Inside Chernobyl (2012)
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A short film based on current conditions in Chernobyl & Pripyat. Please note, I was an amateur and inexperienced documentary filmmaker when I made this and it was made on NO budget without help from anyone else. The only costs involved were the travel expenses to the Ukraine and the fee to Solo-East for arranging access to the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Some frequently asked questions:
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What is that bashing sound around the 15 minute mark? The foundations for the new shelter are being bashed into the ground as the soil is too dangerous and radioactive to dig up. The new shelter will cover the crumbling one that currently covers reactor 4. The new shelter will be completed in 2015.
Was I exposed to lots of radiation? In short, no. My dosage of radiation would of been about the same as I would have received on a long haul flight. You also get checked for contamination on the way out of the zone.
Did I have to wear any protective clothing? No, but you are not allowed to wear shorts or short sleeve shirts. You must wear long trousers and jumpers, boots or other hard wearing shoes. Open shoes like sandals are not allowed.
How did I get access to Chernobyl? You can arrange a visit through a company called Solo-East. Google them! A private tour like I took costs $500 a day. I recommend 2-3 days if you can afford it. You will see hardly anything in just one day. Unfortunately, you are no longer allowed inside buildings.
What camera did I use? It was a Canon 7D with a Canon 17-40mm L, Canon 17-85mm, Canon 70-300mm & Sigma 10-22mm. Sound was captured with a Sennheiser wireless radio mic and recorded on a Roland R05.
What did you edit this video with? Adobe Premiere CS5 and After Effects CS5.
What I think is just great about the Internet, is that you don't need to have a budget of millions from Hollywood, in order to make an awesome movie or documentary. Great job!
Thanks! You just need passion and patience !
I totally agree.. very nice work
@@UrbexWonderland I think you are kind of crazy to go that close to the power plant. But, to each their own. It was certainly a ballsy thing to do.
How high was the dosimeter readout?
@@andrewsindler1436 Outside the plant it was averaging 44 Microsieverts, about the same you'd receive on a flight from New York to LA.
Glaucio Santiago I’ve been thinking tithe same. Who would ever have thought
"There is no gigantic damage and there is no great fire." However, the reporter forgot to mention that the half of the building is spread across the entire Ukraine
Seeing the children at the beginning of this video makes me so sad. These children didn’t deserve this... for them I hope there’s a heaven where they will be happy and free of pain one day...❤️
Me Too Man ☮️
Massive respect to the men and women who helped contain the disaster🙏🏻
@I was raped by the Pope yes
I was raped by the Pope What’s up with you and all your shitty comments on Chernobyl videos you sack of shit
Great respect.
@@Lxmer_nce huh
@@ididsomeunspeakablethingsa4899 His name is "I was raped by the Pope"
Man, I wouldn't even go into that abandoned hospitable basement even WITHOUT the radiation 😂😂😂
I know eh. Creepy in there
EXTREMELY informative, and for an amateur this is incredibly professional looking. The camera work is beautiful and gives a lot of insight to the grim tranquility in the surrounding area. It's hard to understand when people talk because the music is pretty loud and kind of drowns it out, but that's my only complaint.
This documentary should be submitted for IFC Award. It is that good, and something people need to be kept aware of, especially those born afterwards.
I agree.
Thank you! The directors cut has improved audio. Link is in the description.
really good :) hi from Croatia :)
While some things about the production of this documentary is very amateurish..the overall product and results are perfect.
Fascinating but chilling to see the firefighters boot and robes...
The more it beeps, the longer he keeps his hand near the source of the radiation. Wonder if he's grown a second thumb on that hand yet.
Christ are you guys a bunch of pedantic basement dwellers? Obviously that's not how radiation really works. Duh. It's a joke.
He's dead
In Ukraine, we cut extra thumbs and eat it with our borscht.
@@LaylaVaughan basement dweller? Bro we all know you are projecting
@@davidkruse4030 stfu you snowflake
Respect to those Brave firefighters x
Can you imagine, those firefighters fighting the blaze not even knowing that they were inside the reactor. To them it was just a routine fire. I can't even begin to imagine the pain they went through before they died. They were true heroes. May they rest in peace and never be forgotten.
***** Uhhhh, they weren't inside the reactor, the reactor contents were thrown out to were they were.
puncheex2 They may not have been directly inside the reactor physically..but they were on top of the exploded roof fighting the fire down into the reactor....which in itself might as well have been inside the reactor.
