2/3 Threads Movie 1984 BBC Nuclear War Documentary Drama

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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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@ZuluRomeo Ай бұрын

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

@werwolf25 12 күн бұрын

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

@saintniccage2818 10 күн бұрын

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

@BraveFencer 8 күн бұрын

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 7 күн бұрын

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

@jpx08 5 күн бұрын

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

@camaleon9 Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

The best films are the ones that give us nightmares.

@climeaware4814 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@OlafProt 10 ай бұрын

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.

@maryambintghassani2341 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Bingo

@danielmoran9902 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@garyturner5739 Жыл бұрын

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

@sanddancer1951 Жыл бұрын

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

@pschroeter1 Жыл бұрын

The Day After was terrifying, Threads was depressing.

@TheObliteratorOfWorlds Жыл бұрын

Indeed

@dafyddthomas7299 Жыл бұрын

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

@denisepleines1513 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@garyturner5739 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Laura...... Жыл бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@lamontjohnson1101 5 ай бұрын

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

@RDeckardN6 5 ай бұрын

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

@samrose9228 4 ай бұрын

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

@wendygraham6863 4 ай бұрын

@@samrose9228 Yes I remember that

@tonyclifton265 2 ай бұрын

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

@thomasmatthewharris1980 Жыл бұрын

"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 10 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@Monty22001 4 ай бұрын

@@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 3 ай бұрын

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

@thomastaylor6699 2 ай бұрын

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

@jessicaarmentrout1893 Жыл бұрын

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

@TheObliteratorOfWorlds Жыл бұрын

Yes it was lol

@ActiveAussie2024 Жыл бұрын

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

@nopcshere6097 Жыл бұрын

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

@Balnazzardi Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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.

@danielmoran9902 7 ай бұрын

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.

@vinaymulukutla358 2 ай бұрын

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 Күн бұрын

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. 🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧

@garyturner5739 Жыл бұрын

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

@leeosborne3793 2 ай бұрын

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.

@FireOccator Жыл бұрын

Authorities lying is pretty accurate.

@sbaddison Жыл бұрын

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

@dieglhix Жыл бұрын

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

@ciarancassidy7566 8 ай бұрын

Must have had good teachers. Teaching what everybody should know

@nicholastaylor2217 5 ай бұрын

Me to

@davidpowell9713 4 ай бұрын

Same! At school at about 13-14. Haunting

@Mistwalker67 2 ай бұрын

I watched worse in the Army at 16

@philiphill6697 10 ай бұрын

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

@garyturner5739 9 ай бұрын

Unfortunately thermonuclear nuclear is that and more.

@garyturner5739 9 ай бұрын

Nuke is brutal.

@andrewroper7228 15 күн бұрын

watch the beach made in 2000 from Australia

@tonyc945 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@garyturner5739 Жыл бұрын

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

@StrawberrySunday212 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@MrAce2000 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@GuinessOriginal Жыл бұрын

@@davewarrender2056 I’m more worried about Biden tbh

@HarryFlashmanVC Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

regrettably we still do

@zippyfontaine8180 Ай бұрын

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!

@edalder2000 7 ай бұрын

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

@amandocantu Жыл бұрын

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

@anonymoussources8803 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

The Day After is comparable

@amandocantu Жыл бұрын

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

@romystumpy1197 Жыл бұрын

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

@amandocantu Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@alisondobson4036 Ай бұрын

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 .

@robanderson473 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@davidallbaugh6858 Жыл бұрын

I agree, Threads was the grim reality.

@robanderson473 Жыл бұрын

A true horror film.

@davidallbaugh6858 Жыл бұрын

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

@martinthomas5155 5 ай бұрын

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

@SteffieBee1973 3 ай бұрын

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

@sanddancer1951 2 ай бұрын

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

@ellemjay 2 ай бұрын

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

@deavacui2825 Ай бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Stanislav Petrov, September 26, 1983.

@johnmcaree7298 Жыл бұрын

the man that saved the world.

@michaelstuben8748 Жыл бұрын

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

@thetruth7633 Жыл бұрын

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

@michaelstuben8748 Жыл бұрын

@@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 2 ай бұрын

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

@charlesphillips1468 5 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@terrybardy2848 Жыл бұрын

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

@mr.evasion Жыл бұрын

He wasn't the last word...

@terrybardy2848 Жыл бұрын

@@mr.evasion Excellent point!

@annoyingbstard9407 Жыл бұрын

Twenty years after the Manhattan project actually.

@shauntbarry 10 ай бұрын

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

@tonyclifton265 2 ай бұрын

much grittier and scarier than "the day after"

@shonacourt9750 Ай бұрын

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

@maureenm8462 11 ай бұрын

What a terrifying and realistic film.

@burtonwilliams5355 11 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

What country sent the nuke?

@burtonwilliams5355 5 ай бұрын

@@albertoserna3968 Russia/ Soviet Union (?)

@thewomble1509 2 ай бұрын

@@albertoserna3968 Malta.

@djrichylaurence8991 10 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

The lwill iving envy the dead

@RDeckardN6 5 ай бұрын

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

@sanddancer1951 2 ай бұрын

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.

@petersimon6222 Жыл бұрын

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

@WaleedHiggins Жыл бұрын

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

@dazzab111 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, same with Oldham and Rochdale too…..

@Rookie-2552 Жыл бұрын

God this would actually be terrifying to be in

@grahamfisher5436 Жыл бұрын

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

@todddavis4586 Жыл бұрын

@@grahamfisher5436 Only real in Hollywood

@grahamfisher5436 Жыл бұрын

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

@todddavis4586 Жыл бұрын

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

@troywales983 Жыл бұрын

its coming we are close at the moment

@turkeytwizzler1930 5 ай бұрын

By far the most frightening film i've ever seen

@chasehedges6775 4 ай бұрын

One of the scariest

@joshuao1189 5 ай бұрын

That shot of the Iron sparking...RIP

@antpearson9676 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

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

@yvonneplant9434 10 ай бұрын

I was completely shakened by this film. Unforgettable.

