Krakatoa: The Last Days (also known as Krakatoa: The Volcano of Destruction) is a BBC Television documentary. The show is based on the accounts of four eyewitnesses to the 1883 eruption of Krakatau, an active stratovolcano located between the islands of Sumatra and Java (present-day Indonesia).
The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was the second largest eruption in recorded history (after Mount Tambora 68 years earlier), spewing more than 11 cubic kilometers of ash in less than 48 hours, causing Some 36,500 people died.
A sideplot about Rogier Verbeek (played by Kevin McMonagle), a Dutch geologist who surveyed the area two years ago and, through his post-eruption research, laid the foundations of modern volcanology for computer-generated The story adds a scientific touch and helpful maps convincingly depict ash plumes, landslides, pyroclastic flows and tsunamis.
The film also follows a family trying to escape a devastating volcano and a boat carrying more than 100 passengers who are stranded at sea during the peak of the eruption.
