Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

Overview

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.

Roughly 2h 56m to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 4 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 44 minutes.

Trailer

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Series cast and crew

• A

  Adam HigginbothamSelf
  4 episodes

• G

  Galia AckermanSelf
  4 episodes

• W

  Wyatt AndrewsSelf
  4 episodes

• O

  Olena MokhnykSelf
  4 episodes

• K

  Karena KalmbachSelf
  4 episodes

• N

  Nikolai SteinbergSelf
  2 episodes

• P

  Petr G. KhmelSelf
  2 episodes

• I

  Igor KirschenbaumSelf
  2 episodes

• R

  Ray RichardsonSelf
  2 episodes

• 

  Hans BlixSelf
  2 episodes

• I

  Ihor HodosovSelf
  2 episodes

• W

  Witali SchkljarowSelf
  2 episodes

• S

  Sergej BeljakowSelf
  2 episodes

• 

  Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
  1 episode

• 

  Margaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)
  1 episode

• 

  Mikhail GorbachevSelf (archive footage)
  1 episode

• 

  François MitterrandSelf (archive footage)
  1 episode

• 

  Robert Peter GaleSelf
  1 episode

Network

National Geographic

Seasons and episodes

• Miniseries2026 · 4 episodes