Chernobyl: The Final Warning [1991]

[@Kapplerartbloomingdale]

I think that the firemen were heroic and selfless. I look up to them and what they went through. Their legacies shall shine on forever.

[@geoffvannerson5252]

Any one who is willing to go above and beyond in the name of protecting lives should be shown the respect that is do.

[@elric5371]

@Darrell Seay most of them survived only 6 died.

[@elric5371]

@Munteza um only 6 died of ARS.

[@rtqii]

They had no idea what was happening. They thought it was a turbine event and there was a fire on the turbine building roof. They started to deploy hoses and put up ladders to mount the roof of the turbine building, where glowing blocks of graphite were smoking and burning among fuel fragments. The first guys that went up the ladder never came back down to report. They had no idea what was going on, even as they were applying water on what they thought was a fire on the roof of the turbine building.

[@chrisboyslimuk5186]

And they really didn't understand what they were up against which is astonishing. They didn't have the correct equipment or protective clothing.

[@billd3356]

I've seen most of HBO's "Chernobyl". What I love about this film here, is that it was made only 4 years after the actual accident. The sets, computers, printers, clothing, etc. is exactly accurate. I didn't even know about this film. Thank you for posting!

[@johnlocke8397]

HBO is Full of crap. Watch a bunch of them. This is of course, Hollywood via Britain which both are very liberal and love to exaggerate so it's hard to tell what is accurate and what isn't.

[@sigsin1]

From several books I’ve read, the control room situation was more accurate in the HBO special. The book this movie was based on came out too soon for exact details. The Soviet Union hadn’t fallen yet. After that happened we had a much clearer picture.

[@Dobviews]

This was shot at a sister RMBK reactor in 90-91 called The Kursk NPP in Kurchatov. It was the first film on location on Soviet soil before the USSR fell. I did a paper in college on Lyudmilla Ignatenko. I spoke with Dr Robert Gale about her condition. Sadly in both movies the report of their love story is wrong. It is shown in both movies he was radioactive to those around them. Dr. Gayle stated this is not true. She was slightly affected by sitting on the balconey all night watching for Vasya. If you pull up the map of Pripyat look up from the Chernobyl plant and find Yaniv Rail Station. Their firestation and adjoining apartment block is off Zavodska Street just south of the Yupiter building. She sat out there all night waiting and watching. Then the next day walked to the hospital then went to the Yaniv Rail station even closer to the Chernobyl plant. She was "hot" upon arrival to Moscow and was given clothes to change into and her items except her "hot money" was placed in radioactive contamination bags. Sitting next to her husband did not affect the baby. Her being outside for so long likely affected her more than anything. This was later confirmed by Angelina Guskova in 2002 when I interviewed her. Very interesting woman.

[@billd3356]

@@Dobviews THANK YOU for all of this information. You REALLY know your stuff and I love it when people share facts, especially ones that I have not heard or read about. Thank you for taking the time to share this with me/us!

[@Dobviews]

@@billd3356 I just find it exceptionally sad that poor Lyudmilla still has not had her real story told yet. She has been vilified by so many who call her a killer for being near her husband when he was sick. She was there at the most important time of his life, for two weeks watching her love melt away before her eyes. Also, he never screamed out as depicted in the movie. At the end when she was with other wives burying other firemen he passed. The nurses said he called for her at the end. That was the only time she recalls anyone hearing him supposedly call out. He never cried out in pain, most of the men were sedated, on heavy pain meds and really too weak to make any loud calls out for their condition. I interviewed Lyudmilla in Kiev in 2003 and Artur Korneyev the same year. If you have any other questions or if I can be of assistance for books let me know.

[@kvrgagames5015]

Great movie. RIP all who suffered and sacrificied.

[@willemsma]

Was the filming so brutal?!

[@laugesteffensen8768]

What i really like about this movie, is that it actually starts very calm and show the quiet calmness that place had before the unthinkable happend! not many other movies have been made like that, and the background soundtrack fits 100%

[@grizzlycountry1030]

As a American I remember stopping everything every time this was on the news. It wasn't about a country watching another country where there was a long history of tension going through a disaster and relishing in it, but it was american people fearing for the safety of people in the USSR and including them in our prayers as well.

[@sigsin1]

AND fearing for all of Europe which was now being irradiated. All of their animals and livestock, all of their crops, everything. Their children, who suffer worse ill effects from radiation.

