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Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
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Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

9.0 / 10
2026
1 season
4 episodes
Documentary

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.

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Seasons

  • Inferno

    1.Inferno

    8.0
    19-04-202643m

    Survivors recount the terrifying first 24-hours of the worst nuclear accident in history. After a reactor explodes during a safety test at a power plant in Ukraine, firefighters ru...

  • Cover-Up

    2.Cover-Up

    8.0
    19-04-202644m

    Two days after the explosion, the world wakes up to a terrifying global disaster. At the power plant, helicopter pilots try to put out a fire in the reactor core, braving plumes of...

  • Sacrifice

    3.Sacrifice

    8.0
    20-04-202644m

    Workers begin to clean-up the deadly radioactive fallout from the explosion. After troops establish an exclusion zone, Gorbachev orders the construction of a vast concrete sarcopha...

  • Truth

    4.Truth

    8.0
    20-04-202644m

    14 months after the disaster, plant operators face a Soviet show trial. At the reactor, scientists hunt for the deadly remains of the radioactive fuel. As the USSR crumbles, an ind...

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