"Countdown To Looking Glass" (1984) Cold-War USSR Nuclear Attack Film

[@greggd2027]

I saw this movie when I was a teenager.. and remember how frighteningly realistic it was. Especially the last 20 minutes or so. I have thought of it often, as well as The Day After, Threads, etc. And I've thought how fortunate we were to have made it through this time without nuclear war. Now fast forward to 2022, and the madness is unfolding again 😳

[@thefrase7884]

We will really have no clue how a real life scenario would play out. We really can’t say this is realistic. All of these nuclear Armageddon acts are way underplayed

[@Rambonii]

The news woman was in tremors 2 aftershock

[@NYCamper62]

Watched this film when it came out I was a year or so out of the Navy. Didn't sleep for two days.

[@kelleygreenEmpressOne]

I watched threads this morning...

[@Aengus42]

@@kelleygreenEmpressOne I spent day picking shrooms on Dartmoor & we wondered who amongst our friends would appreciate a visit from a car full of tripping, happy, bouncy people with fresh mushrooms to spare. We chose some friends of ours in a cottage on the coast. Deep in the woods with looking over sea. No streetlights, no any lights! We knocked and they said "Hey! Sit down. Threads is about to start... So we left a large cardboard nox full of shrooms in the middle of the floor for people to help themselves if they wanted some.... and we watched! I got as far as an injured cat trying to get out of a pile of rubble & I couldn't take any more! I went into the kitchen & we formed the "Who gives a toss anyway!" club! Slowly more & more people came out. We made big, comforting cups of tea there were loads of hugs to be had. Threads was just too much on mushrooms! I've seen it since & that single scene is still seared into my mind. And every time I see it it takes me straight back to that farmhouse kitchen. The hot tea, the hugs & the "Who Gives a Toss Anyway Club! We all cared. That's why it was too much! And that poor moggy... 😱

[@rustymascari7554]

I was on active duty in the USAF, working communications on the National Emercency Airborne Command Post, from 1981-1986. These movies were almost surreal in the accuracy of some aspects of the information. The cold war movies were a real reminder of how vulnerable we could be to a bad choice. All I will say is our checks and balances were above question.

[@rd264]

the US is "vulnerable" and its people are terrified because they are controlled by a ruthless military Empire that does not respect its people or other countries in the slightest.

[@marcd2743]

@@rd264 Haven't had a nuke war yet have we?

[@Sunny25611]

My dear brother George was also may he RIP😔

[@KtotheL]

Thank You for your Service !

[@DaOvaseea]

Brother, you said it. I was in the AF 1980-2000, mostly in intelligence. When I first saw this movie, I was TDY in western NY Fall of 1984. I walked in the hotel room & this was already on. Not knowing the local channels, I thought this was a real broadcast for a few minutes. I realized it was a movie when I started flipping channels looking for coverage on other channels & no other channel had coverage. & a Phil Rizzuto “The Money Store” commercial calmed my nerves…lol

[@mnirwin5112]

The really frightening thing about this movie is how events escalated so quickly from a local issue to a nuclear nightmare.

[@dunxy]

Yup, scary times then, still scary now...

[@baldeagle4308]

The similarities to today are even scarier.

[@barnabycat7002]

It wasn't a local issue that precipitated the events in the story. The bizarre over-reaction of the people and US gov to 3 (commercial?) banks closing from 3 SA countries defaulting (on what I can only assume were foreign debt obligations) is the actual start of events. The widespread violence and unrest in the Middle East is plausible as is a person or group attacking an embassy of the country deemed responsible but it would be the same in the US if not worse eg if you have $10 in your wallet, that's all you have to live on until further notice because there are no checks being taken, there is no use of credit and the $3b taken out by some has nowhere to go so it just collects at stores -- remember, there is 0 banking of any kind happening. I'm just guessing that this is one of or based on one of Bloomfield's (in the movie) own wargames but it is severely flawed.

[@livetotell100]

That's how it usually happens. I was 10 in 1984. We lived through this possible scenario. Imagine wondering if this was your last few days on Earth. Just wondering if the "bomb" would drop. The 1980's and early 1990's were an awesome time to live, yet scary as well.

[@HobbyOrganist]

all it takes is one conflict and then one renegade, drunk or suicidal guy in the field or air to make a stupid move that starts WWIII, it could be as simple as a renegad pilot in a jet firing on the other side's jet or launching a small nuke missile from a mobile platform

[@russchiappa4870]

Forty years later and we are in the same looped nightmare

[@straywolf77]

Right?

[@axelscharf2415]

Even worse .

[@azaretskyc]

The time has come. It will happen this time. Make sure you are right with God.

[@jw325]

@EL TORERO no matter where you are on earth you will not escape the effects of a full blown nuclear war, you will have to deal with the fallout and nuclear winters for years, those who would be taken in the first seconds of the war will be the lucky ones

[@jw325]

@EL TOREROlots of nukes have been dropped in war? Only two ever have been used in war, but one or two nukes dropped and tested every few years is one thing but having a few thousand dropped within minutes/hours of each other will be a bad day for everyone no matter where you are on the planet. And dont forget some of the targets will be nuclear power stations so you need to take that into account. But if you think you wont be affected in Argentina then good luck to you but you will suffer a slow death from starvation

[@alals6794]

Whoa.....I watched all 1 hour and 27 min......thank you for putting this up on youtube. More people should watch it.

[@unknownfilmmaker777]

It feels like this movie is now a couple steps closer to being real.

[@machellebarrington9476]

FACTS✌️💯

[@Troy-sn2hi]

The secretary of defense had a heart attack 😂😂😂 and now? 😂😂😂

[@ToddBrooks-o5m]

Just a few ?!?!

[@marksretrogames9297]

It is turning out like that but ww3 will never happen there is know winners

[@tobiojo6469]

It really is

[@mikekopack6441]

I remember watching this as a 11 yr old. Back in those days the threat of nuclear war was so high that it nearly consumed the zeitgeist. This and "The Day After" really freaked a lot of people out...

[@D4rkMatter1975]

Don't forget Threads that film is even scarier in it's realism than The Day After, although they are both great movies

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

the USSR had a great disinformation deo't back then.

[@mottthehoople693]

@@D4rkMatter1975 Dawns Early Morning Light is another good one

[@PedroVera]

@@mottthehoople693 that's the nuclear triad right there: The Day After, By Dawn's Early Light, and Countdown to Looking Glass. I was 12 when The Day After came out and it shocks me how well these three movies have survived the test of time.

[@mpalfadel2008]

Ahhh The good old days when total destruction was imminent n cartoons depicting warfare were the norm

[@mgaamerica9185]

What was so great about this movie was how much it resembled actual news cast, and world news of the time.

[@noahhyde8769]

And world news now, too, actually. And the worst part? The roles have been almost completely reversed, as to who are the bad guys needlessly instigating and escalating things.

[@sheep3370]

@@noahhyde8769 No they haven't

[@bapples]

Check out Special Bulletin (1983) same type of movie

[@StoutProper]

@@sheep3370yeah, they have. Your name checks out

[@davedixon2068]

I was in the RAF and based in West Germany during 1980, looking at the world today I am far less confident that a nuclear war can be avoided as there are far more unstable leaders with nuclear weapons under their fingers.

[@crocodile1313]

You got that right my British friend! As an American, I tremble at the thought of any similar crisis happening with our inept "leadership" in charge today.

[@subzero3056]

Positive

[@Sweetwater20120]

It’s what happens when you let the north koreans and iranians het nuclear weapons

[@jimbotron70]

​@@Sweetwater20120 You sound like the proverbial wolf and lamb in Aesop's tale.

