Hans Blix

Acting

Hans Blix

Born

1928-06-28 (98)

Place of birth

Uppsala, Sweden

Known for

Acting

Credits

8 titles

Hans Martin Blix (Swedish: [hɑːns ˈblɪks]; born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on-site and led the agency's response to them. Blix was also the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission from March 2000 to June 2003, when he was succeeded by Dimitris Perrikos. In 2002, the commission began searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, ultimately finding none. On 17 Ma…

Known for

Dispatches poster
6.5

An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.

Dispatches

1987

Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown poster
8.8

Featuring revealing interviews with survivors speaking publicly for the first time, alongside rare insight into the CIA and Soviet responses, this series exposes a web of secrecy, miscalculation, and human cost. Astonishing new footage from inside the nuclear exclusion zone reveals how this scarred landscape is once again under siege as war encroaches on one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown

2026

Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror poster
7.3

Modern history can be divided into two time frames: before 9/11 and after 9/11. This five-part docuseries is a cohesive chronicle of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., offering illuminating perspectives and personal stories of how the catastrophic events of that day changed the course of the nation.

Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror

2021

Min sanning poster
10.0

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Min sanning

2012

We Are Many poster
6.7

The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.

We Are Many

2014

The Battle of Chernobyl poster
7.5

On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just exploded. A battle begins in which 500,000 men are engaged throughout the Soviet Union to "liquidate" the radioactivity, build the "sarcophagus" of the damaged reactor and save the world from a second explosion that would have destroyed half of Europe. Become a reference film, this documentary combines testimonials and unseen footage, tells for the first time the Battle of Chernobyl.

The Battle of Chernobyl

2007

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2020s · 1 titles

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