2/3 Threads Movie 1984 BBC Nuclear War Documentary Drama

A 30-minute Threads movie edit focused on the documentary aspect of the film.
Threads is a 1984 apocalyptic BBC nuclear war documentary drama. Centred on the industrial city of Sheffield in the north of England, it presents a grim vision of the likely effects a nuclear war will have on Britain and the planet. This video contains excerpts from the film documenting the US-provoked Russian invasion scenario that leads to nuclear war.
Tensions between Russia and the West escalate after a covert US operation to bring down the regime in Iran. Russia, which invaded Afghanistan in 1979, invades northern Iran. America responds to the Russian invasion by sending a rapid response force to protect US interests in the oil-rich south. A series of incidents cause events to spiral out of control leading to the use of tactical battlefield nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
Shot on a budget of £400,000, Threads was the first film of its kind to depict a nuclear winter. A groundbreaking BBC documentary drama, Threads is:
"A film which comes closest to representing the full horror of nuclear war and its aftermath, as well as the catastrophic impact that the event would have on human culture."
Threads was produced in Britain a year after its contemporary counterpart, The Day After, a 1983 ABC television film depicting a similar scenario in the United States. Threads was nominated for seven BAFTA awards in 1985 and won Best Single Drama, Best Design, Best Film Cameraman and Best Film Editor.
Threads Movie 1984 BBC Nuclear War Documentary Drama
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[@camaleon9]

I watched this movie when I was 9 yo, alone, by night, without any permission of my parents. It became the source of many nightmares. It still does now.

[@Retrohertz]

Yep, me too, after being forced to watch this at high school! However, the film had it's intended effect; if only world leaders were forced to watch this.

[@jordan31176]

The best films are the ones that give us nightmares.

[@climeaware4814]

Climate Change is now the new nightmare its expected to kill lots of people in the comming decades and famine will be the result in the comming years.

[@markberry3381]

.....Your dad told you NOT TO WATCH IT !!

[@OlafProt]

Ditto. It was terrifying. And of course the possibility seemed so real at the time. I don't know why it doesn't now. Maybe we've lost a grip on reality.

[@ZuluRomeo]

The BBC needs to show this film again, and soon.

[@werwolf25]

Guess thats not allowed in GB, since they are tickling the Nuclear-giant in the east at the moment.

[@saintniccage2818]

Why? The BBC make articles like "putins threatened to use nukes".....when he's never even said the word.......fear pawn for sheep

[@BraveFencer]

They won’t in England or the United states they don’t want a mass panic the media is lying keeping the majority on the dark

[@arcaipekyun4232]

@@werwolf25 but the "Nuclear-giant in the east" that is constantly threatening the West with nuclear weapons is not at fault, no!

[@jpx08]

@@werwolf25 The two nuclear giants. The other being China.

[@maryambintghassani2341]

The real achievement of "Threads" was actually its focus on the agri-industrial collapse. Much less than a nuclear apocalypse is required to collapse the production chains of human society, returning us to pre-1850s levels of tech. In such a situation, even without widespread radiation contamination, most of us will just starve as a consequence of the decline of transportation, packing, fertilizer, fuel, and spare parts. The fragility of production chains during COVID should act as a warning, considering how relatively insignificant the challenge of COVID actually was.

[@worldofdoom995]

Bingo

[@danielmoran9902]

Absolutely. Imagine what life would be like if we were plunged back to the start.... shocking! Personally, when, not if, the sirens wail, I'll light a cigar, open that bottle I've been saving, and stand outside and wait....

[@sergioalonso4007]

COVID no ha funcionado como una advertencia, sino como un modulador de colapso.

[@garyturner5739]

The living envy the dead. Is what sums up this whole drama.

[@sanddancer1951]

I would say its real achievement was demonstrating how easy it was to drift into a nuclear war nobody wanted.

[@Laura......]

The complete and utter panic, confusion and fear from the woman at 6min 11sec running her hands through her hair, just as the siren starts. I saw this film in the 80's as a little kid. I don't think the terror of it ever left me.

[@tiocfaidh28]

Same here. In fact it's probably the most frightening film I've ever seen.

[@lamontjohnson1101]

I was scared as well I was 11 and I watched it alone I scared to death

[@RDeckardN6]

Got the same fear from 2 US made movies: "The day after" and "Testament".

