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

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Docudrama uses fictional reports of a crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange. An excellent, dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. "Looking Glass" is the code word for the Strategic Air Command's control plane which is to be used in the case of nuclear war.
A Canadian made-for-television movie, and the narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons, which was triggered by a banking crisis, from the perspective of an ongoing news broadcast.
The nuclear powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz portrayed in this movie is actually the museum ship U.S.S. Yorktown (ex CV 10) moored in Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina. Starring Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver as Dorian Waldorf, Eric Sevareid (as himself) and a young Newt Gingrich (as himself).
First aired on October 14, 1984. For education, entertainment, enlightenment and inspiration.
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@greggd2027 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

The news woman was in tremors 2 aftershock

@NYCamper62 Жыл бұрын

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

@kelleygreenEmpressOne Жыл бұрын

I watched threads this morning...

@Aengus42 Жыл бұрын

@@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... 😱

@russchiappa4870 Жыл бұрын

Forty years later and we are in the same looped nightmare

@straywolf77 Жыл бұрын

Right?

@axelscharf2415 Жыл бұрын

Even worse .

@azaretskyc Жыл бұрын

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

@gussstavo Жыл бұрын

you are... me i live in Argentina

@jw325 Жыл бұрын

@@gussstavo 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

@unknownfilmmaker777 4 ай бұрын

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

@machellebarrington9476 4 ай бұрын

FACTS✌️💯

@Troy-sn2hi 4 ай бұрын

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

@user-yi6nb9sj9i 4 ай бұрын

Just a few ?!?!

@marksretrogames9297 3 ай бұрын

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

@tobiojo6469 3 ай бұрын

It really is

@mnirwin5112 11 ай бұрын

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

@dunxy 11 ай бұрын

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

@baldeagle4308 10 ай бұрын

The similarities to today are even scarier.

@barnabycat7002 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@rustymascari7554 6 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

above question? LOL.

@marcd2743 4 ай бұрын

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

@Sunny25611 3 ай бұрын

My dear brother George was also may he RIP😔

@KtotheL 2 ай бұрын

Thank You for your Service !

@DaOvaseea 2 ай бұрын

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

@davedixon2068 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

Positive

@Sweetwater20120 Ай бұрын

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

@jimbotron70 Ай бұрын

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

@Sweetwater20120 Ай бұрын

@@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

@bancte Жыл бұрын

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

@dawnwinter8867 Жыл бұрын

Better B Cor actors

@kellyvaters1689 11 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@Sunny25611 3 ай бұрын

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

@wonderdog1210 3 ай бұрын

stay classy saudi arabia

@nizloc4118 2 ай бұрын

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

@MAGABorderSolutions 18 күн бұрын

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 16 күн бұрын

@@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.

@mungojack Жыл бұрын

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

@maverickhistorian6488 Жыл бұрын

I already have my two weeks supply of food

@KellyDFlynn Жыл бұрын

@@maverickhistorian6488 gonna need more than that 😊

@peperider 8 ай бұрын

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

@kevoreilly6557 7 ай бұрын

Watching it 10/25/2023 an even worse idea

@EricCox4848 3 ай бұрын

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

@mikekopack6441 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@mottthehoople693 Жыл бұрын

@@D4rkMatter1975 Dawns Early Morning Light is another good one

@PedroVera Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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

@mgaamerica9185 11 ай бұрын

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

@noahhyde8769 10 ай бұрын

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.

@marksamuelsen2750 7 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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 6 күн бұрын

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....

@Morcaiden Жыл бұрын

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

@marypartridge5154 Жыл бұрын

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

@18dmedic Жыл бұрын

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

@patrickscalia5088 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 KZfaq 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.

@JamesSmith-je7vf Жыл бұрын

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.”

@jkeelsnc Жыл бұрын

This applies now more than ever before at the present moment. God help us all.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 ай бұрын

@@jkeelsnc How do we stop Putin?

@jkeelsnc 11 ай бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Keep stoking the Ukrainians with arms and keep them in good morale. They are whittling down Putin’s military every day. Eventually, he will either be a paper tiger with no teeth or there will be a coup that will overtake him after his military power (and Loyal officers and officials) is gone.

