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Big Bang in Tunguska (2008)

Big Bang in Tunguska (2008)

History Documentary
Release Date: 2008, June 27
Directors: Christoph Schuch
Countries: Germany
Production: Halbtotal Film
Cast: Amartscha, Mark Boslough, Christoph Brenneisen, Valentina Bykova, Luca Gasperini, Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik, Wolfgang Kundt, Juri Lawbin, Giuseppe Longo, Benny Peiser, Gottlieb Polzer, Wasilij Wlasow

Overview:

At 7:14 am on 30 June 1908, the largest explosion recorded in human history to date reverberated throughout our planet. The force of the explosion was two thousand times that of the Hiroshima bomb. A woodland area the size of Luxembourg was eradicated in the Siberian taiga. This incident is recorded in history books as the Tunguska catastrophe. To this day, internationally renowned scientists of various disciplines argue about the causes of this disastrous explosion. The documentary discusses the latest and most controversial insights of these leading scientists. It identifies the reasons why Tunguska has evolved into a phenomenon and points out the curious results produced by this mythical event in culture and economy.

Keywords:

disaster geologist siberia cosmology