
Struck by Lightning
Florida gets more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the United States, and this film goes there to find out what that actually means for the people who live under it. Director Daryn Kahn interviews survivors who describe the moment a bolt hit them, meteorologists who explain how a strike forms and why Florida's heat and humidity make it a magnet for storms, and researchers who study lightning behavior in the field. The film cites the toll directly: 272 people struck across the country in a single year, a number that turns an abstract weather phenomenon into something with names attached. Footage of storms building over the Florida peninsula sits alongside the personal accounts, and the film uses both to walk through what a strike does to a human body and why some people walk away while others do not. It stays close to its subject rather than wandering into broader storm science, treating lightning itself as the whole story.