Krakatoa, East of Java Disaster Flick

Excellent 1969 flick based on actual events which happened WEST of Java. Great effects for it's time.

[@Fullmetalminos]

These were the most realistic depictions of a landslide-triggered tsunami I saw in a movie. That shot of the waves approaching the coastline is both spectacular and terrifying at the same time.

[@susandrakenviller3683]

I find special effects done with real water, fire, explosions, scale models etc... generally much more satisfying than CGI.

[@Indrid__Cold]

Me three!!!

[@TimeStrider]

Agreed, NO comparison!

[@thiesvanderkooij8421]

sometimes, yes

[@mariogiresi6792]

Definitely. CGI has its place, but overall the old effects look far more realistic.

[@drumdude46]

Saw this as a Kid. realizing now, that's Sal Mineo in the film, along with Maximilian Schell. R.I.P to them both....

[@evrgrnn5280]

7:45 is a really terrifying scene, when you see the wave break on the building and engulf the harbor.

[@tutts999]

Great film growing up in the 70's.

[@Japanese1970]

Considering at the time of production and the absence of computer generated technology, this was an excellent simulation of the events before and after the eruption. Unlike the new movies which do not need miniature reproduction because all are made through the help of tricks of photography.

[@geodude012]

The most elaborate volcano movie I ever saw without a single frame of real footage.

[@Paramedicpr835]

Excellent movie based on the 1883 eruption of Krakatau on the Sundra Strait. Loudest sound in history heard by human ears it was heard more than 3000 miles away.

[@Fullmetalminos]

this movie was produced in the 1969 and the tsunami still looks so realistic :|

[@Indrid__Cold]

I saw this when it came out. One heck of a film. It's tidal wave sequence still holds up all these years later. How on earth did they get a "wave tank" to produce something so realistic looking. Tidal waves have been the feature of nightmares for me for over fifty years. This movie got that ball rolling.

[@breakthru7608]

Indrid_Cold I believe they filmed a lot of the surf along the Californian coast quite close up to get those scenes where it's slowly rolling in. There's nothing more realistic than the real thing.

[@amandaamelia8235]

Ingrid_C. I saw it as a child too and always had tidal wave nightmares for most of my life. I never watched Titanic or any movie involving oceans and waves. I hardly go to the beach except to walk. Nobody can talk me into going on cruises. 🙂

[@SusanMuraiRaider]

I used to LOVE this movie when I was a kid. Now I have to figure out where I can get it to show my daughter.

[@hermitcrabbot]

Considering that the fourth and final cataclysmic blast vaporized the entire six cubic miles of Krakatoa and blew it eastward over Java, you could definitively say 'Krakatoa, East of Java'.

[@jessefrankel2055]

Aside from screwing up the geography, the film did have a good story, the acting was generally solid, and the special effects for that time were spectacular. It also has a close-up of a shoe in one scene for some unknown reason...but in the end, it was a watchable flick. Not accurate, geographically speaking, but very watchable.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Fun Fact: the Academy Award-nominated FX for this film were partially done by Eugene Lourie, the former production designer who directed several creature-features starting with THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, which started off the modern Kaiju genre and inspired the original GODZILLA. He actually has a brief moment in the film as the lighthouse keeper who sends out an emergency telegram moments before the tsunami hits.

[@9bahai9]

I loved this movie when it came out. Very pleasing images, production values, music, cast, and story. Maximillian Schell is wonderful as is Diane Baker. Brian Keith was very convincing as a washed-up diver. I love Jacqui Chan as Sal Mineo's Japanese love interest. Though not Japanese, she pulled off the image well. As I understand it, there was a real incident in the Krakatoa erruption in which a stalwart captain guided a boat miraculously through the catastrophe much as happened here.

[@johnm3152]

Coming Soon: Yellowstone - East of California

[@robertgaudet7407]

Except I guess they'd have to call it 'West of California' to be consistent.

[@musyarofah9482]

Afther that Toba supervolcano north Sumatra

[@iken6144]

Yo vi esta pelicula con mi papá , en ell cine Santa Lucia , frente a la Alameda .Hoy Diciembre 2018 , hace erupción en el mar el hijo de krakatoa ,provocando un gran tsunami

[@lindaterrell5535]

What’s epic is the ship really did that! It didn’t hurt that it was steam powered.

[@lindaterrell5535]

It’s the best part of the film. Only took 90 minutes to get there.

