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Film and TV
The Atom Joins the Grid. Documentary film. London: British Pathé, October 1956.
The Battle of Chernobyl. Documentary film. Directed by Thomas Johnson. France: Play Film, 2006.
The Bells of Chernobyl (Ten Years Later). Documentary film. Directed by Kurt Langbein et al. NTU/BTRC/TVP/RTL/Tele Images/Strix TV/TV Asahi, 1996.
Chernobyl: A Warning [Чернобыль: Предупреждение]. Documentary film. Narrated by Lev Nikolayev. Directed by Vladimir Osminin. Moscow: Channel One, 1987.
Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks. Documentary film. Directed by Vladimir Shevchenko. Kiev: Ukrainian News and Documentary Studio, 1986.
Chernobyl: Two Colors of Time [Чернобыль: Два цвета времени]. Three-part documentary. Directed by I. Kobrin. Kiev: Ukrtelefim, 1989.
Chernobyl 1986.04.26 Post Scriptum [Чернобыль. 1986.04.26 Post Scriptum]. Documentary series narrated by Valery Starodumov. Kiev: Telecon, 2016.
; Chernobyl 3828 [Чернобыль 3828]. Documentary film. Narrated by Valery Starodumov. Directed by Sergei Zabolotny. Kiev: Telecon, 2011.
The Construction of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [Будівництво Чорнобилсьської АЕС]. Documentary film. Kiev: Ukrainian Studio of Documentary Chronicle Films, 1974. State Film Archive of Ukraine.
Inside Chernobyl’s Sarcophagus. Documentary film. Directed by Edward Briffa. United Kingdom: BBC Horizon, 1991 (rereleased 1996).
The Mystery of Academician Legasov’s Death [Тайна смерти академика Легасова]. Documentary film. Directed by Yuliya Shamal and Sergei Marmeladov. Moscow: Afis-TV for Channel Rossiya, 2004.
Pandora’s Promise. Documentary film. Directed by Robert Stone. Impact Partners, 2013.
Radioactive Wolves. Documentary film. Directed by Klaus Feichtenberger. Epo-Film, ORF/Universum and Thirteen in association with BBC, NDR, and WNET New York Public Media, 2011.
The Science of Superstorms. Documentary series. Produced by Michael Mosley. London: BBC, 2007.
The Second Russian Revolution. Documentary series. Produced by Norma Percy and directed by Mark Anderson. London: BBC, 1991.
Windscale 1957: Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster. Documentary film. Directed by Sarah Aspinall. BBC, 2007.
Zero Hour: Disaster at Chernobyl. Documentary and dramatic reconstruction. Directed by Renny Bartlett. Discovery, 2004.
Index
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Aberdeen, 353
abortion, 208, 327, 454n
absenteeism, 21
accidents, nuclear, 36–37, 62–74, 78, 112, 478n
beyond design-basis, 63, 194
casualties, 89, 94, 99, 101, 117, 118, 122, 127, 136, 179, 208–9, 220, 229, 232, 235–38, 265, 268, 299–300, 312, 315, 326, 334, 338