Find Movies & TV
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover
Explore
Movies & TV Shows
Most Popular
Leaving Soon
Categories
Action
Animation
Comedy
Crime
Descriptive Audio
Documentary
Drama
En Español
Horror
Music
Romance
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Western
Explore
Browse Channels
Featured Channels
CW Forever
Ion Mystery
LiveNOW from FOX
Categories
Black Stories
Hit TV
Drama TV
True Crime
Reality
News
Sports
Comedy
History & Science
Movies
Food & Home
Lifestyle
Nature & Travel
Daytime TV
Game Shows
Sci-Fi & Action
Kids & Family
Classic TV
Anime & Gaming
Chills & Thrills
International
En Español
Music
Sign In
Chernobyl
Miniseries
TV-MA
95%
97%
Add Show to Watchlist
In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
More
Where to Watch Miniseries
Max
Subscription
Max Amazon Channel
Subscription
Amazon Video
Buy $14.99
+3 more
5 Episodes
1:23:45
E1
1:23:45
April 26, 1986, Ukrainian SSR. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.
Please Remain Calm
E2
Please Remain Calm
With untold millions at risk after the Chernobyl explosion, nuclear physicist Ulana Khomyuk makes a desperate attempt to reach Valery Legasov, a leading Soviet nuclear physicist, and warn him about the threat of second explosion that could devastate the continent.
Open Wide, O Earth
E3
Open Wide, O Earth
Lyudmilla Ignatenko, a Pripyat resident, ignores warning about her firefighter husband's contamination. Valery Legasov lays out a decontamination plan, complete with human risks.
The Happiness of All Mankind
E4
The Happiness of All Mankind
Valery Legasov and Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina consider using lunar rovers to remove radioactive debris, while Ulana Khomyuk faces government hurdles in determining the truth about the cause of the explosion.
Vichnaya Pamyat
E5
Vichnaya Pamyat
Valery Legasov, Boris Shcherbina and Ulana Khomyuk risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl.
Cast of Miniseries
Jared Harris
Valery Legasov
Stellan Skarsgård
Boris Shcherbina
Emily Watson
Ulana Khomyuk
Paul Ritter
Anatoly Dyatlov
Jessie Buckley
Lyudmilla Ignatenko
Adam Nagaitis
Vasily Ignatenko
Sam Troughton
Alexandr Akimov
Robert Emms
Leonid Toptunov
Con O'Neill
Viktor Bryukhanov
Adrian Rawlins
Nikolai Fomin
Alan Williams
KGB Chairman Charkov
David Dencik
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mark Lewis Jones
General Pikalov
Ralph Ineson
General Tarakanov
Barry Keoghan
Pavel
Alex Ferns
Glukhov
Fares Fares
Bacho
Michael McElhatton
Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin
Miniseries Ratings & Reviews
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
It's hard to find a weak link in this show.
Vox
Emily St. James
It's always compelling and often terrifying.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
It's a portrait of a meltdown on too many levels to count. It doesn't take a nuclear physicist to see why it makes a lot of sense to look back on this moment right now.
Entertainment Weekly
Darren Franich
The show's best in small moments, suggesting subtly how Chernobyl revealed the existing horrors of a political system that would flail off history's stage just a few years later.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
With renewed interest in the 33-year-old disaster has come a curious sense of moralizing proprietorship - which makes you wonder what, exactly, people are getting from the miniseries.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Matt Zoller Seitz
It's hard to imagine a more despairing portrait of humanity's continuing capacity to ruin itself than this account of a disaster that's three decades old.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
Depressing as it may be, Chernobyl, created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, is a fine study in the uses of sanctioned obfuscation.
San Francisco Chronicle
Allie Pape
Chernobyl is interested in a hyperrealistic take on an autocratic society, where change is slowly and painfully chipped at from within. Its heroes aren't glamorous revolutionaries, but tweedy bureaucrats and scientists.
The New Republic
Rachel Riederer
The series is upsetting, gritty. The show's visual spectrum runs from gray to olive, the affective one from dangerous to drab. But there is something heroic-wasteful and sad, but admirable nonetheless-in the way of giant sacrifices...
Collider
Allison Keene
Chernobyl is a series where you will have to remind yourself to unclench your jaw and un-tense your shoulders while watching it. It is heartbreaking and intense, and a hell of a thing to watch the day afterGame of Thrones. But it's also necessary.
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
Chernobyl honors the heroes who saved us. "There was nothing sane about Chernobyl," Legasov says, but he was wrong. The human response to the disaster and the desire to protect the living-I can't think of anything more sane than that.
New York Times
Mike Hale
Mazin name-checks most of the pertinent facts of the story. But his cheap theatrics... detract from the real tragedy of the story.
NPR
Eric Deggans
They've done a really great job depicting the emergency... [And] It's this amped-up version of the debate that we have now about issues like global warming and our inability to agree on facts apart from political spin.
The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert
Chernobyl is a thorough historical analysis, a gruesome disaster epic replete with oozing blisters and the ominous rattle of Geiger counters, and a mostly riveting drama.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
By its finale, Chernobyl has transformed from a story about plant-operator faults to one about systematic deception...
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
"Chernobyl's" pacing slows in the third and fourth chapters, but the miniseries finishes powerfully.
AV Club
Randall Colburn
It's rare to find entertainment that imbues import into the mundane so well.
Vanity Fair
Sonia Saraiya
[Chernobyl] is not just excellent television; it's paradigm-shifting historical storytelling, the kind of tale that alters, ever-so-subtly, the texture of the real world.
Salon.com
Melanie McFarland
The performances turned in by [Stellan] Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Jared Harris are passionate and nuanced enough to compel the tough viewers to gut out the squeamish parts.
Los Angeles Times
Lorraine Ali
"Chernobyl" is a riveting drama that's full of payoffs.
Watch Miniseries Videos
Chernobyl: Season 1
Chernobyl: Season 1
Trailer
Chernobyl: Critics Spot
Chernobyl: Critics Spot
Trailer
Chernobyl: The Weeks Ahead
Chernobyl: The Weeks Ahead
Trailer
Take Plex everywhere
Watch free anytime, anywhere, on almost any device.
See the full list of supported devices
Home
Live TV
On Demand
Discover