Other remarkable films or series dated 2019 were True detective (Season 3) (8 episodes) Mindhunter (S2) The Irishman 1917 (Nineteen seventeen) Once upon a time... In Hollywood Criminal: Germany El Camino - a Breaking Bad movie Joker Black Mirror: Smithereens

But Chernobyl was the most commendable miniseries, honored by no less than ten Prime Time Emmy Awards. This fictional documentary, filmed in Lithuania, largely on the site of a disused nuclear power plant similar to that of Chernobyl, retraces the precise course of events from the day of the explosion. It features the main protagonists of the event, Anatoly Dyatlov, the chief engineer who was in command of the reactor, Boris Shcherbina, vice-president of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, seconded by Mikhail Gorbachev to limit the effects of the disaster, Valery Legasov who assisted him and publicly denounced the failures in securing RBMK reactors, etc. Other characters were imagined by scriptwriter Craig Mazin, such as Ulana Khomyuk, a physicist from Belarus, a neighboring state of Chernobyl. The film raised some controversy. Some noted inaccuracies: for example, irradiation cannot cause the photogenic skin burns complacently smeared across the screen. However, the Russian press praised the historical truth of the series. No one can dispute that the leaders of the USSR recognized the accident only after it was revealed by satellite photos and by abnormal readings of radioactivity in Sweden. The Soviets then attempted to minimize the effects of the explosion and waited years before correcting the anomaly at its origin, under pressure from abroad.

The three main roles, those of Valery Legasov, Boris Shcherbina and Ulana Khomyuk are intensely held by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson, surrounded by many secondary characters, firefighters, miners, divers who intervened, at the sacrifice of their health, even their lives, among the some 600,000 people requisitioned by the authorities to deal with a disaster which, according to Mikhail Gorbachev, was one of the causes of the collapse of the Soviet bloc, five years later. The empathy of these fictitious secondary characters adds to the documented relationship of the accident, and the emotional involvement of the viewer.