Is the movie Containment available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?
At Stream Tracker, we take a close look at Containment (2015), a meditative documentary that digs into the long, slow afterlife of nuclear activity — the buried waste, the monuments we might build, and the stories we must pass down across millennia to warn future generations. Part observational essay, part graphic-journal rumination, the film was shot at the U.S. nuclear burial grounds, a weapons complex and in Fukushima, and it asks how to "contain" danger when half-lives outlast civilizations. In this article we’ll map where Containment can be streamed today — checking Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and Apple TV+ — and explain regional availability, rental/ownership options, and the best ways to watch if you want to confront the fallout, monuments and warnings this film raises.
Synopsis
Every nuclear weapon built and every kilowatt produced by a reactor leaves behind a toxic legacy that will outlast four hundred generations. This film follows scientists, engineers and affected communities as they confront a bewildering question: how do you communicate danger to people who will live thousands of years from now? Shot at the United States’ only nuclear burial site, inside a weapons complex and amid the ruined landscapes of Fukushima, the documentary watches current containment strategies while probing speculative solutions—monuments, engineered languages, myths and deterrent architectures—designed to endure across deep time. Equal parts observational essay and visual fable, the film mixes reportage, intimate testimony and graphic-novel–style sequences to explore how imagination and design might carry warnings forward. In the end it asks whether any message can survive the slow, relentless changes of millennia, and whether permanence is ever more than an illusion.
Watch on which platform Containment
Updated on 12/03/2026Netflix
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Disney+
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Prime Video
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