[@samrose9228]

Same here. Does anyone in the UK remember the adverts on TV about how to build your fallout shelter?😢

[@wendygraham6863]

@@samrose9228 Yes I remember that

[@pschroeter1]

The Day After was terrifying, Threads was depressing.

[@TheObliteratorOfWorlds]

Indeed

[@dafyddthomas7299]

Threads would be reality - but think the reality would be even worse.

[@denisepleines1513]

Yeah for some reason The Day After was spookier to me. Those bombs going off looked like blistered tomatoes that moaned. But threads showed the impact and aftermath in better detail. Both movies are scary

[@garyturner5739]

Nuclear War is depressing so I can't see how you depict otherwise.

[@garyturner5739]

Jimmy's mum and dad wouldn't of survived at all in fire storm after the blast. In Desden in WW 2 people suffocated and were cooked in their well built shelters, because the fire storms sucked out all of the oxygen from the atmosphere.

[@thomasmatthewharris1980]

"It's taken 3 million years to develop a species with brain big enough to crack the deep codes of the universe and what we do with the knowledge we blow ourselves up" dr Julian Osborne on the beach movie

[@rachelar]

I think it was a billion years but he was a right bogan in the remake. Also On the Beach is fantastical as Cobalt bombs don't exist

[@RDeckardN6]

@@rachelarYes true. But the nuclear fallout and pollution slowly killing the whole planet is definitely realistic.

[@Monty22001]

@@rachelar Accelerated mass death is the natural course of life. Mass extinction events happen. Humans won't probably die off in a nuclear war entirely, but isn't it interesting that it might do it?

[@berndmensing8707]

Any civilisation which rely only in technology and utilitarism will end in that way No mind quantum jump, no survive

[@thomastaylor6699]

We didn't evolve, God created us. All "scientific" evidence is garbage based on assumptions instead of facts!

[@jessicaarmentrout1893]

The most terrifying movie I have ever seen. The Day After was nothing compared to this.

[@TheObliteratorOfWorlds]

Yes it was lol

[@ActiveAussie2024]

They are both excellent films, but Threads is a lot more scary. The Day After very well done also though.

[@nopcshere6097]

Both were very good, but Threads scared me a lot more owing to its long term effects that were shown (nuclear winter etc).

[@Balnazzardi]

@@TheObliteratorOfWorlds the Day After is not nearly as horrifying, especially because it doesnt show what kind of hell the post nuclear world would be like. Threads however does. Threads also does the build up to nuclear war in much more detailed and terrifying way, you start to feel the tread when the situation just gets worse and worse

[@tonymoruzzi]

I remember this I was in my early 20s. Ordinary working people were at the mercy of the ideology that this was the only way to assure peace.

[@vinaymulukutla358]

As a Brit, it's good to have a British perspective of the threat of nuclear war having watched The Day After. I will not lie though, this is absolutely spine chilling to watch.

[@donarthiazi2443]

I remember during the _Cold War_ it always seemed to give a degree of comfort knowing that the UK was right there and would be able to talk sense into both Washington and Moscow if things started to deteriorate. Maybe it was youthful ignorance, but I always felt PM Thatcher and company would be able to prevent full-blown nuclear war. Greetings from North Carolina btw... love our awesome cousins across the pond. 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

[@tonyclifton265]

"britain devastated and in chaos" - and the nuclear attack didnt help either

[@danielmoran9902]

I'm so used to this being a possibility, I am genuinely not scared of it any longer. I'll just go outside wherever I am and wait. I'm sick to death of being scared.

[@tonyc945]

The cinematography is amazing! The back and forth scenes between the military and the civilians shows the improbability of winning a war like this AND the terror that the helpless civilians face! It really is an incredibly unsettling movie.

[@sanddancer1951]

@Virtua Drummer These are just excerpts. I actually think the scariest thing about "Threads" isn't the attack itself - though that *is* scary enough - or even the aftermath, but the way in which the World drifted into a nuclear war in very much the same way that Europe "muddled," into war in 1914.

