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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 , present day ...
The 2009 episode "Krakatoa" of History's geology-based documentary series How the Earth Was Made also chronicles the geologic history of Krakatoa. [14] In a 1991 episode of the TV show Seinfeld, Jerry (in 1985) is tricked by Kramer into donating money to the Krakatoa relief fund, even though it erupted 102 years earlier.
Krakatoa, East of Java is a 1968 American disaster film starring Maximilian Schell and Brian Keith. [4] During the 1970s, the film was re-released under the title Volcano.The story is loosely based on events surrounding the 1883 eruption of the volcano on the island of Krakatoa, with the characters engaged in the recovery of a cargo of pearls from a shipwreck perilously close to the volcano.
Krakatoa is a 1933 American Pre-Code short documentary film produced by Joe Rock. It won the Academy Award in 1934 for Best Short Subject (Novelty). [1] Educational Pictures (or Educational Film Exchanges, Inc.) was the film distributor of the film. This film was notable for overwhelming the sound systems of the cinemas of the time.
The Devil at 4 O'Clock is a 1961 American adventure film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra.Based on a 1958 novel with the same title by British writer Max Catto, the film was a precursor to Krakatoa, East of Java and the disaster films of the 1970s such as The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and The Towering Inferno.
Movie composers end up defined, to a large degree, by the films they’ve scored. Bernard Herrmann had the Hitchcock classics. John Williams had “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones.”
Originally edited from 80 hours of 16mm film in co-production with WGBH-TV, Boston, Ring of Fire was produced, directed and photographed by Lorne Blair [2] [3] and co-produced and written by Lawrence Blair. [4] The executive producer was Frontline's David Fanning. The films have been shown in more than 60 countries.
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is a 1966 American comedy film directed and produced by Norman Jewison for United Artists.The satirical story depicts the chaos following the grounding of the Soviet submarine СпруT (“SpruT”, pronounced "sproot" and meaning "octopus") off a small New England island.