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.
Airdate: 2019, May 06
Season 1 Episode 1
about the show
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
cast
Jared Harris as Valery Legasov
Stellan Skarsgård as Boris Shcherbina
Emily Watson as Ulana Khomyuk
Paul Ritter as Anatoly Dyatlov
Jessie Buckley as Lyudmilla Ignatenko
Adam Nagaitis as Vasily Ignatenko
Sam Troughton as Alexandr Akimov
Robert Emms as Leonid Toptunov
Con O’Neill as Viktor Bryukhanov
Adrian Rawlins as Nikolai Fomin
Alan Williams as KUK Chairman Charkov
David Dencik as Mikhail Gorbachev
Mark Lewis Jones as General Pikalov
Ralph Ineson as General Tarakanov
Barry Keoghan as Pavel
Alex Ferns as Glukhov
Fares Fares as Bacho
Michael McElhatton as Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin
USA – UK | HBO – Sky One | 2019