[@Sweetwater20120]

@@jimbotron70 well the west could have stopped this, if obama had given the requested arms to Israel it could have kept iran from them and if The world would have kept other nations from selling the technology to north korea then they wouldn’t have them

[@marksamuelsen2750]

I was stationed at SAC HEADQUARTERS Offutt AFB near Omaha, Nebraska back in 1973 I had a chance to take a look inside a Looking Glass aircraft. A mechanic let me take a 5 minute peek and I remember thinking how High Tech it looked. lol I was impressed looking at the Generals seat where he would start WW3 If he had too.. Very strange. I’m worried more today than back then about WW3

[@watchman4835]

The next war for the United States will be over extremely quick, at least for the United States... Since the mid-1980s, God has been sending His warnings that the United State will be destroyed in a nuclear attack from China, Russia, and possibly one other country. In April 1994, the Holy Spirit whispered in my left ear to lead me to the first of three pastors whom God had gave visions of the destruction of the U.S. One pastor stated, he saw submarines rising to the surface of each oceans and the Gulf and firing their nuclear missiles. God has never allowed the destruction of a nation nor of its' people before first sending His warnings, hoping that the hearts of the people might turn to Him to be saved. With the destruction of the U.S. the remaining countries will embrace the NWO agendas, and the NWO leader, who will be the Antichrist will sign a seven-year peace treaty, and this action will usher in the beginning of the Seven-Year Tribulation Period, a period in which many pastors have said, approx. three-quarters of the Earth's population will perish. God is about to save the born-again Christians in the blink of an eye; however, God is not going to save this wicked nation and people who have slaughtered 70 million of the most innocent of all life in the womb of their mothers, nor will God save those who have rejected His gift of salvation through Christ Jesus. There is none of us so good that we do not need God’s forgiveness, and there is none of us so bad that we cannot receive God’s forgiveness for our sins. Seek Christ Jesus today, tomorrow is not promised to anyone.

[@MrJest2]

Back then, it was made very clear to us - those of us with our "fingers on the trigger" so to speak - that _we_ were the final arbiter and decision gate in any such use of nuclear weapons. At the end of the day, politicians and senior brass could shout orders until they were blue in the face... but the final deciders were *us* - the pilots and crew. And we all knew that only in the most grave and extreme circumstances would we ever deploy those weapons. I am not sure today the same gravely serious and careful consideration applies....

[@elizabetherne556]

I live in northwest Iowa about four hours from that base. I’ve been there to a few air shows. I’ve always wondered what they had tucked away and hidden there considering it’s a pretty important base. Why it’s tucked within all the missile fields is beyond me. I think about how just where I live is dangerous with all the missiles actually very close. Then I’ve thought how if Russia or North Korea decided now was time that I would not have a nice life if I survived.

[@WMGIII]

Hello fellow airman. While you were at SAC HQ I was at HQ 20th NORAD in Virginia (air defense for Southeast U.S.) Had just come on duty for swing shift after the day shift finished a war game when the code boxes on the wall switched their DEFCON Levels and WEAPONS Levels. Really gave me quite a start! Those were the days eh? Cheers!

[@nikita-fm7ij]

I think a part of this is the fact that all the superpowers of the world had a fairly safe amount of space regarding their borders to be confident that they'd be able to retaliate to an attack or in the case of a conventional war, have space to delay the need for use of nuclear weapons in the form of central and eastern Europe. However with the technology of the day, both military and civilian, and the cultures of the nuclear powers, it's possible to cause a nation to fall to civil war or for a decapitation strike as could be the case with how close NATO borders are to Moscow and Beijing. I'll admit to having a bias but I'm just saying what I think of the matter from my perspective, feel free to share your thoughts and I promise to not call anyone names if you promise the same.😅

[@Howie900]

I was born in the 60's and grew up through the cold war. I recall as a young man the early 90's how we looked forward to a bright new future without this threat. Here we are in that bright new future ....... I honestly think we were better off then in the 70's and 80's. What a screw up !

[@TheForbinExperiment]

I completely agree. They were claiming the “end of history” in the early 90s. It didn’t last long.

[@--Skip--]

Oh, Eric Sevareid! What a legendary reporter! Real news reporters like him are sorely missed.

[@harriettanthony7352]

Nope not so; yet another mouthpiece of Washington to craft an 'approved 'outcome

[@Oddballtech]

John 3 16-21! 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

[@ryancoulter4797]

Patrick Watson. Part time anchor. Part time newsman. Part time documentarian. And all of it on one leg. RIP

[@claytondusauzay6745]

Wow. Didn't realize he died a few months ago.

[@Praise___YaH]

Guys, HERE is The Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Egyptian Semitic: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moshe (Moses) wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Egyptian Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"

[@electronixTech]

I didn't realize that either. I thought he passed away years ago.

[@arthurweems2839]

Reminds me of the Late Don Harrison on CNN Headline News. He had one legs alsom

[@mikegallant811]

Patrick was an amputee? Interesting.

[@JamesSmith-je7vf]

I paraphrase a quote from this Docudrama I found poignant: “If the present leaders don’t have the will and wisdom to intervene now, back-up and stop the escalation, then god will have to forgive them because no one else will be left behind to do it.”

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@jkeelsnc How do we stop Putin?

[@Hand-Solo852]

@@RideAcrossTheRiverwith nukes

[@jwales8133]

​@@RideAcrossTheRiverhow do we stop the MIC?

[@justmyownpersonalopinion]

Humanity is at fault

[@YoungGagarin]

I'm Russian, it's very difficult for me to watch films like this. I grew up in the USSR, with everyone saying that nuclear fallout would happen at any moment. If you can find it on the internet, there is a Russian film on this same topic. It was produced in the Soviet era, and is called "Dead Man's Letters". It is a record of nuclear destruction from the Soviet perspective. It tells about an old professor of natural history, who survives the nuclear war by taking refuge in the bunker beneath the Moscow library. He survives the devastation along with a group of children and some other employees. He lives there, sick and weakened. And in addition, he tries to keep children's hopes alive so that they can build a better world, if it continues.

[@stmartinregis8957]

A great cold war theme movie!

[@keithlillis7962]

I am English and old enough to remember the Cold War and the then USSR. I believe that the USSR was less likely to start a full-scale war than Putin is today.

[@YoungGagarin]

​@@keithlillis7962Nuclear weapons have the same function on both sides. They serve to threaten and give power to their owners. I must remind you that the US was the only one to use the weapon. Putin has fewer nuclear weapons than the USA. I don't like the position he has put us in, but I don't understand what the difference is between Russia and the USA. The harm we were doing to Ukraine was no greater or lesser harm than the harm done against Iraq. A country that was once the greatest civilization in the world is now in ruins. And no one, absolutely no one did anything against them! There were no sanctions and there were no boycotts.

[@berlinlion]

@@keithlillis7962 Putin paranoia, if anyone starts a 3rd world war it will be America with its murderous foreign policy and it's little puppy dog the UK

[@SurnaturalM]

It was translated in German, as I was living in Dresden at the time and remember seeing this film. We were likely one of the target and we were afraid too. I was 15.

[@Morcaiden]

That final sequence with Scott Glenn, damn...still packs a punch 40 years later.

[@marypartridge5154]

I thought we were talking about Alan Turin????? And God has nothing to do with religion. Religion is invented by man.

[@18dmedic]

@@marypartridge5154 hater and may your soul rot in Hell.

[@patrickscalia5088]

It does indeed. Even having some idea of where things were going in the plot, that last scene was a real shocker. It made me gasp. I hope many many people watch this remarkable movie. All of the "experts" that the media in the film consult were not fictional. They are the real thing. It's a movie with some real impact. And believe me, you will learn a lot. Legitimately learn real things from real experts. I would love to know how the preparation went for this movie, inviting real pundits and experts to step into the camera and tell us what they know. Amazing that so many chose to participate. And that news anchor? I forget his name but he was a renowned and well-liked newsman in Canada.