@Hand-Solo852 10 ай бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiverwith nukes

@jwales8133 3 ай бұрын

@@RideAcrossTheRiverhow do we stop the MIC?

@jameswarner3599 4 ай бұрын

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........

@foreverpinkf.7603 Жыл бұрын

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

@leroy.jackson.4804 5 ай бұрын

It almost became a ⚱️ Right.

@Switcharoo12 4 ай бұрын

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

@thomashenshallhydraxis Ай бұрын

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.

@Medic91101 Жыл бұрын

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

@legneil Жыл бұрын

Yeah great timing with Joe in office lol

@andrewdaley5480 Жыл бұрын

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

@colinstewart1432 Жыл бұрын

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

@FinalFront Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Preview to the Gulf War.

@splean75 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@mundanestuff 3 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@nate61 Сағат бұрын

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

@BellsofNevermore 10 ай бұрын

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...

@steveb3885 5 ай бұрын

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

@alals6794 Жыл бұрын

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

@ryancoulter4797 Жыл бұрын

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

@claytondusauzay6745 Жыл бұрын

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

@Praise___YaH Жыл бұрын

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@electronixTech Жыл бұрын

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

@arthurweems2839 2 ай бұрын

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

@mikegallant811 Ай бұрын

Patrick was an amputee? Interesting.

@natedoggcata 5 ай бұрын

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.

@kenl5290 Жыл бұрын

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.

@danthomas6587 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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@antpearson9676 Жыл бұрын

Hair dye Ant p uk teacher retired

@richardheadly7466 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@gregoryhagen8801 Жыл бұрын

Political correctness.

@davebusink2019 Жыл бұрын

In 2022. This can still be relevant.

@foobarmaximus3506 Жыл бұрын

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

@Spooky_515 Жыл бұрын

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

@frankpienkosky5688 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

This is really close to actually happening in real life.

@nyki7fykxtjxyi Жыл бұрын

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

@ThomasGrillo 9 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

I'm sure that was terrifying!

@pschroeter1 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

I meant Special Bulletin.

@Scottrchrdsn 8 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

@@Scottrchrdsn we can only hope

@Caffeine_Club Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@GeoffCK 3 ай бұрын

Watson. Patrick WATSON

@loneilderssr8246 Жыл бұрын

As chilling as it was in 1984.

@jkeelsnc Жыл бұрын

And it still applies today.

@timwoods3171 2 ай бұрын

If only Dorie had waited 12 more seconds for the arrival of that gray BMW!!

@flatcapcaferacer Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@EL20078 Жыл бұрын

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

@joangordoneieio Жыл бұрын

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.

@GuinessOriginal Жыл бұрын

Bomb shelters 😂 Americans are so gullible

@gregoryhagen8801 Жыл бұрын

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?

@martingreen4707 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@marcusaurelius6012 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@yourearidiculouslunatic8435 Жыл бұрын

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

@YoungGagarin Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

A great cold war theme movie!

@keithlillis7962 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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 14 күн бұрын

@@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 13 күн бұрын

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.

@cogginstommycars 3 ай бұрын

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 5 күн бұрын

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

@christophersermeno8631 Күн бұрын

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

@noelht1 Жыл бұрын

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

@liden77 Жыл бұрын

Yes and USS Dallas would have gotten that russian sub

@christophersermeno8631 Жыл бұрын

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

@noelht1 Жыл бұрын

@@christophersermeno8631 good one !!!

@justasurfer8596 Жыл бұрын

He did get around, didn't he

@noelht1 Жыл бұрын

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

@mpatrickthomas Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@mtm101designs9 5 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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.

@scott_hunts Жыл бұрын

Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment 😌🥰🙂

@user-eb1xf1et8o 4 ай бұрын

No horse and buggies either!! Life moves forward....what's your point?

@user_16309 Жыл бұрын

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

@brianl7695 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

The atmosphere of Threads is chilling

@amhaglos 2 ай бұрын

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

@Vashti0825 Ай бұрын

It's scary, because it resembles a documentary

@Arc_5 23 күн бұрын

For those of you who like watching movies like this, you should definitely check Without Warning (1994)

@papafrank7094 10 ай бұрын

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

@emilschw8924 Жыл бұрын

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

@jkeelsnc Жыл бұрын

And its more likely to happen now than ever before. This film is salient in our present time.

