On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just exploded. A battle begins in which 500,000 men are engaged throughout the Soviet Union to "liquidate" the radioactivity, build the "sarcophagus" of the damaged reactor and save the world from a second explosion that would have destroyed half of Europe. Become a reference film, this documentary combines testimonials and unseen footage, tells for the first time the Battle of Chernobyl.

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

An explosion in one of the largest chemical plants in Europe, the Petrochemical complex in Tarragona...

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic recon...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...
A new uranium mill -- the first in the U.S. in 30 years -- would re-connect the economically devasta...

With a wealth of fantastic archive footage and a series of revealing interviews with those who had f...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...

In this thrilling documentary, indomitable women fight back against the nuclear industry to expose o...

Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and...
Since the first film was made explaining the power of the atom, nuclear technology has made great ad...
An account of the mining and refining of uranium showing how the development of energy from uranium ...

An outstanding factor in the efficiency of the CANDU reactor employed in Canadian nuclear power stat...

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the mas...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

From heart-stopping close shaves and averted disasters to incredible brushes with danger, this show ...

Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago ...

A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, du...