this movie think a 3000 megaton nuclear engagement would have destroyed the world ? What about civilized remote area of the world ? Would they have nuked the whole of south america and africa what about asia ? A nuclear winter would be bad but would it wipe that much of the population ?
Nuclear winter -> Crops would fail -> massive starvation everywhere. Also world's social and economical infrastructure would be gone. World as we know it would be gone, but there would be plenty of people around. Back to dark ages..
i am in a major city in Australia, just a few k's from a military training base and only 30 k away from where the Americans dock their ships when they need restocking on their way to the middle east....i'd be screwed, if the blast didn't kill me the fall out would.
i would rather die in the blast...better then lingering with all the horrid symptoms of nuclear radiation sickness.
@uching why nuke key targets in Australia as well, since we are just a low population country in the middle of the near nowhere?
because we could still provide supplies to allied forces, because we do have some sites that are occupied by U.S forces and U.S assets.
we could produce ammunition and other weapons, we could supply food and other aid, whilst not a massive military threat Australia would be a target none the less for it's ties to the U.S .
First that Moron gets his girlfriend Pregnant and Blames her for it. Then he says he wants to get married and promptly goes out and Fucks the first thing he sees. The best thing that woman should have done, would be to go and get and abortion and then cut his Misogynistic cock off when she came back.
@hogalog lol, you wish... The old saying rings true... A Woman with an opinion has no friends. I bet the Women in your family have similar views, but refrain from voicing them because of Judgmental, naming calling Bastards like you. I just hope that they have SOME opportunity in their life, without Misogynistic turds, such as yourself, from stifling them from having Free Will.
@starquant alright jacqui smith, hows tricks? i have no daughters of my own, but my girlfriend and mother both went to uni and have good jobs. want some tomato ketchup to go with that chip on your shoulder?
@tonyvice6661616 I'd say something about the obvious subtext in your comment, but doubtless you'd ignore it. Instead I'll just say; sometime you should read about the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and contrast them to the rights most Western nations grant their citizens.
It's not for nothing that the Soviets are used as bad guys so often.
Who would have thought that the British would have to worry about an Islamic invasion? The Cold War came and went without a missile fired. The British, however, are being destroyed from the inside out.
America made the Day After film but this one has more of a scary feel to the whole thing. I shit my pants when watching this at 13 years old back in 1984 and could not sleep for months on end. In fact, it shit me up until at least 21 years of age. shit!!
In the US, wasn't there an organisation which handed out cyanide pills in colleges for the event of nuclear war? They need to consider something like that here, free cyanide pills on the NHS lol
In the event of a four minute warning, take a seat, pop in the cyanide pill with a glass of water and die peacefully, not as a charcoal stick.
@Standuble NO joke. Although I always imagined if you were lucky enough to be at ground zero, you'de be vaporised in a fraction of a second. I can't imagine that being too painful either.
@Politcalamity I'd rather not find out. If I'm not mistaken as I'm in Essex I would be downwind from London, meaning that I should survive the nuclear strike only to die from major fallout. Sounds like fun!
I only hope if there is a nuclear war one day I'm sipping wine on a spaceship or Luna colony. Sure, we would probably be dead in a few months/years due to a total loss of supplies from earthside but having front row seats to the end of the world would be a fun way to spend an afternoon.
@Standuble No, you'll be ok - you'll have a farm and bio sphere aboard your craft supplying food and air. Water could be created using a chemical process (fuel scoops used to get Hydrogen) or from collecting ice from mining asteroids etc.. Of course you'll have a few thousand blonde, brunet and red-head female clones as crew for the space station as well..
@Standuble If I could give you more thumbs up I would. For me its all about who i am stuck with. With your attitude and obvious since of humor. Id hang with you on that ship, it would be a great way to go out , laughing until the end.
Also, if there was two nuclear explosions, the shit would have hit the fan in a big way. You can't conceal that kind of thing, the information would have gotten out from any of a dozen sources even if the gov't tried to cover it up.
Any kind of use of nuclear weapons in anger would have been a massive, instantaneous transition to a war footing. They might not have immediately gone to a full-out doomsday attack, but the whole world would have been watching TV from their basements, I assure you.
@EntropicMisanthropic During the Cuban Missile Crisis church attendance rose. Priests and other church leaders heard many prayers and confessions. Who's to say there weren't any atheists there?
It's nostalgic in some ways: CND, Greenham Common, Carl Sagan and the Nuclear Winter. And yet it could so easily happen again. If you ever get the chance to see the museum of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, I would recommend it. It's an incredibly powerful and disturbing museum that shows you simple what happens when a relatively small bomb flattens an entire city in 15 minutes.
40p I'd rather starve, yeah well she would at today's prices it's terrible how things have gone up! I remeber in 1997 baked beans were 1p a tin in Aldi and Heinz and Cross & Blackwell got really angry.
David Cameron's Defense policy, a seat for himself, his family and other Conservative and Lib Dem big wigs and their families on a requisitioned British Airways Boeing 777 departing London Heathrow destination Bermuda, before the first Iranian ten kiloton yield range nuke detonates over London. Put the Nimrod MRA4 in to service, keep the Harrier GR9 in service and kick Cameron out of 10 Downing Street.