[@FrickingLunatic]

@@patrickscalia5088 the guy who played Don Tobin? i know this was in 1984, but there's an actor that looks like him to me now. i can't even place this guy in a movie right now.... but i thought Tobin's performance was very good

[@patrickscalia5088]

@@FrickingLunatic My understanding is that the actor who played Don Tobin wasn't actually an actor. If what I've read is accurate, he's actually a very well known and admired news anchor for one of the nationwide Canadian networks. Sort of a Canadian Walter Cronkite. If that's true all he was really doing was playing himself. Not that it takes anything away from his performance. He was fantastic. I don't know his real name. But it wouldn't be hard to pause the credits on the movie and find out that way. Unrelated, but I usually try to plug this on any comment I leave dealing with any nuclear war movies. The most realistic, the best acted, and no kidding the most gut-wrenching and horrifying movie depicting the run-up to war and the war itself is the 1984 BBC movie Threads. Hands down it's the most amazing and hard-hitting movie in the genre. Not because it's gory or gross but because it's unrelentingly believable. Threads is available to watch on KZbin if you just do a search for it. It's my vote for the most frightening movie ever made. Like Countdown to Looking Glass, Threads too is a docudrama in that it to gives you information along with the entertainment. And the movie gives you these horrifying facts in a dry, calm manner that only adds to the dread and panic the movie evokes. One of the most effective ways they ratchet up the tension and dread is by having televisions and radios, always in the background of scenes, playing a series of public announcements called "Protect and Survive" that tries to tell citizens how to prepare for nuclear war. The were real, produced by the government and BBC to broadcast in the event a real nuclear war was threatening. Though they try to tell people how to prepare, the only thing you can come away with is that if it actually happens, there's NO way to prepare. It's futile and you will probably die. Fast or slow. Each one of those announcements ends with a little musical blurb that by the end of the movie every time you hear it your stomach is going to knot up on you. Threads: if you like movies about nuclear war and haven't watched it yet, believe me, you should. Don't expect to have an easy time getting to sleep after.

[@Medic91101]

Missed this one back in the day. Good timing posting this. The more things change....the more they stay the same. 😕

[@legneil]

Yeah great timing with Joe in office lol

[@andrewdaley5480]

You got lucky this is the best quality upload I've seen of this film. 🇬🇧👍

[@colinstewart1432]

@@legneil He thinks the Red Button is to order ice cream 🤣

[@FinalFront]

One of the biggest things I noticed in this is how the media outlet is so insistent on getting confirmation before airing anything. They refused to air a story based on just one source from the white house, it had to be at least two & they needed to be reputable. These days all the corporate media outlets like CNN & MSNBC constantly broadcast total lies while claiming they "received the information from an anonymous source in the white house". Just look it at how they spent the last 4 years claiming the election was stolen & trying to overthrow a democratically elected government.

[@utubewatcher806]

Preview to the Gulf War.

[@nizloc4118]

For anyone interested in this, look up "By Dawns Early Light" Its on here too. Great movie...

[@MAGABorderSolutions]

Watch Threads (if you havent already) It makes By dawns early light look like a disney movie. Be warned, its a hard watch but brilliant.

[@piotrd.4850]

@@MAGABorderSolutions The Day After makes "By Dawn's Early Light" (Btw: terrific movie) like Disney, while "Threads" makes "The Day After" look as Day at the races.

[@georgemonk4918]

I love By Dawn's Early Light, the movie is based on the book Trinity's Child. I was lucky enough to find it in a library once and have looked for a copy to add to my personal library ever since, but have been unable to do so. If your c lucky enough to find it anywhere, do yourself a favor and grab it.

[@SloaneLasers]

Yes, and also Twighlight's Last Gleaming.

[@xennial7408]

As I kid, I "accidently" watched "When the Wind Blows". Thought any cartoon would be for kids that time. 🙂 It was a disturbing thing, although I did not understand most of it.

[@bancte]

The News Anchor Actor is incredible. Better than any actual news anchor I know of today.

[@dawnwinter8867]

Better B Cor actors

[@kellyvaters1689]

That's because he was an actual news anchor, Patrick Watson. He was a presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for years and years.

[@mark33545]

It’s because the news is so much less fake then.

[@Sunny25611]

@@kellyvaters1689yes 3 of them were actual newscasters. . And a Very young Newt 😂

[@wonderdog1210]

stay classy saudi arabia

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

Slow paced, but intense. Those days they understood to make movies. No CGI crap, no goofy jokes, just pure suspense.

[@leroy.jackson.4804]

It almost became a ⚱️ Right.

[@Switcharoo12]

This was a serious matter back in the day for sure.

[@thomashenshallhydraxis]

It’s amazing how movies have changed to Michael Bay style. I’ve been watching 80’s movies lately and that was last decade of decent cinema.

[@bobabooey4537]

Your thoughts on the terrible acting?

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

@@bobabooey4537 It is what it is, nevertheless a good movie in my opinion.

[@ThomasGrillo]

I saw this movie, when it was aired on network television, back in the mid 80s. A very realistic dramatization. Not long after, a natural gas pipeline valve junction exploded a few miles from our home, in the direction of an Air Guard base. In fact, not far from it. We lived near enough to the blast, it looked, sounded, and felt like a low kiloton tactical atomic blast. We only figured out it was not an atom bomb, when the roar kept on going, minutes later. Everyone who saw, and heard the blast thought the worst, and commented about this movie, along with Threads. Very creepy experience. Glad it was just a gas line valve.

[@jflclc]

I'm sure that was terrifying!

[@homeopathicfossil-fuels4789]

We had a massive HHO explosion in a gaswork in the 'Valby' district of Copenhagen that caused a similar shock reaction. This was a major blast that completely levelled the building, left a mushroom cloud and blew out windows for kilometers AFAIK. This was 40-50 years ago, though, I wasn't alive to experience it. However I was around here when an accident in a fireworks factory in Jutland happened, the explosion was so massive it could be heard in sweden from what I remember

[@Caffeine_Club]

This was a Canadian made film originally briadcast on CTV and HBO. . Patrick Wilson was an actual Canadian broadcaster on television. I'd completely forgotten about this film, thanks for posting!

[@chrishogan4968]

And the reporter "Dorain Waldof" is Canadian actress Helen Shaver

[@GeoffCK]

Watson. Patrick WATSON

[@mungojack]

Well, watching this at 2am was a BAD move! Now heading out to buy canned food

[@maverickhistorian6488]

I already have my two weeks supply of food

[@KellyDFlynn]

@@maverickhistorian6488 gonna need more than that 😊

[@pepepleaseplay]

make it a habbit mate, pls make it habit not compulsive little by little. also include water filters and vitamins

[@kevoreilly6557]

Watching it 10/25/2023 an even worse idea

[@EricCox4848]

Name a crisis that didn't involve panic buying or being locked down in recent years.

[@BucyKalman]

Funny how that, in 1984, the US deploying troops in Saudi Arabia was seen as a trigger for World War III while, in the 2000s, the US literally occupied Iraq for more than a decade without any major foreign opposition.

[@rainbowseeker5930]

Because the USSR had collapsed and Russia was in a critical condition with high inflation and unemployment....This situation went on till Putin reached Power and things began to improve again for the Russians around 2010. From then on they began to strengthen their Armed Forces even more than the Western countries, especially the European NATO members who had drastically reduced their military.

