Film
Pompeii: The Last Day
Saturday 6 July,
14.00–15.00
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Free, booking advised
Phone +44 (0)20 7323 8181
Ticket Desk in Great Court
Recommend this event
A screening of the documentary Pompeii: The Last Day introduced by Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin, UCL.
Drawing on fresh research in volcanology and using CGI, this award-winning BBC documentary vividly displays the main stages of the terrifying eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, and the consequences for people whose lives and deaths have been reconstructed from the bodies found at the site.
Director: Peter Nicholson
UK, 2003, 50 mins
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