@kitharrison8799 Ай бұрын

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

@dalekinthewater4708 Жыл бұрын

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

@raygamma36 Жыл бұрын

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

@gerardocruz8946 Жыл бұрын

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

@jess.hawkins 10 ай бұрын

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 12 күн бұрын

I thought it was the cat

@mikeveis7322 3 ай бұрын

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

@scouterkeith 10 ай бұрын

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

@brianjames2549 Жыл бұрын

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.

@metalhd4life Жыл бұрын

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

@scottmatheson3346 2 ай бұрын

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

@marchfast8291 5 ай бұрын

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.

@stephanielaurenbounds4958 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@nopcshere6097 Жыл бұрын

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

@garyturner5739 9 ай бұрын

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

@danyoutube7491 8 ай бұрын

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

@christopherturco3494 5 ай бұрын

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

@sanddancer1951 2 ай бұрын

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

@mikeveis7322 3 ай бұрын

This movie was just as terrifying as the Exorcist.

@samholden4171 4 ай бұрын

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

@envsf03 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 . 😊

@MichalKaczorowski 3 ай бұрын

Nuke look still better than in "Oppenheimer" ;)

@wailer27 Жыл бұрын

Who would've thought woolworths would crumble like that

@evertonporter7887 Жыл бұрын

Woolworths is gone from the high street in real life.

@wailer27 Жыл бұрын

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

@masere Жыл бұрын

@evertonporter7887 and British Home Stores

@samhart4663 Жыл бұрын

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

@whtxombi4955 Ай бұрын

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

@JackOpulski 7 ай бұрын

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

@nicholastaylor2217 5 ай бұрын

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.

@anthonythomas3231 10 ай бұрын

Still chilling after all these years

@dieglhix Жыл бұрын

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

@merseydave1 11 ай бұрын

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!

@jonathanwilson2260 Жыл бұрын

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

@garyturner5739 Жыл бұрын

That's effective warning against EMP then.

@keithparkinson6170 10 ай бұрын

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

@steamvyrus6249 2 ай бұрын

@@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.

@dustychandler2020 Ай бұрын

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.

@Brian6587 Жыл бұрын

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

@garyturner5739 Жыл бұрын

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

@Brian6587 Жыл бұрын

@@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 11 ай бұрын

@@garyturner5739We were ALWAYS living with this threat.

@DT-wp4hk 2 ай бұрын

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

@thewomble1509 2 ай бұрын

Hooligans armed with nukes.

@AlphanPeter Жыл бұрын

More graphic than the Day After Tomorrow on abc movie

@kevinlindley2642 10 ай бұрын

Really shocking to see Woolworths destroyed @ 9:13

@rikeralpha100 2 ай бұрын

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

@Scrapper. 5 күн бұрын

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.

@susanashman2080 3 ай бұрын

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

@chriswaring5565 Жыл бұрын

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

@G-BONE Жыл бұрын

Elliot wouldn't let him

@chriswaring5565 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-pv4kl5zz3y 3 ай бұрын

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

@sleepyheadsleeps 2 ай бұрын

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

@thomasshepard6030 10 ай бұрын

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

@wleon4068 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@chrismullan7191 Жыл бұрын

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

@highwindsclarke2685 Жыл бұрын

Clips from Protect And Survive are heard on this.

@channelwarrior861 7 ай бұрын

In 1962, this movie almost became reality

@duanehamdorf2228 Жыл бұрын

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

@MountainRaven1960 Ай бұрын

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

@granite676 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@marcbernstein383 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@marcbernstein383 Жыл бұрын

@@bessallin459 LOL. No doubt.

@colinthorn514 Жыл бұрын

Thanks. That just creased me up 😆

@Ashworth6 Жыл бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@saanzacs 10 ай бұрын

The ending was just devastating and sad

@pekkasupa2798 Жыл бұрын

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

@roccomitchell-wo9qi 5 ай бұрын

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

@neilgundry4812 8 ай бұрын

The silence screams horror.....

@jonathandowling7311 9 ай бұрын

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

@billybhoy32 Жыл бұрын

Should have shown this on Christmas Day

@TheA8lee Жыл бұрын

haha

@davidallbaugh6858 Жыл бұрын

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

@Bondek1996 Жыл бұрын

The Eastenders Xmas episode usually does the job 😄

@allandavis8201 Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@masterscubaman 9 ай бұрын

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

@johndavis8669 14 күн бұрын

This is the BBC version of the American TV channel ABC the Day After. Both similar in fear

@simonscott1000 10 ай бұрын

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

@michaelmuldowney8 Жыл бұрын

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 4 күн бұрын

You do realise that is sheffield today?

@paulneri835 Жыл бұрын

"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]

@metalbearuk 6 ай бұрын

The sound of the siren has always remained with me. I'd rather not be warned.

@sanddancer1951 2 ай бұрын

I don't think you would be.

@stevenpayne9063 2 ай бұрын

I was in Sheffield when the siren was set off for the film (and no warning given), it was like the bottom fell out of the world (10am, 4th July 1984 - lovely sunny day…)

@metalbearuk 2 ай бұрын

@@stevenpayne9063 That would have totally got to me. Bet they couldn't do that these days.

@sanddancer1951 2 ай бұрын

You won't be.

@thewomble1509 2 ай бұрын

@@metalbearuk No Sirens left. It's all on your mobile or other device now.