Side-by-Side Comparison of HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ With Actual Documentary Footage From the 1986 Disaster
Video essayist Thomas Flight (previously) juxtaposed the footage from the HBO series Chernobyl with actual documentary footage taken from the horrific disaster that occurred at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 in order to show how closely fiction followed fact. While the timeline in the series was sped up and at least one character (Ulana Khomyuk played by Emily Watson) was a composite of many real people, to their credit, series creator Craig Mazin and show crew wanted to ensure that the viewer's experience was as close to real as they could get.
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