Product Details

• Actors: Stacy Keach, Peter Thomas (VI), Don Wescott
• Directors: not listed
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: PBS
• DVD Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JJ5F5W
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,763 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "NOVA: Mystery of the Megavolcano" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Wgbh Wholesale Release Date: 01/16/2007 Run time: 56 minutes

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and easy to watch, May 6, 2008

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Rolland M. Waters (Sandpoint, ID USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NOVA: Mystery of the Megavolcano (DVD)

I've been buying Nova documentaries so my 7-year old son can get some science in his head in addition to the complete list of Transformers and the details of their fates.

This DVD does that job admirably; he watched it quite closely, and after we watched it, it was clear that he understood the material and was enthused about it. He wasn't so enthused about living in a state adjacent to Yellowstone NP, but you can't have everything!

For adults, the material is still compelling, since you'll pick up more than a few interesting details of volcanic geology, how they match volcanic ash to a volano, and lest I forget, that Yellowstone's only 40k years overdue for the most destructive eruption ever.

For adults there's still a few "hmm" moments. For instance, matching ash from remote deposits back to the original "super volcano" plays a major role in the investigation portrayed by the documentary.

However, while there are several excellent scenes when not-matching samples are displayed against each other, when the matching samples are displayed, it's just two photos of the same sample. Ooh, boo, since I was really interested in seeing how an ash sample from many hundreds of miles away matches what they found in the crater. Would it be a match that's obvious to the uninitiated, or is it more like a fingerprint, where you have to know what to look for?

But that's a nit relative to the overall production, which is more than well enough done and met my goals perfectly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NOVA: Mystery of the Megavolcano, April 30, 2010

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Rocket Scientist "Chuck" (Louisiana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NOVA: Mystery of the Megavolcano (DVD)

As usual every movie that NOVA produces is excellent. I enjoyed watching this DVD. It really explained the underlying geology of Mega and Super Volcanoes. I think this is fun and pretty exciting. These enormous volcanoes are found all over our Earth. One nearly wiped out the human race 75,000 years ago.

Buy this and get your children to watch this DVD. I hope they would learn some exciting facts and develop a respect of our planet Earth. Geology is no longer boring!

Sara Howard, Author of "Something Funny Happened on the Way to the Moon" and "The Biggest Explosions in the Universe."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, July 6, 2011

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Penfield, NY - See all my reviews

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This review is from: NOVA: Mystery of the Megavolcano (DVD)

This is a great DVD on one of the largest volcanos to erupt 70,000 years ago. This has great detail, scientist interviews, and a great story. I've seen this before several times on TV and had to get it as soon as the price was right. This was written and produced by British David Sington who has done some fantastic films (Magnetic Storm, In the Shadow of the Moon, Dimming the Sun, Death Star, etc. - I have all of them). He really does excellent work - highly sophisticated, educational, entertaining, good music, just everything). I've seen this over and over again and I never get tired of it - there's always something I didn't catch before. This is loaded with information - can't keep my eyes off it.