@unknowngod8221 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@jkeelsnc Жыл бұрын

@@unknowngod8221 not now. Now that we know that the stray missile was from ukraine, poo Tom needs to be put on notice though. And no I don’t want to start a nuclear exchange.

@carter7944 Жыл бұрын

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

@matthewparker8607 Жыл бұрын

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.

@MrKen-wy5dk Жыл бұрын

"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 Жыл бұрын

It’s on daily motion

@jacksonvilletaxman1 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-jl6ln4ix4s 2 ай бұрын

DVD available on ebay, reasonable price

@MAGABorderSolutions 18 күн бұрын

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

@THE-X-Force 2 ай бұрын

The more things change .. the more they stay the same.

@sparkfighter1 11 ай бұрын

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

@rdelrosso1973 10 ай бұрын

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

@Switcharoo12 4 ай бұрын

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

@jflclc 3 ай бұрын

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

@mylegalassistants 2 ай бұрын

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

@angeliqueivanica975 2 ай бұрын

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

@stag6161 Жыл бұрын

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

@cf6965 Жыл бұрын

Fox News !

@cplcabs Жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 ай бұрын

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

@marcosramos4596 10 ай бұрын

This is The Best Comment ever!

@rebeccasmith2865 Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@arnoldim100 10 ай бұрын

Never our fault !

@serendpity3478 9 ай бұрын

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

@arnoldim100 9 ай бұрын

@@serendpity3478 ?...

@comfeefort 8 ай бұрын

Try TESTAMENT, 1983. Very depressing

@tkskagen 8 ай бұрын

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

@The_Ninedalorian 10 ай бұрын

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

@gordonallen9095 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@sharkfintech5893 Жыл бұрын

Also, Looking Glass is now under Navy auspices.

@grahamfisher5436 Жыл бұрын

the word Hypersonic is very worrying

@Ghoosier Жыл бұрын

We are in those times again

@rdelrosso1973 10 ай бұрын

Gordon: Thank you for your Service.

@Vic-mv8iz Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@nigelbranthwaite8471 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Threads was very disturbing...

@andrewdaley5480 Жыл бұрын

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

@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Жыл бұрын

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

@eggreedgious5194 10 ай бұрын

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

@thetruth7633 10 ай бұрын

World War III 1998 , alternative history, also very good

@ericlassin953 9 ай бұрын

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

@LaLaLand.Germany 7 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@ELA_III 5 ай бұрын

they should remake this movie.

@couerl 3 ай бұрын

Might not have to. lol

@unchargedpickles6372 Жыл бұрын

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

@HuplesCat Жыл бұрын

Threads is the best one of the 80s

@tlamn1905 Жыл бұрын

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

@zacharybailey158 Жыл бұрын

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...

@alejandrohualdez5550 Жыл бұрын

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

@Howie900 Ай бұрын

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 !

@paulgray2387 Жыл бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

Threads was…… different. The ending

@dankenstein9462 9 ай бұрын

Pfft threads makes this look like a kids cartoon in comparison

@jasonjaxxson 6 ай бұрын

IT WILL HAPPEN SOMEDAY...2024, 2025

@kotnapromke 4 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

@@kotnapromke huh ?

@theGentlemanCaller73 Жыл бұрын

The 1980s were a wild time!

@aquasnek5487 Жыл бұрын

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

@mrgray5576 Жыл бұрын

You ain't seen nothing yet

@theGentlemanCaller73 Жыл бұрын

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

@earth7551 Жыл бұрын

Much worse now

@raptorking5452 Жыл бұрын

2020's..."Hold my beer"

@captainyossarian388 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@galahadthreepwood Жыл бұрын

@@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

@TheKurtsPlaceChannel 8 ай бұрын

Great video and very moving as well. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.

@LBA50462 Ай бұрын

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

@alexmaclean1 Жыл бұрын

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.

@AbeTheSigma007 Жыл бұрын

Or a set up…

@grahamfisher5436 Жыл бұрын

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

@billtheslink4541 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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

@frankpienkosky5688 Жыл бұрын

@@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....

@TheRoamingPrepper Жыл бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

Watch Threads. It'll kill you inside.

