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Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul’s self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
The story of George Martin’s AIR Studios Montserrat and the island that changed music forever.
Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland’s volcanoes.
There is an island where dragons still roam. A Jurassic type underworld where ancient warlords still rule. Where they fight for supremacy…where they fight to survive. Komodo Island – deep in the remote basin of the Pacific Ocean – its an ancient Kingdom of fire and brimstone. Here, a string of 452 volcanoes erupt from the ocean bed, its known as “The Ring of Fire” and it’s the perfect habitat for dragons. Komodo Dragons! The largest living lizard on the planet with 34 million years of survival in his DNA. Its no surprise that he’s still known as a dragon, he has the presence of an ancient gladiator. He’s armored in claws and scales, but instead of spitting fire, he spits deadly venom.
One can see them from distances up to 30 km: like a mumbling, bubbling volcano, ready to erupt, a glowing cloud rises from the earth. This is how one can experience the Victoria Falls at sunrise. Locals call this: “The smoke of thunder”.
Tianhuo Island is as beautiful as a paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the “Ring of Fire” the world-famous Pacific Rim volcanic belt. Young geologist Li Xiaomeng brought the team here to develop the first volcanic monitoring system, the Suzaku. Li Xiaomeng’s father, Li Wentao, a volcanic expert who has retired for many years, rushed to the crater after learning about it, trying to persuade her to leave. At the same time, expedition expert Zheng Nan dived in the beautiful underwater cave, preparing to give his girlfriend Jiahui a romantic proposal. The volcano erupted, and the fate of these people was entangled. In order to see the sun of tomorrow, they must reconcile with the past, and work together to find a way for themselves and for all sentient beings in a desperate situation. This is a story about Chinese heroes who love and courage, choose and abandon, save themselves and save others.
Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer embark upon a global journey exploring some of the world’s most mythical volcanoes in Indonesia, Ethiopia, Iceland and North Korea. Speaking with scientists and indigenous peoples alike, they seek to understand the complex and deeply rooted relationship between mankind and one of nature’s greatest wonders.
When an offshore-drilling rig in the Gulf bursts into flames and sinks, Antoinette Vitrini (Rachel Hunter) – a beautiful and insightful volcanologist – investigates the area with startling results. Confirming her theory that a long-dormant underground volcano exists in the region, Antoinette discovers that the illegal deep-sea drilling has awakened the beast. Now, catastrophic amounts of magma are about to be pumped out… right under the city of Miami. But as Antoinette and her team try to stop the impending disaster, they must also battle the corrupt company that caused the problem in the first place.
When an undersea volcano sends tremors throughout the Atlantic, aquatic creatures come out of hiding. Merchant seamen Joe Ryan and partner Sam Slade harness the most unusual of the lot, a massive beast that looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The enterprising sailors deliver their quarry to a British circus, but it turns out that the animal is a newborn. And, when his much larger mother arrives in London to rescue her son, the city feels her wrath.
