Even if you watched the Emmy-winning 2019 HBO miniseries (recommended, incidentally), “Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes” has plenty to offer as a documentary companion, presenting a former Soviet ...

THE Chernobyl nuclear disaster saw more than 1,000 square miles surrounding the power plant made into an “exclusion zone”, however, a small community still exists, a documentary revealed.

Following the interest created by HBO miniseries Chernobyl, documentary-makers have gone to Russia over 30 years after the incident to meet some of the real people involved in dealing with it.

Chernobyl Monday on HBO A version of this article appears in print on May 4, 2019, Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: A Disaster Creakily Retold.