@Gustav_Kuriga 10 ай бұрын

@@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 9 ай бұрын

@@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 6 ай бұрын

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

@hondaxl250k0 7 ай бұрын

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

@jdo582 4 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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.

@msgfrmdaactionman3000 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@macmedic892 Жыл бұрын

Scott Glenn was fabulous in The Hunt for Red October.

@dinahwhite3929 Жыл бұрын

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

@MichaelBrodie68 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

i love the right stuff. is glenn in this

@sterling1489 Жыл бұрын

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!

@spccovingtontornadocoaster3660 7 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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

@spccovingtontornadocoaster3660 2 ай бұрын

Gives me nightmares at night

@alonenjersey 2 ай бұрын

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

@rickbase833 7 ай бұрын

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

@spikespa5208 5 ай бұрын

Well, he was a trained astronaut already.

@TheMerryPrangster Ай бұрын

Sean connery was great

@randybentley2633 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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...

@-Cinderman Жыл бұрын

Cool dad. 👴🏼

@justsimplejustsimple3015 Жыл бұрын

Sweet of him

@GuinessOriginal Жыл бұрын

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

@madness8556 Жыл бұрын

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

@gussstavo Жыл бұрын

and before a virus and before terrorism and before also nukes guess what i aint scared cause its all bs

@JohnFrancis66 9 ай бұрын

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

@crashk1955 Жыл бұрын

Wish they still made movies like this.

@TheMerryPrangster Ай бұрын

They do.. independence day is similar

@mandst5466 Жыл бұрын

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 🤔

@michaelsummerell8618 Жыл бұрын

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

@julieklas184 5 ай бұрын

Too realistic to watch during these troubled times.

@himoffthequakeroatbox4320 10 ай бұрын

The newsman is more like a newsman than most real ones. Quality acting.

@igorschmidlapp6987 10 ай бұрын

BS. The acting sucks in this.

@gorillaau 9 ай бұрын

It's also the era of news reporting, back then the interviews had harder questions and generally didn't accept non-answers from political types. Now it seem that they'd ask where did you get the suit rather than the subject at hand. There are some good investigative journalists but it seem that people today do not want to be informed, but see entertainment instead. Enter the fluff news pieces.

@Ceej_MM 8 ай бұрын

He was a real news anchor.

@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Жыл бұрын

"Don, you picked a hell of a time to stand on policy...and a hell of a week to quit huffing glue!"

@seclusionworks7547 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

😢😔

@jmp814 Жыл бұрын

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.

@RickLibre Жыл бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

Suuuuure. This so didnt happen.

@retrowatches1655 8 ай бұрын

I smell Bull Shi

@trevorday7923 10 ай бұрын

"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....

@zaperfield 8 ай бұрын

Wow. I lived the eighties but didn't know about this until now and I'm literally hooked (just watched first 30 mins). Somebody should make an updated TV Show with this style.

@cockneycharm3970 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of what is going on in 2022. This was one hell of a damned good film. Very chilling. Acting superb 👌

@thathandsomedevil0828 10 ай бұрын

Now 2023...

@scottlosey4978 6 ай бұрын

And, now, in November 2023......strange days indeed

@cockneycharm3970 6 ай бұрын

@@scottlosey4978 Agree wholeheartedly. Scary times to say the least.

@persona83 Жыл бұрын

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

@chetmcdonald 2 ай бұрын

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

@johnvoelker8227 Жыл бұрын

I was 11 years old when this came out. Their is a lot of similarities compared to what’s going on nowadays. It’s only a matter of time before one of these trigger happy countries push that button. I just hope I am in the direct hit because I wouldn’t want to live through what is to come after. God bless

@glendarichardson5337 Жыл бұрын

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

@johnkeller6063 Жыл бұрын

It's sad it could still happen now

@finisher3x 10 ай бұрын

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.

@wirksworthsrailway Жыл бұрын

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

@jimbosc Жыл бұрын

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

@mharris5047 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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.

@briansimerl4014 Жыл бұрын

Love this channel. Totally got me through Covid.

@Opurt1971 Жыл бұрын

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

@abathens Жыл бұрын

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

@BucyKalman 4 ай бұрын

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.

@therexbellator 11 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@johnkeller6063 Жыл бұрын

This is the first time seeing this. Very well done

@jpmnky Жыл бұрын

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