Stumbled across this while watching some shitty filth that the internet is so fond of nowadays. This film is magical, fucking beautiful. What happened to film and music over the last decade? seriously
Wow, horribly depressing but worth watching anyhow. The animation is fantastic and superior to most animated films today. I don't think I could watch it again though, those last twenty minutes were pretty hard to watch.
Every time I try to watch videos or educate myself on nuclear power I feel paranoid, nauseous, scared, depressed, ect. I watched a one hour video even knowing in the end they would die, and to add to the suspense they make it creepy. WTF 1986!?
OMG this is one powerful movie! Extremely tragic and depressing, but absolutely brilliant. The characters feel so real, I can envision my grandparents in them and I`m not even British.
Touching film really shows the effects of radiation and an nuclear attack lets just hope for our children's sake this never happens for real. I could not imagine what it would be like to hold my small boy in my arms while be both become sick with radiation poisoning and slowly die. I could not handle that.. Knowing that there is no way you can save them.. Very sad indeed Lets hope world leaders never forget how dangerous these weapons are.
@Fadedinink Have to say after being in the Army and trained to some degree about NBC effects and protective equipment, If you survive the initial blast you really need a NBC suit and respirator with loads of spare filters to have any hope at all even then its so likely you will die from the radiation would rather die in the blast also than die slowly.
People hate on the u.s for dropping the bomb but i have 2 points on that A. Those people who did that are no longer in power. B. we all deserve much worse than an A bomb cause we all have done wrong! We deserve hell! But God saved is from something 1000 times worse than this!
@11TechGuy ad A. are you really sure about this?? LOL and B. we will get there - just a matter of time - may The Allmighty be merciful to ours souls! Amen
I hate this movie because it is so heartbreaking and sad I can't take it. Others, don't mind my view, feel free to like it because it was well make and thoughtful and many other things.
There was a truly fearsome radio version of this story broadcast in the 80's, made even worse if such a thing could be possible by the voice being provided by Peter Sallis, alias Wallis in Wallis & Gromit: he sounded so innocent and it was just tragic beyond words. I have the original book by Raymond Briggs and it still makes me weep to read it. I lived in the shadow of the cold war and this film is everything I remember: utterly terrifying. I hope those days are for ever gone.
I've always wondered at the book: How much research was done to write it?
Attention to detail, like the fact that house pride and the inability to keep it up caused more depression during the blitz for some woman than the loss of life going on all around. I've never heard Briggs speak on it, but I'd like to.
My wife is 14 years younger than me. Her memory of the cold war is Emergency Broadcast System tests during Saturday morning cartoons, mine are very different.
The DEW line mistook a flock of geese as incoming, once, the rising of the new moon, on another occasion.
A Soviet general was demoted and sent to Siberia for refusing to order a first strike, turns out that the "threat" was a low pressure cloud system.
We were very lucky that these mistakes happened in times of relative peace, causing the men involved to use their hearts and brains instead of their bullocks, I think.
@moakeseey -- Speaking as a child of the Cold War who spent most of her childhood living only a short distance from what was quite probably a high-priority target (an aircraft engine factory)...I actually think I would have been better off not knowing if it had ever come to that. Depending on the yield of the weapons used, I most likely would've died before I had a chance to figure out what was happening!
There's something tragically endearing about the way in which these two innocently attempt to resume the typical daily routine of an elderly British couple as if nothing much had happened, and naively cling to the belief that everything will be back to normal soon.
As for that shelter...what was the government thinking?? Did they seriously think that a few planks and some pillows were really going to protect people from fallout?? In a way, it was rather cruel...it gave people false hope.
@OreadNYC The government didn't expect the doors to save them, that's one of the points that the film tries to make. I believe they tell them to remove the doors so that if any soldiers came around for clean-up work, they wouldn't have to break into the house. It is a bit contradictory to remove the doors of your house to protect yourself from a blast, as removing them could make blast damage even worse.
@TheMonochromeBird -- I was actually referring to the little shelter inside the house that James makes out of doors and cushions according to the government pamphlet. Another British film about nuclear war made two years earlier called "Threads" shows a family in the process of creating the same sort of shelter (which they also don't get enough time to complete before the blast). I suppose giving people false hope was better than creating panic, but it's a cruel way to die.