I know what to do...this is my future...and your's if you can protect you're jobs..you will also be sweeping streets....Accountants..teachers..students..librarians...
I see a return to the ghettoism...I have just put a bullet in my head!
The irony is - "nobody wins a nuclear war". Everybody knows that. Yet somehow the politicians fail to see this simple logic. And they are earning big wage from tax payers to make stupid decisions like building nuclear bombs.
@rugbydazz Hold up mate, I'm a Cockney and I can understand you mob alright. Don't put us all in the same bracket. I don't hate northerners - why d'you hate all southerners?
@kamelion7, Well mate you sound like a decent man, and I am sorry that you were offended by my comment to the other user, If your a cockney then your perhaps working class, which means you have got a better grip on reality and how tough life can be, having said that there are plenty of working class people who you meet and think their brain was amputated at birth, lol, and I'm not part of their mob mate I live in the south mids and don't really have an accent, not like Sheffield anyway.
@rugbydazz You're alright mate - I got the hump when I first read it but then again some of the stuck up mob from Berkshire grate on me as well!! Yes I am working class (and proud) and most of us cockneys have been driven out to the suburbs by all these chinless cunts buying property at extortionate prices!! Yes, some working class are as thick as shit - and don't wanna work!! Fucking ponces
@NolanRogers2 so it wasn't just a my impression: I lived in London for one month to improve my English and it was quite ok, but I really can't understand what the actors are saying in this film, but 3 or 4 words ... some kind of strict accent, maybe?
@revenez yes man same here ...i am italian and been in USA several time ..well when i watch american movies i can uderstand almost everything..with this one i couldn't ..but hey im not offending anyone ...it is a matter of different accents :)
"Get back to bloody Russia" There are always fucktards around who somehow consistently miss the point, blame those who are trying to save them and stupidly strengthen the status quo. This guy reminds me of "tea party" morons in the US today, enraged at progressives and peace activists.
@SubmarinerAndroid, I agree with you I was 11 years old when I saw this and even then I knew the guy who shouted get back to bloody Russia was being a total twat, we have plenty of what you call Fucktards here just visit any council estate (projects in your language) you can pick em up by the bus load
@holmsatlarge They did. Threads and The Day After scared world governments so much that Gorbachev and Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987, banning the use of short and intermediate-range nukes.
Reagan even told Nicholas Meyer afterwards, "Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did."
00:40 BRUSSELLS. New World Order? Think about it. These buggers are as old as time. They might have beaten us, but their day will come. Just hope to God...
I used to live in High Wycombe where the HQ of NATO Air Command was based. That would have been one of the first places nuked fi there had been a war.
Mum! Dad says you've to come home right now, 'fore the ruskies bomb seven shades o' shite outer us. And 'e says fer yer ter bring a new box o' candles 'n a packet o' johnnies.
I wish that there were absolutely no nuclear weapons at all. We should have just destroyed them and burned everything regarding on how to build nukes after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
@Godzillaman Everyone was trying to figure out how to make nukes. Even if the US never learned how to make nukes, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened, another country would have figured out how to make a nuclear bomb. It's really unfortunate, but it's the truth.
@isearchforfullmoons, you express a truth that is obvious to anyone with a brain. Being American, I guess I should be flattered, since the person's comment presupposes that everyone else is too stupid to develop nuclear weapons no matter how much time they're given. Like it or not, man will progress technologically, and the only thing becoming a Luddite does is ensure that you will end up being dominated by a technologically superior civilization.
Your question is: how is nuclear war and the complete destruction of mankind scary? Seeing your family and everyone else die a horrible death, with no hope of surviving? Is that actually a question?
Fast forwarding? I saw this when it came out 26 years ago. I'm now guessing that you weren't yet alive then. This is stunningly realistic, and is still chilling today.
"Pop ups" are actually the opposite of scary. Look up Hitchcock's comments on that subject. That kind of gimmick undermines any building of dread or horror by giving the audience a quick release. But it's definitely the "go-to" device of PG-13 horror films of the past decades.
@r0ckandrollTV Stop what? I replied to your comment and vice versa. Not trying to pick a fight. As most of the 54 comments here are from people talking about how scary this film is, one might think you were just trying to argue, but I see that you were not - your question was genuine.
I saw this when I went to secondary school - age 11 and our psycho science teacher decided to scare the crap out of us and you know what - this scares the crap out of me now!
How funny those peace loving dmn fag protest for peace. Let me tell them something. There was no peace. There are only struggles. From struggles we have chaos. In chaos, we have wars. From wars we gain power. After we have supior power, we can have peace. It's the way of the universe, and all should follow. If someone want war, let's there be war. A man shoun't go down without a fight, unless he's not a man.
we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 20 times over, wow humans are really the fuckin asshole creatures in this world. assholes. every single person in this world is a ahole.
Thank God they eventually demolished the "eggbox" Town Hall extension! Thank God forever that it didn't take nukes to get rid of it. We'd be right f----d if it'd happened.
@bodunchar You should see what cities look like after natural disasters. People fight, loot and go fucking crazy. When the chips are down, these people will eat each other.