No, they might as well have not. Three men above the open reactor, inside the plant, died looking down into the core from radiation burns to their heads for what they estimated was 30 seconds. So no, they weren't working in the reactor except as a very approximate figure of speech.
puncheex2
Where are you getting your information? If they are on the reactor's roof fighting the blaze and are exposed to direct radiation coming out the roof top...how can you say "They might as well have not"? Either way they are exposed to very lethal doses of radiation. The first six firefighters to die were those from the first 28 who were battling the fire from the rooftop. They died between the dates of May 10-17 as stated by the fire chief of the Chernobyl Nuclear plant Fire Department who was on the scene.
This is the closest thing you'll get to a view of an apocalyptic world.
@union310 I forgot three mile island.
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union310
Fukushima has an exclusion zone, so that'd count as apocalyptic. But I don't see how three mile island and windscale could be considered "apocalyptic", as people still live around those plants and nothing is abandoned.
Syria
S.t.a.l.k.e.r. vibes
Youve got talent dude! What an incredible documentry, you captured the beauty of such an incredible place.
RIP Ivan Ivanovic, a fellow comrade to all those who visited the exclusion zone
May he rest in peace
Rip Comrade 🙏
This is incredibly well-done for a documentary, let alone an independent one. Amazing work!
Everyone who visits that hospital talks about the firefighters but I am wondering what happened to the nurses/ staff that handled those clothes. Someone had to carry all that right after exposure when it was at its most radioactive into the basement.
most likely got cancer
Their hands got burned from holding the clothes and most likely got sick later on from the radiation.
They got radiation sickness as well and likely didn't survive. There is a documentary that was made 5 years after the incident, I think they interviewed a nurse, but I'm not sure. It's from the BBC.
I doubt that they died, since it was very short exposure
@@ThePridesalter but it wasn't short exposure. The nurses were exposed continuously, either by clothes of firemen, the firemen themselves, the people from Pripyat coming in with radiation burns and contaminated clothing. Considering the infant mortality and defect rates as a result of the exposure, the nurses were directly at risk.
those who pressed dislike DID-ENT see graphite on the ground
You didn't see graphite on the ground because it's not there
I guess they can explain how an RBMK reactor explodes.
The boron control rods were tipped with graphite
Which increased the reactivity,and that's how a rbmk reactor explodes
the dislikes are not good, not terrible
Edgaras Faustas obviously Soviet reactors do not just explode...that’s just western propaganda! Turn your mind back to your labor, comrade...
Your video feels like a breath of fresh air in comparison to all those intense stalker-wannabe videos whose only goal is to impress fools with how much their devices beep. Thank you for your unique, paused and considerate perspective.
I've been watching and reading anything Chernobyl and radiation accidents non-stop since watching HBO's Chernobyl. I fear it may not end until I visit Chernobyl and walk into the remnants of Reactor 4...
You’re done
Same here we sjould plan a trip🙀
Wassup guys I'll come along
You wouldn't be allowed to enter Reactor 4, you'd be arrested, then you would most likely die shortly thereafter. Yeah, that would be a great trip bruh.
@@getin3949 worth it
To all the residents who had to flee Chernobyl, to the firefighters who risked their lives, unknowingly. This place has a silent and eerie presence, but an enriched in grave of its past. Thank you for the insightful documentary which has been beautifully filmed.
anyone here from the HBO series
I'm here because I lived in Stuttgart Germany when this happened .. we were in fallout range (not as dangerous as other locations ) but I remember not being allowed to leave apartment.. when we finally could we were not allowed to walk in the grass..
Yep, shaping up to be a great series
Getting ready to watch the second episode. I was 19 when this happened. Very scary
@@wendijackson8844 I'm finishing up the pod cast after the episode, very good stuff they are doing a great job, this happened in 86 right so I was -14 so I cant imagine
Yes!
Beautiful, breath-taking and haunting documentary. I love the Vangelis-style 80's music and audio tracks. Glorious documentary. I've seen everything there is to see about Chernobyl and I cannot thank you people enough for making this film!
nicely done. for a amateur documentary, thats better than about 85% of the professional ones made.
Thanks!
+R W Agreed. I find better things to watch here on TH-cam than most of the junk on TV nowadays and this documentary here is proof of that!
R W thank you!
I thought it was professional!!
Background "music" needs to be removed; annoying, can't hear speaker.
