The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
6.6/10

Deepwater Horizon
2016
6.9/10

Cave Rescue
2019
5.9/10

Gray Lady Down
1978
6.5/10

NYAD
2023
7.1/10

World Trade Center
2006
6.1/10

Invasion
2020
6.9/10

The Finest Hours
2016
6.6/10

Ladder 49
2004
6.5/10

On Fire
2023
6.3/10

Alive
1993
6.9/10

The Impossible
2012
7.4/10

Only the Brave
2017
7.5/10

Volcano
1997
6.0/10

Everest
2015
6.8/10

Dunkirk
2017
7.5/10

Fire
2020
7.8/10

Tenzing
2026
8.3/10

The 33
2015
6.4/10

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2017
6.3/10
The Mighty
1998
7.2/10