Static documentary:

I am researching into areas of static activity, and found this location, the island of Hashima, off the coast of Japan particularly interesting. The island was once the most densely populated area in the world, due to the size of the island being roughly the same as a football pitch. The island was home to the coal mining industry, until the coal company declared there was nothing more to be extracted and closed the mines down in 1974. Upon closing the mines, the coal company offered a limited amount of jobs back on the mainland for Hashima's inhabitants, which led to the island becoming abandoned within just a few days.
As well as this documentary, I watched a programme that recreated the Chernobyl disaster as part of a series of BBC drama documentaries entitled 'Surviving disaster'. It documents the chain of events leading up to the explosion, and the after math and catastrophic repercussions the accident had. The program is told by Valeri Legasov, a Russian scientist who was a key member of the Soviet government commission, formed to investigate the causes of the catastrophe and to plan the mitigation of the consequences. Some of the documentary was filmed on location in the town of Pripyat and inside one of the remaining nuclear reactors in Chernobyl. It was interesting to learn exactly what happened that day, and how conflicting opinions from the Soviet government caused thousands of people lost their lives due to the ill-management of the situation.