@OreadNYC I knew you were referring to the shelter and my point still stands. It actually says in the pamphlets to 'remove and use your doors', not random planks of wood and cushions. Also, the biggest joke in this film is that they had a cellar and yet discarded it to follow government advice. I don't know whether or not having one would've made a difference but it would've been a damn sight better than such a flimsy shelter in a half-demolished house. :(
@TheMonochromeBird -- Actually, it's unlikely that the cellar would have been much better unless it had fitted with an airtight seal and a system to filter air from outside before bringing it in (and of course, these two wouldn't have such a thing). The cellar apparently wasn't enough to save one couple in the movie "Threads". The point is that anyone simply breathing the air in the aftermath of a nuclear strike is at a high risk of slow death from radiation poisoning.
@TheMonochromeBird wow, I didn't know that. I noticed that they said, 'lean the doors against a wall to make your shelter' so they had to take to doors off the make the shelter. Then it said, 'shut all the doors to prevent the spread of fire.' What doors ? The ones we just took off to create our shelter ? Honestly . . .
@PurpleRain1994 The whole film is a criticism of the governmental advice given out, really. The whole Protect and Survive thing is handy and such and it's better than nothing but it has more logic holes in it than Swiss cheese. Actually, remembering Threads now, Jim and Hilda are right to be thankful that they lived in the country. If they had been in a city, you can bet that looters would've finished them off long before radiation poisoning did. :c
My wife found an old cold war pamphlet from the Canadian gov't at a flea market and figured that the entertainment value would be worth the dollar price. There wasn't much in it helpful for the consumer, it was more for the poor bastards that would have to clean up afterward, up to and including tattoos as identification.
Felt tipped pens are big disaster merchandise for emerg organizations, to write your name and gov't ID on your left inner forearm with.
@Nesetalis -- From what I understand, "duck and cover" was supposed to protect you from some of the effects of the blast itself -- not fallout -- and up to a point, it made some sense. At a sufficient distance from a strike, "duck and cover" had potential to reduce the severity of gamma radiation as well as injuries from broken glass and falling debris since it protected the face and several vital organs. After the blast and the shockwave, survivors then go to the fallout shelter.
@OreadNYC It not only gave them false hope but it prolonged their death. It would have been much quicker and less painful if they'd have died in the initial blast. I'm glad that period of history is over. You're so right- it was really cruel...
Jim and Hilda wouldn't have been close enough to a major center targeted for an initial blast to perish making the inner core shelter sad but logical. Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survived from less protective measures so there was some basis for the advice. The real danger to a couple of Jim and Hilda's age would have been looters eventually making their way to the country from major centers, but this ending is far more romantic and tragic.
@lesterclaypool1 I hadn't realised that, I suppose if they had been as close as I thought they were to the epicentre then there would have been a lot more damage to the house. Thanks for the extra info, I'm doing a history exam this year and for my coursework, I'm including this as part of the 'cold war' so all this info is incredibly useful- thank you!
Anytime, dude. Glad I could help with the little anecdotal information that I have. Man, would I love to go back to school to see how they teach cold war history now that it isn't an all consuming threat. Let all and sundry assembled here know how you did on your exam. Best of luck.
@lesterclaypool1 -- The point I was trying to make is that while the household shelters might -- with emphasis on the word "might"! -- have protected people from being injured or killed in the initial blast (depending on the overall yield used and the distance from the epicenter of any explosions), it would have actually done little or nothing to protect them from a protracted and unpleasant death from radiation sickness caused by fallout. That's why I think it was cruel.
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
If your survive the first two weeks you'll be in it for the long haul in this brave new motherfucker of a world and what seems like a cruel, not to mention flimsy, DIY job may mean the difference between you surviving or the roaches :).
Someone on this page mentioned heading for a strategic target. That would be my plan. Big shot of morphine, Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" on the radio topping out my 5L Mustang headed for the city lights. If I survive the city is mine!
@OreadNYC I'm getting fairly bored of the "Hah! Nuclear preperation? What a joke" crowd on youtube and elsewhere. Presumably if they knew a nuclear weapon was about to hit their town they wouldn't try and seek any sort of cover from it? They'd just stand outside like a bunch of deadbeats and go "uhhhh the end is nigh". Bullshit. These are the kind of people who'd beat you up to get into your cellar if they thought they had a nuke landing close.
