Chernobyl: The Invisible Enemy (2021): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2021, Chernobyl: The Invisible Enemy is a documentary film directed by Roxane Schlumberger, running about 57 minutes.

What it’s about. In Ukraine, on the 26th of April 1986, a catastrophe shook the whole of Europe, and the world experienced a fatal day that became engraved in its history – A major nuclear accident at Chernobyl turned an entire city into a post-apocalyptic ghost town. Tens of thousands of lives were ruined. Today, nature has begun reclaiming the area of the exclusion zone surrounding the old power plant. But the consequences and the suffering are still felt today. Chernobyl is a lesson for the present. It warns us about the risks of our ever-evolving modern society. But Chernobyl taught us more importantly about the cost of lies. By highlighting the flaws in the Soviet Union system, it revealed how they can lead to disaster, and how the way we tell information about what really happened can cause harm. The past cannot be undone, but we can learn from it.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.1/10, Chernobyl: The Invisible Enemy has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can rent or buy it from YouTube and Fandango At Home. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Chernobyl: The Invisible Enemy page.

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