Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "super-volcano"

1. 2012 (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: John Cusack, Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet

Votes: 398,419 | Gross: $166.11M

2. Into the Inferno (2016)

104 min | Documentary

An exploration of active volcanoes around the world.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Clive Oppenheimer

Votes: 9,992

3. Miami Magma (2011 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

Follows prodigy vulcanologist Antoinette Vitrini and her sister Emily as they attempt to blow the whistle on an illegal oil drilling scheme before it sets off the eruption of a super-volcano directly beneath Miami.

Director: Todor Chapkanov | Stars: Anna Adair, Stacey Asaro, Cleavant Derricks, Joseph Diaz

Votes: 1,017

4. Solarman (1992 TV Movie)

22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Unsold animated TV pilot about an aspiring teenage comic book artist who is given an alien bracelet by a dying alien scientist that turns him into a superhero powered by the Sun who must stop an evil galactic overlord from destroying it.

Directors: John Gibbs, Brad Case, Joan Case, Jeff Hale, Terry Lennon, Norm McCabe, Margaret Nichols, Karen Peterson | Stars: M.G. Kelly, Bernard Erhard, Stan Jones, Lou Hunt

Votes: 88

5. Animal Armageddon (2009– )

45 min | Documentary, History

This documentary series explores the causes behind six major extinction events in Earth's history. It also speculates on the next such event.

Stars: Peter Ward, Michael Carroll, Craig Chesner, Mathew Wedel

Votes: 215

6. Inside Planet Earth (2009 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary

A fantastical - but factual - journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Director: Martin Williams | Stars: Richard Lintern, Patrick Stewart

Votes: 285

7. Paleo Sleuths: Saber-Toothed Tigers, Mastodons, and the Rise of Mammals (2016 Video)

56 min | Documentary

Paleontologists, notably Michael Voorhies, have uncovered fossils of hundreds of mammal species in Nebraska. For millions of years recurring super volcano eruptions doomed entire ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Hochman | Stars: Marsheli Billy, Greg Brown, Dan Fisher, Carl Hart

Votes: 6

8. Supervolcano: Yellowstone's Fury (2013 TV Movie)

Documentary

For over a century, tens of millions of visitors have marveled at the natural beauty of Yellowstone National Park, home to the largest concentration of geysers in the world, including the ... See full summary »

Director: Mary Anne Alton | Stars: Ben Andrews, Lori Dengler, Hank Heasler, Jake Lowenstern

Votes: 16

9. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Mystery of the Megavolcano (2006)

TV-PG | Documentary

An eruption of a megavolcano may be the most likely cataclysmic event the earth faces in the present day. Four scientists independently uncover evidence of such an eruption just 75,000 ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Fox | Star: Neil Ross

Votes: 31

10. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: North America (2014)

TV-G | Documentary, History

North America has a storied history which local geologists are happy to explain. It still bears part of the continent of Africa from the collision that joined it to Pangea and formed the ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Richard Allen, Roland Burgmann, Jamie Farrell, Anna Flori-Lamour

Votes: 10

11. How the Earth Was Made (2009– )
Episode: Yellowstone (2009)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, History

The evidence, structure, history and potential threat of the Yellowstone super volcano are described.

Director: Robert Strange | Stars: Corey Johnson, Hank Heasler, Jake Lowenstern, Lisa A. Morgan

Votes: 32

12. Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode: Reset (2010)

TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Wells' treacherous attack and devastating betrayal in Egypt has set into motion the plan she has been secretly orchestrating for more than one hundred years. When it becomes clear that ... See full summary »

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams

Votes: 528

13. DoS - Domain of Science (2010– )
Episode: The Map of Doom: Apocalypses Ranked (2020)

22 min | Documentary

Doomsday scenarios are a popular topic for science fiction and, from time to time, news stories. But with so many ways humanity could be wiped out which do we really need to worry about. ... See full summary »

Star: Dominic Walliman

14. Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode: Humanity (2011)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The Team is on the hunt for Red Tornado, and their friend Zatanna wants to come along for the ride.

Director: Matt Youngberg | Stars: Stephanie Lemelin, Jesse McCartney, Danica McKellar, Nolan North

Votes: 3,144

15. Weird or What? (2010–2012)
Episode: End of the World (2011)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary

Weird or What looks at several end of the world scenarios. First it talks to a man who believes that the Mayan calendar indicates that a super-volcano eruption will end the world in 2012. ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Scott, Sean Turrell | Stars: William Shatner, Patrick Geryl, Robert Vicino, Stanley Ambrose

Votes: 20

16. Curious and Unusual Deaths (2009– )
Episode: Death by Routine Maintenance (2012)

TV-14 | History, Mystery

In Michigan, an attendant at a car wash dies after he is entangled in the spinning brushes at the wash. In Dallas, Texas, theater director Margo Jones dies after being exposed to toxic ... See full summary »

Director: David Weaver | Stars: Steve Herringer, Scott Murray, Andrew Baker, Helen Sheehy

Votes: 12

17. PBS Eons (2017– )
Episode: That Time the American West Blew Up (2023)

11 min | Documentary

Fifty million years ago the Farallon oceanic plate began sliding under the North American plate creating an explosive mix of magma and melted crust leading to super volcano eruptions ... See full summary »

Star: Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

18. Perfect Storms: Disasters That Changed the World (2013– )
Episode: Dark Age Volcano (2013)

TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, Drama

Documentary revealing how a volcanic eruption in El Salvador in 536 CE sent millions on tons of ash into the atmosphere, causing a worldwide mini-ice age.

Director: Brian Rice | Stars: Kenneth Welsh, David Calderisi, Albert Gomez, Hilary Krull

Votes: 16