[@shaynewheeler9249]

I'm feeling sad 😢😭

[@Alita-vv6xz]

​@@sigsin1 I was 5 years old and still in Kindergarten here in Germany when this disaster happend, I still remember that we weren't allowed to play outside or drink milk. At first, when my parents or my relatives were talking about radioactive rain, I thought radios would fall from the sky and they would hit us on the head 🙈🙈 but after hearing my parents talking about the accident and seeing the news even I understood that something very bad happend.

[@MKoh51]

I remember watching this movie as a little kid. To this day, I'm fascinated yet terrified of the Chernobyl disaster!

[@cheesetomato9140]

I recall hearing of it and thinking good God but then on hearing the Russians attempted to keep it quite with no order to evacuate given until 4 days later, but you wanna know what the halfwit who ran the plant along with local authority tried to do? They were gonna just leave it to burn itself off for 3 months! It would've Been disastrous for all Europe

[@cheesetomato9140]

You're not alone, nuclear power is much cleaner than fossil fuels like coal to generate electricity but get that balance wrong and its catastrophic, infact it's apocalyptic!

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@stevengill1736]

Yes - I've wondered if this event had any effect on Vladimir Putin, and if it affected his thinking about the invasion of Ukraine.... hopefully at least he's considered guarding the Zaporizhzhya power plant most carefully?

[@stevengill1736]

​@@cheesetomato9140 Yes indeed! I think the safety of nuclear power has increased dramatically since Chernobyl, although Fukushima didn't help that conclusion of course - it's a hard call. Newer plants could increase safety even more, but it all depends on societal stability among other things. I do believe nuclear power could help reduce the effects of climate change, but of course the ideal thing would be if we could soon develop fusion power....

[@lynlewis8606]

This movie is a testament to the men and women who died while trying to save chernobyl. It is a testament to the firefighters and nurses and liquidators who died while trying to save chernobyl. What is scary is no one knows the exact death count but it's estimated between 4,000 and 90,000 at 1:23:45 the world changed forever the biggest nuclear accident ever to occur and it released 10× much radiation as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined and days later and the held a mayday parade and one official was spotted wearing a radiation dosage meter

[@harryricochet8134]

Utter garbage, Pripyat was evacuated the day after the reactor explosion, the city was totally deserted by May 1st apart from the liquidators, there was no May Day parade. SMH.

[@kracked5770]

Finally a KZbin movie I can watch without paying for, or not being one of those scams.

[@mollymadchen]

Marine Honor Happy to provide!

[@mikedowns8293]

There are MANY MANY excellent Films here on Utube.....Dustin Hoffman's Alfredo, Alfredo / Max V. Sydow's / Terence Howard's The Night Visitor / J. Cassavette's Shadows to name but 3.

[@sephia37]

@@mollymadchen Fun fact: KZbin is like EA, they will us to watch ads and to stop it we need to pay for movies and premium

[@deadmangaming2535]

There's also a few good films i can recommend. Inglourious Basterds, By dawn's early light, the day after, and threads (Threads will make the day after and By dawn's early light look like Disney films)

[@lilyrrichard236]

I just watched watched an excellent older movie called 'Of Mice and Men" free on KZbin and it was pretty good.

[@billjohnston1489]

The heroism of the fire fighters risking their own lives this movie had me glued too my chair from beginning to end and the medical professionals were out standing this is a warning too everyone on this planet we call home nuclear weapons are not worth risking human life there has too be a better way

[@magicstix0r]

It's amazing that in '89-'90 when this movie was being made that they got so many details on the RBMK reactor right... The Iron Curtain hadn't even fallen yet.

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

RBMK = Really Bad Mankind Killer

[@Dobviews]

This was filmed at a second reactor built on the same designs as Chernobyl. It was one of the first films from the US that was filmed on russian soil.

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@Andrzej-b9w]

Iron Curtain fallen in 1989 mate (start from Berlin Wall) What you taking about?

[@ChrisDunn-c9r]

But gorbichev was already in power by this and glasnost had been implemented..

[@TheKendog1988]

I feel so sad for that lady at 30:27 having to leave her kitten's behind. It so sad that these people had to leave their pet's behind and that they had to be destroyed. If it were me in this situation I would stay behind. I would rather die from radiation poisoning with my dog's than to leave them to die alone.😭

[@patrickh4540]

Silly

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Ram ♈🐏

[@T.E.S.S.]

very weird

[@cutter-lk8iw]

I can assure u , there would be no way my wife would leave behind our 3 German Shepherds .

[@tomglima]

Interesting thing about Kursk Nuclear Power Plant where this was filmed is that all 4 RBMK-1000 reactors are still running.

