Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead

Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead (2019) is an American documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ben Finney. Forensic specialists scan human casts and skeletal remains from Pompeii's outer districts — the victims historians call "the fugitives" — to build the first modern forensic profile of people frozen by Vesuvius in 79 AD.

The team reads bone density, injury patterns, and CT data to establish each victim's age, health, and final moments. Sandals, jewellery, and coins from the same rubble fill in the social picture. The result feels less like a history lesson and more like a cold-case file on one of antiquity's most documented catastrophes — intimate in a way the usual reenactment documentary isn't. Stream Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead (2019) online on iFILM.