[@Gnillob802]

All this nonsense about EAST is given by people who never saw the movie and only reading some review or wikipedia. If you actually SEE the movie you would understand the title, though confusing, makes sense because its based on the plot, the boat travels away from Krakatoa easterly through the straight past Java (where Brian Keith gets left & is wiped out) into open waters. In the dialogue Krakatoa is spoken as the volcano's path and they give their ultimate destination as east of Java.

[@Professor6871]

The noise of that eruption was heard 2000 miles away in Australia. That was how loud it was in 1883.

[@aidanmiranda6140]

How’s 2011?

[@DRpokeme]

The ships crew and I imagine the passengers were completely deafened by the explosion for many years.

[@stegatops1]

Im a big fan, despite the well publicised gepgraphical shortcomings. The explosion noises and the sound of gas being squeezed out under pressure put this ahead of the other disaster flicks both old and new.

[@cloverfield911]

Maybe they meant to call it "Krakatoa 359 degrees East of Java"!!!

[@jmwoods190]

The red lava lake at 4:20 is one of the creepiest special effect I've seen!

[@zacharyyogus5013]

It's the Lake of Fire from the Book of Revelation.

[@jondellar]

Watered-down Heinz Cream of Tomato soup! 😂

[@DoubleMrE]

Though Krakatoa was west of Java . . . after the eruption, it was also east of Java (as well as north & south and even on top). So technically, the title is not wrong.

[@andrew47ap]

llmao..lmao...LMFAO

[@ChiekoGamers]

DoubleMrE Its showed what happened to East Java.It didnt say it only affected East Java.Stop talking like you know

[@DoubleMrE]

RebornChiekoGaming . . . Don't you recognize a joke when you see one?

[@skylx0812]

...oh that's Krakatoa all over

[@haeronihero4634]

Indonesia

[@MrMousley]

Krakatoa is actually 20 miles WEST of Java ! Brilliant special effects though .. especially for 1969.

[@Mike-jw4xh]

this event has received practically no coverage at all in school history books.

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

WHAT!!??

[@Ilovefajitas]

Don't know why this is on my recommendations 11 years after it was uploaded. Enjoyed it all the same! 😂

[@jimmyarmijo792]

I saw this movie as a kid. I believe at the base movie theater. A long time ago... Just the earth, blowing off a little steam.

[@JamesHarris-hl2bm]

I saw this at the theatre in Chicago when I was 13 years old. It was a roadshow production. In those days, you had certain movies that only played either once or twice a day, like a play. It was reserved seats. The new Goodman Theatre preserved the part of the old theatre where it played: The Michael Todd Theatre.

[@Gnillob802]

@Gnillob802 ....where are you? In the path of Krakatoa trying to evacuate, we've made it through the strait, past the islands, and currently east of Java. This gets shortened in the title to KRAKATOA, EAST OF JAVA. Confusing, but in reference to the film's plot and dialogue, accurate.

[@Dekko-chan]

That is way more terrifying then any cgi could ever get

[@PointyTailofSatan]

They didn't show the actual final explosion of the volcano. Unlike most land volcanoes, huge amounts of seawater entered into the lower than sea level crater formed by the first smaller explosion. This then created a gigantic final explosion that literally blew the volcano apart. When it was over, there was nothing but water where Krakatoa had been. It took almost 50 years before Anak Krakatoa (son of Krakatoa) began to form above the sea.

[@wastepolice]

From Wikipedia: "While the film was in production, its makers became aware of the geographic error in its title but used it anyway, apparently believing that this was a more exotic title than "Krakatoa, West of Java"."

[@mariogiresi6792]

I was a seven year old boy when I first saw this in a movie theater, and the images of that tidal wave haunted me for years. Great movie ***

[@annescott4862]

Can get it from Amazon. Also 'Krakatoa,the last days' very good BBC docu/drama. Also 'Krakatoa' by Rupert Ferneaux, excellent account of the tragic events. The tsunami is terrifying but all the accounts I have seen and read testify to the accuracy of how it must have been for all those poor people and animals along the coasts both sides of the Sunda Straits.

[@fabio5504]

3they are highly powerful; Mt. Saint Helena in WA state, that blew up,had people all around it,who had to evacuate(must be a movie on that)Pacific northwest has the string of potencial volcanoes, and "the three sisters."

[@rickram1961]

I have always liked this great movie!

[@TheWarren7]

I studied tsunamis many years before people awoke to boxing day 2004 check out the story of the scotch cap lighthouse for something fairly extraordinary

[@thiesvanderkooij8421]

its always withe these older movies that the effects look more scary than actual CGI

[@suciretnowati8219]

good film effect of its time

[@EastAngliaUK]

Just watched Krakatoa: East of Java on BBC2 today and it was really good. Surprised its not got a great review as I would give it at least a 6 and the tidal wave was really good and the people on the boat survived which was really good.

