Thirty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine, newly uncovered archival footage and recorded interviews with those who were present paint an emotional and gripping portrait of the extent and gravity of the disaster and the lengths to which the Soviet government went to cover up the incident, including the soldiers sent in to “liquidate” the damage. Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes is the full, unvarnished true story of what happened in one of the least understood tragedies of the twentieth century.

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How Stockton Rush's deadly dive to the fabled Titanic wreckage in the Titan submersible became a cau...

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Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

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Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...
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A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.

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