[@RayLeejr]

They learned what not to do when Chernobyl blew up, never turn off the feed water pumps and never pull all the rods out, and then try and jam them back in when it starts running away!!! ☠️☠️☠️

[@harryricochet8134]

Rubbish, the last of the Chernobyl reactors was shut down in 2000.

[@jamespell8091]

There is/was an international effort to clean the site at the start of the Russian Ukrainian war. Lots of money spent. Then Russia invaded. I don't know the present situation there.

[@Rognvaldr]

This movie is even better made than nowaday ones! Respect from ex-CCCP.

[@21nofapdaysifhard95]

Rognvaldr chernobyl diaries?

[@cheesetomato9140]

Yes The USSR was buckling under yet they said in the Kremlin ..Da comrade the motherland must make a film about Ukranians ignoring Health & safety malpractices and tell the world of such incompetance!

[@nikitamckeever5403]

I lived in West Germany as part of British Army of the Rhine when Chernobyl Disaster happened . The whole of NATO were on alert and we spent more than triple the time on manoeuvres in the field that year because the West thought there would be a war with USSR . It was a scary time and I had a wife and two young children living with me but today in 2024 I am more frightened that the West is at risk of being destroyed from within . Truly we live in or are so close to the end times . God save us

[@TakeThisUserNameN]

You know what, this is a really good TV movie. It's done in a way where it feels real and it's communicated perfectly.

[@kris.tea.p]

I was looking around here on KZbin looking for Chernobyl videos I haven’t already seen and stumbled across this.. Idk why I never noticed it before. Very good movie considering the time it was made. My mom piqued my interest In Chernobyl around 1999-2000-ish when she came across a few blogs that had present day, back then, photos and videos from inside the zone. I’ve been fascinated with Chernobyl and nuclear energy ever since.

[@elric5371]

In the end the Bone marrow transplants were considered a failure in hospital number 6. Out of 13 transplants, 11 died, and the two that survived both rejected the transplants, in at least 3 cases, transplants were considered to of accelerated the death of the patient and in at least 2, it directly resulted in death. RIP to those 28 victims of ARS, 27 in Moscow and 1 in Kiev,

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

I beleive it was more like 90 patients.. those whondied there was no hope for

[@elric5371]

@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip 90? Where did you pull that from. 28 people died.

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

@elric5371 According to the soviets there were 90 people from chernobyl admitted to hospital 6 in Moscow for ARS. 27 or 28 of them died there. But the Russians still claim only 30 or whatever the exact figure is died from the chernobyl disaster.

[@elric5371]

@@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip 299 admitted to hospital number 6, 115 were diagnosed with ARS, 27 died. An additional 19 were diagnosed with ARS in hospital 25 in Kiev, of which 1 died for a total of 28. We don’t know the total toll, but we can’t prove more than 50 deaths.

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

@elric5371 oh ok thanks for the clarification

[@suzanneforgione1018]

I remember when this happened in 1986. Such a horrible tragedy. So sad.

[@cheesetomato9140]

Made just 5 years after the disaster yet it's a decent account of the disater and Jon Vought is indeed young in this, The place this was made was at the nuclear power plant in the Kursk region of Russia.

[@michaeljohn7398]

Never Underestimate the Danger of Working with Stupid Men, especially those in charge. Cheers from Michael. Australia.

[@GEricG]

Probably been mentioned but Karen Meagher was in Threads and Jason Robards was in the Day After - both iconic nuclear war movies from the 80s.

[@luisalbertolopezflores1337]

The Firemen were the real heroes of this event. Greetings from Lima, PERU.

[@devikakaul1494]

I am completely sympathetic to those who had to restart life after abandoning their homes in and near Chernobyl. God give them peace and strength. My father passed away because of Colon cancer, a result of smoking. Cancer is a silent killer and one cause is smoking other radiation as a result of radioactive particles. This danger of radioactive waste due to civil nuclear activities is contaminating our air and water sources everyday everywhere in the world. Not only accidents not weapons even civil use of nuclear power needs to be reconsidered by all global citizens.

[@cheesetomato9140]

Yes but he gave those chernobyl fireman radiation poisoning that killed them, Thats what happens when The Lord is doing alcohol with crystal meth, he gets his priorities in a tangle?

[@gorillaau]

"There has been an event at the nuclear plant" Nice wording! An event would be something like a Company Annual Picnic.

[@TomiKaski]

I guess the monster of Rostov, serial killer rapist pedophile Andrei Chikatilo, was in Soviet standards ”an event” too...

[@ffffuchs]

Event is the professional term for anything thats outside of limits of ordinary operation. When reporting something trained people don't use fancy, colorful descriptive words.