@OreadNYC Furthermore, when people rag on things like the "protect and survive" series it's usually because they're the kind of retards who don't actually understand the effects of nuclear war. They think radiation is some sort of "Killerio enterius" harry potter curse. Some boards and sacking might not totally protect you from radiation like a ditch won't totally protect from blast but saying it wont help is like saying a fire extinguisher doesn't help in a burning building. Fuckin' retards.
@OreadNYC we used to get leaflets posted through the door, they told us to build shelters lined with books stacked on top of each other. Being dense material the books were supposed to help much in the same way as lead shielding, the part about putting your personal details into a biscuit tin are true.
@850ovlov -- I'd think that if books were really an effective equivalent to lead shielding, radiologists wouldn't bother covering bits of your body with lead aprons when they take an X-Ray...they'd just hang the telephone directory around your neck! (I know, I know -- some people wouldn't even know what a telephone directory is anymore.)
@OreadNYC I think it's actually not that bad an idea, for the initial blast wave I mean. Once the pressure wave has died down and glass and masonry has stopped flying, it'll have served its purpose.
You have to realize that back then, nobody really knew what would happened if somebody was exposed to radiation. The government actually went as far as teaching children in schools to hide under their desks in the event of a nuclear attack. Later on, we all found out that radiation is more powerful than that. I know that there is a video somewhere with this. There was a turtle that would tell everybody to "Duck and cover" and had a catchy little tune.
I saw this when I was 8 and no one under 10 should watch it -- too depressing and the message goes over children's heads! Looking back, though, I'm glad my dad made me watch it ;-)
What's good and original with this film is that it doesn't mention what happens abroad because we would of fired at Russia and France and America would shoot Russia who in turn would nuke them, MAD . Films great made me cry a bit as I can relate the pensioners to my own grand parents
Even though we all hope for an extinction level event that eradicates all living species from this GODDAMNED planet, this is still kind of sad...But yea, it's still an uplifting story.
Deutsche Übersetzung haben sie wegen urheberrechtlichen Gründen gesperrt und die Engländer und die Amerikaner dürfen es gucken! Total ungerecht, arrrrgh....
my husband is in the army,and works maintaining the DEW line and PINE Tree line( radar etc. systems set up to detect an incoming nuclear attack)...he told me that they still maintain a lot of the equipment and radar bases and wait for the cold war attack that never came ( I find this disturbing...what is it that they are waiting for now? f there was no threat, they would not be there..or would they?)
Found this on the TV Tropes page. For the first 20 or so minutes I watched more or less neutrally, somewhat irked by their seemingly lack of understanding of the imminent situation...but then when they said there was only three minutes...when he swore at her in desperation for her stay inside..and finally when the bomb came and everything's being destroyed...Good God. I had to pause it for a few minutes before going on.
I am slightly confused by the ending; did the Bloggs chose to commit suicide by suffocating in the paperbags because they knew there was no hope, or did they die from radiation poisoning? Or both? Please help.
@lofthouse23 i was literaly 36 mins into the film when i dare scroll down....and now the movie is spoiled thanks to you. hahaha its my fualt i knew i shouldnt have scrolled down hahaha
@lofthouse23 they died from radiation poisoning due to the fact that they were exposed many times over to lethal amounts of radiation. the idea is, so to say, they were pretty much dead from the moment the bomb went off in close proximity, most of the (if not all) the information provided in the pamflet (the door shelter, placing themselves in paper body-bags, putting their id cards in a box,etc) were not meant to help them survive, but to provide a potentially faster cleanup.
@lofthouse23 potato bags where used as protection and warmth back in ww2, it was a futile excercise from them because they were dying but its all they knew, they didnt know the differences between the after effect of a nuke drop, poor souls.
Liberal dribble from the side that said; "Roll over and take it, don't resist". Their philosophy was wrong and this is animated garbage. Nose to nose and gun to gun was what made them blink and THEIR SIDE CRUMBLED, not ours. Take 2 dimwits, put them in a complex situation and extrapolate EVERYONE is a dimwit just like them. This is rubbish!
seeing this movie just makes me think of what horrible monsters americans in general are. as opposed to this piece of emotional cartoon fiction, they actually did bomb other communities of human beings with the atom bomb and did cause tens of thousands of them to "rot from the inside out" and die in the fallout from radiation poisoning. hopefully such a horrific even will never happen again on this earth
@Weirdgus ooh god shut the fuck up, when you say "Americans in general" your talking about all 311,000,000 of them. You ignorant fool. Coming from America I can say if we invaded Japan it would have resulted in the loss of MILLIONS of lives, the bomb cost THOUSANDS of lives, now which is worse? Yes, both of them are terrible, but the bomb was the quickest "cleanest" way to end it. Your country would have done the same thing.