[@henrydiaz1958]

Esta erupción fue tan poderosa que aquel día del 26 de agosto de 1883 se oyó la explosión a 5000 kilómetros de distancia, es decir hasta lo que hoy es Sri Lanka al sur de Africa y hasta Australia !! la isla desapareció de la faz de la tierra al momento de explotar totalmente el volcán ... el Tsunami tuvo una altura de 40 metros ... las olas arrasaron todo a su paso .. aldeas y pueblos enteros ... murieron 100, 000 personas sino más ... cifra espeluznante para la época... las cenizas del volcán oscurecieron el cielo hasta prácticamente hacerlo de noche y produjo un efecto, bajando la temperatura del planeta en un grado centígrado, aquel año el verano desapareció en Europea ... fue un verano frío ... luego de años la isla nuevamente volvió a emerger del mar y apareció un nuevo volcán llamado:” ANAK KRAKATAU” , que quiere decir:” El hijo de Krakatoa”

[@amandaamelia8235]

That's Scary 😨... Just to think that it happened for real. It is said that Eruption was felt on several other continents.

[@7112uitruk]

Why doesn't Holywood make a new Krakatoa movie using up to date special FX? I think it would be a best seller..

[@giovannimarsallis2421]

Sal Mineo, maravilhoso como sempre!!! Excelente filme!!!

[@brandoncats]

Krakatoa Hapenned in INDONESIA , java island.. 26 August 1883, 160 more islands attacked by tsunami too.. now krakatoa still active in Indonesia, and i wish that tragedy never happen again in INDONESIA

[@cvkaustubh7521]

7 yrs later:-

[@kerbygator]

Back in the early eighties, I referred to a crack dealer guy I knew as,'Krakatoa'.

[@HunterMann]

Kinda makes the Hollywood versions of Titanic ordeal not seem that bad.

[@RenegadeCossack]

I watched this movie as a young boy, and then looked on a map to find Krakatoa. And could'nt believe that the volcano is actually west of Java. The producers of this movie should have learned to read a fucking map.

[@Gnillob802]

@Gnillob802 Similar complaints were made about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea where you have some idiot who never read the story suggesting the sea isn't 20,000 Leagues deep. The story states the submarine travels a distance of 20,000 Leagues but completely underwater. The title is shortened and leads to confusion.

[@robertgaudet7407]

Which is pretty impressive since apparently even during WW2 submarines could neither dive very far under nor move very fast once submerged. Being able to travel 20,000 leagues without surfacing in the 19th century would've been a hell of a feat.

[@Badgerbitesback]

@RenegadeCossack well no, the reason they said east was because the east sounded more mysterious and exotic than saying west, it was a marketing thing not that they couldn't read a map... its all there in the production fluff if you do some research.

[@ezequielgomez7083]

The Disaster Sound of Tsunami sound like from Damnation Alley

[@MrDXRamirez]

Effects are great but where is the whole movie??

[@samlo0lzs661]

How sad they are because of the volcano and there house ruined by a volcan

[@melende1970]

@brandoncats The islands where attacked by 3 or 4 tsunamis, -26 August 1883 a tsunami at 21 PM -27 August 1883 a tsunami at 7 AM -27 August 1883 a tsunami after midday

[@RRaquello]

I saw this in a Cinerama theater when it first came out. I was only 6 years old at the time, so I remember almost nothing about it except that the guy from the TV show Family Affair (Brian Keith) was in it. Maybe I fell asleep. Even the Cinerama didn't make an impression on me because it was one of the first movies I ever went to and I had nothing to compare the big screen to. Maybe they should make a film "Pelee East of Martinique", then nobody will be left at the end coz everyone was killed.

[@lestariyani7940]

ohw this krakatoa 1969,there is krakatoa 2006

[@Professor6871]

@RenegadeCossack well that's Hollywood for your never let the facts get in the way of a good story. What about the more recent film James Cameron's Titanic s, which had so many inaccuracies in it about the real disaster, it was ridiculous. It was telling that the only Oscars it get were for its CGI effects and not for the script or direction of it.

[@SardinP21]

the name of the volcano is not Krakatoa, but it is Krakatau.

[@Ky244621]

In Bahasa Indonesia it's called Krakatau, but in English they call it Krakatoa, gitu aja kok repot!