A very educational anti professional documentary. My partners a Cameraman for GTV9 in Melbourne Aust, and is extremely impressed with the camera work too! The incidental music is spot on so why hasn’t this awesome doco been seen on TV?
Thank you for an informative and very moving upload! 🙏👍
MissSassyPants, I think you meant to say "non-professional," not "anti-." The difference in meaning is significant.
@@inkyguy Amateur would have been better
I follow Chernobyl disaster since around the year 2000.
This Documentary is the best I've ever seem. The best images.
Congratulations.
Pedro Peraro you were right
See "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" (2015). It is a great companion to this film (and, I feel, a much better production).
you know you've hit it big when you get Pedro's seal of approval
Love the way that guide is mincing around touching radioactive objects with his bare hands
Going by the readings he was showing from the detector, he would actually be exposed to more radiation on a commercial passenger jet at cruising altitude than from most of what he was handling.
I really respect and appreciate all those emergency responders, fire fighter police to all half a million soviet soldiers who died of the radiation trying to protect Europe . Where are the Nobel peace prize for all these brave souls.
they were forced to go there
You don't get medals for fixing your own mistakes lol
I think 500,000 deaths of soldiers soviet is a little steep...
@AT AR You know it really warms my heart when I see one of the kids from school that would walk with teacher assistance and yell indiscriminately while banging their chest learns how to use the internet.
5.000 подписоты Без видосов the ones who died .. those firefighters.. were not the cause of this shite.
My grandmas brother was apart of the first crew to go on the roof of the reactor. They wore lead suits and when're on the roof for 30 then had to go off. After putting on new suits and pouring water on them selfs they had to go back on. The radiation was so high their makeshift bots and vehicles also melted. He died not long after
30 seconds
OMG how did the bots melt?
+Dragons For The Win yes I remember hearing that on a program sometime ago featuring the original footage from the morning after the disaster and all those yong guys literally running on to the roof picking up contaminated graphite and throwing it over the side then running off again
After which sumcuming to the effects of the radiation....A terrible waste of young life
Your great uncle was a brave man and helped save the world. Bio bots is what they called the teams of men that went on the roof of reactor 3 to clear some of the most dangerous debris from the reactor 4 explosion. You should be very proud of your family heritage. If it wasn't for brave men real men like your great uncle and the 500,000 men called liquidators that were sent in to clean up / liquidate the nuclear fall out many more people world wide would still be suffering the consequences of this horrific disaster. Many people in the fall out zones such as Belarus that received 72% of the fall out are still experiencing thyroid cancer and genetic mutations / birth defects in 2nd and 3rd generation children because of the contamination is still prevalent in food sources such as produce and milk. Think how much worse this would be world wide if it wasn't for these brave men like your great uncle? I wish the Japan would man up and clean up Fukushima.
Without the sacrifice your great uncle gave, my wonderful son may never have been born. That is so honorable. Im not a religious man, however i would suspect such an act of sacrifice guarantees a trip heaven. Thx
10 years ago, every other comment would've been about Call of Duty.
Today, every other comment is about HBO.
teppolundgren 50 thousand people used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town.
@@becomematrix What, in your mind?
nobody ever played stalker? sad...
@@ts6603 Nope. But I've seen the Tarkovsky film.
@@SpaceCattttt i have also seen this movie, but it was not about tschernobyl. stalker the game is losely based on ideas from the movie though, whilst the movie and game are based on the novel "roadside picknik" i think
Having watched HBO’s first episode of Chernobyl I really wanted to see what Pripyat and the surrounding exclusion zone is like now. What an insightful documentary. Great work.
Download Google Earth and seach for Prip'yat'. The ferris wheel, the bumper cars and the community pool are haunting images.
I must say this is one of the best Chernobyl documentaries I have seen on TH-cam. It is very well put together; the news clips, narration, interviews and footage compliment each other perfectly. Plus, unlike some, it doesn't look as though it was filmed with a calculator!
Please watch "The Babushkas of Chernobyl" --amazing documentary focusing on some of the grandmas/babushkas who sneaked back, illegally, into the "exclusion" zone, including Pripyat, almost immediately after the explosion. There are approximately 100 people who've returned, most of them are women.. At one point the narrator in this film, says that the area near where the reactor exploded "is safe as long as you follow the rules." WHAT rules? The babushkas in the film I'm recommending live by no rules. They're in their homes, 'illegally', and they're surrounded by radioactivity, & yet they're living longer than their peers/neighbors who live in the relatively radioactive-free zones they were evacuated to back in 1986. .
