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Chernobyl

Drama, History · 2019 · Rated 8.9/10

Last aired: S1 E5, Vichnaya Pamyat · 2019-06-03

Chernobyl dramatizes the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history and tells of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster. The miniseries focuses on the heartbreaking scope of the nuclear plant disaster that occurred in Ukraine in April 1986, revealing how and why it happened and telling the shocking, remarkable stories of the heroes who fought and fell.

Cast

Jared Harris Valery Legasov

Stellan Skarsgård Boris Shcherbina

Jessie Buckley Lyudmilla Ignatenko

Emily Watson Ulana Khomyuk

Paul Ritter Anatoly Dyatlov

Sam Troughton Alexandr Akimov

Adam Nagaitis Vasily Ignatenko

Robert Emms Leonid Toptunov

Adrian Rawlins Nikolai Fomin

Con O'Neill Viktor Bryukhanov

Alan Williams KGB First Deputy Chairman Charkov

Ralph Ineson General Tarakanov

Mark Lewis Jones Colonel General Pikalov

David Dencik Michail Gorbatchev

Barry Keoghan Pavel Yefremov

Fares Fares Bacho

Alex Ferns Andrei Glukhov

Michael McElhatton Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin

Season 1

E1 1:23:45 2019-05-06 · 65 min 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.

E2 Please Remain Calm 2019-05-13 · 70 min 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.

E3 Open Wide, O Earth 2019-05-20 · 66 min Lyudmilla Ignatenko, a Pripyat resident, ignores warning about her firefighter husband's contamination; Valery Legasov lays out a decontamination plan, complete with human risks.

E4 The Happiness of All Mankind 2019-05-27 · 71 min 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.

E5 Vichnaya Pamyat 2019-06-03 · 78 min Valery Legasov, Boris Shcherbina and Ulana Khomyuk risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl.

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