@Weirdgus The strategic thing to do ass hole, why what would u have done? Invade Japan and cause a bathtub of blood with the death of millions? Or drop a bomb or 2 that would only cost thousands of lives? It was the quickest way to end the war and it was the best way to end the war, even the japanese were revleved when the bomb was dropped because they knew that was the end of that horrible war. It saved millions of lives. So please shut the fuck up
@sladerfoster Seriously... the single biggest act of terrorism ever committed on this planate in all history.. was a good idea? Out of all the arguments I have ever seen on YT, all the trolls I have slain in 5 years and all the fuckheads you just bump into on YT.. that is and by some margin them most stupid comment I have ever ever witnessed. "even the Japanese were relieved"
You are out your mind and have no concept of the suffering involved and the diplomacy that was ignored.
@eurocon You know what, the Americans dropped papers all over the two cities warning them of the hell that was to come, alotta people heeded the warning and fled, but many stayed...we warned them that this was going to happen yet they refused to listen. Their fate was sealed, we told their politicians as well, they didnt want to give up, many politicians wanted to surrender the the US because they knew what was about to happen, they attacked us first we fired the final shot. idiot
@sladerfoster Another comment, stop sugar coating dropping the bomb. You say it so casually as if it was a piece bringer not the beginning of unimaginable suffering for INNOCENT people. There is no difference between that and me turning up at your door and shooting you in the balls with a 9mm. It is indiscriminate killing and you justify it by saying well it would have been worse.. oh well thats ok then, just a little H bomb. You are devoid of humanity and I laugh at your insults.
@eurocon so i guess that the japanese killing 10 million people in china alone and causing countless countries asian countries was ok since they didnt use atomic weapons is ok? What excuse did there deaths have? And the japanese got away innocent even when they dropped bombs filled with bubonic plague to infect chinese peasents. Remeber Japan attacked Pearl Harbor we didnt attack first.
@TheCriton "We didnt attack first" uh huh, but your problem is you never wonder why??
You blindly assume your leaders are there just to make you happy and safe.. they are not.
Heres another story,
Roosevelt provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn the Hawaiian commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war, since the public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. It was his backdoor to war.
@eurocon The japanese also attacked the phillipines and went down through british malaya and attacked the straits settlement(Singapore). The war was going to happen sooner or later. The japanese clearly need those colonies to support itself. Even if Roosevelt had warned his comanders the war would have gone on.
@TheCriton Im not trying to justify anyones actions let alone the Japanese however your premise is in short fighting fire with more fire is ok, IMO it is not and never will be as it bolsters and always has just bolstered our raging military industrial complex.
Furthermore if you are open to the idea FDR did not warn anyone is it not now a moot point, how can you argue the case of a corrupt government? And the smart money says.. he knew, just like all the other examples I listed.
@eurocon And would you rather send in the troops to invade homeland japan where millions upon millions would be slaughtered? Massive casualties on both ends? Think we wanted to kill all those people? We had no choice, our diplomacy was rejected by them ass hole, and they knew damn well what was to come.the smart ones left japan..the ones who thought with the warrior mentality die..instantly, in 150,000,000 degree fires. They had their chance. Read a fucking history book
@sladerfoster missed your comment calling me an ass hole.. nice. Your premis that the bomb is better than invasion shows your lack of understanding and your one side mentality about this topic. Above all you talk about the deaths of millions of people as if it was ment to be, it was not. How this for a premis, we stop attacking people. No matter what you say next, the US mainland was never under serious threat of invasion. Dont read a fucking history book, we are the terrorists.
@sladerfoster Utter crap, it's blindingly apparent that it's you who needs to, and this is a huge understatement, "do a bit more reading". I'd suggest that next you might try selecting something that doesn't simply cater to your (laughably obvious) preconceived notions of history.
@eurocon My neighbor is a 76 year old japanese man, i asked him about the bombings and he said,"We were all devastated by the bombs, many of my family were killed by the bombs, but in a way i was relieved because i knew it was finaly over and we can begin to rebuild our economy. In order for you to build something stronger you must brake it down all the way and build it up." Look at Japan now, they are one of the best economies on earth, why? because we ran it for many years.
