Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens

Film

Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens

10.0199759mNRHistoryDocumentary
United States
Age rating
NR
Director
John Kander
Year
1997

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled 230 square miles, sent 540 million tons of ash and volcanic rock twelve miles into the air, and blasted one cubic mile of earth from the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Illustrates the terrifying fury of the most destructive volcanic disaster in American history through aerial photography and survivors' own words. Shows examples of nature's plant and animal recovery seventeen years later.

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Directed by

John Kander

Written by

John Kander

Produced by

John Kander, Timothy Kitz