[@ChristopherSaindon]

There was an event at Three Mile Island. This was a *catastrophe!*

[@moron1138]

They called it an "event" because there were no information available.

[@robertryan399]

Is “event” something more common in England English parlance? In the states we like to say “disturbance”

[@tonyprima7777]

Thank you for posting this movie, for so many years I was looking for this movie and couldn't of find it anywhere! Thank you!

[@taketimeout2share]

Oh well. At least the fire alarm bells in the fire station work. We should be thankfull for small mercies. Actualy this film, despite the low budget, is pretty fine. Watch it if you can.

[@Mikey-pq4zf]

Poor firemen they had no choice

[@cool3929]

Micheal O Brien No they didn't, they didnt know at the time.

[@virgiliopagarigan4415]

Micheal O Brien w

[@jasonrichardson1999]

Nicole M they knew but they didn't want the fire on top to spread to other reactors and threaten all of them so they done that to try to protect the World

[@drinkmilk380]

They knew it was dangerous even though they were lied too and chose to help anyways

[@ren8931]

@@drinkmilk380 they and all the liquidators were heros. God bless there memory!

[@dalejr183]

It amazes me how films age in 25 years I watched this when I was 10 and back the in 1990 it looked clear and kinda like what u would see today but Im noticing this allot with stuff I grew up with in 80's and 90's

[@isobelaplatings]

Thanks for posting this - really rare movie. Sebastian Shaw is in one of his last cameo roles as 'Grandpa' in the early scenes.

[@KCDash4400cw]

How did he just look directly down into the reactor core and not collapse

[@iamnotanuggetblackhart5103]

Interesting: This movie has a mixed cast from both The Day After AND Threads.

[@TheTrueMichael]

It also has Emperor Palpatine from star wars!

[@Eltanin25]

@@TheTrueMichael Yeah. He pretended to be a victim, saying right away how he was beyond all hope and dying, yet he was still in a surprisingly good condition through the film. I bet it was him who caused the catastrophy from the shadows! 🙂

[@tarantulaguy1998]

If you couldn't tell, Ian McDiarmid and Sebastian Shaw are in this TV movie, playing the doctor treating the sick immediately after the disaster, and the Grandfather in the village respectively. That means that Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are in this movie, about the worst nuclear disaster in history... ...PALPATINE'S BEHIND IT ALL!

[@kathleenmckenzie6261]

I think this is somewhat misleading in that no one knew the extent of the radiation burns in the immediate hours following the meltdown. The upper echelons, particularly, were in denial and felt they had it all under control for a day or two. There was no panic among the Pripyat population; they had no idea they would never return to their homes.

[@jeep146]

It was criminal to allow the people to be outside after the accident. The fireman had no proper training or equipment for radiation accidents. Go figure since they were next to a nuclear power plant.

[@laserfloyd]

21:14 holy crap it's Ian McDiarmid. I was working and listening to this and thought "wow that guy sounds like the emperor...". Nice!

[@dianabowman7042]

He looks like the emperor at 52:56

[@pmp1337]

@@dianabowman7042 🤣

[@magicstix0r]

"Get him into the ambulance now. DEW EET."

[@quasarmcoc]

This movie is so hard to find on VHS

[@Kapplerartbloomingdale]

A historic shoot. An enjoyable movie based on the eyes who wrote it.

[@jonathankovacs1809]

Remember 1992 I may have been misinformed but I am not an idiot at least most of the time... What I mean is that they were not fully informed as to the true extent of the damage at that time. When the fireman discovers that the core was exposed he did indeed know what the true horror was in store! He did the right thing! What I find horrible and inexcusable is the attempt by SOME off the high officials to down play the danger to the people of the local area. This is well documented a brave Russian Scientist (Sorry I can't place the name at the moment ) hung himself I suppose for the guilt he must have felt even though he did the right thing and said "It is criminal to hide this" He was right!

[@lskdjf4620]

Valery Legasov

[@jonathankovacs1809]

Thank You I think it important to remember such people as Valery Legasov and eed his warnings!

[@denahogue8196]

Yes. He hung himself 2 years after the incident. I actually watched a "movie" on here somewhere in the depths of KZbin that was made for his side of the story.

[@jareds8729]

it is BBc surviving disaster - chernobyl. 1 of the best docu-dramas on chernobyl i think

[@benwalsh7018]

Mario April 26 1916 at 1:23:45 in the mt

[@jordapen]

Down to Earth type of movie, giving a sense of the personal trajedy.