@sladerfoster Sorry Japan is the 3rd most in debt country in history because we ran it.. into the ground.
History is written by the winners and the west have been lying good and proper about war for 300 years, as much as I respect your 76 year old neighbor his rhetoric is pure dogma. There is no argument to letting off any nuclear device, killing untold amounts of innocent people over decades, none. Dont believe our history books, stand back and make your own informed decisions.
@sladerfoster A typically ignorant, pessimist, postmodernist crap that nobody believes our history books. How can you make informed decisions if you don't read them?
@Professor6871 History books are all stories lol, Someone's account of what happened. And in some cases it is even less than that as somtimes it is just someone's guesses of what happened...
@MiniCrahanClown Dying from radiation sickness is nothing to lol about. -_-
You're particularly falling apart from the inside. That's what those 'spots' were on their bodies; their flesh and muscles were rotting on the inside. Believe me, if a nuke fell near my house and I had no suitable cover whatsoever, I would be the first to put a gun to my head, coward's way out or not.
Wow, what a good film about a rather depressing and serious theme.The Blogg's are such a charming couple, Jim has such faith all through the film as he cites government directives from the "protect and Survive" leaflets. I guess the director is satirically pointing out the futility of trying to survive a nuclear war as everything we take for granted, the food, water, communication systems break down.Excellent film, well worth a look.
I wish I never saw this film. After I saw this film I didn't sleep for weeks. For a good few years after I saw this film this was all I could think about. Everyday I just kept replaying that heartbreaking ending in my head. I tried to stop but I just couldn't. Brilliantly made film but hell it's one of the most disturbing films ever made. It just affected my day to day life too much and I felt that I couldn't be cheerful.
I like Briggs's use of comedy in this film, it borders on satire. There are some good jokes in this, like Hilda's calling Stalin a "nice chap". Another two good gags being "58 pints of milk" and the keeping doors closed to prevent spreading fire when he took all but the front doors off the walls.
If people found this interesting they should watch something called "Threads". Its a similar theme, based in the north of England. Very very moving and as equally sad ending.
for what it's worth,the troops of countries in NORAD are still training and taught to be "ready" to use the equipment to track enemy aircraft, missiles etc. ..just like they were then...
@hplexmark1 What scares me most is thinking our current enemies would think nothing of nuking every major city in the UK where as the Communists didn't as they knew they would get it back, our current enemy has nothing to loose....
@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z Hmm, I don't know. I'd like to think we are aware of the threat of nuclear weapons coming from terrorists but the thought is unlikely, not impossible but unlikely. The Soviet Union had the luxury of testing their nukes before the Cold War, corrupt places like Iran would probably get a foot up their arse if they tried to test a nuke with the sanctions that are imposed on them. I wouldn't bank on an effective nuke coming from them to be honest. Then again, I may be naive. :/
@ChaosDynamics: There was something like this in the infamous duck and cover film where it seriously advised people to protect themselves with a piece of newspaper in case of an atomic bomb...
Anyway, watch this film together with Barefoot Gen and "The Day After" for a truly uplifting movie night (-:
I do not dislike "ANYONE!" it just happens to be "Hidden FACTS" from the Worlds Masses! that's why it is SO WRONG! If one speaks the "TRUTH?" then why do you NOT let others "QUESTION?" and if one were to really do some research... or just go to: wake-upbeforeitstoolate(dot)com which will even tell you "Who Owns What!" (Which so many are TOTALLY BLIND to) then we will see... just How WE are ALL being Massively LIED to and DECEIVED! Even Millions of "Unsuspecting Jews!" WE ALL Need to "Wake-UP!"
Yeah. that's something not to put on TV on the night before xmas eve. Especially during the cold war. But it is a great and touching movie, it's not that.
thanks for upload.
mackinl 1 day ago
i rember watching this at school
birdy20034ever 1 week ago
i remember seeing this as a child. terrifying
HappyandAtheist 1 week ago
Stumbled across this while watching some shitty filth that the internet is so fond of nowadays. This film is magical, fucking beautiful. What happened to film and music over the last decade? seriously
AnxiousAngusPostRock 1 week ago
Wow, horribly depressing but worth watching anyhow. The animation is fantastic and superior to most animated films today. I don't think I could watch it again though, those last twenty minutes were pretty hard to watch.
