TV series
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
2026 · 1 season
A sober, gripping documentary that makes a familiar catastrophe feel urgent again through survivor testimony and eerie footage of a poisoned, war-threatened landscape.
- Created by
- Erica Jenkin, Tom Cook
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Adam Higginbotham, Galia Ackerman, Wyatt Andrews
- Overview
- Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
- How it feels
- Tense, dark, earnest and bleak. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Technology, power, corruption, survival
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Erica Jenkin, Tom Cook
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Adam Higginbotham, Galia Ackerman, Wyatt Andrews