[@alcoholfree6381]

This is a very good movie/documentary. It was very educational and made me see how difficult it must have been to take care of these huge challenges. It’s sad that we’ve had all of these problems, deaths, social dislocation, and long-term problems.

[@Kapplerartbloomingdale]

After watching Hbo's "Chernobyl," I like the personal views that doctor Gale had portrayed, in this teleplay off his book.

[@raremedia6051]

Thanks so much for uploading this!

[@valentindarienko]

Robert Gale published the original account of his experiences under the same title in 1988 with Thomas Hauser; it was adapted by Ernest Kinoy for the screenplay

[@anniquevanderburgh2700]

They forgot the helicopter five years later flew over the area showing all deserted from bird perspective, the people of the helicopter died from rediation cancer still after about 5 years after the accudent. I remember since the movie was shown at the telly about 1990 as I were very young back than when seeing this movie and made a huge impression, to all, we at Saturday evening watched it was about 8.30 PM the film started we all forgot the time, way past our bedtime we went to go to bed, me and back than, before the exile and such one I called and thought back than being my sister. Not that we slept after that ofcouse as usual, we stayed up, listening Walkman, and talking, and other, reading with flashlight underneath the coverns and other we like always did. We decided sort of our own bedtime, came alive after dark, both night kids. When parents come take a look one pretends being asleep, Usual time went after 3 at nr. 107 ,in the morning often enough. We just didn’t got tired. But that night especially we were quite awake there at the Edison Street Nijmegen 6569MG

[@puterboy2]

It is worth noting that Jason Robards and Karen Meagher, both stars of two famous movies about nuclear apocalypses, star in this film, which also deals with nuclear themes.

[@stevenharwood5362]

I’m glad others have picked up on that!

[@cardinalrobbins9453]

Thank you for posting this!

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

34 years ago, these power plants all over the world are getting older and older just a matter of time before there is a worse disaster somewhere. the plants in the usa uk and france are ancient

[@jeromekrupp3116]

This Chernobyl movie doesn't have have any stupid comments of HBO viewers! Thumbs up for that! :DD

[@danieldjz]

He's in shock. Take him to the infirmary.

[@ImGroggy313]

You didn't see stupid comments. YOU DIDN'T! Because it's not there.

[@jandedick7519]

@@ImGroggy313 😂

[@ryant282a]

The comments are not great, not terrible.

[@eddytan6272]

It's disgraceful, really to post stupid comments of HBO viewers.

[@staatsfiend]

and to think Fukushima Daiichi was thousands time worse than this singular meltdown.

[@michaeljohn7398]

The humanity is sacred and touching.❤️

[@louperi]

Oh my God ... Thank you so much for uploading this , you can't imagine how crazy i am about this movie.

[@rtqii]

14:15 - According to reports there are serpentine concrete caps on the tops of the fuel channels in the RBMK reactor. Each channel has a cap that weighs hundreds of pounds and are set in place by the loading and unloading crane. Prior to the core explosion these caps were rattling like the weight in a pressure cooker for several seconds.

[@ffffuchs]

Theres lot of things thats inaccurate in the movie, but it was made only 5 years after Chernobyl when USSR still existed so I let these pass. Somet stuff to point out: There was no such crowding outside the plant. Most operators stayed inside the control room and also used the war shelter. They did a few peeks outside and quickly hurried back in. The firemen had absolutely no idea about what was going on due to the smoke and fires. The reactors destruction was first seen by two trainees sent out to lower the control rods after the explosion: They stumbled through half-destroyed corridors until through a gap managed to peak at the hellish blue flames of the exposed reactor. They died in the following days. Not an inaccuracy, but I find it strange they barely mention the containment and damage control efforts of the following days after the disaster. That said the whole movies plotline is built on the suffering of the radiation victims which is definately an angle not seen in most documentaries. Chernobyl wont be dangerous for 7 billion years. The exclusion zone is largely already safe to visit thanks to soil removal, and overall will be habitable in a few centuries. Most of the sarcophagus inside will be safe in a few thousand years, while the escaped fuel will be largely passive in a few ten thousand years. Obviously amazingly long for us humans, but many, many magnitudes less then billions. However due to changed isotope ratios it will be absolutely detectable for even billions of years from now assuming tectonic and morphological processes won't bury it or dillute it to infinity. The 40 thousand cancer figure is hard to tackle. The LNT model predicts 3-4 thousand extra cancer incidents. But because of the worsening health conditions after the USSR's dissolution, and our inability to determine what exactly caused a tumor we likely never have an accurate number. Finally, when it omniously mentions unknown full consequences, honestly by '91 everything that happened had happened, minus the new cancer incidences but those weren't new developments.

