Told to us as if we were children at school, it doesn't leave that much of an impression, this film.. too bad.
Another good volcano movie.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens.
There are two documentaries on the DVD. The first is an IMAX film that describes the eruptions and show lots of footage of spewing ash, but it's quite shallow in its description.
The first time I saw this movie I was in Castle Rock, WA. I was in the theatre with the rumbling seats.
I'm surprised that the film won a short-documentary Oscar - it's so light on facts that it could have been a photo-essay - or maybe that's what it was. Lots of really lovely views of the mountain and the ashfalls and the devastation, but no real explanation of why it happened, how far it affected things, what the end results were.
