Episodes

8 episodes in this season

The Splendor of the Pharaohs

96 min

The Extraordinary Story of Life

103 min

Everest, the Great Challenge

106 min

The Fire

106 min

Neanderthals, a Drama From 35,000 Years Ago

109 min

Diamonds, Pearls and Gold

120 min

In the Hell of Volcanoes

120 min

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Pompei, Countdown

119 min

Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery

TV Series

20011h 59m9.2

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Pompei, Countdown

Season 1 · Episode 8 · May 26, 2001

Would you like to live in Roman times? Ulisse gives you the opportunity, following hour by hour the typical day of the inhabitants of a Roman city: family life, work, business, love, entertainment, even elections. In fact, Ulysses reconstructs, with a "countdown", the last 30 hours of Pompeii and Herculaneum: while Vesuvius was charging for its catastrophic explosion, the people, unaware even of the fact that Vesuvius was a volcano, paid attention to the little things of every day. The program reconstructs this story with the help of accurate graphic processing and thanks to sequences played by actors, up to the explosion of Vesuvius and the violent death of the two cities, under millions of tons of lava material. Alberto Angela, who hosts the evening from Pompeii, recounts these 30 hours, also showing the "petrified" bodies of the inhabitants imprisoned in the lava while they were fleeing.

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Ulisse - The Pleasure of Discovery

TV Series

20011h 59m9.2

Documentary

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Pompei, Countdown

Season 1 · Episode 8 · May 26, 2001

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