[@Balnazzardi]

Well im sure the firefighters must have known that if there ever was a fire in nuclear power plant that there also might be risk of severe radiation..... that being said ofc they had no way of knowing how Bad it really was until they started vomiting their guts out

[@moron1138]

Firemen served in Militarized fire station, they were prepared for such a thing since all this infrastructure was built ONLY for service of this nuclear plant. Though, nobody really knew how bad the situation was, nor the firemen.

[@jonathanoxlade4252]

Destruction can be pretty but in this way yea the beautiful colour what nuclear energy is beautiful but it sadly is dangerous to look at lol even I would love to see that blue light only issue bis better NB sign your grave stone because that's where your heading after it

[@forestdenizen6497]

"a few tens of thousands of years" What??? The fuel is U-235 with a half-life of 700 million years. The U-238 most certainly will be around in billions of years, its half-life is 4 billion years.

[@grizzlycountry1030]

To go into the exclusion zones you need permission, must wear radiation monitors and have a very limited time you can be there due to radiation exposure. All the plants and animals there are still testing positive for high amounts of radiation. It will definitely not be safe in that minute timeframe you stated.

[@MomMom4Cubs]

This is maybe the only movie made all the more frightening because I know how it ends.

[@jarrowmarrow]

A watchable and plausible account and not edited to death.

[@gorillaau]

It a bit unique in that it concentrates on the people caught in the radiation and those trying to make them ,ore comfortable. Basically, everyone was writing the playbook on how to limit this type of incident.

[@fin29864]

The burns in this film are really realistic. But the firemen would not be moving their arms around and they would not be able to speak properly

[@Sharpshooter9904]

This film is confused... RBMK reactors don't explode

[@sannakarppinen4163]

I was 6 when this happened and the radiation cloud came top of my country Finland and one of the potent ones came top of the area where i lived . I remember that in that spring i just got new swimsuit and rubber boat ready for swimming season ,but all of sudden my mom ordered me and my brother inside and said do not drink milk , do not eat anything from the forrest and no swimming that year and we had to taje iodine tabletts 3 months. The my mom explained that a dangerous explotion had happebed in Ukraine and the effects came here . I remember to be angry to Ukraine and Soviet Union because they ruined my swimming season . I was just a child back then , but now when i m adult i now know that the firemen , investigators, scientists, doctors dud everything they could to stop the fires and clean the place so i do not blame them anymore but the blame lies with the Soviet government alone.

[@MrTarak1999]

Because of one stupid Supervisor wrong direction. Many lives died.

[@mattbaker6605]

Chaitanya Krishna Reddy it was waaaaaaay more than just one supervisor being wrong. It started from the top down, Soviet secrecy, they knew the RBMK had a fatal flaw and told nobody. Bad workmanship of the building, the whole Soviet Russia way of life. This accident led almost directly to the fall of Soviet Russia. Watch the HBO special, it gets the facts at least closer to correct.

[@tararose5650]

21:17 Don't worry, Dr. Palpatine will help you!

[@somesz83]

Thank you for uploading. I was looking for this movie since Internet exists. :)

[@mollymadchen]

You're very welcome! I uploaded it exactly because it's very difficult to find, as I noticed myself, too.

[@1vw4me]

Jason Robards.......looks like he survived, "The Day After"..........after all!!!

[@sce2aux464]

Out of the frying pan...

[@Jake4Life45]

I didn't know Emperor Palpatine was a doctor at Chernobyl!? The SITH hide everywhere.

[@tomglima]

Not great, not terrible.

[@gordonwallace3584]

11-08-24, Admiration for the movie story that's TRUTH! Admiration for the actors who played the parts so heartfully. Respect for the people who produced this story of our history! AEC USN RET ⚓

[@taproom113]

Wow! Had not seen this show before today. Brilliant and moving effort. Thoughts and Prayers to all involved in the real tragedy and the subsequent programs depicting it ... 🙏

[@johnbaca1809]

Twice I met Jon Voight at Ronald Reagan library at Medal of Honor banquet yrs ago I'll always remember tears in his eyes how he hugged me. Soon after he with he visiting the wounded and amputees from Iraq and Afghanistan war recovering from their life and death battle wounds. And how dear Jon heart broken flow if tears listening to their stories. Oh Jon Voight how I'd like to reconnect with you again

[@EccentricGentelman]

Aparently these people are from the British part of Ukrain.