It's tragic that this happened, but there's a real beauty and surreal quality to the abandoned cities being absorbed back into the land. I would LOVE to go explore there... I could see spending months just wandering around through Pribyat...
i was thinking just the same . a disaster for us appeared to be a gift to nature .
jonathan van havere Right!!!! That's what I was thing... I also wonder if the animals have kind of a "sense" of what's happened, and if they sense that it's a "bad" place for them to live and eat anything from there to some degree.
Interestingly enough I was watching an old episode of Top Gear (oddly enough they don't mention the city as Pribyat as I know it) and James May mentions that the HALF LIFE of the fuel load is 250,000 years!!!! I had no idea it was that long, doesn't surprise me when I think of it (I work in Emergency Medicine/Rescue and I'm trained as a Haz-Mat/De-con/Bio First Responder so just seeing the lack of equipment they had alone is astounding to me), but to hear it, it's astonishing that we could create such a lasting problem as humans. Nothing we intentionally build will last 250K years, but this accident will. There's an Interesting and sad duality to that I feel.
I'm now obsessed with learning more though, I see documentaries of people exploring the place, but clearly there's a protocol to be enforced regarding exposure time so I'm keen to know just how long you can realistically spend in the area (hours, days, minutes???) and how far away you have to get to be fully "out" of the danger zone.
I cant describe it but I have always been in love with urban decay...It really moves my soul for some reason. There is nothing quite like it for me and my heart. I cannot explain it but it is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
Sadly, you'd be dead in a few weeks. Anything more than a few days/weeks in that kind of radiation would kill you.
Of course you'd be glowing green by the time you were finished doing that, heh. There's another documentary done on here by a former resident who grew up there and comes back to see his family's old apartment. That will give you a bit of a better look.
I feel like I'm getting radiation just looking at this........... oh wait I am😑
Anal
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robby serna
Don’t be that guy,...
robby serna, indeed you are. Step away from your computer, your cell phone, your television, any bananas or nearby Brazil nuts, the Sun …
Tell you what, Robbie. Put numbers to all this exposure and we'll see whether it qualifies you for food stamps.
I can’t believe I just stumbled upon this video. Even for an amateur documentarian, the content is great! Shots and visuals are absolutely stunning with creative camera angles good use of color grading. Equally as impressive is your soundtrack. Excellent use of pads and synths with minimalistic and haunting undertones that heighten what I’m seeing on-screen. You’re the complete package, Adrian. Job well done.
God Bless The Firefighters.
Amen to that, brother...
that guy with the Meter , must be mad, I'd not risk without a leaded glove.
They were all mad. Toe the Party line or die.
Indeed crazy person, if he contaminated himself his done, if radiation particles went into lungs thats it -_-
I wouldn’t be there at all!
not even wearing a dust mask, in the basement with the rotting radioactive clothes!!
He wont die soon, he will just have bigger risk od cancer
I remember watching this when I was 12 (in 2012) and I’ve always found Chernobyl so Interesting. This documentary has got to be my absolute favorite out of all of them. It tells so much with so little words. The music goes so well with the film and it’s all just beautiful. Fantastic job. (Personal favorite part of mine has to be the bus station scene and reactor 5 scene) music and the overall weather, film and all of that goes together phenomenally
Im so glad I came across this documentary. I've seen other ones on Chernobyl but this particular one had pictures/scenes I've never seen before. Thank you for this amazing piece. It breaks my heart to imagine what those people went through especially the first responders.
Here it is 2020, I’m watching this video, it’s sad about those days, but it still feels like it was yesterday. R.I.P to the ones that lost their lives, friends, families and loved ones.
Nice work at making this! Camera is stable and good quality, very detailed and interesting information, good job dude!
Other than the soundtrack overwhelming the narrative I would say that this is an excellent amateur production on a shoestring budget. Well done Sir. 👍
It's crazy that this Doc is made so Beautifully but don't have any adds on it. This was worth every add that was put in this Video from the creator. Very well put.
Geiger Counter beeps incessantly
*keeps staying at the same place for half a minute*
SquirrelsforLunch ughhhh
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The inhaling and exhaling is really annoying and doesn't really add to the effect.