@outwrangle maybe. I've been in natural disasters, a big earthquake (city), a flood (rural), and a tornado (suburbia), and people have been much kinder and friendlier than normal, offering food, shelter, and labor for free for a couple days after (then reverting to normal). Of course, none of those was a nuclear war, and I'm not in England, and if a football match there can set them off so easily, or this week, apparently nothing at all can, I guess this is realistic for them.
I always considered the Cold War Nuclear Disarmament Movement absurd, and feel sadly vindicated by the acts of countries such as Iran and North Korea.
The reality is that these demonstrations were only possible in the democratic societies, while failing to impress the despots.
The sad reality iis that you can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle, so the only alternative is for the major powers, US, UK, Russian, and (yes even) China to responsibly possess their nuclear devices.
True, when the plan for the occupation of West Germany was formulated in the 1970's the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact planned to nuke Belgium, parts of West Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. The only reason Britain and France were not targeted was because they had nuclear weapons and Mutually Assured Destruction would be ineveitable.
My wife grew up in a rural northern Canadian town 4 hours short of the tree line so watching this film, and The Day After, as a young woman in that relative safety had no impact on her. However, watching it today living in the Motor City less than an hour away from one of the largest petrol chemical production areas in North America has given her a whole new take on things.
Our best to you and yours, throbby, may this day never come.
@throbbylovegusset Yes, it is the scariest movie I have ever seen! It is an important movie too. I think everyone should see it and see what could happen if they decide to push that awful button!
@throbbylovegusset Cheer up, it never happened. The political situation leading to a nuclear war in this film has long since evaporated. Threads is now reassuringly dated.
@Cool2BCeltic Really? Iran is in the crosshairs of the US, Russia still has significant interests in Iran. The Strait of Hormuz is chokepoint for the shipping of 40% of the world's oil exports....which Iran has threatened to blockade if the US attempts to invade.
and both sides retain spetacularly deadly nuclear arsenals.
@kadathdreamques I grew up in the 1960's and we were pretty much kept IGNORANT! But then, I grew up in cowtown Sacramento, California, the most backa**ward place on Earth!
It is still as likely to happen today, or even moreso dont let your governments fool you. Though the Soviet Union has collapsed the Russians and the U.S. still have a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons and both have a test ready policy to conduct nuclear tests again at any moment. Thank god that China and the U.S. have a strict no first strike policy. In the end it will be the Americans that will initiate this insanity in the next 10-50 years, in our lifetime something is going to happen.
Strangely, ryan, my memories of the cold war era aren't really all that scary. Emergency Broadcast System tests occured during Saturday morning cartoons, primetime and happened so frequently that they really lost all meaning. It almost became surreal. I remember seeing my first EBS transmission in years during a natural disaster recently and that one had more of an effect on me than the total of my childhood combined.
I did debate to myself who would attack first though, I can't deny that.
@lesterclaypool1 When I lived in California, they not only had EBS broadcasts on television and radio, but also the local firestations when test their sirens at 11:00 a.m., last Friday of the month.They also had these small metal things mounted on short metal poles, these were to test the air for radiation. Also, we had CD book covers, although the parents never took them seriously. We also had drills, but with the school a mile from the SP shops, it would not have mattered!
09.16 That racket outside the house sounds like a typical Saturday night in Newport!
DrMarcusKane 5 days ago
@youareonthetube1 Aww thanks, thats the first time anybody's said something like that to me on here :)
Standuble 6 days ago
Commie dykes are the first ones to be vaporized. All is good.
XmXFLUXmX2 1 week ago
@XmXFLUXmX2 you sick homophobic git... personally I would be quite happy to be dead anyway, especially if people like you were left in charge!
fenric71 3 hours ago
@fenric71 So if you can't bum rump another man, you'd rather die? Fucking faggots, all of you are depraved animals.
XmXFLUXmX2 2 hours ago
This is the part the Day After neglected. There will be war prostestors, but not in that movie.
MercuryRis 2 weeks ago
they should remake this movie :) would be awsome with newer graphics
hacklife91191 4 weeks ago 3
@hacklife91191 I agree that would be amazing!
Aviation94 1 week ago
mmm...Lesley Judd...
Naddig74 1 month ago
this movie think a 3000 megaton nuclear engagement would have destroyed the world ? What about civilized remote area of the world ? Would they have nuked the whole of south america and africa what about asia ? A nuclear winter would be bad but would it wipe that much of the population ?
seb2455 2 months ago
@seb2455
Nuclear winter -> Crops would fail -> massive starvation everywhere. Also world's social and economical infrastructure would be gone. World as we know it would be gone, but there would be plenty of people around. Back to dark ages..
kimnice 2 months ago
4:01 does noone see what's about to happen?
