RUSSIA (Other than Chernobyl)


NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING AT NOVAYA ZEMLYA
The original report from ITN (International Television News) about radioactive waste dumped at Novaya Zemlya and Murmansk. Very detailed.
(11 min./English/2-1992) (Code:021/06)

VERGIFTIGD-VERKRUPPELT-VERSTRAHLT
(Poisoned, crippled, radiated)
The nuclear legacy of the USSR: scandals, accidents, and contamination
(45 min./German/4-1993) (Code: 029/03)

GEFAHR AUS DEM OSTEN
(Threat from the East)
Threat from the East: nuclear power in Russia (part 2). About the safety of Russian nuclear power plants compared to the West. (part 1 not recorded)
(45 min./German/4-1994) (Code: 040/03)

THE RED BOMB
Documentary on the Russian Manhattan-project to develop a nuclear weapon as reaction on the American project. Very extensive research
Part 1: The End of Innocence. Mainly he US Manhattan Project
Part 2: Stolen Secrets. The Russian battle for the bomb
Part 3: In the name of peace. The nuclear deterrent and its consequences
(165 min./English spoken, Dutch subtitled/8-1995) (Code: 057/01)

DIE ROTE BOMBE
(The Red Bomb)
About nuclear weapons-race en especially the testing of the largest nuclear weapons ever by the Russians on October 30, 1961: 57 megatons. The political consequences.
(45 min./German/8-1995) (Code: 060/01)

BESMET GEBIED
(Contaminated area)
One of the many documentaries about radioactive contamination near Chelyabinsk by current reprocessingplants and the 1958 accident. Health effects are still denied.
(35 min./Dutch /1-1996) (Code:060/06)

DISASTER: CRITICAL ERROR
Documentary about the 1957 Chelyabinsk accident which involved an explosion at a high level waste disposal site. About the where, how and why of this accident and the consequences. Good
(30 min./English/1998) (Code: 093/03)

LIZARD EFFECT
A documentary about the violation of civil and environmental rights and persecutions of environmentalists in Russia. Shown are cases at St. Petersburg (Nikitin), Far East (Pasko), Rostov, Kostroma etc. At times hard to understand voice over
(52 min/English/2001) (Code: 123/01)



CHERNOBYL


ROBERT GALE
Interview with Robert Gale, specialised in bone-marrow-transplantation's radiation victims from Chernobyl. About the accident, the consequences and a cure for leukaemia.
(14 min./English spoken-Dutch subtitled/9-1988) (Code:004/05)

DER MOLKE AUF DER SPUR
(On track of the Milk)
Investigation for the, due to Chernobyl, contaminated milk-powder; the attempts of the industry to sell it at third world countries and the storage. Also about low level radiation doses and permitted levels.
(45 min./German/9-1988) (Code:005/01)

WOHIN DER WIND WEHT
(Where the wind is blowing)
Two years after Chernobyl. About the consequences for humans and the environment. A.o. the radiation death of Sevchenko who made a movie about the accident. Also about protest against nuclear energy.
(45 min./German/9-1988) (Code:005/02)

RETURN TO CHERNOBYL
US-documentary from 1989: a journey to Chernobyl. What caused the accident and what happened exactly? Further a.o. the safety of the soviet reactors. Medical consequences of the accident are underestimated by the makers.
(60 min./English/1989) (Code: 020/04)

TSJERNOBYL: KRONIEK VAN BANGE WEKEN
(Chernobyl: chronicle of  frightening weeks)
The movie made by Sevchenko, who died a year later from the radiation consequences, about the first few weeks of the disaster. First a general overview of the reactions after the accident in the Netherlands.
(40 min./Russian spoken-Dutch subtitled/4-1989) (Code: 006/02)

THE POISONED LAND, THE DYING SEA
Consequences of Chernobyl and other environmental disasters in the Soviet Union and as a reaction on that the growing environmental movement in different regions.
(40 min./English/11-1989) (Code: 007/04)

THREAT
A British film director was by chance visiting the Samen in North Sweden when the accident at Chernobyl took place. He made this movie about the huge consequences for the Samen. It meant for many people the end of their economical existence, their independence, because of the contaminnation of their reindeer-stock.
(55 min./English/3-1991) (Code:011/03)

DE KINDEREN VAN TSJERNOBYL
(Children of Chernobyl)
Documentary about the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster for personnel of the reactors and especially for the children in that area.
(45 min./Dutch/4-1991) (Code:013/01)

INSIDE CHERNOBYL SARCOPHAGUS
About the search for the missing fissile material inside the Chernobyl sarcophagus. And about what to do with the sarcophagus, because the construction is very bad (full of holes) and a collapse would mean a disaster.
(50 min./English also available in Dutch/4-1991) (Code:065/01)