Well Sir , either your very brave or very stupid ! Its NEVER a good idea to walk into a room @ 10 TIMES over the limit for Radiation absorption! And its ESPECIALLY NOT a good Idea to literally be TOUCHING the clothes that are potentially contaminated with REACTOR CORE Material !! I wouldn't be surprised if you did not feel unwell after your trip ! I wouldn't be surprised frankly, if you wee dead! The minute you underestimate Ionizing Radiation , it kills you ! So, after 6 years , am I talking to a dead man?
@@leighnassau1158 I'm curious who you are directing this comment to because it came into my mailbox.
@@leighnassau1158 That is nice of you to think that I'm a dead man but no, I'm alive, healthy and work full time in film and TV. The guide Nikolai is also well and healthy, he's since married another guide and together they have a baby boy. They still work as Chernobyl tour guides.
@@UrbexWonderland why is it on viemeo
I've seen a lot of documentaries about Chernobyl but this one is one of the best nice unique way of capturing the dangerous aftermath and especially with your low budget well done 👏
The best documentary on chernobyl that I have seen...Loved it..It's beautiful Mr Adrian...Thank you...
I wouldn't have even gone in that hospital without protective clothing
OscarDaGenius1 that’s why they are heroes and you are not
How brave are these film makers, what a big job on a personal budget,great work and courageous in the very extreme.Thank you.
Fantastic documentary. This really does have professional quality. Thank you.
The West: "There has been an explosion at a nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union."
Russia: "Nothing to see here, go about your business."
Everywhere there has been nuclear disaster. You have 3 Mile Island (USA), Chernobyl (Russia), Fukushima (Japan), and the man made/caused/intentional Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also, those at ground zero during the testing of nuclear bombs. I think it's so overwhelming that humans can't believe, or, don't want to believe the devastation it causes. Nuclear anything is a ticking time bomb. Mankind brought it into being, but still has no control over it.
soviet union is not russia you imbecile
@@user-ge4uk9ui8y don't get mad, same shit, just different sorts
The power plant isn’t in Russia/Soviet Union, it’s in Ukraine you idiots.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 True but the government was in Russia.
At 22:18, the old man says "During the Soviet times, I spend time in the [hospital] because I got a little exposed during the accident [at Chernobyl] but I never paid a ruble [for the care] and didn't even have to be in my own clothing. They provided the clothing and care and cured me, all free". At 22:37, the guide DOES NOT translate this and instead says that the old man can feel radiation. Then the guide follows this by asking the old man IF he in fact CAN feel radiation without using a Geiger counter.
I would definitely be interested in a full translation on what he said. Thank you for sharing this translation.
Thank you
DAMN! That guide just keeps measuring everything so closely!
Gusstavv's Stuff yep. makes me nervous every time he actually touches the Geiger counter to the contaminated objects.
Peppertree133 T Anything for the 'thumbs up' lol
1,300 time normal radiation....meter going crazy.....dude just puts his hand next to it......just another day in the Chernobyl complex lol
Great video, very professional and a great score, worked perfectly.
50,000 people used to live here now it's a ghost town
Cod 4 memories
Thanks for that. I had flashbacks of staying up till 4 in the morning trying not to scream at the TV because of martyrdom.
MarioDragon sorry to hear that man
I don't mean to be rude but whats a martyrdom? i do not know
william burfield A perk that makes people drop grenades when they die if I can remember correctly.
39hige1 Stalker doesn't know the grenade button from the left mouse button
S.T.A.L.K.E.R is better
this isn't just a great amateur documentary, its a great documentary. professional or not !!!!!!
From kevinblair58@yahoo.com. God Bless You All There!!!!!!. From the first responders to the Emergency Medical Technichians
Kevin Blair not now kevin, ive signed you up to 22 spam mail sites
Well done! Your audio effects were just the right mix of haunting and interesting. You must’ve done a great job of directing yourself and writing the script because you never even made a mistake! 😉
Seriously, you did a very professional job here. I must say I question the decision to go hither and yon, skipping around the radiation, but it was a great effort.
Quality all around!
Everything: **high amount of radiation**
This guy: Goes around poking at it.
STAAAHHHHP(hylocuccus) IT!!!! **ducks tomatoes**
Thank you. I'll be here all night.
The guy that captured the images from the helicopter is dead. EDit: think I read this somewhere. Did see a video interview of the guy though. Many of the helicopter pilots died, as well as many other heros. They went in without protection just to hurry up the process of enclosing the melt to protect others.
