Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

{{Short description|2022 documentary film}}

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| director = James Jones

| producer = James Jones

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| production_companies = Top Hat Productions

| distributor = {{Plainlist|

• Sky Studios
• HBO Max
• HBO

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| released = {{Film date|2022|2|28|df=y}}

| runtime = 91 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = {{Plainlist|

• Russian
• Ukrainian
• English

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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes is a 2022 British documentary film, directed and produced by James Jones. It tells the story of the Chernobyl disaster using personal interviews with people who were there and newly discovered, dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant, most of it never seen before in the West.{{cite news |last1=Kenigsberg |first1=Ben |date=23 June 2022 |title=Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes Review: Excavating Images from the Fallout |newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/movies/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes-review.html |url-status=live |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625223236/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/movies/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes-review.html |archive-date=25 June 2022}}{{cite web |last=Serba |first=John |date=24 June 2022 |title=Chernobyl: Lost Tapes HBO Max Documentary Review: Stream It or Skip It? |url=https://decider.com/2022/06/24/chernobyl-lost-tapes-hbo-max-review/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625223236/https://decider.com/2022/06/24/chernobyl-lost-tapes-hbo-max-review/ |archive-date=25 June 2022 |access-date= |website=Decider|publisher=NYP Holdings}} It was released for streaming on Sky UK on 28 February 2022 and on HBO platforms on 22 June 2022.