[@peacenow42]

@@sanddancer1951 and hear we have the same kind of warfare as WW1 (trench warfare) and we were taught we had learned it was not going to happen again like that

[@mordecaiesther3591]

Well???? You won’t have to worry about your mortgage anymore . But….. do you have the Blood of Jesus on your soul . One NAME under heaven for salvation

[@peacenow42]

@@mordecaiesther3591 just pretend believing in Jesus is all you need to do.

[@garyturner5739]

As we're doing a bit now with the whole Ukarine War thing.

[@garyturner5739]

The clever use of drama and stock footage was amazing in this.

[@sbaddison]

Still absolutely brutal. We watched this in school aged 14.

[@dieglhix]

I was -5 years old. Still one of my favorite movies. Have only seen it once because it's too dense.

[@ciarancassidy7566]

Must have had good teachers. Teaching what everybody should know

[@nicholastaylor2217]

Me to

[@davidpowell9713]

Same! At school at about 13-14. Haunting

[@Mistwalker67]

I watched worse in the Army at 16

[@leeosborne3793]

I was 10 when this was released, but I never saw it until I was in my late 20s. I'm eternally grateful for that.

[@StrawberrySunday212]

This film terrified me. Us kids in the 80s had the threat of this hanging over our heads constantly. It was on TV, it was in a lot of the music. Worrying times.

[@silverfishimperetrix4818]

Do you know why it was everywhere? Ronald Reagan was President of the U.S.A. and Margaret Thatcher was P.M. of Great Britain - both conservatives. The media Bolsheviks ran their all out blitz to scare everyone out of voting for the right in the next elections. Think about it... Ironically, it's pretty much common knowledge that the left starts the wars when it's in power, not the right. Look where we are today - this is real life, not some movies. God help us all.

[@davewarrender2056]

Also we were concerned about the sanity of the US president, Ronnie Regan!

[@MrAce2000]

Well I hate to say this But we're more closer to a nuclear war in today's world than ever before in the past.

[@sanddancer1951]

These days, youngsters are terrified of seeing full stops and capital letters I texts.

[@GuinessOriginal]

@@davewarrender2056 I’m more worried about Biden tbh

[@FireOccator]

Authorities lying is pretty accurate.

[@philiphill6697]

One of the darkest movies I've ever seen. From start to finish this thing is brutal.

[@garyturner5739]

Unfortunately thermonuclear nuclear is that and more.

[@garyturner5739]

Nuke is brutal.

[@andrewroper7228]

watch the beach made in 2000 from Australia

[@amandocantu]

No other movie of this subject matter compares to this one. It’s a must watch.

[@anonymoussources8803]

Take a look at Fail Safe, an old B &W movie starring Henry Fonda and Larry Hagman about the lead up to a nuclear exchange with Russia.

[@masere]

The Day After is comparable

[@amandocantu]

@@masere not even close. Threads is much more graphic and head on.

[@romystumpy1197]

@@amandocantu I agree,the day after doesn't have the impact,

[@amandocantu]

@@anonymoussources8803 I saw a newer version. I’ll have to see the original. Another b&w flick is The War Game, but that’s harder to find than Threads.

[@charlesphillips1468]

The psychology of a nuclear war movie - and I saw many when I was young - is that you are watching a two-hour slow-motion train wreck as the world goes mad. And for two hours, you know that we caused it, that the process is spinning out of control, and there is nothing anyone can do. And no one to save us from ourselves.

[@sanddancer1951]

That, in a way, is the most terifying thing about this film.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

I remember this in TV when I was 13..it was bloody scary. Its difficult to explain to youngsters today just how during the Cold War there was always this underlying knowledge that this could happen at any time. We actually had somwthing to worry about .

[@ncox001]

regrettably we still do

[@zippyfontaine8180]

I was 15 when it aired, then had to watch it again thru basic training in 91. Most hadn't seen it, too young. Eye opener!

[@shonacourt9750]

You know when it scares the hell out of you but you still watch it!! 😱😱

[@robanderson473]

Most terrifying film I've ever seen. I was fifteen when it first aired and apart from this clip, I've never watched it since and never will. THE DAY AFTER was NOTHING compared to THREADS, that's for sure.

[@mylightgraycottage4913]

That was what I was thinking that The Day After was like Disney World compared to THREADS. I remember when I saw this I didn’t sleep for a month. Scary crap!! 😮😮😮

[@fluttergirl75]

Thanks for the heads up. I can't go through that again.

