Krakatoa - The Last Days

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show_name = Krakatoa - The Last Days


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genre = Docudrama
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director = Sam Miller
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composer = Tim Atack
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language = English
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cinematography = Giulio Biccari
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runtime = 90 minutes
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first_aired = May 7, 2006
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"Krakatoa - The Last Days" is a 2006 BBC Television docudrama based upon a selection of eye witness accounts of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano.

Production

The series was produced by the BBC in coproduction with Discovery Channel, RTL Television and France2.

Ratings

The film was broadcast on BBC One on 2006-05-07 and drew 6.4 million viewers (27% audience share)cite web | url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/may/08/overnights | title=Krakatoa holds its own | accessdate=2008-07-21 | author= | last=Sweney | first=Mark | authorlink= | coauthors= | date=2006-05-08 | format= | work= | publisher=The Guardian ]

ynopsis

It was - and is - the second greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history (after Tambora only 68 years before), erupting more than 18 cubic kilometres of tephra in less than 48 hours, and killing 36,500 people. A subplot, the personage of Rogier Verbeek (played by Kevin McMonagle), a Dutch geologist who had surveyed the area two years earlier and laid the basis for modern vulcanology with his research after the eruption, adds a scientific touch and a helpful map to the CGI that convincingly portrays the cloud, the collapse of the mountain, pyroclastic flows and a tsunami.A family tries to escape the devastating volcano whilst a ship with more than 100 passengers is trapped at sea when the eruption reaches it's height.

Cast

*Rupert Penry-Jones as Willem Beijerinck
*Olivia Williams as Johanna Beijerinck
*Kevin McGonagle as Rogier Verbeek

Notes

*It was broadcast in the US as "Krakatoa: Volcano of Destruction" on the Discovery Channel.

External links

* " [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4972522.stm Unravelling Krakatoa's Secrets] " at BBC News
* [http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/krakatoa/krakatoa.html Official website] at the Discovery Channel

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