Storyville
Season 26 Episode 20 - The Fire Within
On 3 June 1991 at 3.18pm, a pyroclastic flow erupted from Mount Unzen in Japan. A cloud of superheated gases and particles descended at more than 100mph from the peak of the volcano, consuming everything in its path. It instantly killed Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists and film-makers from the Alsace region in France. They were too close. They were almost always too close. On the day before they died, Maurice said in an interview, 'I am never afraid, because I’ve seen so many eruptions in 25 years that, even if I die tomorrow, I don’t care.' The Fire Within pays homage to the Kraffts, who left an archive of more than 200 hours of footage of their final journey, unprecedented in its spectacular and hypnotic beauty.
Episodes in Season 26
Final Account
85 min
Misha and the Wolves
85 min
President
85 min
Try Harder!
85 min
Tango with Putin
85 min
Writing with Fire
85 min
The Distant Barking of Dogs
85 min
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
85 min
The Truffle Hunters
85 min
Navalny
94 min
Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth
72 min
Into My Name
90 min
Citizen Ashe
90 min
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
35 min
Gorbachev. Heaven
99 min
One Day in Ukraine
75 min
And Still I Sing
90 min
Midwives
82 min
Beneath the Surface
88 min
The Fire Within
81 min
A House Made of Splinters
85 min
A Bunch of Amateurs
93 min
