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Chernobyl (2019)

Chernobyl (2019) is a TV show by HBO and Sky. The TV show depicts the events of the horrible accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that occured around the 26th April of 1986 in Ukraine.

The events that happened during the accident are presented in a very dramatic way. The show however focuses around the whole situation. The acting of the government, the initial attempts to hide everything, the heroes that attempted to extinguish the fire and prevent further damage and even worse chain reactions. Many more events that happened such as the evacuation of Pripyat and so on.

It was filmed in an old and shutdown nuclear power plant in Lithuania that is exactly like the plant in Ukraine but has been taken offline before it could suffer the faith of the Chernobyl reactor. Other parts of it were filmed in Ukraine.

The makers of the show use real voice recordings of emergency calls, real video footage of news on TV from that times in different countries (including the state TV of the USSR at that time). Nothing is left out so far. The show displays the sad and dark reality of the accident.


Below are a few links to real resources and recordings from that times that are also used during the show.

Emergency call after the reactor explosion:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgxPs-L-Bhg

^ They cut it a bit. Here is how they used it.

Pripyat emergency evacuation broadcast:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l3g3m8Vrgs

^ Also used in "Sabled Sun - A New Sun (2045)".


So far only a few episodes have been aired. Every week a new episode is being aired. The show scores 9.7 out of 10 on IMDB.

I highly recommend it.