Chernobyl (2019)

Craig Mazin's account of the 1986 disaster turns as much on state concealment as on containment. The scenes in Kremlin committee rooms show officials weighing the truth against prestige and doctrine, and the pressure on Jared Harris's Legasov to give the approved version to the IAEA in Vienna becomes the series' moral hinge. Watch it for the way a careful sentence in an official report can matter as much as a lead-lined suit.