[@devinjanosov]

That’s because the USSR was imploding when we first did it; and no one was in a position to oppose us (especially after 9/11) the second time. Plus, Iraq is a FAR CRY from Saudi Arabia (see where the 9/11 hijackers came from, and where our response was directed for further proof).

[@1984isnotamanual]

Because Iraq was a rouge nation with an extraordinary aggressive and cruel regime and the country had lost much of its sovereignty.

[@chitterlingsrtasty]

This. The super powers battled each other over every possible move. Soviet player was removed from the game

[@1984isnotamanual]

@@chitterlingsrtasty uh no, it’s because the Saddam regime was a rogue regime and removing it was what the UN itself should have done

[@splean75]

I was amused by how the news reporters were adamant about getting two sources (@ 36:48 & 42:34). These days opinions are paraded as news.

[@tlamn1905]

Award for the most Based and Spot-On Comment of the Season. Well Played.

[@mundanestuff]

these days the "news" is so far up the current administration's ass they can tell what he's about to put into this mouth. They would be cheering this action on, indeed they ARE cheering this same string of events on, instead of questioning or finding the truth.

[@deelala1925]

Amen to that.They just search out a body and say they are an expert on said topics.So annoying.

[@nate61]

News reporter's back then wanted to make sure it's was true and could be undisputed but now they don't care if it's true or not they only want one source and they will post it if it's fits their narrative depending on the network

[@robirvine6970]

That's because ALL your news networks are owned by one group of people. You haven't had an actual free pres for 20 years.

[@jameswarner3599]

How the cogs turn, here we are in 2024, the players are different but the game is the same as back then. Problem is todays players have very big balls, and miniscule brains. And we let it happen........

[@cambodianwavelength]

Spot on Mr. James!!!

[@darrinthorpe9292]

Under Trump, the world was a much safer place to live in. Now, Biden has us on the brink of WW3.

[@johnpalmer99]

They say history repeates it's self. If this is some matrix simulation, I say it's lazy coding.

[@Nomaswearefull]

Only the leader of the USA is week timid man

[@trinidad111]

As long as you think they’re incompetent you won’t know they are insidious. All a game

[@ponypalpaula]

Back in the 90’s, one night I fell asleep watching tv and woke in the early hours to what I think was this movie. It took a while for me to realise it was a movie and not happening in real time. 😂

[@martingreen4707]

Just watched the movie, it was well made. Brilliant acting, it was frightenley to close for comfort, especially what's going on at the moment

[@tooldog5062]

is this what Fuhrer biden is trying to accomplish in reality today with China and Russia!

[@marcusaurelius6012]

100% Martin. (85% of the world is watching reality TV and gossiping about the rebirth of Britney Spears) Hope all well w you, and you ok. There is definitely some rough sea ahead. Take care

[@railgap]

No, what was frightening close for comfort was our ACTUAL near-misses where we came within minutes of nuclear war and it never hit the news. Three times that I know of.

[@yourearidiculouslunatic8435]

How about the fact we have an Alzheimer’s patient in the White House at the moment? That’s comforting. 🍺🌝

[@yourearidiculouslunatic8435]

A whole faction of politicians laundering money in the Ukraine, that is in a hot war with Russia. What could go wrong?

[@rebeccasmith2865]

I watched the movie The Day After when it first came out. It has always haunted me. I watched the movie Threads. It too was very haunting,especially in the way it had totally transformed the lives of the people. Both movies were very soboring,sobering, it showed me just how fragile life is,and that we should never take anything for granted.,especially our freedoms,and those we love. This movie is well written as well.

[@eggreedgious5194]

Threads carved my heart out (especially the final scene), and Dr. Strangelove made me lol. Go figure.

[@arnoldim100]

Never our fault !

[@serendpity3478]

@@arnoldim100 You spelt "free dumb" wrong. Js.

[@arnoldim100]

@@serendpity3478 ?...

[@comfeefort]

Try TESTAMENT, 1983. Very depressing

[@steveb3885]

I haven't seen this since the 80s. It's a scary parallel to today's world

[@rd264]

the 2024 election is bringing the US closer to disaster. The Duopoly is not offering voters a choice: both parties seek only more of this Empire confrontation both want proxy confrontations in Ukraine and Gaza and elsewhere.

[@noelht1]

Scott Glenn didn’t die in the exchange. He went on to Captain the submarine that captured Red October a few years later.

[@liden77]

Yes and USS Dallas would have gotten that russian sub

[@christophersermeno8631]

Then he went on to aid a young FBI cadet in apprehending one of the most diabolical cannibals to ever live....

[@noelht1]

@@christophersermeno8631 good one !!!

[@justasurfer8596]

He did get around, didn't he

[@noelht1]

@@justasurfer8596 popped up here and there from time to time, so he did.

[@seclusionworks7547]

I remember watching this movie and my big brother came home. he saw this and asked Is this real? He looked very scared- he was only 15 and he came to me, sat down and put his arms around me. My dad said no and my big birther- my big, strong brother- literally heaved a huge sigh of relief.

[@barbmarrow8014]

😢😔

[@jmp814]

One thing that stood out, was the news anchor shown being positive & giving hope to the viewers that it could still turn things around at the very precipice of destruction and then zooming in for a closeup of the ex-military guy, who pretty much says, Adiós, muchachos! A pure propaganda fear monger. Never give up. Our leaders are bad but the people of all nations in general, tend not to be. Have a great year ahead. Cheers.

[@RickDirt11]

My older brother is the type to push me into the street as the bombs fell lol.. then he'd say to himself that I slipped. Real stuff.

[@gsesquire3441]

Suuuuure. This so didnt happen.

[@retrowatches1655]

I smell Bull Shi

[@papafrank7094]

This movie needs a 2023 update. More than enough realistic scenarios to use today.

[@gordonallen9095]

Was in the USAF from 80-84 and served with a bomb wing in the Strategic Air Command. I remember the drills we practiced in the event of a Soviet "first strike." After the fall of the Soviet Union, Looking Glass stopped flying continuously around 1990. But it can be activated instantly in the case of a nuclear alert. I pray we never see those times again.

[@jaybee9269]

That mission is carried out by E-6B Mercurys today.

[@sharkfintech5893]

Also, Looking Glass is now under Navy auspices.

[@grahamfisher5436]

the word Hypersonic is very worrying

[@Ghoosier]

We are in those times again

[@rdelrosso1973]

Gordon: Thank you for your Service.

[@emilschw8924]

It may be old, but it still is carrying a powerful message. And it is scary.

[@unknowngod8221]

@@jkeelsnc would you rather destroy both of your country or just invade the enemy county against? any sane political person in charge of a nuclear power country won't want just kill everyone as probably there will be no more of united state Russia federation and people republic of china and trade and they nation

[@carter7944]

@@jkeelsnc not true your just a fearmongerer trying to promote sucide did your parents abuse you?

[@matthewparker8607]

Yes this scary. When I first saw this I thought it was like Threads happening for real. That was until I found out that it was a docudrama. But the threat of nuclear war is a neverending nightmare that we must always pray never happens.

[@ramimbintybindu9840]

​@@matthewparker8607it'll happen,but,when? Today or tommorrow or the-"other" day...

[@jeffgoldsmith5561]

Wow. The build up of stress in this is as good as the one in in The Day After. I'm not done watching this yet, but its good because it feels real

[@brianl7695]

Just found this one. Not too bad. Threads still takes the cake as the most terrifying movie I have ever seen....because it is a matter of fact, in your face realistic portrayal of the end of days. Pray that this day never comes. Ever.

