Toba, le volcan qui a failli tuer l'humanité (2026)

Toba, le volcan qui a failli tuer l'humanité is a French scientific documentary investigating the enormous eruptions of the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia around 74,000 years ago and their possible consequences for Earth's climate and human populations. An international team of scientists follows geological and archaeological evidence across several continents.

The film revisits the long-standing idea that Toba caused a severe human population bottleneck while presenting newer scientific work suggesting a more complex sequence of eruptions and environmental effects. Reconstructed landscapes and modern scientific techniques bring the investigation into deep prehistory.

• Directed by Franck Cuveillier and Éric Ellena.
• Written by Marie-Anne Sorba and Éric Ellena.
• Narrated by Sara Verhagen.
• Scientific adviser Benoît Caron is a volcanologist at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris.
• The documentary opened the 18th Amiens Archaeology Film Festival in March 2026 and was broadcast by France Télévisions in September 2026.