"ICH HABE DEN REAKTOR BEDIENT"
(“I operated the reactor")
People which are directly involved from the Chernobyl area talk about the accident and it's consequences
(45 min./German/4-1991) (Code:013/04)

'WIR WAREN IN TSCHERNOBYL"
("We were at Chernobyl")
Documentary about social and medical consequences of the accident. Filmed in Oct/Nov 1990 in the forbidden 30 km zone. Many interviews and images of the evacuated city of Prityap.
(80 min./German/4-1991) (Code:014/02)

NOI DI TCHERNOBIL
(No to Chernobyl)
Five years after the accident Wladimir Tchertkoff visits contaminated areas outside the forbidden zone and looks at health conditions and consequences. (54 minutes/Italian/1991) (Code: 177/05)

DIE ZEIT, DIE MIR NOCH BLEIBT
(My remaining time)
Report and extensive interview with Chernousenko, nuclear scientist at Chernobyl, now active as a nuclear opponent. Terminal ill due to radiation as a consequence of cleaning-activities at Chernobyl.
(45 min./German/8-1993) (Code: 030/04)

CHERNOBYL ACTION DAY 1993
Video from a.o.. Contratom on the safety of East-European reactors, motives for aid by western companies and actions on 26-4-93 to commemorate Chernobyl.
(14 min./English/1994) (Code: 043/01)

INSIDE CHERNOBYL SARCOPHAGUS II
About the work of a team in the radioactive part of the reactor. Biggest part is a repeat of the 1991 documentary with a few updates (shows that not much has changed during those five years)
(60 min./English/3-1996) (Code: 065/01)

FALL-OUT FROM CHERNOBYL
Mainly about the struggle of a WHO-representative for recognition of an increasing number of thyroid cancers in Belarus against the scepticism of IAEA and indus-try
(50 min./English/4-1996) (Code: 065/02)

ALLES IN ORDE
(Everything Allright)
Documentary about the consequences of Chernobyl. This time as an example the funeral of a 14-year old girl  Much information, very visual. Good
(45 min./Dutch/4-1996 ) (Code: 065/05)

TSJERNOBYL AARDBEVINGSGEBIED?
(Chernobyl Earthquake Area?
Report. Manipulations with geological maps and earthquake zones. Was there an earthquake 20 seconds before the accident?.
(10 min/German/4-1996) (Code: 065/06)

TSCHERNOBYL. DIE KATASTROPHE
(Chernobyl: The Catastrophe)
Especially about the first months and focused on Germany.
(45 min/German/4-1996) (Code: 067/01)

'ROTE NELKE' – EINE KRANKENSTATION FUER TSCHERNOBYL KINDER
(A Hospital for Children of Chernobyl)
About a Chernobyl Children’s Hospital in Byelorussia, paid for by German aid-organisations
(80 min./German/4-1996) (Code: 067/02)

TSCHERNOBYL 10 JAHRE DANACH
(Chernobyl 10 Years Later)
About (amongst other things) the Sarcophagus, the problems and the plans for replacing the existing one.
(45 min./German/4-1996) (Code: 067/03)

TSCHERNOBYL: SPUR DES TODES UND DER LÜGE
(Chernobyl: Trace of Death and Lies)
About overdue measures, denials and lies in Cumbria (England – contaminated meat from sheep for consumption), Corsica (increase in thyroid-cancer) and Berlin (increase of number of Down syndrome babies). Also about the 30 km zone and secrecy in Moscow. Good
(45 min./German/4-1996) (Code: 068/01)

10 JAHRE TSCHERNOBYL
(10 Years of Chernobyl)
Consequences in Byelorussia, mainly attention for aid-organisations for children. 95% of the work is done by women. Furthermore interview with Merkel (German environmental minister)
(18 min./German/4-1996) (Code: 069/01)

GEBOREN UM ZU STERBEN
(Born to Die)
About the bad health situation from (especially) the children in Byelorussia: there is a lack of everything, even heating in hospitals. People start to organise and help themselves.. Good
(30 min./German/4-1996) (Code: 070/01)

TSCHERNOBYL: DIE ANGST BLEIBT
(Chernobyl: the Fear Remains)
Chernobyl consequences in Germany (Bavaria) where the high levels of Caesium in the earth has not been decreased since 1987. Increase of new-born Down syndrome babies. Also about safety issues of western reactors, the Japanese Monju fastbreeder reactor , disaster plans and (german) decommissioning.
(50 min./German/4-1996) (Code: 070/02)

