Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)

Directed by

Sam Miller

Genre

documentary film, docudrama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This docudrama follows four people who survived the massive 1883 eruption of Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia. It shows their experiences as the volcano explodes and triggers deadly tsunamis.

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What happens

Krakatoa: The Last Days (also titled Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel) is a BBC Television docudrama that premiered on 7 May 2006 on BBC One. The program is based upon four eyewitness accounts of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, an active stratovolcano between the islands of Sumatra and Java, in the Dutch East Indies (now present day Indonesia). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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