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Chernobyl — “Open Wide, O Earth”

Chernobyl — “Open Wide, O Earth”

TV Ep. · S1E3

All of Chernobyl 5 episodes

Original languageEnglish

Runtime1 hour 4 minutes

GenreDrama

Set in1986
Serializd average
4.4 / 5
Saltiness

Fewer grains = more historically accurate.

Shelfmark MS 0205Last checked

Aired onHBO
33 years
between the events and the first broadcast
1986 → 2019

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Event

The explosion of reactor 4 on April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, in what is now modern-day Ukraine, that resulted in a massive release of radioactive material and an intensive ensuing cleanup operation.

filed under 1986

Runs throughCold War

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Production Information

Directed by
Johan Renck
Written by
Craig Mazin
Production countries
United KingdomUnited States

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