48 Hours: Escape From Chernobyl on SBS and SBS on Demand – 48 Hours: Escape from Chernobyl examines the worst nuclear disaster in human history and one of the most impactful global events of the twentieth century.
By focusing on the initial 48-hour period that followed the explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant on 26th April 1986, a period during which the Soviet state attempted to hide the scale of the tragedy from the world, we tell the largely unknown story of the first responders, nuclear scientists and every day citizens of the nearby town of Pripyat, as they bravely tried to contain the unfolding nuclear meltdown.
Through in-depth interviews with these people, supplemented by interviews with expert historians and scientists, as well as exclusive archive footage of the 48-hour period, we stay in the heart of the action as events on the ground unfold
48 Hours: Escape From Chernobyl on SBS and SBS on Demand – Premiere / Wednesday 8 April at 7.30pm (1 Part)
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