Yes. Incredibly, The photograher died in 2015.
Many of them were already dead as they made their first passes over the reactor's remains or trudged into the cooling system to shut off the water.
They kept going. It's incredible what you can do when you're already dead.
50 thousend people used live here,now its a ghost town . -Captain MacMillan
Isn't that from cod 4? I love the Chernobyl level since it happens at real places there.
Me too :)
All in One loved the leve, tho I don't think you'd find animals there
thanks for bringing back some memories :)
Best game and best level in call of duty history
A very well done documentary ! I love the background music.
This is a really great documentary, seriously well done. I wouldn't call this amateur; even though you had no budget, you still made a professional documentary.
This is a fantastic project. Many many thanks for posting it - deserves an award IMO.
Thank you!
Agreed
I'm so sorry for the children and adults who have suffered not at all in this criminal and careless accident. It was a painful lesson for the whole of humanity and such should not happen again
Sadly it did happened again
I ain't made a documentary yet. Know that you've done this piece with no money is inspirational.
Thanks!
watching this..took me back to that day..i remember it..and i had two little kids under 3..it scared me to death then..and it still does..its the monster under the bed..and its real..and it is a monster.i will continue to pray that it doesnt come back and the heros well i pray for all of them..not just the two..but the thousands..God Bless us and keep us..Amen
If that old man needs help, let me know. I'd love to help any way I can!
I hope he gets money from the tours and being interviewed. Such a nice old codger. His home made me very sad...like he just stopped caring for himself, and is merely existing. :( I wanna hug him.
Yeah looked very sad
Buy him beer and lots of
Am I the only one who finds beauty in Chernobyl?
I'm fascinated by it too, always wondered what the end of the world would look like, this is a glimpse into it.
I also find it beautiful. I think considering scientists wrote the place off for life, it is full of green trees. Nature is taking the city back and that is amazing to watch.
i love it because the animals have adapted to the site and are surviving i don't see why we can't adapt to it.. it just might take awhile.
TheLittletwitcher
Mother nature is a very powerful force, she bounces back quickly,
the natural beauty of nature lingers perpetually, despite human intervention
You're a great documentary maker, very bright future if you keep at it!
Such a well created documentary thank you for the inside information I've followed the story, and seen many documentaries but none like this one so thank you.
Well done video, Sir! Informative to say the least. Very sad seeing the firefighter suits. This is the first video I've seen of those. I can't imagine what those brave men walked into, and they had no idea what they were really up against.
Radiation scale: beeps heavily
The guy: Excellent sound😂😂
Adrian, this is by far one of the best Chernobyl documentaries I have watched. It was beautiful, captivating. Adding the sounds of children and adults into the background was a terrific idea. It did add to the sadness of what life once was and then what was lost. Beautifully done!!
Watched June 1st, 2019.
Excellent piece of work! Well done. You have a great career ahead of you as a documentary film maker.
Nicely done mate. You're going places (if you already haven't)
Fantastic documentary. Loved every second of it. Thank you for making it, and sharing with us. Much respect!
My heart goes out to all the people wrapped up in this mess. I've never felt such sorrow for things that happened 1/2 a world away and 1/2 a lifetime ago. It stretches further than my mind can truly comprehend.
Beautiful documentary. Really well paced and fitting music. Still great watching it today
One of a few places frozen in time.. It's rather sad.
Were not for those heroic firefighters, fire would have kept on and smoke would have be much more, and would have reached much farther into Western Europe. Every major city in Europe should erect a monument in their honor.
+Tonio Miklo Yes, I agree. Those firefighters are true heroes.
I agree
My grandmas brother was one of the first people to try to contaminate the spread of the radiation. 30 seconds on the roof and then you had to walk of. Even the makeshift vehicles they made to push the rubbish melted.
Dragons For The Win
It's the worst possible environment on earth to be in, no question about it.
+Dragons For The Win
It's amazing they got as much done as they did in those conditions.
Very well done!!! I watched the hole thing on the edge of my seat. Well edited and well described. Amazing documentary.
Classy job on this, nicely made.
R.I.P to those the people who died on that day
That was a beautiful documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great for an "amateur". :)
What bothers me is that they aren’t wearing any protection
BiggyNest Most people that visit the exclusion zone on guided government approved tours do not stay in the areas for long enough periods of time to expose themselves to harmful doses of radiation. Most of the time they won’t take you to heavily irradiated areas and if they do which is uncommon you spend very little time in these areas.