Korisoup 1 week ago
:(
AmethystAnarchyAngel 1 week ago
I read the book when I was a kid and I thought it was the saddest and most terrifying thing I've ever read. Raymond Briggs is an absolute genius.
bloocuttlefish 1 week ago
Every time I try to watch videos or educate myself on nuclear power I feel paranoid, nauseous, scared, depressed, ect. I watched a one hour video even knowing in the end they would die, and to add to the suspense they make it creepy. WTF 1986!?
SaltPeople 1 week ago
OMG this is one powerful movie! Extremely tragic and depressing, but absolutely brilliant. The characters feel so real, I can envision my grandparents in them and I`m not even British.
alphadog5 2 weeks ago
and now that I just finished the movie...wow. How depressingly brilliant.
krisdaschwab912 2 weeks ago
>Mocks communists
>Calls Stalin a "Nice Fellow" less than 8 minutes later
I'll take "Dementia in movies" for 600, Alex.
krisdaschwab912 2 weeks ago
29:05 COME BACK YOU STUPID BITCH AND GET IN THE SHELTER!!! laughed my ass off XD
IncrediblyStupidName 2 weeks ago 4
@IncrediblyStupidName 29:44 and then you'll have nightmares for the rest of the week.
Batben01 5 days ago
;_;7
Condud1 2 weeks ago
did Jim go by the name Ralph Wiggum when he was a child?
hplexmark1 2 weeks ago
Brilliant
850ovlov 3 weeks ago
Fantastic soundtrack - Roger Waters, David Bowie, Genesis... Excellent class - remember watching this in school along with Threads.
MrPguk 3 weeks ago
It was going to that art college that ruined him ! Lol great stuff
andreasswarfeld 3 weeks ago
I nearly cried at the end. :( Such an amazing film. I wish there could never be a nuclear war...
ArtificalSoldier 3 weeks ago 2
such a sad film... the poor lovely old couple.. i wanted to hug them! and the poor dove that was dying AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
ruthroses1 3 weeks ago
This amazing film should be part of the school curriculum, the gullibility of people to believe what ever they are told never ceases to amaze me.
scruffmary 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
I can never watch this movie without crying :( Such a deep film!
rabbit12loveable 3 weeks ago
I cant never watch this without crying :( such a deep film!
rabbit12loveable 3 weeks ago
Amazingly poignant.
Senkatuka23 3 weeks ago
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Touching film really shows the effects of radiation and an nuclear attack lets just hope for our children's sake this never happens for real. I could not imagine what it would be like to hold my small boy in my arms while be both become sick with radiation poisoning and slowly die. I could not handle that.. Knowing that there is no way you can save them.. Very sad indeed Lets hope world leaders never forget how dangerous these weapons are.
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BlueMoneyBalls 3 weeks ago
@Fadedinink Have to say after being in the Army and trained to some degree about NBC effects and protective equipment, If you survive the initial blast you really need a NBC suit and respirator with loads of spare filters to have any hope at all even then its so likely you will die from the radiation would rather die in the blast also than die slowly.
BlueMoneyBalls 3 weeks ago
People hate on the u.s for dropping the bomb but i have 2 points on that A. Those people who did that are no longer in power. B. we all deserve much worse than an A bomb cause we all have done wrong! We deserve hell! But God saved is from something 1000 times worse than this!
11TechGuy 4 weeks ago
@11TechGuy ad A. are you really sure about this?? LOL and B. we will get there - just a matter of time - may The Allmighty be merciful to ours souls! Amen
subcyber 2 weeks ago
nooo dont drink the water!
rugbyf0rlife 4 weeks ago
Wow that's so sad =(
ewsithlord 4 weeks ago
Wow, I'm actually really glad I stumbled upon this movie again. It was a really great movie.
I just can't get through it though without crying.. :C
wolf12456 4 weeks ago
i can picter it ending up like mad max or wizards
bradprime4 4 weeks ago
his wife is fucking annoying,hes better off dead
robswift008 4 weeks ago
cant work out how they've done the animation,some bits of the set look like real pieces amongst the drawings
robswift008 4 weeks ago
can someone explain what i watched?... or how i got it it?
DraftChan 1 month ago
False hope is all you have!
myt362450 1 month ago
Its sad as hell this film. Thank god we never went down this route. It should be redubbed and shown on TV to this generation.