[@mikep4745]

Agreed. Most terrifying b/c it shows the aftermath years after the bombs drop. Civilization is GONE. Like starting out from the stone age, but with deadly radiation. When we die, we at least perish knowing mankind forges forward. If the balloon goes up, one dies in complete despair for humanity.

[@daisyb5646]

The atmosphere of Threads is chilling

[@amhaglos]

@@daisyb5646 Threads initial airing on TV left the UK in shock for days.

[@Vashti0825]

It's scary, because it resembles a documentary

[@billtheslink4541]

I was nine when this came out. It's unreal how we lived everyday with the threat of necular war in the back of our minds. How did we stay sane? Also, the news was very realistic and representative of the day. They pretty much told you calmly the facts. A far cry from today where shrill voices tell you what to think about the facts.

[@kevinb4783]

yes it gives a glimpse of when news was news, sometimes still biased, but not the garbage on today. and I kinda hate to burst your bubble but the threat of nuclear war is actually greater today then it was then, it is just not really talked about.

[@JDAbelRN]

We stayed sane by knowing we had the weapons and a leader, Ronald Reagan, will to use them against our enemies if required. You know the history; Soviet Union collapsed, are inert and powerless proven by their imminent lost war to Ukraine. Our only true enemy is Communist China, and cannot and will not get in a war with USA, as it would be massive fail.🇺🇲☢️💀🇨🇳

[@johnhallett5846]

@@kevinb4783 One can argue that; but its more likely to be less of a full out nuclear exchange now. I hear some people whining about living through it and being scared. I grew up in the 60's and was not 18 until 1977. I never felt scared or worried or anything like that; and i certainly never heard anyone else say they were. I remember the duck and cover drills but no one took them very seriously.

[@hoffenwurdig1356]

The risk of nuclear war has, in fact, increased since the time of the cold war.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@johnhallett5846 that thing in '62 started slow....then just kept building for nearly two weeks, getting worse each day....missiles fueled and ready, B-52's dispersed around the country...stuff like that in the papers....then finding out later russkie commanders in Cuba had authority to use nukes on their own....

[@mtm101designs9]

Excellent movie, right up there with Threads. This movie was aired about 3 weeks before the 1984 presidential election. Some felt that it was a attempt to diminish support for Regan.

[@joaquinarmendariz676]

I wish to God the vile criminal Agnew/Reagan regime never existed! Maybe in the Multiverse there is another Earth where their gangrene never took over the presidency of the US!

[@George-hs2zm]

I live about 20miles from where threads was based in Sheffield, the aircraft you see taking off came from RAF Finningley which is 5miles from me. From the late 50s to the late 90s this airbase was the strike command HQ and was a prime target the Avro Vulcan strategic nuclear bombers were based there, and now the last Vulcan is on display in the hangar. We saw these daily fly over our school and they are awesome in size and sound. It's frightening how close we are to WW3 right now, I try not to think too much about it.

[@andyambrose2921]

I think you raise a very significant point. I wonder how much the producers of the film knew about the Able-Archer scare in Nov 1983. The timing of this seems critical. “Everyone talks about 1962 and The Cuban Missile crisis as the most dangerous moment in the Cold War, but 1983 was probably the most dangerous moment. President Andropov was the temporary head of The Soviet Union at that time, and he was convinced that the west was going to launch a pre-emptive strike against The Soviet Union…” John Sawyers, former Head of MI6. “Never, perhaps, in the postwar decades was the situation in the world as explosive and hence, more difficult and unfavourable, as in the first half of the 1980s”. Mikhail Gorbahev. President of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

[@joangordoneieio]

Never saw this, but I was 10 years old growing up in South Florida during the Cuban Missile crisis. My dad, a builder, did a brisk business in Bomb shelters. Our town had Air Raid drills. I still remember taking shelter behind my BFF's sofa. Terrifying times. . We were less then 200 miles from Cuba.

[@StoutProper]

Bomb shelters 😂 Americans are so gullible

[@gregoryhagen8801]

Me too. It was the only time the military went to DefCon.3. As for air raid alerts, they are worthless in the nuclear age. How far can you get in 15 minutes?

[@alexmaclean1]

I've never seen this before, but it is not very often that I feel like I'M actually involved in the story, but in this case it feels real. Perhaps it only feels real because we are at a similar risk again now, but it was really well done.

[@BlackAbe007]

Or a set up…

[@grahamfisher5436]

KZbin - world war 111 1998 makes this film look like an episode of Cheers May sense and sensibility lead and prevail

[@BellsofNevermore]

I was 19 when this came out. I caught one of the news spots, thought it was real, freaked out and called my dad, who talked me down and told me it was just a movie. Cold War scarred me for fricking life, man...

[@kenl5290]

I watched this, The Day After and Threads, on a Saturday at friend’s house. I guess it was a “wake up and be prepared” day on T.V. back then. My friend and I were pretty scared that day and it haunted us for quite the time, pretty much into the early 90’s, which was the confirmed end of the “Cold War”. Now, 2023, I’m 48 with a wife and son. The threat is now real again.

[@michaelsummerell8618]

Overall a very good film, if not perfect. Well written, and the lead anchor news reporter was excellent. Unsettling watching.

[@JohnFrancis66]

Hope Scott got the posthumous Pulitzer he deserved. This was great--thanks for posting it.

[@danthomas6587]

How did we go from having old men with white hair giving us our news to young men who instead give us their stupid opinions?

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

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[@antpearson9676]

Hair dye Ant p uk teacher retired

[@richardheadly7466]

Good question but there was a time when the news was more informative. Now it's used to shape political opinions for one party or the other depending on who the parent company is that owns a particular news outlet. The truth isn't as important, at least not all the truth. Instead we seem to be being pitted against one another while we're all poorly informed.

[@factsoverfeelings1]

I thought the media reported on whatever trends on twitter. Feelings not facts !!!

[@gregoryhagen8801]

Political correctness.

[@stag6161]

This movie really shows you how easy it is to completely make up a story and have it look like news

[@cf6965]

Fox News !

[@cplcabs]

yes. I recall hearing about a radio program called War of the Worlds which easily fooled a lot of people into thinking there was an alien invasion. Some people even shot at a water tower thinking it was an alien tripod. I wonder how many people this fooled.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@cplcabs The networks ran a super that stated 'this is a film'.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

No, the film shows how easy it is for fallible leaders to destroy the planet.

[@marcosramos4596]

This is The Best Comment ever!

[@RachaelCastaigne]

Wow, this was really well done. I remember watching 'On the Beach' and being absolutely terrified by its depiction of a world waiting to die from the inevitable effects of fallout (Australia is the last nation left standing). Also 'Threads'. Hands down the most realistic and terrifying portrayal of nuclear war I've ever seen. It genuinely shook me badly.

[@loneilderssr8246]

As chilling as it was in 1984.

[@unchargedpickles6372]

Saw The Day After several times but I've never seen this one. Thanks for posting it.

[@HuplesCat]

Threads is the best one of the 80s

[@tlamn1905]

Give Threads a watch. that will mess with your head, proper-like. Cheers!

[@zacharybailey158]

Yeah I remember watching that years ago. But now look what Ukraine is going through with the Russians that started early this year. I just thought the riots between the Ukraine's and Russians was fake news back in 2014 back 8 years ago but I guess I was wrong. I mean the media is such beyond a plague like anything could happen...

[@Golf4All]

That front-line news anchor went on to command the USS Dallas during a daring Soviet Submarine defection and was one hell of a Captain.

[@elessartelcontar9415]

Don't forget he was the first American in space too!

[@christophersermeno8631]

He then went on to mentor a young FBI agent in apprehending one of the most diabolical cannibals ever....

[@Steven_mackenzie]

@@christophersermeno8631 Are you guys talking about the same bloke that went on to be the Secretary of Defense?