Dpcube777 2 months ago
i am in a major city in Australia, just a few k's from a military training base and only 30 k away from where the Americans dock their ships when they need restocking on their way to the middle east....i'd be screwed, if the blast didn't kill me the fall out would.
i would rather die in the blast...better then lingering with all the horrid symptoms of nuclear radiation sickness.
uching 2 months ago
@uching why nuke key targets in Australia as well, since we are just a low population country in the middle of the near nowhere?
because we could still provide supplies to allied forces, because we do have some sites that are occupied by U.S forces and U.S assets.
we could produce ammunition and other weapons, we could supply food and other aid, whilst not a massive military threat Australia would be a target none the less for it's ties to the U.S .
uching 2 months ago
@uching I hope you're wrong...I live 2kms from an oil refinery.
mubd1234 1 month ago
They obviously feel they have no stake in society 08:50
Burnzi2 3 months ago
@7:55 - FREE GROCERIES!!!! Yay! That's an upside to the impending doom of thermonuclear war!!! ;)
skater314159 3 months ago 2
First that Moron gets his girlfriend Pregnant and Blames her for it. Then he says he wants to get married and promptly goes out and Fucks the first thing he sees. The best thing that woman should have done, would be to go and get and abortion and then cut his Misogynistic cock off when she came back.
starquant 3 months ago
@starquant i bet youre a dyke.
hogalog 2 months ago
@hogalog lol, you wish... The old saying rings true... A Woman with an opinion has no friends. I bet the Women in your family have similar views, but refrain from voicing them because of Judgmental, naming calling Bastards like you. I just hope that they have SOME opportunity in their life, without Misogynistic turds, such as yourself, from stifling them from having Free Will.
starquant 2 months ago
@starquant alright jacqui smith, hows tricks? i have no daughters of my own, but my girlfriend and mother both went to uni and have good jobs. want some tomato ketchup to go with that chip on your shoulder?
hogalog 2 months ago
@hogalog no... a far go would be nice... hey fella can you spare a dime?.
starquant 1 month ago
0:56, HOT. I would so do them both, let them sit on me face.
jacob7207 3 months ago
@jacob7207 Hot? You need to get out more...
Timmoux 3 months ago
Interesting soundtrack... crickets in South Yorkshire? hmm.
ph1980 3 months ago
What dialect are these two guys talking in the pub? I'm having a hard time understanding them. Scottish?
damiion666 4 months ago
@damiion666 Yorkshire, among the most incomprehensible accents in the world.
sculli722 4 months ago 2
@damiion666
Northern English - Yorkshire to be exact.
Let me teach you the name of their prize shopping mall:
Meadowhall
You should say "Medderall" if you want to be properly understood.
jazzx251 4 months ago
@damiion666 They have a Yorkshire dialect.
MadameApathy 3 months ago
and again the soviets are the evil powers behind every dread of a unified world...
tonyvice6661616 4 months ago
@tonyvice6661616 That's right. They're the best bad guys...right after the nazis. It makes for good movie making.
damiion666 4 months ago
@tonyvice6661616 I'd say something about the obvious subtext in your comment, but doubtless you'd ignore it. Instead I'll just say; sometime you should read about the principles of Marxism-Leninism, and contrast them to the rights most Western nations grant their citizens.
It's not for nothing that the Soviets are used as bad guys so often.
HooshIsASoup 3 months ago
Who would have thought that the British would have to worry about an Islamic invasion? The Cold War came and went without a missile fired. The British, however, are being destroyed from the inside out.
rbryant100 4 months ago
This is to sad...
Jdina666 5 months ago
if you hadn't had your fill of it, check out "The War Game".
SloreTactician 5 months ago
America made the Day After film but this one has more of a scary feel to the whole thing. I shit my pants when watching this at 13 years old back in 1984 and could not sleep for months on end. In fact, it shit me up until at least 21 years of age. shit!!
MrUAV100 5 months ago
having trouble with the accent here...
anisete46 6 months ago
Reckless Soviet actions are the best Soviet actions.
KillerRabbit591 6 months ago
Nuclear war WILL happen,its on the cards no doubt!!!! last century we had two world wars.This century we will have more!!!
MICKEYISLOWD 6 months ago
"If the bomb does drop I wanna be pissed out my mind and straight underneath it."
Best scenario I can think of too in the circumstances!
Flammenfisch 6 months ago 18
@Flammenfisch Amen to that!!
fenric71 3 hours ago
I was an extra in this film. It still chills me the bone to see what happened to us all in a parallel universe.
MrRik2 7 months ago
@MrRik2 what scene were you in ?
anisete46 6 months ago
@anisete46 The protest crowds outside the City Hall. If I'd have been 2 seconds quicker, I'd had been the boy up the tree.
MrRik2 6 months ago
@MrRik2 good on you anyway :)) any distinguising marks in the scene?
anisete46 6 months ago
@anisete46 Sadly not, just the back of my head on a couple of occasions, standing with by brother under the tree.
MrRik2 6 months ago
T.S Elliot was dead FUCKING wrong
piratemac3 7 months ago
I would find this more realistic if Bruce Campbell was in it. That i would believe.
TheThief64 7 months ago
and the looting begins!!!!!!
MsHolly30 7 months ago
Wish I could go back to the 80s :-)
STOPTHEEU 9 months ago
In the US, wasn't there an organisation which handed out cyanide pills in colleges for the event of nuclear war? They need to consider something like that here, free cyanide pills on the NHS lol
In the event of a four minute warning, take a seat, pop in the cyanide pill with a glass of water and die peacefully, not as a charcoal stick.
Standuble 10 months ago 4
@Standuble NO joke. Although I always imagined if you were lucky enough to be at ground zero, you'de be vaporised in a fraction of a second. I can't imagine that being too painful either.
