NOVA
The Next Pompeii
1 x 60 min, Lion for PBS
WINNER GOLD MEDAL, AAAS-KAVLI SCIENCE JOURNALISM AWARDS
Credit List
Producer/Director Duncan Bulling
Executive Producers Richard Bradley and Caterina Turroni
Over 3 million people call the city of Naples home, but their day to day existence is constantly under threat from not one, but two active volcanoes.
One one side looms Vesuvius, infamous for the destruction of the entire Roman city of Pompeii. But on the other side lurks an even bigger danger - Campi Flegrei, a volcano so large that hundreds of thousands of people actually live inside its crater.
Now, we join the scientists trying to protect this corner of Italy from volcanic disaster. Can they devise better early warning systems? Can they find clues in past volcanic tragedies to help predict how a modern day eruption could threaten lives? Can they find ways to stop Naples from becoming the Next Pompeii?
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