Volcanic eruptions

The Fire Within | Storyville

A Storyville documentary in which film-maker Werner Herzog pays homage to French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who were killed in a p...

S03E04: Italy | Local Heroes

Adam Hart-Davis visits southern Italy, home to the greatest scientists of the ancient world. In Syracuse, he recreates Archimedes' famous ''eure...

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...

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 d...

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...

Volcanic Eruptions | From Above

Iceland has seen six months of dramatic volcanic eruptions. Watch them, from above.

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...

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 1 | Kate Humble: Into the Volcano

Kate Humble joins a team of geologists at Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago, where they travel right to the heart of one of the worl...

Episode 2 | Kate Humble: Into the Volcano

Kate Humble goes on an awe-inspiring adventure to Ambrym in Vanuatu, where she abseils into a volcano containing one of only five l...

Episode 1 | Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii, the world's most active volcano. They broadcast from the edge of the sum...

Episode 2 | Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii. They broadcast from the site of the 1969 Mauna Ulu eruption.

Episode 3 | Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii. They explore how our active planet triggers eruptions, earthquakes and t...

Episode 4 | Volcano Live

Kate Humble and Professor Iain Stewart present live from Kilauea on Hawaii. Broadcasting from the summit crater, they look to the future of volcanic...

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...

Pompeii: The Last Day

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

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...

Supervolcano

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

Part 2 | Supervolcano: The Truth about Yellowstone

Documentary exploring some of the issues raised in the accompanying 'Supervolcano' drama. What could bring about a superer...

Part 1 | Supervolcano: The Truth about Yellowstone

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

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...

02: Escape | Pompeii: The New Dig

At Pompeii, a new excavation continues to unearth rich discoveries, while a pioneering new investigation finds evidence that some Pompeiian...

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...

04: Ocean of Volcanoes | South Pacific

This edition looks at the birth, growth and death of an island, with images of an erupting underwater volcano.

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.

Volcanic eruptions | A Day in the Life of Earth

An explanation of how volcanic eruptions work.

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.

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...

Volcanoes and the carbon cycle | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Professor Chris Jackson explains the important role that volcanoes play in the carbon cycle.

Effusive and Explosive eruptions | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski demonstrates the differences between effusive and explosive eruptions.

Mount Nyiragongo lava | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski investigates the distinctive qualities of the lava from Mount Nyiragongo.

Phreatic eruption – Mount Ontake | Dangerous Earth

Dr Helen Czerski examines the 2014 phreatic eruption of Mount Ontake, Japan and why it was hard to predict.

Rhyolite eruption – Puyehue-Cordón Caulle | Dangerous Earth

Eyjafjallajökull ash | Dangerous Earth

Effects of Yellowstone | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Volcanologists predict that Yellowstone volcano will erupt again, yet there is uncertainty about when t...

Yellowstone | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the geology of the super volcano in Yellowstone National Park.

Mount Pinatubo | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, explaining how many lives wer...

Mount Kilaueu | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart explains the geographical conditions in which Mount Kilaueu was created.

Effects of Volcanoes | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history and its effect on global weat...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the mid-atlantic ridge, exploring what happens to volcanos that are underwate...

Anak Krakatoa | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates Indonesia's largest volcano Krakatoa and it's devastating eruption in 1883.

Volcanoes on Mars | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.

Lake Nyos, Cameroon | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

In 1986, people and animals living around Lake Nyos in Cameroon suddenly died, due to carbon dioxide relea...

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 ...

Mt Etna | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart investigates the eruptions from Europe's highest and most active volcano, Mount Etna.

Rock Avalanche | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

Iain Stewart explains the conditions that cause rocks to flow in a rock avalanche.

The Worst Avalanche In History | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

The worst avalanche in history occurred in 1970 in Peru, when an underwater earthquake triggere...

The Saltation Layer | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About…

From a bunker built in the path of an avalanche, scientists discovered the saltation layer at the centre o...