What you do for views
the not easy life of aldo What are you talking about?!
@@historicaltrainbusfan1067 won't take you to havily radiated areas? come on it was hospital basement, one of the highest contamined areas !, at least wear face mask, cause of particles, wind, dust...just saying
WSG Garrett It’s not impossible just not common for the average tour. Many of these areas are heavily restricted.
Incredible documentary👏 - Chernobyl - Tragic, frightening & depressing. Must NEVER be allowed to happen again on this beautiful planet of ours.
Bensun 77 shame that Chernobyl wasn't the last
darth penguin not at all, there was also Three Mile Island and Fukushima and I’m sure there will be more.
Thank you for sharing this. What lead me here was pure boredom and with the 36th anniversary of three mile island happening a few days ago I started looking up documentaries of that which lead me to Chernobyl and then you.. I then was lead to a video about the Exxon Valdez (an oil tanker that hit a reef in Alaska). I find it sad that us as humans destroy our planet doing dumb things such as these. Thank you for taking the time to make this.
when the U.S.S.R anounces something you know its serious
Beautifully made, absolute dreamy and off world feeling from the cinematography to the music! Can we go even one year without a major catastrophe somewhere in the world?
Thxs HBO for the binge I’ve been on after Chernobyl.
Just so you know this is actually my favorite documentary of all time, the atmosphere is so good.
Thanks! :)
Everything is right in this one. The sounds, the camera movement, the narration. It's just perfect.
I found it hard to understand the interview with the older gentleman. Subtitles would really help
- I was here when it happened.
- I was working for a Sovkhoz (state farm) for 12 years till the day.
- We knew about it since the first day but did not pay any attention: it was sowing time in full swing.
- He lost dead till now: his mother, 2 aunts (her sisters - on the photo), son in law, son of his cousin, all his male friends and all his male coworkers.
- His wife is ill and is in the hospital now.
This is what i could make - he speaks Ukranian and i am Russian and the sound quality is not very good.
This director won’t be an “amateur” for long. He has talent
Great documentary. Loved it. Thank you.
i live in north wales i was unaware of the radiation reaching this far you learn something new everday
Matt Davies I'm not happy about that glaf I live in South Wales still it's a long way from here and I'm stunned it got this far shame on you russia
It amazingly jumped over England and chose whales
Folks may find this sick, but visiting Chernobyl is my dream vacation or honeymoon.
Hehe, Dream vacation or DEATH WISH?
Is Chernobyl in the Ukraine?
Isn't Chernobyl in the Ukraine?
Yes, which why I'm scared shitless with Russia attacking them in recent months.
Want to play dirty? Bomb the remnants of Chernobyl. I don't trust Russia. And I can see them playing dirty.
That fact no one has considered it civilization's weak spot surprises me. We always search for the self-destruct little red button to end the world.
Nuking Chernobyl could do it.
Doubtful, but as aggressive as your opinion (and lack of tact when expressing it is) I'll respect it.
From the First Responders to fire fighters to police officers to Emergency Medical Technichians of all levels there, God Bless You All!!!!!! You did an outstanding job considering what you all faced at that moment. 💪🙏
Nicely done! Also i didnt find any problems with the audio. Good job!
I can't believe I'm only watching this now! I don't usually leave comments but this was so fascinating and informative and yet sensitively handled. And I think the calm nature of your voice was a real asset in this regard. The music was spot on throughout. This really touched my soul. Well done to you, and thank you for your efforts to bring us this documentary. 👍
Imagine that this destroyed ghost town, once had been a perfect, functionally nuclear-based city, with happy kids and families running around, playing on the playgrounds. This city functioned on it's own, without anyone's help. It had everything; shops, factories, running water etc. But now, when every human being had left the city, everything just got left to mother nature. And without human beings walking around, taking care of the city, it just began to fell apart. A very sad story, for such a nice city..
***** It really puts you into perspective on how useless humans are to the world...
+Eddie L not only useless but very dangerous too...
Yes your right but its also beautifull tomsee how nature is taking back this area. That is for me even more fasinating.
Nature can survive without us, but we can’t survive without nature. Yet many humans think they above it, as though they are God. Tsk tsk. Mother nature will show you.
Still the best doc film I’ve seen on the subject after all these years!
"There is no fire, there are not thousands of dead people, and even if there were, you couldn't prove that it was us"