[@davidallbaugh6858]

I agree, Threads was the grim reality.

[@robanderson473]

A true horror film.

[@davidallbaugh6858]

There were some American conservatives who thought "The Day After" was "Soviet Disinformation"! Real crazy 🤪😜 idiots !

[@alisondobson4036]

I really shouldn't have watched this, it took me back to being a scared stiff teenager. I went to the Hack Green bunker in my forties which was built to run some form of government had the war broke out. They played "Threads" on continuous loop in one room . How far have we come? I hope and pray further than we were then .

[@edalder2000]

"Threads" is the scariest horror movie that I have ever seen.

[@djrichylaurence8991]

This was brilliant and a good warning. Best place to be in a nuclear attack is right under the explosion. You wouldn't want to survive a nuclear war.

[@garyturner5739]

The lwill iving envy the dead

[@RDeckardN6]

Agree. I would definitely prefer to be vapourized in the atmosphere.

[@sanddancer1951]

I lived in Byker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, when this was shown. The Vickers engineering works up the river at Scotswood, Walker Naval Shipyard just down river, and the five bridges across the Tyne would all have been targets. We wouldn't have known a thing because the sirens wouldn't have sounded.

[@martinthomas5155]

This on the TV, and Frankie's 'Two Tribes' defined 1984.

[@SteffieBee1973]

Don't forget NeNa's 99 red balloons.....

[@sanddancer1951]

Two Tribes started with the Protect and Survive advice "If you hear the Attack warning..."

[@ellemjay]

"I am the last voice you will ever here. Don't be alarmed."

[@deavacui2825]

I was only born that same year, so I don't have any memories of my own about the time. The nuclear war films make me think, If I had already been born at the time or been old enough to be aware of the situation and mood at the time respectively, what effect would it have had on my mental health? Would I have gone paranoid from this "impending nuclear war threat" mood? Who knows? 😳😱😵

[@BrianKliewer]

Stanislav Petrov, September 26, 1983.

[@johnmcaree7298]

the man that saved the world.

[@michaelstuben8748]

So True. And that because of a man who was sane. Let us hope that the current man in Moscow also is that.

[@thetruth7633]

@@michaelstuben8748 Maybe you should ask that of NATO EU and USA leaders

[@michaelstuben8748]

@@thetruth7633 well, at least they do not thread with nuclear weapons. Nato is not even allowed to do that. Let us hope, that communications have evolved since Sep 26 1983, -external and internal. Never again,should one man be able to push the button.

[@scottmatheson3346]

​@@thetruth7633 fortunately those people are sane, at least until trump replaces them.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

Watching this movie and ''The Day After'' in the 80's, it scared me then. And it still does now in 2023. I'm 64. I PRAY NONE OF THIS EVER HAPPENS !

[@albertoserna3968]

What country sent the nuke?

[@burtonwilliams5355]

@@albertoserna3968 Russia/ Soviet Union (?)

[@thewomble1509]

@@albertoserna3968 Malta.

[@terrybardy2848]

"I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Oppenheimer's reaction during the Manhattan Project.

[@mr.evasion]

He wasn't the last word...

[@terrybardy2848]

@@mr.evasion Excellent point!

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Twenty years after the Manhattan project actually.

[@Rookie-2552]

God this would actually be terrifying to be in

[@grahamfisher5436]

this is nothing close to what the reality would be. unfortunately terrifying is a understatement.. May sense and sensibility lead and prevail

[@todddavis4586]

@@grahamfisher5436 Only real in Hollywood

[@grahamfisher5436]

@@todddavis4586 let's hope it only stays in a film ..

[@todddavis4586]

@@grahamfisher5436 It will. They don't exist. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt in less than 2 years. They were firebombed just like Dresden.

[@troywales983]

its coming we are close at the moment

[@shauntbarry]

I was in secondary school and the next day everyone was quiet..

