Chernobyl: The Lost — Tapes

The film contrasts the peaceful, everyday life in Pripyat—children playing and mothers with strollers—with the sudden, invisible arrival of radiation.

The documentary’s existence is the result of a year and a half of intensive searching through state archives in Ukraine and Russia. Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

: While many assumed the KGB had destroyed all incriminating footage of the disaster, much of it survived because the cameramen and their families hid the tapes in their homes for decades. The film contrasts the peaceful, everyday life in