The disaster at Chernobyl is still considered one of the worst nuclear accidents in history. It happened on April 26, 1986. Thirty-five years later, a group of survivors returns to the ghost city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine.
A senior engineer who worked building the reactor, a maternity doctor from a local hospital, and an 11-year-old girl evacuated from Pripyat survived, as did a firefighter who served in Reactor Block 4 and an army officer who was in charge of removing radioactive debris from the reactor’s roof. This documentary follows them as they return to their deserted homes for the first time. Their memories come together like pieces of a puzzle that depicts the fateful events of 1986. Firefighters and soldiers who became known as “liquidators” risked their lives to stabilize the site and prevent even greater radioactive contamination of Europe and the world. Only a few survived the mission. This emotional documentary directed by Roman Shumunov and written by Simon Shechter recounts a major historical drama in small, intimate stories, while using never before seen archive material that the people of Pripyat had hidden in their homes.
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"There is no time to regret it", "It was our duty". This spirit is what the world needs.
My grandma told me that they had to stay inside even tho they lived in Croatia and that people where coughing because of the air and the rain.
Don't people in the US understand that this is what they want here? COMMUNISM?!! Lies to the people. Only cares about themselves. All of those people on that bridge, the Bridge of Death of Pripyat. So sad.
Not an accident. Really we should not have nuclear powered anything as man has proven over and over and over and over and then over again that He just wants to destroy our planet!!
The disaster in Pripyat Ukraine will be an echo that will not fade away for 4000 years. Just imagine how many generations of people will be born & pass away over & over again, & it will still be uninhabitable. It leaves me speechless.
Saved the world from a problem they created! As they should!!!
Hate to break it to you, the black baby wasn’t radiation. Lmao
Thank to the people that gave their lives to save the rest of the world from this disaster!
I recall that in high school they mentioned Chernobyl in passing but our teachers weren't allowed to go into details about it. I can't even imagine what so many people went through the only I can do is pray that those who gave their lives and those who survived that know we respect and honor your lost loved ones and know in my eyes they were heroes and always will be. It's heartbreaking how so many people I have never met I wish you all the peace and happiness because you have been though so much. I was born 5 years after chenybol but I do remember my grandparents would t speak about it around me until I was in college because they were scared I would t understand the impact on so many it had
I have a glass container containing a piece of graphite from the Chernobyl accident
it is definitiv the world worst radioactive accident
After the Chernobyl issue, friends of ours here in Australia had 2 young children from there stay for 4 weeks in Australia. This became a common thing internationally. These poor little souls. They were both brothers. Aged I think 6 & 8 yrs old.
The parents that were there carers while they were here were such loving people. I had a fantastic 3 bedroom penthouse apartment on the Gold Coast in in Queensland that I only used on the weekends. I gave them this property during their stay here
Obviously these 2 children were very quiet & traumatized. These people who care for them lavished so much attention on them with so much natural foods, gifts & positive attention. They ended up stopping this international program though. This program was targeted at the children survives became deleted. The reason being was that these poor darlings sometimes would start becoming sick here & they were not covered for medical treatment here But the main reason was that their family were or would be very ill there & some of them passed away while there children or siblings were away.
It was a very sad situation for them, the others effected by this disaster & globally. Having had 1st hand experience with these survivors, though we never found out later what their medical status was after they left. I don't think anyone who participated in this program ever found out what happened to these darling children.
Great lesson of what a government is willing to do too its citizens just to run a test.
35/50,000 …
It’s so sad, what happened, I was only nine years old when it happened, but for families to loose loved ones, there homes, everything, it’s heartbreaking, to forget the people that saved thousands, it’s wrong, sure I’m in Australia, but I feel like I was there, an empty town that no one will return too
molten salt reactors is the way ofthe future, China is doing it right now….
There is 1000 documentary on Chernobyl
This is why Putin want Ukraine badly
Soo much memories left behind 😭😭
indeed not all heroes wears capes… we may not know your names but you will never be forgotten.
Why not just put subtitles? There's nothing more intolerable than dubbed TV!
Start some new brothels there!!!!! Only in russia!!! I go it tell me
I was an 11 and living in Serbia when it happened. Told us to get out of any rain
I remember even 25 years ago, sick children affected by Chernobyl coming to Scotland on 'holidays'. They were here to get a break from the radiation.
Is it any surprise that the Russians built junk, then failed to maintain said junk.
Watch the documentry to know tht it must never happen again. But keep moving on. Know that it was history. Let it be there.
I still wonder how bad the radiation in Western Europe actually was, e.g. Switzerland/Southern Germany – my own mother died of cancer in the 90ies and many people up and down my streat died of cancer as well over the years – do the rising cancer rates somehow relate to the Chernobyl fallout or is that just conjecture? Was the true extent of the disaster maybe downplayed because it was inevitable in any case and nothing could be done to prevent the exposure?
I’m in Australia and remember the situation. I was a chef & suddenly had worry about obtaining ingredients or if they were radioactive. Beluga caviar was one item affected. Balsamic vinegar had production issues as did many foods sourced across Europe then spreading across planet. I still have some items I managed to source pre Chernobyl.
Those scenes remimd me to captain price
Never trust Comunists
If this happened in usa.people would do that work FOR FRee!!how much will it pay they will say.if you understand this then you will understand USA.
That was the big down fall of soviets union, otherwise they will be different story like Soviet still be one big country , no separation like rights now
I thought fetuses do not absorb radiation?
Living in Israel you meet a lot of Russians and Ukrainians and after watching this video really hits hard knowing what some of these people went through.
Hero’s…every single one of them.. Thank you from the UK for everything you did at that time to help protect the world population..🙏
All I can say is thankyou. Rest in the company of Angels
Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster is no difference between Chernobyl reactor disaster… man-made disasters!
Dear russians,
I thank you 🙏 for your courage and selfless consecration to the service of your country, in the time of chernobyl.
You lost a lot of lives of brave men and women.
But you also saved a lot of lives !!!
Моя бабушка жила не далеко от Припяти. Ужасно.
In America I recall hearing about this on the radio in Art class…and we kind of just shrugged our shoulders. We and the World had no clue. Thank You for sharing this documentary. Tribute to all the ones who in so many ways saved their region, and the world for their sacrifice. True heroism. Amen…😔
nowdays nuclear reactors are only used for 1 reason only- to gather their waste fuel in order to pile up thei nuclear stockpile- to build nukes that is..currently there are better ways to produce electricity- wind power (those giant mills are in every EU country) and solar panels- so much cheaper and safer ways..nuclear reactors must be banned, there must be sanctions for every country that uses them! Unfortunately thats harder to convince the US
It is easy to see how affected those people are by what happened. The doctor recalling the memories, the woman sitting in the music hall and the man visiting his former appartment. And we must never forget the true heroes – the liquidators.
The doctor woman's story about radiation instantly killing unborn babies is completely false. Especially in the late stages, the baby doesn't "absorb" the radiation, especially not if she merely watched from a balcony. Didn't DW vet any of these people?
15:20 I am confused : it would take more than a day for radiation to cause defects in fetuses that are observable
I was 24 years. It was very scary. Just to see the news and how bad it was. We were worried since the news reported that the radiation particles could move in the air to alot of countries and places. Very sad. This will not be forgotten.
Since Chernobyl, the Russians have shot down passenger airlines, destroyed satellites in orbit and lost nuclear subs in the oceans. And never taken blame for any of it. They haven’t learned any lessons. And probably never will.