Miniseries · National Geographic
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Adam Higginbotham
Self
4 eps
Galia Ackerman
Self
4 eps
Wyatt Andrews
Self
4 eps
Olena Mokhnyk
Self
4 eps
Karena Kalmbach
Self
4 eps
Nikolai Steinberg
Self
2 eps
Petr G. Khmel
Self
2 eps
Igor Kirschenbaum
Self
2 eps
Ray Richardson
Self
2 eps
Hans Blix
Self
2 eps
Ihor Hodosov
Self
2 eps
Witali Schkljarow
Self
2 eps
Sergej Beljakow
Self
2 eps
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
1 eps
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage)
1 eps
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
1 eps
François Mitterrand
Self (archive footage)
1 eps
Robert Peter Gale
Self
1 eps
Matthew Chance
Self
1 eps
Maria Protsenko
Self
1 eps
Sergej Lobanow
Self
1 eps
Donald Regan
Self (archive footage)
1 eps
Galina Menzheres
Self
1 eps
Anatolii Khymych
Self
1 eps
Igor Pismensky
Self
1 eps
Aleksey Moskalenko
Self
1 eps
Lee Thomas
Self
1 eps
Marv Dickerson
Self
1 eps
Irina Lobanov
Self
1 eps
Cliff Robinson
Self
1 eps
Petr Shavrey
Self
1 eps
Hervé Claude
Self (archive footage)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Emotional Weight.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E03
Sacrifice
- Directed by Erica Jenkin, Tom Cook
- Written by Adam Higginbotham
S01E04
Truth
- Directed by Erica Jenkin, Tom Cook
- Written by Adam Higginbotham
S01E01
Inferno
- Directed by Erica Jenkin, Tom Cook
- Written by Adam Higginbotham
S01E02
Cover-Up
- Directed by Erica Jenkin, Tom Cook
- Written by Adam Higginbotham
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Katie Hinman
Executive producer
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Carolyn Payne
Executive producer
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Amy Entelis
Executive producer
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David Dugan
Executive producer
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Lyle Gamm
Executive producer
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Carlo Massarella
Executive producer
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Adam Higginbotham
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Alyona SyneginaProducer
- Katie HinmanExecutive Producer
- Carolyn PayneExecutive Producer
- Amy EntelisExecutive Producer
- David DuganExecutive Producer
- Tom CookProducer
Writing
- Adam HigginbothamWriter
Direction
- Erica JenkinDirector
- Tom CookDirector
Music
- Alex GruzOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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