[@rogerfancher2672]

I've seen it spelled "Krakatao" in a 1960's World Book Encyclopedia

[@infoarjowilangun2142]

Yaelah... Krakatoa itu dalam catatan Bhs Inggris. Sama hal nya Jawa jadi Java. Hadehhh

[@gusartha8394]

Lu nyebut England juga Inggris peak ,, lu nyebut USA juga Amerika serikat ,,lu bodoh apa tolol ,, itu sebutan luar beda2 belajar dulu kasian ntar lu d bully sama orang luar

[@whiteknightcat]

And then the kaiju rose up to avenge their ancient race ...

[@elisaborja8465]

Oh no the volcano make storm and hurricane to hit Krakatoa

[@Dekko-chan]

*volcano wakes up* “Yep, we’re fucked now”

[@steve4nj]

THAT is one tough ship!!!

[@Professor6871]

@bobo007xx What the hell you talking about this is a feature film made 1968? Are you on a wide up or something?

[@brianvail9212]

This movie needs a man surfing a crocodile on top of a tsunami 🌊

[@advannew638]

filmnya terusin dong!

[@franciscorojasrojas9310]

Yo estaba viendo esta palicula cuando vino el terremoto del 1985 3 de marzo

[@baronsekeber8870]

#volcanoTAMBORA - #volcanoKRAKATOA - #volcanoTOBA - #volcanoMERAPI - #INDONESIA.

[@jimmydm3]

Krakatoa was actually west of Java

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

One of the crappiest films I have seen. I recorded it on TV, and watched it last night, (fast-forwarding over lots of touchy feely stuff). They were looking for a sunken ship, and a party went up in a balloon to look for it. The engine on the balloon conked out, and the wind carried them through chasms on the island, then up to the crater, where it took fire, so they jumped out of it - and were only a few feet above the water - and right by the ship again, so the wind must have reversed! Bull.

[@nauort23]

Aye aye, Cap'n. ; )

[@Mrwoman10]

i like film this, this is a film good so my frien and me like film this

[@Potomacstud]

surfs up

[@Stasi78]

Mega-Tsunami!

[@anthonydavella8350]

My dad took me to see this LOL Hes gone now

[@tacobell6826]

Just how stupid must the studio have been to not check film title? School kids know that Krakatoa is west of Java. Rather like naming a film "Ireland, East of England".

[@haikalaldo2936]

Is volcanic ash 85 kilometers

[@torchsonglover]

This is a fiction, hence there's nothing wrong with situating the Krakatoa on the East rather than on the West of Java.

[@EndVideo270]

City destruction name?

[@ardyynna936]

Panimbang

[@geodude012]

Krakatoa is west of Java

[@qaireensalsabilazahra996]

Takut kejadian itu terjadi lagi di indonesia.karena masih ada anak gunung Krakatau di Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@MrSamBowers]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

[@iken6144]

🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

[@Jakartass]

Or north...

[@Potomacstud]

It's west of java !

[@newmiracle6365]

Krakatoa is west of Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@fabio5504]

IS THIS THE FULL MOVIE?? I AM SICK AND TIRED OF YOU SUBSCRIBER-SALES PEOPLE COMING ON HERE, DOING FALSE ADS, WHICH YOU CAN BE SUED FOR; if you have false ads, saying"full movie" and its only a clip, yes,. you can get sued for false advertising. KZbin as of now is facing legal suits for these sales men who do this.

[@haeronihero4634]

Ini tahun berapa ?

[@jadewarrior6665]

Krakatoa is west of Java.

[@user-cs5lp8tm2v]

جميل جدا

[@Ceaaa22]

God and her hissy fits...

[@jimmyarmijo792]

Careful...

[@douglasfruehling3521]

%

[@1234lavallee1]

Sal Mineo was soooo hot.

[@chimayai]

@RenegadeCossack

[@zennondayandante7370]

should be west of java i think

[@adhoel13firmansyah]

Aneh bae nu di darat geh amburadul acak-acakan eta kapal nu di laut kuat jasa kuat teu nanaon teu nyambung

[@Professor6871]

@bobo007xx Hahaha I get your joke got anymore of them? Should be comedian your wasted.

[@Potomacstud]

Krakatoa is not at east of java

[@cvkaustubh7521]

It's easy of Sumatra

[@MolisanTono]

@SimSutcliff bad geography...

[@luigjj123]

It doesn't make any sense. Like, the visual effects are obviously fake, yet the film was actually nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1970.

[@CrashVegas1]

TheTF2guy That's because for 1969, the effects were spectacular.