THE BELLS OF  CHERNOBYL (10 YEARS LATER)
Directors, Kurt Langbein, et al. (Langbein & Skalnik Media). A story of the Chernobyl disaster, pieced together from eyewitness accounts and historic film footage. April 26, 1986 marked the day of no return for the residents of Pripyat. Ten years later, six television teams are investigating to produce a shocking testimony. According to official figures, 125,000 people have already died from direct consequences of the explosion. Two families, living in a contaminated zone, tell us about the 2,5 million inhabitants of Chernobyl, still suffering cases of leukemia, other cancers and weakness of the immune system. With exclusive footage from the Politburo, exclusive interviews, including one of Mikhaël Gorbachev, the true circumstances of the drama are finally revealed.
Narration in English; English subtitles provided for conversations in Ukrainian and Russian.
(54 minutes/English/1996) (Code: 177/02)

LEVEN IN DE BUURT VAN TSJERNOBYL
(Living in the Chernobyl Area)
Refugees from the eastern republics (the Caucacus) in Russia are trying to built a new life in villages in contaminated areas; “at least there is no war!”
(50 min./Dutch/7-1998) (Code: 093/05)

DER ATOMFALLE
(The nuclear Trap)
Director: Wladimir Tchertkoff. Exactly what happened really at Chernobyl on 26 April 1986?  Exactly how many years will the effects of that atomic disaster last?  How many Chernobyls are being in the making in the nuclear stations of the world?  “In this documentary, the voices are heard of those affected by the catastrophe and who are still fighting for their life. For them and for future generations, these testimonies have to be heard” (also available in Italian)
(47 minutes/German/1999) (Code: 170/02)

LA TRAPPOLA ATOMICA
(The Nuclear Trap)
Dirtector: Wladimir Tchertkoff. Exactly what happened really at Chernobyl on 26 April 1986?  Exactly how many years will the effects of that atomic disaster last?  How many Chernobyls are being in the making in the nuclear stations of the world?  “In this documentary, the voices are heard of those affected by the catastrophe and who are still fighting for their life. For them and for future generations, these testimonies have to be heard” (also available in German)
(47 minutes/Italian/1999) (Code: 169/01)

EEN BEZORGD LICHAAM
(A troubled body)
A documentary about the psychological consequences of radiation accidents, which can (and will) manifest itself on a physical level. Reports on Chernobyl and Harrisburg
(25 minutes/Dutch/2-1999) (Code: 143/05)

YURI & GALINA BANDAZHEVSKY
Interview by Wladimir Tchertkoff with Yuri and Galina Bandazhevsky in Gomel, April 2000 about their Chernobyl related health research and about Yuri being prosecuted after being framed by secret service. He was arrested in July 1999 and conditionally released pending trial in December 1999
(30 minutes/Russian, English subtitled/2000) (Code: 177/04)

LA VIE CONTAMINÉE
(Contaminated Life)
By David Desrame & Dominique Maestrali. Byelorussia, a former Soviet republic, a small state jammed between Poland, Russia and Ukraine; it is the territory most affected by the explosion, in April 1986, of Chernobyl.  Twenty years after the catastrophe, this investigation, filmed clandestine, shows the consequences for the population at the contaminated zones.  Human life, wildlife and flora, water and earth...  Everything is touched by this poison residue and new effects are discovered regularly.
(52 minutes/French/2001) (Code: 177/01)

TSJERNOBYL
(Chernobyl)
About the (political) measures in the Netherlands in the first weeks after the April 1986 Chernobyl accident. Special attention for the deeds and views of the Administrative Co-ordination Centre
(35 min./Dutch/4-2001) (Code: 128/06)

POUVONS-NOUS VIVRE ICI?
(Can we live here?)
French documentary about ETHOS, a French project to monitor and improve children’s health in Belorussia (the health of children is very bad due to Chernobyl) .
(57 min./French/2001) (Code: 164/01)

LIFE IN THE EXCLUSION ZONE
English author Marcel Thoreau  visits the Chernobyl reactor (Pripyat, and the forbidden 30km zone) at the time the last operating reactor was shut down (end of 2000)
(26 min./English spoken, Dutch subtitels/2001) (Code: 133/06)

TSCHERNOBYL – DER MILIONENSARG
(Chernobyl – the costly coffin)
Documentary focusing on the sarcophagus of reactor-4, but also how much of the nuclear fuel is still inside the reactor: how much is actually molten? Less than expected, much is burned and escaped
(30 min./German/2-2002) (Code: 133/04)

NUCLEAR CONTROVERSIES (Atomic Lies)
Documentary by Wladimir Tchertkoff about a conflict in interest between two UN agencies, directly responsible for the allevation of the health consequences of  the Chernobyl accident: the IAEA and the WHO. This film is a report of the 2001 International Chernobyl Conferences where this conflict of interest was obvious.
(41 min./Available in English, German, Russian/2002)
(Code: 152/01 German; 153/01 Russian; 153/01 English)

