Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America

"Oooh look! - An active volcano!" "How active is it?" "VERY active... it erupts violently every 30 years or so, like it's beeen doing for millions of years..." "Excellent! ... Let's build thousands of houses right on top of it!"

American documentaries have sensationalistic narrations and music. A far cry from the mature and excellent British documentaries.

You have to feel for the people who lost everything. But the sheer power of mother nature is jaw dropping.

I was living in a sub division near the town of Pahoa on the big island of Hawaii in 1984. Then one rainy night, i saw a bright light as bright as the sun appear on a ridge about 4 miles away. Then a lava fountain rose and fell and illuminated the rain clouds. The colors were brilliant hues of red, yellow and white. I could hear the lava splatter on the ground and a river flowing towards the town of Kalapana. I had witnessed Kiluea's new east rift open up. It was the most spectacular occurrence that I have ever seen in all my years. The eruption went on for 9 hours.

when the road opens up and steam shoot out. that gave me goosebumps.

2018 I was glued to the feeds on this eruption and it was the most interesting volcanic activity I've ever been able to witness and it just shows how the Hawaiian people love and respect the land they live on.

My mother has supported PBS all of my childhood and I will do the same as an adult

Great documentary being a geologist, love to visit & explore beauty of nature.

It's amazing how drone technology was used effectively in monitoring volcanic activity & lava flow, even saving a human life.

I love PBS, there is no programming on TV better than PBS.

Love how the people there are one with nature even under such circumstances

I always eagerly anticipate PBS videos. They are a visually stimulating, educational, professionally produced, records of Earth and more. Thank you. It is good the volcano emits mafic (slow moving, sticky) lava rather than felsic (explosive eruptions, contains more gasses) lava. Could you imagine if this was a Mt. Saint Helens? What carnage that would be. Best wishes to all people adversely affected. Be well all. Edit: LOL. If I waited until 27:43 I would have known they residents near this fissure were going to have to deal with felsic magma/lava. ☺️😉

The last unpredictable volcanic activity, covered up 703 homes (all built in Lava zone 1) This area was well known for "cheap" land because it was in a danger zone, zone 1. You could buy an acre for 5k. But it's very risky. There were gas seepage coming from the ground prior to the volcanic explosion. For 20 years there was gas seepage!

How time rushes 5 years are about to pass n i remember it fresh .

Great doco, best one I've seen to date on the 2018 eruption. Thank's to all involved in the production x

Great video to watch when it's freezing outside. Merry Christmas :-) Peace

The awesomeness of nature never ceases to astound and amaze. We humans are only part of a very large picture and we must remember that.

Some of the comments here are truly ridiculous. As is the hyperbolic commentary. I was one of those living in Leilani at the time (and still today) we weren’t rushing/fleeing for our lives it was very orderly… we had days to evacuate…

Great presentation PBS. Hopefully for those that experienced this and lost homes and land , this report did the event justice. ❤️‍🔥🙏👍🏻

real visual of gigantic & deep hole of lava, what a spectacular sight.