Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare

In March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake unleashed a tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of Japan, erasing entire towns and disabling the cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare reconstructs the nine harrowing days following the disaster in real-time detail, centering the actions of those who risked their lives to avert a total meltdown.

Director, James Jones; co-director and producer, Megumi Inman; executive producers, Tanya Winston, Sacha Baveystock, James Jones, and Danny Horan. For Dogwoof: executive producers, Anna Godas, and Oli Harbottle. For HBO: executive producers, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, and Tina Nguyen.