Nature

BBC: Supervolcano, Superstorm, Krakatoa

€10.00EUR

Three BBC docudramas presented in a collector's boxset for the first time. Mother Nature takes her revenge!

Product description

NATURAL DISASTERS: THREE BBC DOCUDRAMAS
NEVER BEFORE OFFERED IN A BOXSET COLLECTION

1. Supervolcano
2. Superstorm
3. Krakatoa: The Last Days

A special edition boxset with three frightening docudrama¹ and docufiction² films, not sold in stores or online as a set. They were aired on BBC TV and Discovery Channel in 2005.

RRP of Supervolcano is £15.99 and it is sold at Amazon for £10.88. Superstorm has a RRP of £19.99 and is sold for £19.98 by Amazon, while the RRP of Krakatoa: The Last Days is £15.99 and Amazon sells it for £10.88 making the total street price of the three films £41.74. You will agree that our price is a real bargain!

Supervolcano was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 2006 (Best Visual Effects) and for an Emmy Award in 2005 (Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries).

Krakatoa: The Last Days was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award in 2007 (Best Visual Effects) and for an Emmy Award in 2007 (Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie).

The films are presented in a boxset of 3 DVD discs.

See the plot summaries and other details under Additional information.
¹ Docudrama is a dramatisation of actual historical events.
² Docufiction (often confused with docudrama) is a neologism which refers to the cinematographic combination of fiction and documentary.

This movie comes from our personal collection and only one piece is available
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Additional information

Starring	Michael Riley, Gary Lewis, Shaun Johnston, Adrian Holmes, Jennifer Copping, Rebecca Jenkins, Nicola Stephenson, Tom Sizemore, Chris Potter, JR Bourne, Cas Anvar, Jana Carpenter, Rupert Penry-Jones, Olivia Williams, Kevin McMonagle, Ramon Tikaram, David Dennis, Lee-Ann Van Rooi
Format	Boxset, Colour, PAL
Main soundtrack	English Dolby Digital 5.1 or Dolby Digital 2.0 (selectable)
Subtitles	OFF, Greek
Special features	-
Region
Aspect ratio	16:9
Number of discs	3
Classification	BBFC *Supervolcano* and *Superstorm* BBFC *Krakatoa: The Last Days*
Studio	2 Entertain Video
DVD release date	Supervolcano - 14 Mar 2005 in the UK Superstorm - 2 Jul 2007 in the UK Krakatoa: The Last Days - 14 Aug 2006 in the UK
Run time	342 minutes (5 hours 42 mins)
EAN	-

List of episodes

Disc 1

Supervolcano

Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but they are ignored or dismissed as 'minor'. But when they learn an eruption will happen, panic breaks out through people of the USA and the world. This is a tale told from former Yellowstone scientists, who recall the final days before Yellowstone erupted, and everything changed forever.

Source: IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419372/plotsummary

Disc 2

Superstorm

The plot begins with a team of scientists working on a US government project, known as Stormshield. Stormshield's goal is to control and manage storms, or, more to the point, hurricanes.

It is hurricane season, and a chain of storms are lined up to hit the United states. The most notable, and worrisome, is Hurricane Grace, a Category 3 hurricane, which is slowly climbing to a Category 5. Using predictive technology developed by Lance Resznick, named TEMPEST, they are able to simulate the effects of seeding the storm, which they hope will collapse the eye of the storm, which would slow the wind speeds, and thus lower the category of the storm.

However, not everyone is optimistic about the technology (Lance is openly sceptical that the theories are fantasy), and one simulation shows the storm intensifying, rather than weaking. But, the experiment goes ahead on a smaller hurricane, Agatha; a plane and several UAV, also carrying the seeds (in this case, supercooled liquid), fly into the storm. At first, the experiment is a success, but because the storm intensifies during the seeding, the plane, carrying Ralf DeWitt, crashes, killing everyone. It was to have carried the qualified field scientist, Sara, but she was refused clearance to go up because of a cold and she bullied Ralf into going in her place. She is devastated.

Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstorm_(docudrama)

Disc 3

Krakatoa: The Last Days

A factual drama that highlights stories of survival based on personal diaries from 1883, including Dutch Controller Willem Beijerinck and his wife Johanna, as they struggle to save their family and colony. Interwoven with these stories are scientific experts and CGI that explain each aspect of the Krakatoa eruption, including how the pyroclastic flow and tsunamis were formed and the effects they had on the sea, land and people in their paths.

Source: IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791318/plotsummary