[@jamara3330]

But they develop Russian accents when they go to Moscow

[@nutsackmania]

Hahahah

[@OmmerSyssel]

Hired from Putins Expat fan club in London... 🍻

[@tarantulaguy1998]

That explosion effect of the reactor exploding looks awful. It wasn't so much a graceful fiery mushroom cloud, as it was a reactor violently tearing itself apart like an enormous pressure cooker. Then again, this is a 90's TV movie.

[@Sharpshooter9904]

19:46 Its gone.... I looked right into it... I looked into the core

[@tomglima]

He’s delusional, get him out of here.

[@eddytan6272]

Did you lower the control rods or not?

[@tomglima]

@@eddytan6272 Take him to the infirmary.

[@OTJD2009]

@@eddytan6272get him to the infirmary

[@davidpar2]

I'd much rather watch special effects/models/etc. as were utilized in this movie than CGI

[@peterjansen5498]

So thats how Palpatine became a Sith. Radiation exposure.

[@ekaterini2957]

More than 10 years since you posted this, coming across it now. I saw this back in the day when it was on TV. As there is more and more talk of another cold war I watch this and just feel sick. Thank you for taking the time to post this so many years ago so that even now we can look back and maybe learn something. Blessings to you there in Finland --

[@dwighthowardxd8394]

So sad seeing happy familys, kids playing, picnics at the park, just so sad when in a blink of a eye a lot of people died and evacuated from there happy home town 😭😢🇺🇦

[@moron1138]

More like 😭😢🇧🇾🇵🇱🇷🇺🇲🇩

[@abelsnewexcerisesongfamily1651]

@@moron1138 1:27 Me narrated as the video shows Pryiat. *50,000 people used to live in this city, now it's a ghost town. I never seen anything like it.

[@konradd28]

this movie was recorded in russian city kurchatov, looks very similar to pripyat

[@ms2506]

Watching this in 2020 and thinking if COVID19 is China's Chernobyl.

[@MomMom4Cubs]

Only time will tell. If it is, the Chinese people are in for a rude awakening. North Korea would be in for a rude awakening.

[@nickyeayea7257]

Nope

[@doriansanchez7536]

The stalker video game franchise brought me here

[@dragondancer1814]

Fun fact: Sammi Davis (who played the firefighter’s wife) was also in the movie _Hope and Glory,_ where she played Billy’s older sister Dawn. I thought I recognized her!

[@FernandoYT90]

*Wow I have no words this is* *so authentic 80's and 90's* *style without a doubt fabulous (⁠◕⁠ᴥ⁠◕⁠)*

[@Sharky1986]

Isn't that shot at 14:09 from Total Recall when they start the reactor on mars?

[@krashd]

STALKER "Quaid.. Quaaaaid... Look in to your miiiind, Quaaaid... Push the AZ-5!"

[@imperialgames6146]

+STALKER I think your right as well

[@Tiger-Baby]

Omg I love that game!!! Your name I mean. Pripyat looks eerily accurate!

[@jsgraham67]

As a soldier serving in Germany when this disaster happened, I can tell you it was a nightmarish time in the United States Military in Europe. We were required to be in full combat readiness 24/7 for a month after the news broke. Prior to the news of Chernobyl, Lybian terrorists bombed the LaBella discotheque in West Berlin. We were already in a heightened state of readiness. Chernobyl just extended the duration of wearing full LBE, Protective Masks, Kevlar helmets and carrying our weapons 24/7. Wearing the gear and carrying my weapon all the time didn't bother me. What bothered me was two things. One, our unit had a brand new first- sergeant who just spent the last 5 years as a drill instructor. So he was still in that mode, arrogant as hell. He kept trying to steal my M-16 when I wasn't looking. Drill instructors did that crap in basic training. One day he tried taking my M-16 from me, and I yanked it out of his grip and butt-stroked him across the temple out of reflex. He wasn't mad about it. He said I was the first to actually do something about his constant BS. I told him that I butt-stroked my DI in basic too. He said he expected us to fight for our weapons, just like we were trained in basic. He gave me a hard time about the goose-egg I gave him for the next two years. But he never tried to take my weapon away from me again, and he quit messing with the rest of the unit too. The second thing was the white powder that settled on the ground everywhere, and the nonchalant attitude USAREUR command exhibited when I pointed out that less than 500 miles "as the bird flies" is a nuclear power plant that just had the biggest meltdown in the history of SNAFU's. I was worried about this white powder that settled all over everything being radioactive fallout. But the brass said it was not hazardous. To this day, I still don't believe them. I was assigned to a Hawk Air Defense tactical site 40 miles from the East German and Czech borders. We had MiG-21's fly over our site daily, but we weren't allowed to do anything but smile and wave. USAREUR didn't want an international incident. We were poised to defend Western Europe if the Soviets decided to invade. Little did we know, the USSR was broke, and Chernobyl was just the death nail in the coffin we knew as Communism.