[@antpearson9676]

This is one of the best movies ever written. But beware,it is bereft of all hope Barry Hynes managed to "procure" the Protect and Survive public information films. Also, the majority of the cast were unknowns and this was also deliberate. Finally, the people the bombing scene in Sheffield City Centre (apart from those in close up ((the women who wets herself etc)) did not know it was being filmed for a movie. Hy es felt that this would add to the reality of the film. Ant p uk teacher retired

[@sanddancer1951]

And the most realistic. in others, for example "The Day After" we hear the missiles exploding at at the same time as the flash they produce. but that is wrong; they're like a thunderstorm on a gigantic scale; first, the flash (lightning) then several seconds later the sound (thunder). Some survivors of Hiroshima reported that while the saw a blinding flash, they heard nothing.

[@gerryloates8859]

They did know it was for a movie. A lot of my college mates were extras. The lady with the young boy in her arms was my dance teacher. She was offered £10 to wet herself but turned it down.

[@richiehoyt8487]

Much has been cut from the version uploaded here though, particularly those scenes depicting what society might be like for the survivors in the years and decades after the war.

[@robambrose4199]

they were actually paying people to wet themselves instead of just pouring water down their leg? I hope it was April fools day.

[@maureenm8462]

What a terrifying and realistic film.

[@yvonneplant9434]

I was completely shakened by this film. Unforgettable.

[@dalekinthewater4708]

08:58 Retaliation time. Ain't no way the Soviets are gonna be allowed treat my man ET like that.

[@raygamma36]

😄 I spotted that too! Thought it was a child at first until I rewound it. He should have went Home! 😄😄

[@gerardocruz8946]

I know!!!!! I wasn't expecting that.

[@jess.hawkins]

It's a clever touch to use a melting ET doll like that, because you see it for such a split-second that it's plausibly a child

[@Recessio]

I thought it was the cat

[@tonyclifton265]

much grittier and scarier than "the day after"

[@scouterkeith]

I had a terrible nights sleep after this was on the tele. I still remember it. Shocking.

[@petersimon6222]

i have been to shefield might be the best thing to happen to it not sure which the before and after bits are

[@WaleedHiggins]

Zombie-infested radioactive rubble and nuclear winter? It can't be that bad.

[@dazzab111]

Yeah, same with Oldham and Rochdale too…..

[@turkeytwizzler1930]

By far the most frightening film i've ever seen

[@chasehedges6775]

One of the scariest

[@kitharrison8799]

Patrick Allen narrating the 'Casualties' episode of Protect and Survive made these scenes.

[@stephanielaurenbounds4958]

In the years after I left doctoral school in 1997 over time a BITTER BITTER rift developed between my mother and me. To that end I would compare it to having survived a nuclear war.

[@anthonykoller4459]

This is much better than the American version, this is more realistic than their version of WW3

[@nopcshere6097]

This one does explain what's happening more in depth than 'The Day After'.

[@garyturner5739]

The Day After was soap opera compared to this gritty drama was.

[@marchfast8291]

Eerie how the screams sound so familiar, like the sounds of a swimming pool in the 1980s or 1990s. Nostalgia blends with horror. If this had actually happened, the screams that we used to hear in peacetime real life would have sounded like the screams we would come to hear in wartime real life.

[@brianjames2549]

Nicely re-edited but I think Barry Hines' original has it. The living will envy the dead. Let's hope it won't come to this....ever! Make sure you watch the full piece if you can. It has stood the test of time.

[@joshuao1189]

That shot of the Iron sparking...RIP

[@metalhd4life]

If he does exist, GOD BE WITH US ALL. Scariest movie ever made. ☹️

[@scottmatheson3346]

if god exists, he engineered this along with the rest of human history.

[@samholden4171]

My poor mum was born at start of ww2 and ended up taking valium & antidepressants for rest of her life😢

[@mikeveis7322]

This move was much more realistic than "The Day After," which was more like a Hollywood affair.

[@SMITH-lw3rv]

No other nuclear film is close to THREADS. Its the fact that its showing everday life and people just getting on with normality and building it up until the shit hits the fan that makes this truly frightening. The ending is the most depressing ending EVER in any film. NO TO WAR... 🙏

[@envsf03]

As a child what made this nore frightening was Lesley Judd reading the news. It was like having Paddington on the front line. I did write to Anne Robinson at the BBCs Points of View. However,, she hadn't started presenting it at that point.

[@tonyhoban6600]

paddington on the front line . Never thought of nuclear war like that before ! Seeing emmerdale's Zak Dingle in the control centre kind of says it all as well . 😊

[@mikeveis7322]

This movie was just as terrifying as the Exorcist.