ALEXEI TO IZZUM
(Alexei and the Spring)
The story of the Belorussian village of Budsche, 180 km from Chernobyl, were 600 people lived at the time of the accident. 55 people refused to leave the village that disappeared from the official maps…
Directed by Motohashi Seiichi. Original Belorussian version with English subtitles
(104 minutes/English subtitles/2002) (Code: 167/01)

LE SACRIFICE
(The Sacrifice)
Directed by Emanuela Andreoli and Wladimir Tchertkoff. On the day of the explosion and in the months that followed the Chernobyl meltdown, about one million men, called ‘liquidators’, were thrown into terrifying radioactive conditions to smother the fiery reactor and clean up the nuclear aftermath near and far. Tens of thousands died in the weeks and months that followed… and they are still dying. In this powerful film, Emanuela Andreoli and Wladimir Tchertkoff take audiences back to that fearful time through first-hand accounts of the people who experienced it.
(24 minutes/French spoken, English subtitled/2003) (Code: 168/01)

CHERNOBYL HEART
The Academy-Award winning film by Maryam deLeo, shockingly and movingly depicts the continuing effects of radiation on the children of Belarus, the country most affected by the Chernobyl disaster. The film was inspired by and shows the work of Chernobyl Children's Project International. The film follows an October 2002 delegation of CCPI representatives into the "exclusion zone," to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and follows the invisible trail of radiation to the country's hospitals, cancer centers, orphanages, and mental asylums.
(38 minutes/English/2004) (Code: 172/01)

CHERNOBYL
Lecture by Natalia Kilic during the NPRI symposium: Nuclear Power and Children’s health
(6 min./English/10-2004) (Code: 149/04)

DISASTER AT CHERNOBYL
This dramatised Zero Hour History Television series showing the final hour leading up to Chernobyl disaster, tracking happenings as they unfold, minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split-screen to follow key players, the series reveals the chilling lead-up to the nuclear meltdown. Uses previously undisclosed facts and eyewitness reports to reconstruct the events of the last fateful hour. (first minute missing)
(60 minutes/Dutch/2005) 181/01

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER
BBC series. Surviving disasters. Drama documentary about the 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear plant which released four hundred times as much radiation as the Hiroshima bomb. The story is told from the perspective of scientist Valeri Legasov, who committed suicide (in April 1988). The reconstruction exposes the disturbing truth that victims of Chernobyl were victims of secrecy and denial by those in authority, who believed the threat of the truth was far worse than the threat of the radiation itself. Dramatic episodes and documentary material are combined in order to explore the horror of the devastating nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in 1986.
(60 min./English/1-2006) (Code: 164/04)

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER
(idem) Shortened Dutch version of the BBC documentary
(38 minutes/Dutch/4-2006) (Code 171/01)

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Dutch documentary about Kostin, the first photographer at Chernobyl, and who made the famous photo from the helicopter from the burning reactor. About his work and his health.
(16 minutes/Dutch//4-2006) (Code 171/02)

TSCHERNOBYL UND EUROPA
(Chernobyl and Europa)
France 2006, Director: Dominique Gros. “The documentary is a neutral report and tries to give a sober and sometimes even ‘clinical’ overview of the consequences of the nucleaer catastrophe. Filmed are the main routes of the radioactive cloud: Norway, Greece and Belorurussia.  Through computer animation the route of the cloud between April 26 and May 9 1986 has been reconstructed”.
(57 minutes/German/4-2006) (Code: 170/01)

ALL-INCLUSIVE
The film crew joins a tourist trip to the 30 kilometer zone: a popular destination for tourists who visit Ukraine.
(29 minutes/German/4-2006) (Code: 170/04)

HEAVY WATER
A Film for Chernobyl. Directed by Phil Grabsky & David Bickerstaff. “To commemorate the 20th anniversary this film uses works from Mario Petrucci’s award winning book-length poem for Chernobyl (…) to tell the story of the explosion and its catastrophic aftermath.”. Very beautiful!
(52 minutes/ English/2006) (Code: 165/01)

NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES
Do we have to rethink the dangers of radiation? (Horizon episode) According to LLRC: We have never seen such utterly biased reporting in our entire existence. There was not an iota of balance, not the ghost of any attempt to offer a countervailing scientific opinion, not the faintest suggestion that people exposed to Chernobyl fallout had actually been dying or sickening at a rate in excess of the absolutely undeniable. "Nuclear Nightmares" was, as its preliminary media spin suggested, it would be flat out pro-nuclear propaganda.
(50 minutes/English/6-2006) (Code: 181/03)

HOYb. ANKHOIO B20 NET
Help. Chernobyl 20 years

Remembering Chernobyl. DVD produced by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Focusing mainly on workers, liquidators and inhabitants of Pripyap. Some footage but also picture slide shows and newspaper clippings
(Ukrainian/2006)(Code: 191/01)