The Battle of Chernobyl (2007)
• January 28th, 2007 • 1h 34min
Documentary, History
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Trainwreck: Poop Cruise
Released on: 2025-06-23
Documentary, Drama
An engine fire leaves 4,000 passengers stranded at sea without power and plumbing in this wild docum...
The Red Tent
Released on: 1969-12-23
Adventure, Drama, History
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...
Erebus: Operation Overdue
Released on: 2014-07-13
Documentary
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...
The Horses of Fukushima
Released on: 2013-12-01
Documentary
Fukushima's Minami-soma has a ten-centuries-long tradition of holding the Soma Nomaoi ("chasing wild...
Fatal Dive to the Titanic: Truth and Lies
Released on: 2024-02-08
Documentary
How Stockton Rush's deadly dive to the fabled Titanic wreckage in the Titan submersible became a cau...
Uranium Drive-In
Released on: 2013-05-25
Documentary
A new uranium mill -- the first in the U.S. in 30 years -- would re-connect the economically devasta...
Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran
Released on: 2018-05-25
Drama, Action, History
A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, du...
Grenfell: Uncovered
Released on: 2025-06-19
Documentary
Survivors, witnesses, and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential towe...
Anatomy of a Disaster: Explosion at BP Texas City Refinery
Released on: 2008-03-21
Documentary
This U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) video uses expert testimony and computer-animated reenactments...
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Released on: 1995-09-29
Documentary, History, War
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...
Apollo 13
Released on: 1995-06-30
Drama, History
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
Inside Costa Concordia: Voices of Disaster
Released on: 2012-02-26
Documentary
An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.
Chernobyl, Fukushima: Living with the Legacy
Released on: 2016-04-26
Documentary, TV Movie
30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been...
Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster
Released on: 1984-09-04
Documentary
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later n...
Last Days on Earth
Released on: 2006-08-30
Documentary
How secure is our future? This eye-opening documentary -- which uses computer-generated imagery to i...
Czech Dream
Released on: 2004-06-03
Documentary, Crime
Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge ...
The Shock Doctrine
Released on: 2009-09-01
Documentary
An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capit...
Engineering Tragedy: The Ashtabula Train Disaster
Released on: 2022-12-20
Documentary, History, Mystery, Drama, Crime
The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, c...
Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy
Released on: 2025-06-09
Documentary
Featuring exclusive interviews with survivors, paramedics and festival staff, this documentary exami...