[@MichalKaczorowski]

Nuke look still better than in "Oppenheimer" ;)

[@samhart4663]

The scary thing is we are probably at the first stages of this film but in real life

[@christopherturco3494]

That woman wetting herself as the bombs dropped had the single sanest reaction of all.

[@sanddancer1951]

The were no actors for those scenes, just "extras".

[@Scrapper.]

Threads is the ultimate horror movie, especially considering that is a possibility. I watched it as a kid when it was first broadcast. Can't remember if I had to change my shorts afterwards, but it spooked the hell out of me. I got the DVD. In 2024 we're once again in disturbing times. Several potential hotspots around the globe right now.

[@SteffieBee1973]

So if you own an EV, chances are. the EMP from the airburst would render your tesla, and toaster useless.....

[@laurentdrozin812]

Unfortunately, all modern vehicles would stop working.

[@danyoutube7491]

@2:59 Can you imagine hearing that on the radio and looking around at family members, contemplating having to do that?

[@wailer27]

Who would've thought woolworths would crumble like that

[@evertonporter7887]

Woolworths is gone from the high street in real life.

[@wailer27]

@Everton Porter thanks ever so much hun, I just came back from Mars last week and was wondering where it went

[@masere]

​@evertonporter7887 and British Home Stores

[@allandavis8201]

I was serving in the RAF at a frontline base, closest to the east/west German border when this film was released and it scared the pants off me, and now nearly 40 years later, having served for 24years, it scares the pants off me even more. The Cold War has not ended, in fact it is worse now, in 2023, than it was when the threat was more about the “Soviet hoards” pouring across Europe from the east/west border, we were under no illusion that our job was merely to slow their progress down in an attempt to allow reinforcements to get into theatre, but even if that happened it was still a loosing battle and nuclear weapons would have been used, probably by both sides. Now in 2023 Putin has turned up the heat again by invading the Ukraine 🇺🇦, and the Ukrainian forces are holding him up, and the reinforcements are being sent in, not physical manpower but modern weapons and supplies of ammunition and ordinance, and at some point I think Putin will realise that he can’t defeat Ukraine 🇺🇦 in a conventional war, not whilst the Ukrainian government/military are backed by the western powers and other nations, and he will either withdraw under some fantastically weak excuse or he will roll the dice one more time to gauge the response from the allied powers of Ukraine, that roll of the dice would be a small tactical nuclear weapon detonated on Ukrainian soil but in a sparsely populated area where loss of life and infrastructure would be minimal, but enough destruction to leave the western powers in no doubt as to the message Putin was sending, and unfortunately I can see the response from NATO/western allies/USA being a counter strike with a similar weapon in a similar sparsely populated area, after that it is anyone’s guess what he,Putin, will do, but if my hypothesis is correct (I pray to god I am wrong) then he will escalate the situation to the point of no return, he is M.A.D, in both senses of the word. I really do pray 🙏 that I am wrong, but if I am correct I will sit in my chair outside my home, bottle of something very strong, almost empty, and await my instant tan from an instant sunshine bomb, I am to old to fight and to frail to survive shelter conditions (not that we have any left for the average person) and I certainly wouldn’t survive in a post apocalypse environment. Good luck everyone in the world, you might just need it in bucket 🪣 fulls. Fingers crossed 🤞. 🤬🥺😢🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇺🇸

[@WISOTT]

Very perceptive; I lived through the Cold War, the fall of the USSR, the rise of dictatorships, the mad leaders both east and west, and I am scared still. The Doomsday Clock is very close to millenia of midnight.

[@TheDaverobinson]

I suspect western response to a bomb would be a very heavy conventional response. I.e. masses of missiles sinking their fleets and destroying their positions in Ukraine. But that’ll probably wind up in a further nuclear bomb going off from Putin

[@kitcarson4731]

Me too, I was stationed in Gutersloh and thought that our situation was very precarious!

[@masterscubaman]

Helpfully the prevailing winds in Ukraine are the same as UK ie SW towards Russia.

[@nicholastaylor2217]

I watched this in RE 1995 and i can remember 3 lassies in my class howling it was scary. My mum can temember watching it back in 84 folk where talking about it for days.

