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Name: Chernobyl
Genre: drama

Chernobyl has an iRankMovies score of 87.1/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Chernobyl (2019)

What is the cost of lies?

Release:2019

Seasons:1

Country:United Kingdom

Director:Carolyn Strauss, Craig Mazin

Language:English

Genre

Drama

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Keywords

Based On True StoryDisasterMiniseriesNuclear Catastrophe1980sChernobyl Ukraine

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Chernobyl rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

TMDb8.709/10· 8K votes

About Chernobyl

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 of Chernobyl

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 KGB Chairman Charkov
David Dencik
as Mikhail Gorbachev

Our take on Chernobyl

HBO's miniseries reconstructs the 1986 nuclear disaster with chilling procedural precision — the explosion, the cover-up, and the scientists and ordinary workers who sacrificed everything to contain it. It's a horror story about lies meeting physics, as gripping as any thriller and far more unsettling for being true. If its dread, detail and moral fury held you, seek out fact-based historical dramas that turn real catastrophe into unbearable, clear-eyed tension.

Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026Methodology Data sources

Episodes: 5