Newquay waves | The Great British Countryside

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Japan Earthquake: A Horizon Special with Iain Stewart | Horizon

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

Supervolcano

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

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...

Coastal Erosion | From Above

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

Pompeii: The Last Day

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

Boxing Day Tsunami | 10 Things You Didn't Know About...

Iain Stewart explains what caused the Boxing Day Tsunami and discusses its devastating impact.

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...

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...

01: Africa | Rise of the Continents

Geologist Prof Iain Stewart shows how the continent of Africa was formed from the wreckage of a long lost supercontinent.

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 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...

Disaster on Everest | Panorama

BBC reporter Tom Martienssen shares his footage of Everest taken after the devastating Nepalese earthquake. He reveals a story of an extraordi...

Highland Boundary Fault Line | The Great British Countryside

Julia Bradbury explains the continental collision that produced the Scottish Highlands.

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...