Although chiefly a straightforward — and at points repetitive — synopsis of the events, "Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare" distinguishes itself in its devotion to elevating these men as heroes.

While essentially a disaster film, the visually alarming and nerve-racking “Fukushima” is also a cross-cultural psychodrama, about an industry, and perhaps a society, having a meltdown all its own.

A solid, albeit slightly uneven doc chronicling the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and near nuclear meltdown in Japan.

The doc includes lots of amazing on-the-ground footage from the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear accident, while juxtaposing that with old cartoons of government propaganda