[@pschroeter1]

Thank you for the opportunity to watch this again four decades after I watched it live. When I wrote my last comment I had only watched my favorite most remembered part, the attack on the carrier and now I've watched the entire movie. It builds slowly and I always remembered the stress and chaos in the White House near the end. It's a bad sign if the stress of the crisis kills your SecDef with a heart attack. I remember in the early 70s graduating high school and when people suggested joining the army thinking, why so I could get nuked when the Russians poured through the Fulda Gap. I had to laugh when they show kids being drafted. My response would have been they'll never have us trained before this goes nuclear and we all die. Now to watch Without Warning.

[@pschroeter1]

I meant Special Bulletin.

[@Scottrchrdsn]

A nuclear war would probably be a one shot (on each side) exchange. If this had been real; then the discussion on the hot line between the two leaders would probably have been abut a cease fire.

[@iambatman6120]

@@Scottrchrdsn we can only hope

[@mandst5466]

I was born in 1961 and it’s depressing, (not surprising) to see just how many of these “fictional” events have in fact been paralleled in recent history 🤔

[@The_Ninedalorian]

I was 12 yrs old and this move absolutely terrified me even more than the Day After. Mainly because it was so realistic with the news bits

[@flatcapcaferacer]

I was a nuclear missile launch officer from 1982 through 1986 and recall this movie while on alert and others like ""The Day after". I participated in the exercise "Able Archer" which nearly resulted in the Soviet Union launching nuclear weapons. The Russians in Ukraine and China threatening Twiawan are very disturbing and threatening. Today's events have similarity to the events we saw in this movie.

[@Graviak]

Maybe the U.S.A. in Ukraine and the U.S.A. threatening China over Taiwan is very disturbing. C what i did there Flat Cap Cafe Racer. You better go out on the street and show who ever is in charge at your place, that you are not part of this bullshit of making peace through war. Then we will have a chance to drink a beer together one day. Greetings from Germany.

[@sNovaka]

Well, Americans destroyed half a planet, maybe it's time for you to recall the threat and sober up. Your endless war policy has nothing to do with "democracy" which you so willingly spreading around since ww2. I think you, as a former missile launch officer, could easily comprehend the seriousness of the situation. Brandon is certainly not the right one to decide about the future of 360 million Americans. We are facing no winner war.

[@cplcabs]

The Russians and Chinese are not the problem, it is the US that is the problem thinking it needs to involve itself in these issues and other issues it has no business doing.

[@zhoubaidinh403]

Truth be told, it is Washington's policy to force China to pull a Putin on Taiwan...

[@EL20078]

"A real cigarette"!!! [By Dawns early light quote]

[@sterling1489]

The wildest thing is that so many people think that this danger went away, it's never left, we just forgot about it. Now that it's back in the forefront of our minds because of, well *gestures broadly at the world* it's back in our minds. Scary times, but we're not gone yet!

[@LBA50462]

Whoever wrote this must have been a time traveller! ❤️🙏❤️

[@captainyossarian388]

It's a great presentation how just a few missteps and misunderstandings on the international stage can lead us down the road to oblivion.

[@josephtobin3347]

Yeah, like with Sleepy Joe and narcissistic Putin. We should all be building fallout shelters and storing food and water. It’s going to happen.

[@mtuers]

I think the career politicians on both sides would be willing to step back from a situation like this. The problem are the handful of highly intelligent yet psychopathic nihilist insiders on both sides who welcome nuclear war as part of some ultimate Luciferian sacrifice of humanity to rid the world of the "weakness" that our modern civilization has bred.

[@mrobillard7553]

A movie was made of a real close call between Russia & US in 1985. The movie is named "Man Who Saved the World" 1995. Good movie, about a great person, man, to save the world and how he did it. True story.

[@Praise___YaH]

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[@galahadthreepwood]

@@elessartelcontar9415 You sound like someone who believes what he reads in the MSM. Here's a clue - when they all agree - they're lying. Recent examples - Covid-1984 is a threat to everyone Safe and effective Russia's invasion was unprovoked

[@Opurt1971]

Saw this as a kid in the 80s, was able to record it but was lost over the years. Thanks for sharing

[@abathens]

Same here. Not as powerful as the Day After, but still entertaining.

[@looneyburgmusic]

Was ~13 when this film was broadcast, absolutely terrified and fascinated me at the same time. Not long after I began to devour every book I could find in the local library about nuclear war, including one, (wish I could recall the name now), that was nothing but page after page of potential WWIII scenarios that I must have read dozens and dozens of times. The height of the Cold War, 70's - 1989, was quite an interesting time to be young.

[@glendarichardson5337]

It’s amazing, the scenarios in this movie is so similar to today. It worries me.

[@user_16309]

Approximately at 57 minutes the walking off with no questions is familiar, now.

[@tkskagen]

I have never heard of or seen this film until now... Thank you for sharing this!

[@persona83]

A simple premise/setup and yet a great and tense movie. Thanks for sharing.

[@madness8556]

A very appropriate movie for what we're currently going through that's brought us to the brink of nuclear war! God forbid!!!!

[@wcraigburns3458]

Amazing documentary. Stands up even today . Ww3 is overdue it's a miracle we are still here .

[@randybentley2633]

I was 11 when this came out. I remember watching this with my Dad. When possible he would assure me and fill in the details where needed and explain stuff that I didn't understand.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

using a nuclear depth charge when you can't locate a sub that's a threat is a desperate measure...but it will clear out quite an area...

[@justsimplejustsimple3015]

Sweet of him

[@StoutProper]

@@frankpienkosky5688 it will also definitely sink the ship that fired it

[@alejandrohualdez5550]

Now watch, 'Threads'. It terrified me when I saw it as a kid.

[@hondaxl250k0]

This movie and “ threads” are both seeming like a prediction or warning more every day.

[@jdo1014]

We watched Threads at school in the UK when it came out; scared the shit out of me. Must have been 12 or 13 years old.

[@EricCox4848]

I saw Threads in 2008 and it was scary to think that's what could happen if a nuclear war took place and a nuclear winter. Just the consequences of such a scenario would be one of the worst things imaginable. Worse than a horror movie. After seeing it again recently, those same scenes played out in my mind and I can still hear the sound of the air raid siren going off. Even years after there's no way anyone could survive and even if they did the damage would be too great. So much so the next generation would be worse off. The very end of the film was just one nightmare too many.

[@mpatrickthomas]

Does anyone remember being in school in the 70s and 80s and hearing the sonic booms from the jets practicing.,how it would rattle windows. 😅😅. I LOVED them.Made me feel secure.

[@PeterLawton]

Not exactly, for me. I moved to a home near a Marine Corps Air Station, but there were lots of trees and a river between us, so I didn't know. Sometimes the jets were loud enough to drown out my phone calls, so I felt annoyed. But then I was across the river (i.e., out in the open) and jets flew by, low and slow. Pure awesomeness! I remember thinking it felt like a private air show.

[@PeterLawton]

Also, I remember when Saddam Hussein began to really thumb his nose at the US. My reaction was, Saddam ought to know better than that. And the jets noticeably increased their training flights, and Saddam kept ramping it up. I knew where it was going, and sure enough (yadda, yadda, yadda) he's dead now.

[@jcmontecarlo6123]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sarahwagner2739]

I went to a former military academy. We stilll had nuclear bomb drills. The best part was it was the same as a tornado drill. Sure - very similar dangers…

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

I loved this film when I first saw it. I was in the Navy at the time so the ending was wild to watch. This film, The Right Stuff and Gargoyles are films I fondly remember with Scott Glenn.

[@friendofcoal]

Don't forget " TheKeep"... came out in 83, but I didn't see it until 84...

