My husband, son & I were at the Jantzen Beach Park trying to find a place to park to watch kids play baseball or soccer. We had a view of the bulging mountain side. I told my husband it looked like it was going to blow. We watched it as it started to blow. We decided we'd better get outta there & go home. We just made it home as day was turning to night with the ash piling up on the streets. It was scary. Something I will never forget.

May 18,1980 8:30 a.m. was a beautiful day. We were working around the ranger station. When the call came in, Mt.St.Helens has erupted. All Park and Forest personal are the clear the park. I shall never forget how dark it got at 9:00 a.m.

I was living in Marysville Washington when it blew. We felt it. 8 weeks prior on a Sunday, I told everybody I had a dream. it was going to erupt at the same day and time I was born just 15 yr later. People thought I was crazy. my birth certificate says I was born May 18th 1965 at 8:30 a.m. Mount Saint Helens erupted May 18th 1980 at 8:30 a.m.

I wish they would've used David Johnston's real name in this movie. He definitely deserves the recognition 🙏🕊️🙌

I was living on Whidbey Island when Mt. Saint Helen’s erupted. We heard and felt multiple concussions. It shook my house. Myself and everyone on my street ran out of our homes thinking the Navy Base was being bombed. I think everyone in Washington State remembers where and what they were doing on May 18th 1980, I remember it was a beautiful day and an unusual eighty degrees.

I was in Oregon City with view point 2 blocks from my house, with a front row seat too Mtn eruptions. While in scouts we spent camping trips to St Helens an I knew Harry Truman. He use to say, oh, here's my favorite troop!

I watched this movie many times as kid in the 80's. I always loved it. The characters are great! An American Classic!

Great post. Recorded it onto VHS and wore it out watching it. The actor who played David Jackson was killed a few years later by a drifter in a park. Did a good job with this role. Sad story

A light dusting of ash reached Texas but those that remember the tragedy won't forget. Those that never experienced it should be taught to leave if they are in harms way. Life is precious and material items can be replaced.

GREAT FILM WITH EXCELLENT ACTRESSES AND ACTORS !

Was flown into red area after eruption for a documentary. The devastation was as he described. Timber laid out like matchsticks, everything covered with thick ash, spirit lake gone.

And at least 4 sasquatch bodies were found and covered up. One body being seen on the Canadian evening news, in a net carrying off via helicopter. Said footage has not been seen since. Two other sasquatl bodies were found close to a rode seen by several cops and firefighters, who were told the bodies were bears and mysteriously disappeared after there was a complete road block within a mile radius where the bodies were found.

I went to Glacier national Park in the last two weeks in July after the explosion. But I was in Montana. I was not thinking of Mount St Helens at all. Because it was not in Montana and it happened month or more before. I rented a small motorboat to go on St Mary's lake to try and catch some fish. It was a nice day and sunny. I had blue jeans and a white t shirt on. Water was calm. But then the water got a little choppy the sky was turning grey. I started coughing not bad. Decided it was going to start raining because of the sky. Brought the boat back and told the guy. Looks like rain water got choppy and a storm is coming. So I decided to bring the boat back in. He said it's not rain. It's ash coming from Mount St Helens look at your t-shirt. My bright white t shirt was gray with ash dust. But it did not last. It just must have come over in wind from that direction. Because the rest of the 2 weeks it was beautiful out. The people getting killed by that volcano had to be awful. Your having a great day relaxing. And boom your thinking what the hell. And then you see black thick ash coming. And your thought of trying to save your family. And then you get to the point with getting trapped. Your family is all going to die. And in most cases that is your last thoughts. Not that you are going to die. But the rest of your family.

Looking back it seems the 80s were so innocent: of course no internet social media etc we hadn't got a clue what was really going on!

Watched from Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸. I remember when this happened. I remember it very well. Geraldo Rivera covered this eveñt weeks before it actually blowed. He was there for weeks. What the world didn't expect is how massive and powerful it was going to be. Here in Pennsylvania we had gray skies for about 3 days from it. You could actually smell it in the air even though Pennsylvania was so far away from it. Within minutes of it exploding here in Pennsylvania farm animals behavior got weird. Our ducks geese & chickens became very startled then silence. Our flock of around 180 pet pigeons all of them headed for their building/Coup. The pigeons was free to fly wherever they wanted. But what was really odd.our pet poultry water fowl all left the pond. They went to the barn and into there safety enclosure for at night. They stayed there the entire day and into late the next morning. I remember it being on our news about poultry in Pennsylvania weird unexplainable behavior. Huntingdon County Pennsylvania USA 🇺🇸

I really enjoyed this film

I was living in Quebec, Canada (in the north of Canada) when it errupted. It was like night.We had hashes from volcano and we smelled it in the air.