Politcalamity 9 months ago
@Politcalamity I'd rather not find out. If I'm not mistaken as I'm in Essex I would be downwind from London, meaning that I should survive the nuclear strike only to die from major fallout. Sounds like fun!
I only hope if there is a nuclear war one day I'm sipping wine on a spaceship or Luna colony. Sure, we would probably be dead in a few months/years due to a total loss of supplies from earthside but having front row seats to the end of the world would be a fun way to spend an afternoon.
Standuble 9 months ago 13
@Standuble No, you'll be ok - you'll have a farm and bio sphere aboard your craft supplying food and air. Water could be created using a chemical process (fuel scoops used to get Hydrogen) or from collecting ice from mining asteroids etc.. Of course you'll have a few thousand blonde, brunet and red-head female clones as crew for the space station as well..
Can I come along please?
andy7666 3 months ago 2
@andy7666 Yeah sure, if I die prior to a nuclear war you can have mine. If not I'll give you my spare!
Standuble 3 months ago
@Standuble If I could give you more thumbs up I would. For me its all about who i am stuck with. With your attitude and obvious since of humor. Id hang with you on that ship, it would be a great way to go out , laughing until the end.
youareonthetube1 6 days ago
@Standuble
I've wanted that with some NHS dentists.
jazzx251 4 months ago
@jazzx251 Yeah it can be pretty unpleasant. My dentist goes at my gums as if he were mining for gold, they bleed after every appointment :S
Standuble 4 months ago
00:57 It looks like these girls are drinking a Russian beer, namely Baltika. Someone smoking in a pub is another thing that dates this.
Cool2BCeltic 11 months ago
Also, if there was two nuclear explosions, the shit would have hit the fan in a big way. You can't conceal that kind of thing, the information would have gotten out from any of a dozen sources even if the gov't tried to cover it up.
Any kind of use of nuclear weapons in anger would have been a massive, instantaneous transition to a war footing. They might not have immediately gone to a full-out doomsday attack, but the whole world would have been watching TV from their basements, I assure you.
EntropicMisanthropic 11 months ago
6:16 - Yep, pretty much the correct response to any kind of nuclear exchange in 1984 would be to start praying.
Or, if you were an atheist, just bend over and kiss your ass goodbye and then start drinking.
EntropicMisanthropic 11 months ago
@EntropicMisanthropic During the Cuban Missile Crisis church attendance rose. Priests and other church leaders heard many prayers and confessions. Who's to say there weren't any atheists there?
qwertasdcfghjklmo24z 11 months ago
It's nostalgic in some ways: CND, Greenham Common, Carl Sagan and the Nuclear Winter. And yet it could so easily happen again. If you ever get the chance to see the museum of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, I would recommend it. It's an incredibly powerful and disturbing museum that shows you simple what happens when a relatively small bomb flattens an entire city in 15 minutes.
vkman34 1 year ago
I liked the far enough josh.
joeymod135 1 year ago
I like the limey broad spouting out her last rites at 4:10. I would have delt with a airburst just to shut her up.
22reTOYOTA 1 year ago
I like the limey broad spouting out her last rites. Id enjoy a airburst if it ment she would shut the hell up.
22reTOYOTA 1 year ago
40p I'd rather starve, yeah well she would at today's prices it's terrible how things have gone up! I remeber in 1997 baked beans were 1p a tin in Aldi and Heinz and Cross & Blackwell got really angry.
rugbydazz 1 year ago
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War, friends.
It might not come, but it's waiting in the lofts of any cognizant mind at any time.
Especially now. When anyone can concieve of war against anything.
These are not the end days. But we will define the parameters of said... day. Now. As ever.
Athanatizein 1 year ago
War, friends.
It might not come, but it's waiting in the lofts of any cognizant mind at any time.
Especially now. When anyone can concieve of war against anything.
These are not the end days. But we will define the parameters of said... day. Now. As ever.
å
Athanatizein 1 year ago
War, friends.
It might not come, but it's waiting in the lofts of any cognizant mind at any time.
Especially now. When anyone can concieve of war against anything.
These are not the end days. But we will define the parameters of said... day. Now. As ever.
å
Athanatizein 1 year ago
LOL 0:55 Love the "birds" - yer the one for me, fatty!
kingalow1 1 year ago
I think both films are the same and horrific
jocelyna38 1 year ago
@jocelyna38 Yes, they are!
holmsatlarge 1 year ago
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David Cameron's Defense policy, a seat for himself, his family and other Conservative and Lib Dem big wigs and their families on a requisitioned British Airways Boeing 777 departing London Heathrow destination Bermuda, before the first Iranian ten kiloton yield range nuke detonates over London. Put the Nimrod MRA4 in to service, keep the Harrier GR9 in service and kick Cameron out of 10 Downing Street.
adrianwainer 1 year ago
I know what to do...this is my future...and your's if you can protect you're jobs..you will also be sweeping streets....Accountants..teachers..students..librarians...
I see a return to the ghettoism...I have just put a bullet in my head!
GEOWOO230 1 year ago
The irony is - "nobody wins a nuclear war". Everybody knows that. Yet somehow the politicians fail to see this simple logic. And they are earning big wage from tax payers to make stupid decisions like building nuclear bombs.
IIIL47v 1 year ago
I am from the UK and I have NO IDEA what these blokes are saying....