[@macmedic892]

Scott Glenn was fabulous in The Hunt for Red October.

[@dinahwhite3929]

@@macmedic892 im a big fan of the whole film sean connery was GREAT!

[@MichaelBrodie68]

Wasn't this only 6 years before Hunt for Red October? This is great story telling on what you can see is a minimal budget. I missed this one at the time.

[@blankpage555]

i love the right stuff. is glenn in this

[@finisher3x]

I didn't get to see this news style TV movie as a kid. This was very well done, much like the other 2 movies I saw as a kid during this era. One was "Special Bulletin", about the terrorists who had a nuclear bomb on a ship in Charleston, SC. The other one was "Without Warning", which was about an incoming asteroid attack. Like this movie, those 2 movies did not have a happy ending, but the news perspective in all of these movies were excellent.

[@davebusink2019]

In 2022. This can still be relevant.

[@foobarmaximus3506]

Can be? lol It will happen soon. Enjoy your end times.

[@Spooky_515]

@@foobarmaximus3506 I don’t know about end times but the world as we know it today is close to coming to an end

[@frankpienkosky5688]

we stopped the policy of nukes on our lesser ships after Cuba...["The Bedford Incident"]....just too risky....always laughesd at the policy of washing down the ship after a nuclear blast....with water that was now radioactive....

[@tobiojo6469]

This is really close to actually happening in real life.

[@nyki7fykxtjxyi]

It's worse these days the president is brain dead.

[@MrKen-wy5dk]

"Threads" puts all other movies like this to shame. Very difficut to find these days. You will not sleep at night after watching it.

[@sarahwynn6486]

It’s on daily motion

[@jacksonvilletaxman1]

You can see burnt skeletons with heads bashed in. The only good news was the dead cat was not actually dead. Apparently there was backlash on that

[@grahamfisher5436]

or.. the TV documentary version - QED A guild to Armageddon equally terrifying In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable. THREADS May sense and sensibility lead and prevail

[@elizabethleris]

DVD available on ebay, reasonable price

[@MAGABorderSolutions]

​@@jacksonvilletaxman1They gave the cat some catnip and filmed it, then replayed it backwards in the film.

[@rickbase833]

Wow. Bart Mancuso really accelerated from reporter to captain of the USS Dallas in The Hunt For Red October.

[@spikespa5208]

Well, he was a trained astronaut already.

[@TheMerryPrangster]

Sean connery was great

[@Vic-mv8iz]

We had a programme like this in England in t984 called Threads it was about war with Russia but ours was based around two families and news bulletins with nuclear bombs dropping on Sheffield and other British citys and what happened after quite terrifying

[@marbleman52]

Vic 45....I think I remember watching that movie, or another nuclear war movie based in England. It showed how London, I think, prided itself on having a very good civil defense organization and thought it could take care of any emergency, but it was powerless against the after effects of nuclear war and how the people made the civil defense useless. It was very scary to watch how a 'civil' society quickly reverted to savagery when the food & clean water soon disappeared.

[@anthonysmith778]

Will have to see if it's on KZbin. This stuff is really a snapshot of how people felt in the day.

[@nigelbranthwaite8471]

Threads was about events of two family's in Sheffield both before and after a nuclear missile strike on the United kingdom from the USSR (Federation of Russia).The othe Nuclear War flim was released in 1966 called War Game this based around Kent again both before and after a nuclear missile strike .

[@williammann9477]

Threads was very disturbing...

[@andrewdaley5480]

@@marbleman52 I've seen that also. 🇬🇧👍

[@HQBanger]

This was filmed 10 years before I was born and still frighteningly realistic in 2022.. The crazy thing is a few years later this almost happened for real when the USSR thought we had launch an ICBM preemptively due to a radar glitch. Years before during the Cuban missile crisis most believe we were just hours away from a nuclear exchange. It’s hard to believe we’ve made it this far with our close calls.

[@dannygjk]

@Pragmatic Skeptic You want to try the Neville Chamberlain strategy?

[@cplcabs]

@@dannygjk Neville Chamberlain tried everything to avert war because of what happened in WW1. Sadly he failed, but he gave it everything he could to avert war, but when he realised there was no stopping it and under the treaty that the UK had with Poland, it was he who declared war. Events today have no bearing on this but the US never seems to want to talk peace and rushes to war and today appears hell bent on starting a war with Russia or China in issues that have nothing to do with it.

[@dannygjk]

@@cplcabs So would you have been in favor of letting Putin do what he wanted?

[@cplcabs]

@Dan Kelly why not. No one was bothered when Russia had interventions in Chechinya and Georgia. Why all the fuss about Ukraine?

[@dannygjk]

@@cplcabs Now I know where you stand.

[@natedoggcata]

56:10 this is the moment that always gives me chills. This is when the shit truly hits the fan. The President obviously gave the order that nukes will be used and the spokesman is scared shitless knowing whats coming. Especially after saying all news media are suspended because they are probably all going into the underground bunker soon. Not to mention just a few moments later the secretary of defense dies of a "heart attack", though I suspect that may have been a cover and it was a suicide. Probably because he couldnt live with himself or knew that life wouldnt be worth living soon enough after the nukes start flying.

[@paulgray2387]

I’ve watched this along with Threads. Both have left me with a very uneasy feeling and a fear that this might actually happen. The scenarios are very real and I can only hope that our leaders understand that the vast, vast majority of the world’s population would NOT want a nuclear war…☮️☮️☮️☮️

[@arduinocoding]

Threads was…… different. The ending

[@dankenstein9462]

Pfft threads makes this look like a kids cartoon in comparison

[@jasonjaxxson]

IT WILL HAPPEN SOMEDAY...2024, 2025

[@kotnapromke]

Подавляющее большинство населения не хочет капитализма. Но это не поменяет власть ни на дюйм в сторону от капитализма. Интересы богатого меньшинства превыше интересов бедного меньшинства.

[@monolithgeometry3221]

@@kotnapromke huh ?

[@TheRoamingPrepper]

This was one of many great videos about this type of situation. I never saw this one when I was a kid but did see ‘the day after’.It’s been nearly a generation since this was a real possibility. I can only hope this keeps us mindful of just how slippery this slope is. Godspeed to you all

[@eggreedgious5194]

Watch Threads. It'll kill you inside.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

@@eggreedgious5194 Eh. It's very specifically a British oriented movie to the British situation. I think you underestimate how much empty space there is in the US.

[@andrewdavidson665]

@@Gustav_Kuriga You think that the effects of a nuclear winter are localised? Otherwise what on earth does the size of the US have to do with anything..?

[@happyvult7853]

@@andrewdavidson665probably higher chance of survival but I mean like everyone would die eventually

[@brianwilliams9329]

This must be the best of its kind. Superbly well done.

[@ShadowOfTheHawke]

Would be nice if they did a remake of this film.

[@johnkeller6063]

This is the first time seeing this. Very well done

[@jpmnky]

Check out World War III. About how things could’ve went in 1989.

[@underarmbowlingincidentof1981]

This, The day after, and Threads are the best nuclear war movies out there.

[@eggreedgious5194]

Threads has always been the truly terrifying one though. The last scene of Threads still haunts my dreams.

[@thetruth7633]

World War III 1998 , alternative history, also very good

[@ericlassin953]

Threads outdoes all if it's the British one I saw.

[@LaLaLand.Germany]

Darn right You are. Count in "Countdown to Looking Glass", please. That one especially remembered me of Threads but without the Gore. Threads, man, that one is harsh.

[@jamesknight4633]

Ummmmmmm, not necessarily. On the Beach is a movie no one seems to remember but is more sobering than the rest of these mentioned.