We were living in Lake Errock BC about 385 miles from eruption. Everyone heard the loud boom but when it just kept rolling everyone came outside. I was only 17 but even I knew something was up

Was living in Eugene at the time. Had no idea if I was going to wake up alive. Didn't know how bad it would be. Maybe naive high school senior. But my Mom had been to Pompeii and told me stories of the remnants of people they found preserved, so I was a bit scared & living by myself. Did find ash dust on my car. So sad that Harry Truman died. Movie is rather nostalgic for me seeing the clothing, hairstyles, and cars people had back then. Times were a lot different.

I watched this movie before and can’t remember if it is a docudrama or a dramadocu, if the interactions between the characters are anything like real I would not be surprised, the one town big shot, the sheriff who doesn’t seem to have a clue and a town full of racist hicks who probably think the immortal words “it will never happen here” or “St Helens, erupt, not in a million years”, but it did and I would bet the rich landowner/town big shot, the racist loggers and the people who didn’t want to know were the first to wet their pants, that is of course if the characters are actually portraying the real people accurately. It never ceases to amaze me how a scientist try’s to alert their superiors to a POSSIBLE cataclysmic event, said superiors don’t want to be seen as being the “boy that cried wolf” and do nothing to prepare for said event, and then, as in this case, they blame the scientist for not organising any form of plan because what the scientist said starts to happen, the tinpot superiors with a megalomania streak behave like they are not at fault when in actual fact they ARE precisely to blame, and I have to wonder 💭 if the “head honcho” from USGS was like it in reality or was it the screenwriters using the same old disaster movie stereotypes we see here. I can promise you one thing, people like that do exist and have an uncanny ability to cover their own asses, and as we all know Sh1t 💩 only goes downhill, and it sticks to everyone else it touches, but not the “head man”, they are Teflon coated (non stick coating used on pots and pans) at birth. Harry Truman character is a real old cogger with a huge stubborn streak and the friendliness of a sabre-tooth tiger 🐅, but he is at least well balanced, he has a chip on each shoulder, but with a heart of gold, a bit like me really. I don’t think 💭 (if this sticks to the same-ole same-ole character profile) it will be appreciated by mom Harry giving the lad a puppy. The scene @ 40:22 when the animals are all spooked and the lad says to dad “what’s going on” as another earthquake hits is probably the worst line ever, where have these two been living? Under a rock, no tv 📺 or radio, or just a dumb line, one that only the screenwriters can think is appropriate, maybe “is it another earthquake dad” or “is the volcano going to erupt dad” would work, but not “what’s going on dad” I wondered when it would happen, and it did @ 45:46, sex or the prospect of sex had to rear its ugly head, and probably at the most inappropriate time and place, do scriptwriters think that sex has to feature somewhere because it’s the law, do they really think 💭 that the geologist would really have the time to satisfy the romantic/sexual needs of his pseudo girlfriend, I think NOT. One last point, having portrayed the USGS leadership as totally inept and arrogant for not acting sooner, the end narration includes the warning from the USGS saying Mount St Helens could erupt again at any time, how ironic.

Sound cut off at 1 hr and 27 minutes in to the movie.

I enjoy Art Carney movies, and having Mt. Saint Helens in my backyard makes this an enjoyable movie. My one complaint is something most people would never notice. _The opening part when they show the pre-eruption mountain behind the lake._ It looks nothing like she did before the eruption, because it has a 'chopped' top. There's plenty of mountains with a sharp peak and a lake nearby, so they could have done that more accurately. Small deal.

This movie was set in "Cougar" Washington. Was Cougar a real town then? Because today it is a "former community". Was the town of Cougar blown away after the eruption just like the lake.

Good Movie it took me back in time to when this event happened but don’t really think of it much anymore.

