

Chernobyl
What is the cost of lies?
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Cast

Jared Harris
Valery Legasov

Stellan Skarsgård
Boris Shcherbina

Emily Watson
Ulana Khomyuk

Paul Ritter
Anatoly Dyatlov

Jessie Buckley
Lyudmilla Ignatenko

Adam Nagaitis
Vasily Ignatenko

Sam Troughton
Alexandr Akimov

Robert Emms
Leonid Toptunov

Con O'Neill
Viktor Bryukhanov

Adrian Rawlins
Nikolai Fomin

Alan Williams
KGB Chairman Charkov

David Dencik
Mikhail Gorbachev

Mark Lewis Jones
General Pikalov

Ralph Ineson
General Tarakanov

Barry Keoghan
Pavel
Seasons & Episodes

E11:23:45
May 6, 2019
April 26, 1986, Ukrainian SSR. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

E2Please Remain Calm
May 13, 2019
With untold millions at risk after the Chernobyl explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk makes a desperate attempt to reach Valery Legasov, a leading Soviet nuclear physicist, and warn him about the threat of second explosion that could devastate the continent.

E3Open Wide, O Earth
May 20, 2019
Lyudmilla Ignatenko, a Pripyat resident, ignores warning about her firefighter husband's contamination. Valery Legasov lays out a decontamination plan, complete with human risks.

E4The Happiness of All Mankind
May 27, 2019
Valery Legasov and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina consider using lunar rovers to remove radioactive debris, while Ulana Khomyuk faces government hurdles in determining the truth about the cause of the explosion.

E5Vichnaya Pamyat
Jun 3, 2019
Valery Legasov, Boris Shcherbina and Ulana Khomyuk risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl.
Videos
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The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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