Chernobyl (BD)

This is a series i could watch over and over and it never gets old! I needed to have a physical copy for myself and im so happy the price was marked down. Be careful opening the case tho, the disks are not held in place very well and dont snap in to the holder. No damage was on the discs which was a relief but like i said; be cautious opening it so they dont drop on the floor! Other than that little snafu, and absolutely great ride and so happy i bought it!

This miniseries looks quite good on 4K Blu-ray. The colors on this series are purposely muted so you are not going to see the colors "pop", that was a directorial choice, but you will be treated to a very sharp image with HDR, and since "Chernobyl" was actually shot and mastered in native 4K, you won't be watching an image up converted from 2K, but will be watching REAL 4K.This well acted and well written true story miniseries tells of the most infamous nuclear disaster in history--and tells that story unusually well.We see many different parts of the disaster from multiple points of view.We witness the events through the eyes of the nuclear operators in the control room of the reactor who followed proper procedure to stop the meltdown from happening and wound up unexpectedly triggering the explosion by doing so (completely unaware of the dangerous flaw in the reactor design that was ultimately responsible for what happened). We also witness events through the eyes of those firefighters on the ground who walked into a situation their training could never have prepared them for (and many of whom paid for that with their lives), we see it through the eyes of the investigators who were shocked to discover the directly exposed core so radioactive it was ionizing the smoke above the blasted and battered reactor building making it glow weirdly--and who then had to figure out exactly why the reactor did the seemingly impossible by exploding when all the proper safety measures were taken to prevent it. We also see events through the eyes of the scientist who discovers her government is lying about the seriousness of the accident when, in the process of her research, she finds the city she lives in is being dangerously irradiated even at such a distance from Chernobyl. And we witness it through the eyes of the nuclear investigator who eventually finds the flaw in the reactor design which caused the disaster, and then is shocked to discover that this same flaw is present in ALL Soviet built reactors--and who is later even more shocked to find that the government would rather make believe there was no flaw to save embarrassment to themselves, than to actually fix the ticking time bombs in their other reactors in order to prevent the same thing from almost surely happening again.My favorite of all was the final episode, in which the government hearing on the disaster takes place. By having the experts explain the technical details in ordinary everyday terms to the non-scientists on the government commission, the events of this tragedy are made just as clear to we the non-scientist viewers. And the explanation of what went wrong and why was utterly fascinating--the flawed emergency system to be used to stop a meltdown dead in its tracks when needed would really cause the reactor to do the opposite if it was actually used in such an emergency scenario!Although the series may have taken a while to draw me in, once it had me it never let go. I couldn't stop until I had watched it all the way to the end--and I'm so glad that I did! This series was very well done and truly eye opening!Chernobyl is an above average miniseries about a real life nuclear disaster and the 4K Blu-ray looks very good. As I mentioned earlier, Chernobyl was actually shot and mastered in native 4K, which rendered a superior image on the disc to many other offerings which are instead up converted from 2K masters.Why TV series and miniseries are usually not released on 4K Blu-ray the way movies are is a mystery to me. In the entire history of the format only Westworld, Chernobyl and Game of Thrones (and spin-off House of the Dragon) and now Halo have ever been released in 4K. I know buyers would swallow up 4K collections of shows like The Mandelorian, The Expanse, Loki, The Crown, The Umbrella Academy, The Orville (which looks great in 4K, but is criminally only released on disc in the standard definition DVD format--not even in high definition!), and so many others if they were simply made available on 4K Blu-ray.Never the less, we do have 5 shows available in the format and Chernobyl is one of them.I recommend the purchase of this truly fascinating miniseries on 4K Blu-ray. Since even HBO Max doesn't show any of its own programs (other than "Game of Thrones" or "House of the Dragon") in 4K for some inexplicable reason, this is the only way to view it in the format it was actually filmed and mastered in--and beyond that it is also an excellent miniseries that is very much worth seeing. You can truly see it at its very best on this 4K Blu-ray edition.

Very good movie, and historically accurate. This event was a tragedy and it’s good to see the truth come out. Nuclear power is the way to go as long as we follow the experts guidance.

This one I slept on when it released in 2019...Lost for words for the men and women who were at chernobyl. Hit me like a two ton truck with tears. For those who Sacrificed themselves to stop the reactor from melting. We would be extremely boned right about now. Now I see why we should get rid of nukes.. Scary times.

I hear in the news and in social media a great outcry about going to nuclear energy in the name of environmentalism. With the current energy supply issues world wide, that outcry has grown louder and is often led by influential voices in the scientific, engineering, and political circles.These people, who in the name of energy self sufficiency and green energy would have humanity convert to nuclear power would do well to review the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. They would do well to view this miniseries before continuing on the crusade to replace conventional energy with nuclear. The latter two nuclear accidents are STILL, after many years, leaking radioactive isotopes into the ecosphere of this tiny blue beach ball all humans call home. We only have one of these, and it is as far as we know, irreplaceable.The incident at Chernobyl, to paraphrase Valery Legasov, created conditions which have never existed on this planet before. There was not, and is not, a way to deal with nuclear meltdown. Once a meltdown occurs, there is simply no way for humans or human inventions to stop the fission process. The meltdown generates dangerous particles and toxic, radioactive contamination that is equally deadly to man and machine. Left unchecked, an exposed core such as the one in Chernobyl disaster can poison the entire planet over a period of a few months, expelling as Legasov says the equivalent of two Hiroshima bombs worth of radiation an hour indefinitely.The human race is in its infancy. It was not so long ago that the strongest, cleverest humans discovered fire, hunted with bows and spears, stuck leeches on each other to "bleed out" illnesses, believed the Earth to be the center of the universe, and why it is necessary to wash one's hands. Contrary to popular belief, unleashing the power of the atom was and is our greatest mistake, and can be likened to a baby pushing open a window and crawling over the edge to look below. I fear we will fall through that window if we continue dealing with nuclear energy with the same cavalier attitude we employ against everything else in our short 20,000 year history on this planet.The only hope is that enough people have viewed shows like Chernobyl and studied or remember history to resist the siren song of supposedly "safe, cheap, clean" nuclear energy. Nuclear energy is none of those, and no known nuclear reactor theoretical or real can eliminate the risk of nuclear meltdown. If each of the 437 nuclear powerplants in the world have a 0.000001% chance of meltdown on any given day, it is only a matter of time before the next Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima happens.We have not harnessed the power of the atom, as that denotes mastery over it. When it comes to nuclear energy, we are at the mercy of something we barely understand. By splitting the atom to generate energy we are putting ourselves in the exact same position as our cavemen ancestors would be in operating a coal, oil, or gas powerplant, and with about the same chance of containing an accident in one. The Chernobyl disaster was contained with Boron, sand, a very large and expensive teepee, and an unknown toll on the lives and health of an entire generation of people on Earth. The Fukushima disaster is actually still ongoing, and is leaking radioactive water into the largest ocean on Earth.So please, the next time you hear someone call for doubling or tripling the number of nuclear reactors on Earth in the name of clean energy, point them to this miniseries or a history book.

Excellent docu series. Excellent acting, cinematography, accuracy.

Great miniseries. Extremely relevant today in showing how important it is to have a truthful government. The Soviet Union was a bad government and did not survive one good leader, Gorbachev. Right now it isn't clear if USA will survive a bad leader who does not accept or tell the truth...

The attention to detail was also excellent; the soldier moving the microphone during the trail, and the truck about to run the gate, but the driver realizing he needed to go in reverse to prevent crushing the dosimeter were both great examples of getting the little things right.