Chernobyl is a thrilling 5-episode mini-series from HBO that tells the terrifying and shocking story of the worst human disaster in history - the mighty explosion in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what was then the Soviet Union. After the explosion, the radioactive cloud reached not only over Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, but even over Scandinavia and Western Europe.

Chernobyl presents what has happened since the morning explosion, enormous chaos, death in the following days, weeks and months ... It also contrasts the magnetizing courage and dedication of ordinary people to the shocking inaction of officials trying to shake the blame and downplay the threat. Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson star.