NolanRogers2 1 year ago
@NolanRogers2 Your probably from Surrey, you probably have never heard of England north of Watford, I hate you Southern twats.
rugbydazz 1 year ago
@rugbydazz Hold up mate, I'm a Cockney and I can understand you mob alright. Don't put us all in the same bracket. I don't hate northerners - why d'you hate all southerners?
kamelion7 1 year ago
@kamelion7, Well mate you sound like a decent man, and I am sorry that you were offended by my comment to the other user, If your a cockney then your perhaps working class, which means you have got a better grip on reality and how tough life can be, having said that there are plenty of working class people who you meet and think their brain was amputated at birth, lol, and I'm not part of their mob mate I live in the south mids and don't really have an accent, not like Sheffield anyway.
rugbydazz 1 year ago
@rugbydazz You're alright mate - I got the hump when I first read it but then again some of the stuck up mob from Berkshire grate on me as well!! Yes I am working class (and proud) and most of us cockneys have been driven out to the suburbs by all these chinless cunts buying property at extortionate prices!! Yes, some working class are as thick as shit - and don't wanna work!! Fucking ponces
kamelion7 1 year ago
@NolanRogers2 so it wasn't just a my impression: I lived in London for one month to improve my English and it was quite ok, but I really can't understand what the actors are saying in this film, but 3 or 4 words ... some kind of strict accent, maybe?
revenez 1 year ago
@revenez yes man same here ...i am italian and been in USA several time ..well when i watch american movies i can uderstand almost everything..with this one i couldn't ..but hey im not offending anyone ...it is a matter of different accents :)
reherthor 7 months ago
"Get back to bloody Russia" There are always fucktards around who somehow consistently miss the point, blame those who are trying to save them and stupidly strengthen the status quo. This guy reminds me of "tea party" morons in the US today, enraged at progressives and peace activists.
SubmarinerAndroid 1 year ago 3
@SubmarinerAndroid, I agree with you I was 11 years old when I saw this and even then I knew the guy who shouted get back to bloody Russia was being a total twat, we have plenty of what you call Fucktards here just visit any council estate (projects in your language) you can pick em up by the bus load
rugbydazz 1 year ago
This film is excellent!!
kingalow1 1 year ago
@kingalow1 Yes, everyone in this world should see it! Especially the world leaders.
holmsatlarge 1 year ago
@holmsatlarge They did. Threads and The Day After scared world governments so much that Gorbachev and Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987, banning the use of short and intermediate-range nukes.
Reagan even told Nicholas Meyer afterwards, "Don't think your movie didn't have any part of this, because it did."
HooshIsASoup 1 year ago 3
Only two words: 'Soviets' and 'nuclear' would make me get the fuck out from there.
livkivi 1 year ago 12
@livkivi
Where to, exactly?
HypaSonicDeathMonkey 5 months ago
@HypaSonicDeathMonkey Australia? lol
livkivi 5 months ago
This should be made mandatory viewing for all newly elected nuclear power leaders.
Alan7997 1 year ago 36
@Alan7997 leaders are not elected, mate.
they are selected by a few people and then 'elected' :]
democracy is a hoax
utar88utar 11 months ago 4
@utar88utar Well said, I'm glad to see that at least some people realise.
5thcenturyad 8 months ago
7:59 Snatch and run!
xglp 1 year ago
00:40 BRUSSELLS. New World Order? Think about it. These buggers are as old as time. They might have beaten us, but their day will come. Just hope to God...
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
War gives us DVDs to watch, but those films aren't much use to us when our heads are all chopped off.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
the future is bleak.
tzeetch75 1 year ago
@flupmakintosh The UK staying neutral on an issue isn't automatically going to stop two other countries from going to war.
sciencealwayswins 1 year ago
40 p?? I could buy a newspaper for that!
darkhyena 1 year ago
I was 12, or maybe 13 when this was shown first. On an unrelated note, that news reader looks hot. Who is she? She looks very familiar.
uchitil 1 year ago
@uchitil She was on the BBC program Blue Peter, look it up!
MinkeySimon 1 year ago
I used to live in High Wycombe where the HQ of NATO Air Command was based. That would have been one of the first places nuked fi there had been a war.
JSS64 1 year ago
Mum! Dad says you've to come home right now, 'fore the ruskies bomb seven shades o' shite outer us. And 'e says fer yer ter bring a new box o' candles 'n a packet o' johnnies.
bobbydj01 1 year ago
I wish that there were absolutely no nuclear weapons at all. We should have just destroyed them and burned everything regarding on how to build nukes after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We don't need nuclear weapons. We never did.
Godzillaman 1 year ago 3
@Godzillaman Everyone was trying to figure out how to make nukes. Even if the US never learned how to make nukes, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki never happened, another country would have figured out how to make a nuclear bomb. It's really unfortunate, but it's the truth.
isearchforfullmoons 1 year ago 2
@isearchforfullmoons, you express a truth that is obvious to anyone with a brain. Being American, I guess I should be flattered, since the person's comment presupposes that everyone else is too stupid to develop nuclear weapons no matter how much time they're given. Like it or not, man will progress technologically, and the only thing becoming a Luddite does is ensure that you will end up being dominated by a technologically superior civilization.