[@whtxombi4955]

KTVU in California aired this and had grief counselors manning phones. Never heard how many calls the received.

[@jonathanwilson2260]

These days, no air sirens would be use, replacement with mobile phones texts and media alerts.

[@garyturner5739]

That's effective warning against EMP then.

[@keithparkinson6170]

One small problem all none essential phone would have been disconnected by the authorities.

[@steamvyrus6249]

@@keithparkinson6170what it means is they restrict which phones can SEND signals through phone towers. that means we couldn't make phone calls, but warning alerts from the government would still get through to us.

[@JackOpulski]

There are so many details in every shot of this movie, I feel like I need to rewatch it, not happy about that fact

[@dieglhix]

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen.

[@DT-wp4hk]

Yeah hooligans were the biggest problem of the 70's and 80's

[@thewomble1509]

Hooligans armed with nukes.

[@anthonythomas3231]

Still chilling after all these years

[@rikeralpha100]

With so many nuclear weapons falling on a relatively small area would there be any long term survivors in England and Europe at all.

[@duanehamdorf2228]

When not if this happens i hope the p.o.s. politicians that caused this dont escape to some bunker.

[@merseydave1]

When this t.v. documentary drama (NOT A FILM) was first tranmitted on B.B.C. T.V. there was an introduction by Ludvic Kennerdy (a wel known accerdemic) he explained to the nation that this was a drama with a commentary explaining the implacations of actions within the drama! That in itself proved it was a "documentary drama" NOT a Film/movie like The Day After! It was set in the northern english city of sheffield with many not very well known actors, playing ordinary people ... another difference from The Day After was this ... in Threads it showed you what happened after The Bombs and the break down of society with the blunt ending of the implacations from radiation and child birth a stark warning to human kind!

[@kevinlindley2642]

Really shocking to see Woolworths destroyed @ 9:13

[@susanashman2080]

Odd how we are maybe on the very early brink of this.

[@Brian6587]

Terrifying beyond belief. If this movie doesn’t make you anti-nuclear nothing will.

[@garyturner5739]

More terrifying now that we're back to living with this threat.

[@Brian6587]

@@garyturner5739 I agree! Hoping Putin or President Xi in China or Kim Jong Un isn’t stupid enough to use nuclear weapons to solve their problems. I also hope World War III can somehow be avoided. We are definitely living in one of the most dangerous times since the Cold War.

[@cfinley81]

​@@garyturner5739We were ALWAYS living with this threat.

[@channelwarrior861]

In 1962, this movie almost became reality

[@wleon4068]

And, right now, we, as the human race, are on the point of no return. One mistake, one miscalculation, and all life on this planet of ours will be wiped out.

[@raygamma36]

Not all life. The biosphere, given enough time, will eventually bounce back. It WAS possible however, that an all out nuclear exchange, especially at the height of the Cold War, could have killed off all humans. The most chilling facts that stick in my head are that 1) the U.S.S.R. had 48,000 nuclear warheads, not the 36,000 that the West thought they had. 2) the Soviets also had a secret and incredibly huge biological weapons program. And the Russians probably have all seed stocks, kept in freezers, of all those weaponized diseases that they created. It's the stuff of nightmares....

[@markfox1545]

Stop being so ridiculously over dramatic. If every single nuclear weapon on Earth detonated at the same time loads of life would carry on just fine. What is it with all these ridiculous sweeping statements these days? Calm down.

[@todddavis4586]

@@markfox1545 Nagasaki and Hiroshima were rebuilt in less than 2 years. They were firebombed just like Dresden.

[@chrismullan7191]

@@markfox1545 stop telling people to calm down, its more possible than ever nuclear war will happen.

[@pekkasupa2798]

I would have hoped that the destruction of Moscow would also have been shown in this film.

[@user-pv4kl5zz3y]

Absolutely loved Threads ,but it scared the shit out of me at the same time, No wonder it hasn't been back on since 😄😄

[@marcbernstein383]

6:46 Why is the iron plugged in? Who would be ironing at this time?!?! ("I know we are on the very brink of nuclear annihilation, but I will be damned if there are any unsightly creases in my pants.")

[@bessallin459]

There will no doubt be something more unsightly in your pants with a hint of sweetcorn

[@marcbernstein383]

@@bessallin459 LOL. No doubt.