[@tomglima]

Not great, not terrible.

[@ChernobylChannel9735]

I got to say, this looks better than the Chernobyl HBO.

[@briansteffmagnussen9078]

This movie are too underrated.

[@thomastaylor6699]

Those poor fireman had absolutely no protection from radiation! They didn't have a clue how to handle a fire like this one. Unfortunately. Every single fireman died of radiation poisoning. 😢

[@Fitzpatrick65]

Thanks for the upload. This was F-ed up the way they handled Chernobyl disaster, by covering it up on what happen. Plus on top of that, they even had people go to the May Day event that is now called Parade of Death. It is just sad that people are still living in the radioactive zone in Russian.

[@JaneDoe-zr4px]

Yup, big time. This may have changed in recent years but I know for a long time, even long after the USSR fall, there were no pictures or video available of that year's May Day parade - the govt confiscated all of it, to the point of taking the personal coverage by individuals. God only knows the lives that were destroyed, shortened and permanently altered by allowing thousands of people to participate in that event, on that day.

[@flux4life]

Chernobyl is NOT in Russia.....Chernobyl is in Ukraine

[@moron1138]

No one covered it up, lol. May Day parade was a crime and everyone who was responsible got their punishment.

[@grizzlycountry1030]

@@flux4life Chernobyl was in USSR.

[@MomMom4Cubs]

What is sad about wanting to live and die in your homeplace? I bless the freedom those people have in charting the course of their own lives. Also, Ukrainian people are NOT Russian. Just because they were a part of the Soviet Union, that doesn't disregard that Ukraine is a separate sovereign nation, complete with their own language, history, and customs.

[@jorgemartinpaez4376]

This movie was what my teachers showed in HS, to teach of the event after learning of it and in College, What a movie!!!! they say this is better than the hbo version?

[@lil_louie_6366]

damn, this movie can be terrifying. But, it represents the events at chernobyl perfectly.

[@thepeskytraveller3870]

Sadly, those who tried to cover it up might never be punished. :( All the politics involved ensured that there are more victims than are made out to be. May those brave men and women who perished RIP. Thank you for uploading this great movie.

[@felixculpa9303]

I’m naive.. this was recommended to me and I knew nothing about it prior, I nearly turned it off because I thought it wasn’t in English. Hang in there if you’re like me.. they start speaking English soon in.

[@IMurderdTheDevil]

HBO has Chernobly as well that is very well made.

[@terrythomas1329]

Whilst I'm watching this in early2021 I can't help feeling this is just one massive screentest!

[@_iggyman_]

Thanks for movie !

[@DANIEL-ho4gr]

52:33 PALPATINE WAS HERE IN CHERNOBYL TOO....!

[@karolrawski2227]

Also, 20:44.

[@sannakarppinen4163]

Now we now hwo blew up The reactor ... dam you PALPATINE..

[@danieldjz]

Who's here after HBO's Chernobyl??!

[@lajoswinkler]

All the American 12 year olds, apparently.

[@danieldjz]

@@lajoswinkler and sour drops like you.

[@motorsiegefan931]

@@danieldjz Some of us are just sick of these same bandwagon, copycat, fish-for-like comments polluting every single Chernobyl - related video on KZbin.

[@mdeangelo2434]

@o barlos eimai re blaka No, it's HBO

[@dalekwarrior6515]

me

[@johnbaca1809]

His visits to wounded at Balboa naval hospital San Diego where nurses and doctors loved and cared and prayed for my recovery from combat wounds in Vietnam jungles Feb 10 1970 I spent 11months in recovery

[@funkndonut]

this movie is a literal time machine

[@forestdenizen6497]

"strip him and burn the clothing." Kill the rad bugs!

[@gorillaau]

Radroaches are annoying, especially in confined spaces.

[@fenderguy5865]

I thought that I had seen every Chernobyl documentary, until I stumbled on this one.

[@craigdavidson5613]

14:06 - Why did we all of a sudden cut to the Alien Terbinium reactor beginning to melt through the Martian glacier from Total Recall?! That's not even how reactors work in real life!

[@JayseGreene]

The best part is the explanation of how the hospital got the centrifuge in. It went in first and the room was built around it. LMAO!!!

[@Passwort-ng4gs]

OMG, the Imperial Imperator was a doctor on Earth in 1986.