OutlanderWarrior 1 year ago
40p thats a scandal
awzt66 1 year ago
this is scarier than horror movies or this is a real horror movie
juggy444 1 year ago 3
@juggy444 this is a real horror movie unlike the unrealistic poser shit we mostly get nowdays
dan3261 1 year ago
how is this scary?
r0ckandrollTV 1 year ago
@r0ckandrollTV
Your question is: how is nuclear war and the complete destruction of mankind scary? Seeing your family and everyone else die a horrible death, with no hope of surviving? Is that actually a question?
BrxSmith 1 year ago
@BrxSmith not that, my question is how is there anything scary in this movie. i mean like a pop up or something scary
the end is just stupid, i dont think you find this movie interesting, are you fast forwading?
r0ckandrollTV 1 year ago
@r0ckandrollTV
Fast forwarding? I saw this when it came out 26 years ago. I'm now guessing that you weren't yet alive then. This is stunningly realistic, and is still chilling today.
"Pop ups" are actually the opposite of scary. Look up Hitchcock's comments on that subject. That kind of gimmick undermines any building of dread or horror by giving the audience a quick release. But it's definitely the "go-to" device of PG-13 horror films of the past decades.
BrxSmith 1 year ago
@BrxSmith im guessing youre over 26, im 14... stop this
r0ckandrollTV 1 year ago
@r0ckandrollTV Stop what? I replied to your comment and vice versa. Not trying to pick a fight. As most of the 54 comments here are from people talking about how scary this film is, one might think you were just trying to argue, but I see that you were not - your question was genuine.
BrxSmith 1 year ago
@BrxSmith from youre statements it seems that you have revceived a phd and youre exceding in some ways :D
r0ckandrollTV 1 year ago
Oh man, I've only gotten to part 3 but I don't think I can watch any more....super scary stuff!!!
ReadmanJ 1 year ago
trolley dash @ 07:59
hod05 1 year ago
I saw this when I went to secondary school - age 11 and our psycho science teacher decided to scare the crap out of us and you know what - this scares the crap out of me now!
cmdfarsight 1 year ago
That British beer Jimmy is drinking looks like the American Samuel Adams brand of beer.....
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
Nuclear weapons are most expensive firewors in the world. Thanks for uploading this great movie.
dinamitash1980 1 year ago
How funny those peace loving dmn fag protest for peace. Let me tell them something. There was no peace. There are only struggles. From struggles we have chaos. In chaos, we have wars. From wars we gain power. After we have supior power, we can have peace. It's the way of the universe, and all should follow. If someone want war, let's there be war. A man shoun't go down without a fight, unless he's not a man.
nttb6403 1 year ago
@nttb6403 Stupid canuck. Entropy is the way of the universe.
mongoose704 1 year ago 2
how relavent is this film now? would the uk/ world be affected in the same way now?
dbeckyY 1 year ago
Never was a movie! !!
This was real footage from my home town when I was a kid.
jeep4jeep 1 year ago
Never was a Movie!!!
jeep4jeep 1 year ago
REMAKE THE MOVIE FOR GOD'S SAKE!!
musicalglenn 1 year ago
@musicalglenn
This was an actual movement that happened in my home town when I was a kid.
jeep4jeep 1 year ago
OK..DON'T REMAKE THE MOVIE!!
musicalglenn 1 year ago
we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 20 times over, wow humans are really the fuckin asshole creatures in this world. assholes. every single person in this world is a ahole.
theplyr 1 year ago
That´s not true. There are lots of descent human beings in the world...and most people have nothing to do with nuclear weapons.
VitoPossilipo 1 year ago 4
pissed out of your mind is probably the best way to be if a nuclear war happen
CelticCymru 2 years ago 2
@CelticCymru strongly agree
id rather go within the first second aswell :P
dbeckyY 1 year ago
Thank God they eventually demolished the "eggbox" Town Hall extension! Thank God forever that it didn't take nukes to get rid of it. We'd be right f----d if it'd happened.
ctomarctus 2 years ago
the peasants are revolting!
bodunchar 2 years ago 3
haha look the elites view of the public, announce war breaks out and everyone becomes a criminal!
Lol!
bodunchar 2 years ago 32
@bodunchar You should see what cities look like after natural disasters. People fight, loot and go fucking crazy. When the chips are down, these people will eat each other.
outwrangle 8 months ago
@outwrangle maybe. I've been in natural disasters, a big earthquake (city), a flood (rural), and a tornado (suburbia), and people have been much kinder and friendlier than normal, offering food, shelter, and labor for free for a couple days after (then reverting to normal). Of course, none of those was a nuclear war, and I'm not in England, and if a football match there can set them off so easily, or this week, apparently nothing at all can, I guess this is realistic for them.
grnhair2001 6 months ago
@outwrangle yes that happens, however you forget to mention how people come together in times of crisis.
bodunchar 6 months ago
@bodunchar People in small towns come together. People in cities eat each other.
outwrangle 6 months ago
Chiseling shopkeeper had it coming!
mbabist01 2 years ago
The store scene reminds me of the Dollar Store in my neighborhood. LOL
lunchmeat400 2 years ago
I always considered the Cold War Nuclear Disarmament Movement absurd, and feel sadly vindicated by the acts of countries such as Iran and North Korea.