[@colinthorn514]

Thanks. That just creased me up 😆

[@Ashworth6]

People in denial perhaps. Theres a strangely unsettling scene in the US drama 'The Day After' where a housewife keeps making the bed during the attack warning and has to be physically dragged away kicking and screaming to the cellar by her husband.

[@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z]

They were probably ironing before the siren went off and then left it to head for the cellar.

[@thomasshepard6030]

Unfortunately this is nothing compared to what it would actually be like

[@chriswaring5565]

AT 8:58 WHAT WAS E.T DOING IN SHEFFIELD? THOUGHT HE HAD GONE HOME

[@G-BONE]

Elliot wouldn't let him

[@chriswaring5565]

@@G-BONE IF E.T KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN HE WOULD OF BEEN OUT OF SHEFFIELD SHARPISH

[@AlphanPeter]

More graphic than the Day After Tomorrow on abc movie

[@dustychandler2020]

I say, one always imagined back in 1980, that in the event of 2000 mph winds and 5,000 degree flames, one would rather hope to be in Torquay at the Fawlty Towers Pub.

[@harveycotton5185]

True the no hope whatsoever and the feeling that everything we love is wiped away Nikita Krushchev said “ The living will envy the dead “ This film made me truly understand that statement.

[@davidallbaugh6858]

Did not that Krushchev was the person who said that. I agree with him.

[@nopcshere6097]

That's one thing Khrushchev was right about. The living truly would envy the dead. Even more true now, as nuclear missiles are more powerful than when this film was made almost 40 years ago. And the Protect and Survive information would be of little use against today's nukes (it probably would have been little good then).

[@granite676]

Wish this film could be aired again so people can actually see the reality even if it showed small nuclear bombs it would still hit home how futile nuclear war really is ! ☹☹😔

[@dafyddthomas7299]

Don't think the average young smart phone drone addict would care nor would most $$ bankers and some say corrupt politicians nor war like leaders - Put skin

[@amandocantu]

You can find it here on KZbin or on Tubi. Same effect if you display on a Smart TV.

[@paulneri835]

"The Kremlin expressed alarm today that the 'Doomsday Clock' had edged closer to midnight than ever, even though the scientists who moved the symbolic dial cited Moscow's own 'thinly veiled threats' to use nuclear weapons." [26 Jan 2023]

[@MountainRaven1960]

3:06 label the body with name and address it with ‘return to sender’ with adequate postage.

[@highwindsclarke2685]

Clips from Protect And Survive are heard on this.

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Final section - set years after the nuclear winter - when humankind bereft of education and basic social structures have reverted to a middle age style of existence gave me nightmares for years.

[@user-qk7vv3mx1s]

You do realise that is sheffield today?

[@SeanScot36]

I remember the grocery shortages during corona virus, none of the shops where I live had toilet roll for three weeks, the large supermarkets also couldn’t deliver toilet roll or pain killers.

[@simonscott1000]

I saw this at a friend's house, when I left to go home, I genuinely thought I would be stepping into a wasteland.

[@billybhoy32]

Should have shown this on Christmas Day

[@TheA8lee]

haha

[@davidallbaugh6858]

See the video, "Christmas at Ground Zero". It is great satire.

[@Bondek1996]

The Eastenders Xmas episode usually does the job 😄

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

I watched this. It was scary in 1984. Its scary then its scary now. I fear we are sleep walking into ww3.

[@sleepyheadsleeps]

Reminds me of that song "always look on the bright side of life"😂

[@evanr1784]

It's a mere flesh wound!

[@simonbarnsley6281]

I worked in local government during the 1980s and we trained for this scenario

[@neilgundry4812]

The silence screams horror.....

[@saanzacs]

The ending was just devastating and sad

[@themsmloveswar3985]

Boris Johnson did not watch it. That is certain.

[@DALKINION]

What a bummer. Ive always remembered those milk bottles melting and that was for over 40 years.

[@jonathandowling7311]

I watched this in 2005. It is entirely devoid of hope in a gruesomely fascinating way, but you will have nightmares.

[@roccomitchell-wo9qi]

I watched both of these movies and I must say that both Thread and Day after was horrifying

[@miketaverner4451]

Remember this, it hits you