[@sparkfighter1]

I am 56 years old and I have never seen this movie. Truly remarkable!

[@rdelrosso1973]

Well, I am 69 years old, and I just found out about this movie yesterday, July 9th, 2023!

[@Switcharoo12]

51, just now watching it: 01/22/24

[@jflclc]

I'm 56 and watching it 02/02/2024

[@mylegalassistants]

I'm 57 and had never heard of this movie until late last night. 2:37 am 3/22/2024

[@angeliqueivanica975]

I thought I knew the brilliant 80s movies, but I too have never seen this. Amazing.

[@paulhyde1834]

I saw 'On The Beach' (Neville Shute) when I was 11 years old and it scared the cr*p out of me and affected me for years! This is more frightening; so understated and realistic. Thank you!

[@altha2008]

never heard of it will have to see if it is on Y-T

[@paulhyde1834]

@@altha2008 Here's a link.... it's available on DVD; Well worth watching!! Pen.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel) Best wishes, Paul

[@daveeyes]

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda...

[@michaelfried3123]

I was 15 years old when this was first released. Things sure have changed a lot since then... I now realize that we are likely to never see events like this play out on television, if they indeed ever do play out this way.

[@Paranoidtimes]

maybe

[@erichaynes7502]

I'm fully expecting to see something like this happen within 10-20 years from now.

[@michaelfried3123]

@@erichaynes7502 I think nuclear war is just as likely now as it was 40 years ago, I just don't believe we'll watch it play out of tv like we were taught growing up. More like we'll wake up some morning and wonder why our tv's and computers won't even turn on.

[@francescocavicchi5763]

Really? Never heard of a russian guy called Vladimir Putin?

[@michaelfried3123]

@@francescocavicchi5763 never heard of her...is she a fashion diva?

[@spccovingtontornadocoaster3660]

2:00 ww3 warning 9:00 ww3 second warning 14:00 ww3 1st urgent warning 15:45 ww3 going nuclear warning 26:00 ww3 2nd urgent 32:00-ww3 3rd urgent warning 32:00 nuclear war confirmed 37:00 president address the nation 55:00 ww3 urgent escalation warning 1:00:00 ww3 urgent update 1:09:00 ww3 declared nuclear war evacuation of all American cities and emergency powers act in usa 1:10:00 nuclear war ww3 1:10:00 ww3 escalating 1:19:00 ww3 escalating 1:24:00 it hits the fan

[@alonenjersey]

1:30:00 Common sense and sanity take over both sides and humanity averts disaster..

[@spccovingtontornadocoaster3660]

Gives me nightmares at night

[@alonenjersey]

@@spccovingtontornadocoaster3660 That was probably the objective of the producers and HBO.

[@Nunavuter1]

What is different about this film is it depicts how the average person would follow the events leading up to a nuclear war. Treat it as a prequel to "Threads."

[@briansimerl4014]

Love this channel. Totally got me through Covid.

[@therexbellator]

Haven't seen this movie in ages. I remember catching this on HBO back in the day. It evokes a feeling of Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, it's almost a little too real at times. If one were flipping channels back then one might not realize they were watching a fictional broadcast (until they realized they were on HBO).

[@link122771]

That’s EXACTLY what happened to 13 year old me! Terrified

[@frankshannon3235]

There's a small but annoying error. The Soviet Union would not have sent Typhoon class subs into the Red Sea. Typhoons were huge missile subs, the largest submarines ever built. They would have send smaller attack subs probably Alpha class at the time this was made.. They were always shadowing our task forces. The Typhoons had a completely different mission. They tried to be "holes in the water" as our missile subs did and they positioned themselves so as to remain undetected yet able to lay waste to the United States. The range of the nuclear missiles they carried was over 5000 miles. They cold hit most of the United States even from their home port on the Kola Peninsula. There were only 6 Typhoons ever built but each carried 20 nuclear missiles each missile capable of carrying 10 MIRV's. That's a maximum of 1200 nuclear warheads. That compliment could have utterly destroyed the United States all my itself. And of course our Tridents could have done the same.

[@quidproquo0]

Wow!great info.scary...

[@alexis_ian]

Most likey the Soviet would have deployed there SSN such as Victor and Siera along with SSGN like the Oscars and Charlie, etc.

[@entropiated9020]

Yes, I just wrote this same comment before seeing yours. It broke through my suspension of disbelief immediately. Why would the Soviets send a boomer to mix it up in the relatively tight and restricted waters of the Persian Gulf? Most likely their fast attack boats and also cruise missile boats to attack the carrier group.

[@entropiated9020]

I should add that not all 6 could be on patrol at the same time due to maintenance, and although they were magnificent boats, the Typhoons were - like all the Soviet subs - behind the US in technology and likely would have had a permanent shadow with torpedo tubes loaded and ready to blow it out of the water at the first sign of an offensive move. It would have probably taken a few MK-48s to do it, and the launching sub may have been swarmed by the Typhoon's protective escorts, but I assure you that Boomer would not have made it back to port in one piece.

[@thomasdaily4363]

Besides, the Typhoons have so much displacement, all the water would have splashed out of the Red Sea!

[@theGentlemanCaller73]

The 1980s were a wild time!

[@aquasnek5487]

Looking like 40 years it's gonna repeat...

[@mrgray5576]

You ain't seen nothing yet

[@theGentlemanCaller73]

@Joel 100% I was born and raised in LA. Left in 86. No desire to ever return.

[@earth7551]

Much worse now

[@raptorking5452]

2020's..."Hold my beer"

[@VictoriaBlancaa]

Better journalism in 1984 than nowadays

[@trevorday7923]

"Threads" is a nuclear war docudrama made by the BBC in the 80s. It's the most disturbing movie/TV show I've EVER seen. If you think using nukes is a good idea I recommend watching it. You will change your mind VERY quickly....

[@johnkeller6063]

It's sad it could still happen now

[@allen_steel1236]

Are they broadcast television engineering over 30 years, I have to say the recreation of news footage for this movie was excellent, however there was one piece that is completely unbelievable and that surely would never happen. There is no way that the emergency broadcast system would have ever functioned if you work in broadcasting you know what I mean😊

[@wirksworthsrailway]

Excellent and scarily realistic. We forget how tense things were in the early / mid 1980s.

[@jimbosc]

Especially the part where the White House craps their pants before the balloon goes up - pretty much what we should expect.

[@mharris5047]

What about now? It is just a matter of time before Putin nukes part of Ukraine. What do you think will happen after that? I am 99.9% certain that Biden (or any President other than Russian plant Trump) would nuke bomb Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad off of the globe, we will almost have to in order to maintain credibility. We all know how Putin or his successor would respond.

[@Ichijoe2112]

How ironic that we're probably closer to WWIII, and the fallout from that today, (Looking at you Washington, Bruxells, Kiev, Moscow, and Beijing), then we ever were in 1984.

[@NMeyer0]

This is a Canadian-produced movie. It aired in HBO in '84. 🍁

[@chetmcdonald]

When I saw this originally, I thought is was real until I seen Scott Glenn as the reporter. Great actor.

[@squarewave808]

The reporter on the Nimitz is Scott Glenn, who later played skipper of the submarine Dallas in the Hunt for Red October. He also played FBI head agent Jack Crawford in Silence of the Lambs.

[@kevinwheatley6342]

yep.and he got murdered by the cops in training day,denzal washington movie

[@ronjones9447]

He was also on urban cowboy

[@davidkauffman1738]

Well who the f needs IMDB when we have you 4 here. Great job!

[@jackhartford521]

He was in gargoyles as well

[@lickchew]

Astronaut Alan Shepard. The Right Stuff