Desc: Pompeii: Back from the Dead: Directed by Paul Elston, Steffan Boje. With John R. Clarke, Fabian Kanz, Antonia Raftu, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. As destruction rained on Pompeii, 74 men, women and children hid in a dark cellar. They clung to life as Vesuvius raged, only to become the last people to die in the disaster. Their bones reveal much about the way the people of Pompeii lived - and died.