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Black Blade
22nd May 2010, 04:02 PM
Threads is a 1984 BBC television play depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesise the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSF7wDVQTKE&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc5teBNks04&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nPmmJvjDWg&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9rh4CDj9SI&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlRhf6dpPiA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkArwYlK-QU&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6VnsiGA0xI&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVSHKMYXecw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBALpKMSeY&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJnFfoi7gg&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEwUnD0xmo&feature=player_embedded

Book
22nd May 2010, 04:20 PM
I viewed it years ago. Pretty grim. The survivors envied the dead.

philo beddoe
22nd May 2010, 08:06 PM
Interesting. Teletypes and typewriters.

Argentium
28th July 2010, 07:14 PM
Yeah, "Threads" was a real day-brightner! Was it more realistic than "Thre Day After" ? Perhaps. Actually, it might be worse, IIRDC, the UK took several hundred megatons, that's a lot in the small area attacked.

Has anyone seen the trailer to "Countdown to Zero"? Just looks like repackaged CND/red propoganda.

Phoenix
29th July 2010, 09:58 AM
Has anyone seen the trailer to "Countdown to Zero"? Just looks like repackaged CND/red propoganda.


First Strike was the opposite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlPEBROvR9w

"Missile warning this is Beale" is always an ominous line for me.

Fortyone
1st August 2010, 02:08 PM
I used to enjoy all those movies.,oddly what struck me the most realistic,and caused the fear, was the scene in threads during the initial attack, where people were doing their daily routines. The man on the toilet realizing he was done!

Phoenix
2nd August 2010, 11:54 AM
The man on the toilet realizing he was done!


"Bloody Hell!"

wvojak
17th August 2010, 07:47 PM
Yeah, "Threads" was a real day-brightner! Was it more realistic than "Thre Day After" ? Perhaps. Actually, it might be worse, IIRDC, the UK took several hundred megatons, that's a lot in the small area attacked.

Has anyone seen the trailer to "Countdown to Zero"? Just looks like repackaged CND/red propoganda.


There were a lot of doomsday nuclear war films produced during the 80s. The left was using them as a scare tactic because they were certain that Regan's "Cowboy Attitude" in standing up to the USSR was going to cause WWIII. . .

Phoenix
17th August 2010, 11:37 PM
There were a lot of doomsday nuclear war films produced during the 80s. The left was using them as a scare tactic because they were certain that Regan's "Cowboy Attitude" in standing up to the USSR was going to cause WWIII. . .


I was terrified of a US-USSR nuclear war growing up. And that went away immediately once I started reading Antony Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development. I then realized both "sides" were controlled by the same people, and an all-out nuclear exchange would not serve their interests.

The "threat" of a nuclear war was used to push "globalism." "Useful idiots" of CND, etc., didn't realize they were serving the same people they were overtly opposed to. The fact most people still aren't clued in to is that "Communism" didn't "collapse." The Wall came down because the same apparatus was fully installed on both sides in the late 1980s. Reagan was merely a figure-head for George H.W. Bush. Ronnie was "supposed" to croak during the assassination attempt by John Hinckley, the brother of a Bush Crime Family friend of Neil Bush's, Scott Hinckley. The ideology of the Bush Crime Family is power, and nothing else. "Capitalism" and "Communism" mean nothing to them; just labels of the same thing that exists once you reach the top.

The threat of nuclear weapons use is now higher than it's ever been since at least Vietnam.