Obsessed With Chernobyl? Show¡¯s Creator Lists Movies & Books To Quench Your Thirst For More!
The holes that Game of Thrones disappointing finale left in our hearts were soon filled up by HBO¡¯s miniseries Chernobyl. The show based on 1986 nuclear disaster is currently the talk of the tow. Everybody is going gaga over it.
3) Next, Chernobyl 1:23:40 by Andrew Leatherbarrow. Andrew's book is a fantastic combination of travelogue and historic and scientific recounting of the Chernobyl disaster, and I found it incredibly helpful. Plus... he's a great guy! Buy this one!https://t.co/TaK0SqM8Qr
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
Adding to that, Chernobyl is already way to becoming highest-ranked television series of all time ¨C beating all time favourite shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.
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The last episode of the show has already aired. But apparently, fans want to know more about the incident which is considered the world's worst nuclear accident and was the cause of thousands of deaths across Eastern Europe.
If you are one of those who want to further investigate the disaster, Chernobyl producer and writer Craig Mazin has tweeted the handful of books and movies that you should check out.
These are the books and the movies that he used to research and develop the project. Check out all of Mazin¡¯s picks below!
2) These are sources I found fascinating and useful. Not ALL of them, but a bunch. First up, obviously... Svetlana Alexievich's Voices From Chernobyl. Absolutely essential, and heartbreaking, reading. There's a reason Ms. Alexievich has a Nobel Prize.https://t.co/9tEj56h8Y0
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
3) Next, Chernobyl 1:23:40 by Andrew Leatherbarrow. Andrew's book is a fantastic combination of travelogue and historic and scientific recounting of the Chernobyl disaster, and I found it incredibly helpful. Plus... he's a great guy! Buy this one!https://t.co/TaK0SqM8Qr
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
4) ABLAZE is a very well-done book from a Western historical perspective. As with a number of the books I read, it's a bit outdated simply because of when it was written, but it's an excellent recounting.https://t.co/LpLVnB18bQ
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
5) The Truth About Chernobyl is essential reading from a Soviet physicist's perspective... and Grigori Medvedev had his boots on the ground. An excellent combination of historic recounting and clear science.https://t.co/mLL0L4EVFm
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
6) The Legacy of Chernobyl is also good for an additional perspective from the inside, by a different Medvedev! (Zhores)https://t.co/fRVKeJRlcO
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
7) Chernobyl: A Documentary Story by Iurii Scherbak has some amazing stuff from a Ukrainian and Soviet perspective, including some remarkable exchanges with Legasov himself.https://t.co/FQWASXMGwO
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
8) Two others worth considering (although they are often hard to find) that rounded out my library...
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
Chernobyl: Insight from the Inside by VM Chernousenko
Chernobyl Record by RF Mould
9) Okay, now let's talk photography. My two favorites are:
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
The Long Shadow of Chernobyl by Gerd Ludvig....https://t.co/RJ7LgqTABF
10) ...and:
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl by Robert Polidorihttps://t.co/jeCb1ecjVv
11) Now let's transition to some science.
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
The primary document every hardcore Chernobyl researcher needs to read is INSAG-7... the seventh version of the report of the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group of the IAEA.https://t.co/2kONa1pqv0
12) For general reference on relative doses of radiation, interestingly enough it's XKCD that put together the most useful graphic, IMO.https://t.co/DGTsBGg5Qg
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
1) Okay... back with a short filmography for those who want to take their Chernobyl studies to the next level.
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
2) Sorry, I should say #ChernobylHBO because hashtags.
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
So first... COME AND SEE is a Soviet classic, and in my opinion, the greatest war movie ever made. It somehow manages to be restrained and unblinking all at the same time. Hard to watch. Important to watch.
3) Next, Chernobyl 3828, a documentary about the biorobots... and the long, slow battle to clean up the roof of Chernobyl. It was practically a bible for me, and almost all of Tarakanov's instructional speech to the men in Episode 4 is taken verbatim from his actual words.
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
4) Chernobyl - The Severe Days... documentary by Vladimir Shevchenko. Like 3828, it concentrates on the liquidation... and there's some remarkable footage of the miners. This is where we first saw the hand-lettered sign urging the miners to work 24/7....
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
5) The Voice of Lyumdilla is a Swedish documentary about Lyudmilla Ignatenko, directed beautifully by Gunnar Bergdahl. It's entirely about Lyudmilla (and her son!), you hear her story directly from her, and she even returns to the Pripyat flat she shared with Vasily.
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
6) Surviving Disaster was a BBC movie starring Ade Edmondson as Legasov. It's a somewhat different vibe than ours, but I think it's terrific. Side note: Ade was Vyv in The Young Ones!
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
Chernobyl seems to turn comedy people into drama people...
7) Zero Hour was a dramatization/doc made by the Discovery Channel. It's mostly notable for their use of a Russian-speaking cast paired with subtitles. The actor playing Dyatlov is pretty awesome. I'm kind of obsessed with him.
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
8) Seconds From Disaster is another dramatization/doc... this one from National Geographic. It's quite a bit longer than Zero Hour, but like that one, it's definitely pitched more for a general audience.
¡ª Craig Mazin (@clmazin) June 4, 2019
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