That railway fight scene w the bass solo in the background, omg the cheesiest thing ever. 😂

My 18th birthday, I was in USN bootcamp, week 7 of 8 afterHS grad. Then Aircrew school, AW school the SAR school then SERE school then my squadron 😊

Only one I feel sorry is Harry Truman and his animals.

I remember when it Aruppted back in 1980 it was on the news I lived in Maryville Tennessee

I was living in Southern Calif at the time. My mother-in-law and I would see the coverage on the news. When I said, "Why would people be wanting to go there? She said, "God way of weeding out the stupid?

@ 1:00:55 Why am I hoping that Whitaker gets obliterated by Mt. Saint Helens? Karmic justice for being a greedy bastard and enduring the lives of his workers?

Welk those small town folks are sure stubborn worried about making profits instead of there lives

St. Helens (1981) Dramatization of the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980. - imdb 6.1

Sound goes out at the end of the video and much of the interesting dialogue is missing.

I love the mov😢

Enjoyed the film it being about Mt St Helens. I just hate it that the leading Actors/Main Characters die in the film 1:22:55😢😢😢 1:23:01😮😮😮 1:23:17😢😢😢 1:25:48😮😮😮

Great movie but a most unsatisfactory ending for me.

I was at Ft. Lewis at the time. I can’t remember how many times she blew now but I do remember seeing a plume from base, 2 times other than May 18th. Also woke up a few times with a good bit of ash covering my car.

The 3hr movie is the best

For the Dog😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 20:02

Lived in Astoria at the time wow😮

Lancashire looks a bit more rugged than I remember.

I was 4½ years old when Mt St Helens blew up on May 18 1980. I don't really remember much of what happened on that date.

Second time I watch was in Astoria at the moment it happened WOW still remember it well 😢

We were 😊living in La😊k

Don't recall St. Helen's being that visible from Vancouver, Wa. Just sain'.

I lived in sedro woolley at that time felt lt

How did they film this ?????? So real.....

Met Harry many times in 1950s

This eruption,and events that followed it, proved that the Grand Canyon in Arizona could have been (and reasonably certainly was) formed in a matter of hours.

Squaw? Hm. Long time since that word has been used. I’m Native and found that a bit surprising to hear.

Leaving now as the tough Vietnam vet pilot pu$$ied out because of quail! 😊

People were so bloody stupid driving closer for have a look.

Makes it more real when anyone can die

Now everyone. Is keeping an eye out on Yellowstone. Things are beginning to boil over there, too.

This is not the full movie

Bill McKinney was one of the best character actors ever. (if not THE best)

Not the one near Manchester, then?

It doesn't look like the original movie

True about Mt St. Helens but this video is average. Watch Dante's Peak (Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton) instead.

Waste of time to watch when you cut out the ound near the end

If they had not cursed GOD so many times; it would have been a good move. I was in my teens at that time. Life happens.

I think it was a waste of life what he did

In the original movie Johnson died

who let Art Carney out of the city?

I was a little kid we made a volcano for a class project it was so cool then it went up

Terrible phony fight scenes! But not a bad movie.

Ok. Realism is apparently NOT their strong side. Who the F... has ever heard of a chopper pilot sitting in the left seat and a passenger in the right seat? These guys apparently knew nothing about choppers despite having one on set.

Mount St. Helens....a planetary zit daddy'o ☝

poor video upload....

Forgot to say “ I love how she said it!” You big wigs it stinks! It does! 😢

That was a terrible year. Reagan was elected and the mountain blew. What's kind of EWWW about this movie is how he never really kisses that woman, and several years later, David Huffman was stabbed to death outside an L.A. gay bar. Shitty times.

BLURRY NOT WATCHING THIS

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Worst disaster film EVER!

Amen! Thank you Ellen Clause! That’s right! Gods Name Shall Not Be Taken In Vain! I was letting it go, interesting movie, but I heard Norton taking Gods Name in vain, then I figure hope he doesn’t do it again? Yea right , again and again! That’s it, I’m not watching this movie, like she said! It stinks!😢

Very poor quality film!!!!

Strange how democrats can't even watch a movie without bring politics into it.

stop watching when misuse God's Name

Why would I watch something like this when I lived through it? I was in cougar Washington April 23rd thru May 23 1980. No thanks.