The reality is that these demonstrations were only possible in the democratic societies, while failing to impress the despots.
The sad reality iis that you can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle, so the only alternative is for the major powers, US, UK, Russian, and (yes even) China to responsibly possess their nuclear devices.
wardenphil 2 years ago
"Yes, even China"? I would replace that with: "Yes, even the U.S."
QuantumStates 2 years ago
Learn how to read - I did include the US in my statement.
wardenphil 2 years ago 2
True, when the plan for the occupation of West Germany was formulated in the 1970's the Soviets and the Warsaw Pact planned to nuke Belgium, parts of West Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. The only reason Britain and France were not targeted was because they had nuclear weapons and Mutually Assured Destruction would be ineveitable.
TashkentFox 2 years ago 2
I was 20 when this was first shown. Now I'm 46 and got a wife and 2 children, so it's even more frightening to watch it now!
throbbylovegusset 2 years ago 29
research illuminati new world order
wwechamp7 2 years ago
throbbylovegusset: Same story....with 4 children. I worry about Iran and North Korea - they're crazier than the Russians ever dreamed of being.
wardenphil 2 years ago
My wife grew up in a rural northern Canadian town 4 hours short of the tree line so watching this film, and The Day After, as a young woman in that relative safety had no impact on her. However, watching it today living in the Motor City less than an hour away from one of the largest petrol chemical production areas in North America has given her a whole new take on things.
Our best to you and yours, throbby, may this day never come.
lesterclaypool1 2 years ago
@throbbylovegusset Yes, it is the scariest movie I have ever seen! It is an important movie too. I think everyone should see it and see what could happen if they decide to push that awful button!
holmsatlarge 1 year ago
@throbbylovegusset
I just saw "The Soviet Story" a British produced documentary on WW2. You should watch it!
I just had a little baby girl so I am with you in your angst.
Peace.
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
@throbbylovegusset But you sure wouldnt have to far to go for a bloody Barby mate!
walleyrt69 1 year ago
@throbbylovegusset Cheer up, it never happened. The political situation leading to a nuclear war in this film has long since evaporated. Threads is now reassuringly dated.
Cool2BCeltic 11 months ago
@Cool2BCeltic Really? Iran is in the crosshairs of the US, Russia still has significant interests in Iran. The Strait of Hormuz is chokepoint for the shipping of 40% of the world's oil exports....which Iran has threatened to blockade if the US attempts to invade.
and both sides retain spetacularly deadly nuclear arsenals.
mongoose704 11 months ago
@mongoose704 Well, follow the advice in this clip, make sure you're directly under the bomb and very drunk when it goes off.
Cool2BCeltic 11 months ago
@Cool2BCeltic I wanna be pissed out of my mind and straight underneath it when it happens"
mongoose704 11 months ago
@mongoose704 Well, it's good to know that you have a plan worked out.
Cool2BCeltic 11 months ago
i can imagin this was terrifing for the people who grew up during the cold war as this was so real for them it could have happened.
ryanbarnaby 2 years ago 3
ryanbarnaby, we were told every day that destruction could come at any minute. All it would take was an innocent mistake.
I grew up in the 1970's and 1980's.
I know this seems distant to a lot of people, but basically we were taught that the end of the world could come at any second.
kadathdreamques 2 years ago 3
@kadathdreamques I grew up in the 1960's and we were pretty much kept IGNORANT! But then, I grew up in cowtown Sacramento, California, the most backa**ward place on Earth!
mbabist01 2 years ago
@mbabist01 "But then, I grew up in cowtown Sacramento, California, the most backa**ward place on Earth!"
You've obviously never lived in New Hampshire.
MrUprightcitizen100 2 years ago 2
MrUprightcitizen100: :-D
mbabist01 2 years ago
It is still as likely to happen today, or even moreso dont let your governments fool you. Though the Soviet Union has collapsed the Russians and the U.S. still have a vast arsenal of nuclear weapons and both have a test ready policy to conduct nuclear tests again at any moment. Thank god that China and the U.S. have a strict no first strike policy. In the end it will be the Americans that will initiate this insanity in the next 10-50 years, in our lifetime something is going to happen.
wankerman2002 2 years ago
Strangely, ryan, my memories of the cold war era aren't really all that scary. Emergency Broadcast System tests occured during Saturday morning cartoons, primetime and happened so frequently that they really lost all meaning. It almost became surreal. I remember seeing my first EBS transmission in years during a natural disaster recently and that one had more of an effect on me than the total of my childhood combined.
I did debate to myself who would attack first though, I can't deny that.
lesterclaypool1 2 years ago
@lesterclaypool1 When I lived in California, they not only had EBS broadcasts on television and radio, but also the local firestations when test their sirens at 11:00 a.m., last Friday of the month.They also had these small metal things mounted on short metal poles, these were to test the air for radiation. Also, we had CD book covers, although the parents never took them seriously. We also had drills, but with the school a mile from the SP shops, it would not have mattered!
mbabist01 2 years ago
"Duck and cover to get into a better position to kiss your ass good-bye..."
That was the version of the song that we sang, anyway.
lesterclaypool1 2 years ago 2
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
mbabist01 2 years ago