Fire in the Night

• Movies
• 2013-06-19
• EN
• Released
• 2h 33m
• Documentary

• 6.5
• 10
• Trailer

Production

Berriff McGinty Films, Scottish Television (STV)

Storyline

A re-examination of the events that led to the Piper Alpha oil-drilling platform—at the time the largest and oldest in the North Sea oilfield—exploding on the night of 6 July 1988, killing 167 men. The documentary includes testimonies from rescuers and some of the 61 survivors, many of whom were forced to jump hundreds of feet into a flaming, oil-covered sea, and discovers what the physical and psychological legacy of the disaster has meant for those involved.