"volcano"
Volcano: Nature's Inferno
Travel around the world for a firsthand look at volcanoes - perhaps the most dazzling but destructive natural force on earth. Massive volcanic eruption can turn day into night, releasing the power of an atomic blast, spewing toxic avalanches of lava, gas, and ash. National Geographic Video transports you to some of the world's most notorious volcan..
The Human Volcano
A reflexive, first-person narrative by Captain Don Leslie, a sideshow sword-swallower, human blockhead, tattooed man, and fire eater. Recounting everything from childhood feelings of being an "oddball" to his injuries as a sword-swallower, Captain Don spews flames, lights his tongue on fire, and sings about the circus and tattooing.
Inside Hawaiian Volcanoes
A short documentary produced and directed by famed volcanologist Maurice Krafft in order to educate audiences about how volcanoes are formed, erupt, and are studied.
Octopus Volcano
Deep in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea lies the volcanic island of Stromboli. Erupting every 20 minutes, it is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Life on the surface is tough when the volcano is spewing molten lava. Beneath the surface, a healthy population of common octopus thrives. Scientists are trying to discover what allows the octo..
Sitting on a Volcano
Only fifty years after the Holocaust, the world has allowed another genocide to take place, this time in Rwanda. In April 1994, the international community sat by and watched while a million Tutsi men, women and children were massacred in the central African nation. Sitting on a Volcano, the first volume in the three-part Rwanda series, follows the..
Deadliest Volcanoes
Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. From Japan s Mount Fuji to the Sleeping Giant submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone Supervolcano in the United States, NOVA travels with scientists who are attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when it might happen, and exactly how deadly the..
The Domestication of Volcanoes
It's 1973, Fernanda is thirteen years old and has embarked on a journey with her friend Beatriz across Colombia to reach Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast. During the trip, Fernanda will leave the bubble of her neighborhood in Bogotá, transgressing the vast and plural territory in front of her. She will meet along the way a series of women carryin..
Nova: Volcano Under the City
A team of scientists clambers down into the steep crater of an active volcano in central Africa, a lake of molten lava seething far below. The team's mission is to explore this deadly mountain up close to find out when and why it is likely to erupt next. the lives of half a million people living directly in its shadow are at stake. In January 20..
Inside the Volcano
A deep dive into how volcanoes are created. The most dramatic eruptions in history and potential future eruptions are showcased.
Volcano: Fountains of Fire
Experience its magnificence as you explore pitch black lava caves, walk on the still molten floor of Kilauea Iki crater and fly past fiery lava fountains.
VolcanoScapes II
This show is the sequel to the award-winning documentary, VolcanoScapes... Pele's March to the Pacific! Capturing the splendor of Kilauea Volcano, this 54-minute extravaganza puts you as close as you can get to the Fire Goddess Pele! Dare to fly next to lava fountains, peer into red-hot lava tubes, balance precariously close to ocean explosions a..
VolcanoScapes
VolcanoScapes is a 40-minute dramatic documentary that captures the splendor of Hawaii's Kilauea, the world's most active volcano. Spellbinding footage of high-fountaining episodes and the day-to-day eyewitness accounts of the destruction of 28 homes. Thrill to the outrageous battle between the Fire Goddess Pele and her sister Na Make, the Goddes..
VolcanoScapes... Dancing with the Goddess
VolcanoScapes... Dancing with the Goddess is a two-hour documentary... a volcano film unlike anything you have ever imagined. Volcanoes are a connection to the planet that we are able to make in no other way.
Into Iceland's Volcano
In spring 2010, the nearly unpronounceable volcano Eyjafjallajkull spewed ash clouds across Europe, bringing international air traffic to a standstill. Now, for the first time ever, a team of explorers descend into the nearby Thrinukagigur volcano crater - the only place on earth where it is possible to enter an old magma chamber. Inside the crater..
Volcano Rondo
In a process analogous to unstable chemical mixing, "Volcano Rondo" stirs up a photographic arrangement - a fire, a fire stoker, fuel for the fire - with a rondo.
How Do Geologists Study Volcanoes?
Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has been spewing fire and molten rock non-stop for the last 30 years. It draws attention from all over the world, from scientists to artists to curious tourists.
Volcano Saga
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.
Kilauea: The Hawaiian Volcano
A documentary on the eruptive activity of the great Hawaiian volcano Kilauea.