lives they used to...
More resources about Volcanic eruptions
Episode 1 | Expedition Volcano
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...
01: Volcano | A Perfect Planet
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...
04: Volcanoes | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
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...
Pompeii: The Last Day
Pompeii: The Last Day
Dramatised reconstruction using special effects to re-enact one of the most destructive volcanic eruptions in history.
Supervolcano
Supervolcano
Drama-documentary charting the possible consequences of one of nature's most cataclysmic events, a supervolcanic eruption under Yellowstone Park.
02: Volcano | Dangerous Earth
02: Volcano | Dangerous Earth
Dr Helen Czerski looks at volcanoes. With shocking eyewitness footage of eruptions, and new thermal imagery and ultra high-speed photography, w...
Iceland Erupts: A Volcano Live Special | Volcano Live
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...
The Cause: Plate Tectonics | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
The Cause: Plate Tectonics | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
Iain Stewart explains how the earth is divided into plates and how movement between these plates produces ear...
Boxing Day Tsunami | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
Boxing Day Tsunami | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
Iain Stewart explains what caused the Boxing Day Tsunami and discusses its devastating impact.
Episode 2 | Expedition Volcano
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.
Mount Vesuvius erupts | Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
Mount Vesuvius erupts | Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
An exploration of what happened when Mount Vesuvius first erupted in 79AD.
01: Inferno | Earth
01: Inferno | Earth
Chris Packham explores one of the darkest periods in Earth’s history: the worst mass extinction the planet has ever seen, when as much as 90% of all spec...
What historians now believe happened at Pompeii | Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
What historians now believe happened at Pompeii | Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
What historians now believe happened at Pompeii
Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
Margaret Mountford examines new evidence to reveal the sequence of events that destroyed the city of Pompeii and attempts t...
The first recorded Pyroclastic current | Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
The first recorded Pyroclastic current | Pompeii: The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time
A witness account of the 79AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius reveals that the eruption...
03: The Final Hours | Pompeii: The New Dig
03: The Final Hours | Pompeii: The New Dig
In Pompeii, the excavation of a wealthy villa, bakery and laundry reaches its climax with chilling revelations about what people w...
Encounters: Volcano
Encounters: Volcano
Volcanologist Mark Davies attempts to monitor the seismic activity of Soufrière on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The volcano is regarded as the wor...
Mount St Helens | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
Mount St Helens | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
In 1980, after 100 years of stillness, Mount St Helen's erupted sideways and produced devastating pyroclastic flows.
Predicting earthquakes in Turkey | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
Predicting earthquakes in Turkey | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
Scientists have developed a method of predicting earthquakes on the North Anatolian Fault.
The Largest Ever Tsunami | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
The Largest Ever Tsunami | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...
The meteor strike that is believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs also caused a tsunami.