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Disaster at Chernobyl

2004 · 0h 48m · Documentary, History, TV Movie · Canada, United Kingdom

A catastrophe ten times worse than Hiroshima

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An account of the sixty critical minutes prior to the explosion of the nuclear power plant on the night of April 26, 1986.

Written & directed by
Renny Bartlett
Starring
David Morrissey, Igor Slavinskiy, Aleksander Khoroshko, Volodya Stepanenko
6.2Smart score

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chernobyl disaster (1986)communist propagandadocudramaenvironmental disasternuclear catastrophereal timerussian historysoviet union

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