Paganfuckingsexgod 1 month ago in playlist Nukes
:'(
Ghungarelyy 1 month ago
Haven't finished watching, but it's hard to feel much sympathy for Hilda, what a ball breaker.
mrdanielsir 1 month ago
I hate this movie because it is so heartbreaking and sad I can't take it. Others, don't mind my view, feel free to like it because it was well make and thoughtful and many other things.
marysunshine1990 1 month ago
There was a truly fearsome radio version of this story broadcast in the 80's, made even worse if such a thing could be possible by the voice being provided by Peter Sallis, alias Wallis in Wallis & Gromit: he sounded so innocent and it was just tragic beyond words. I have the original book by Raymond Briggs and it still makes me weep to read it. I lived in the shadow of the cold war and this film is everything I remember: utterly terrifying. I hope those days are for ever gone.
chockychocky 1 month ago 21
@chockychocky
I've always wondered at the book: How much research was done to write it?
Attention to detail, like the fact that house pride and the inability to keep it up caused more depression during the blitz for some woman than the loss of life going on all around. I've never heard Briggs speak on it, but I'd like to.
My wife is 14 years younger than me. Her memory of the cold war is Emergency Broadcast System tests during Saturday morning cartoons, mine are very different.
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
Makes you wonder just how close did we come to someone pushing the button, would you want to have known or not?
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The DEW line mistook a flock of geese as incoming, once, the rising of the new moon, on another occasion.
A Soviet general was demoted and sent to Siberia for refusing to order a first strike, turns out that the "threat" was a low pressure cloud system.
We were very lucky that these mistakes happened in times of relative peace, causing the men involved to use their hearts and brains instead of their bullocks, I think.
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@moakeseey -- Speaking as a child of the Cold War who spent most of her childhood living only a short distance from what was quite probably a high-priority target (an aircraft engine factory)...I actually think I would have been better off not knowing if it had ever come to that. Depending on the yield of the weapons used, I most likely would've died before I had a chance to figure out what was happening!
OreadNYC 1 month ago
Thanks for posting. Somebody else had posted this and then it vanished. It's not exactly a fuzzy 'n' warm film but it's extremely well done.
MrsNorris55 1 month ago
This is very good quality animation.
Tzelemel 1 month ago
I had to watch this video as a history assignment and it was nice to only have to watch one clip and not multiple! Thank you :)
PurpleRain1994 1 month ago
There's something tragically endearing about the way in which these two innocently attempt to resume the typical daily routine of an elderly British couple as if nothing much had happened, and naively cling to the belief that everything will be back to normal soon.
As for that shelter...what was the government thinking?? Did they seriously think that a few planks and some pillows were really going to protect people from fallout?? In a way, it was rather cruel...it gave people false hope.
OreadNYC 1 month ago 21
@OreadNYC The government didn't expect the doors to save them, that's one of the points that the film tries to make. I believe they tell them to remove the doors so that if any soldiers came around for clean-up work, they wouldn't have to break into the house. It is a bit contradictory to remove the doors of your house to protect yourself from a blast, as removing them could make blast damage even worse.
TheMonochromeBird 1 month ago
@TheMonochromeBird -- I was actually referring to the little shelter inside the house that James makes out of doors and cushions according to the government pamphlet. Another British film about nuclear war made two years earlier called "Threads" shows a family in the process of creating the same sort of shelter (which they also don't get enough time to complete before the blast). I suppose giving people false hope was better than creating panic, but it's a cruel way to die.
OreadNYC 1 month ago
@OreadNYC I knew you were referring to the shelter and my point still stands. It actually says in the pamphlets to 'remove and use your doors', not random planks of wood and cushions. Also, the biggest joke in this film is that they had a cellar and yet discarded it to follow government advice. I don't know whether or not having one would've made a difference but it would've been a damn sight better than such a flimsy shelter in a half-demolished house. :(
TheMonochromeBird 1 month ago
@TheMonochromeBird -- Actually, it's unlikely that the cellar would have been much better unless it had fitted with an airtight seal and a system to filter air from outside before bringing it in (and of course, these two wouldn't have such a thing). The cellar apparently wasn't enough to save one couple in the movie "Threads". The point is that anyone simply breathing the air in the aftermath of a nuclear strike is at a high risk of slow death from radiation poisoning.
OreadNYC 1 month ago
@TheMonochromeBird wow, I didn't know that. I noticed that they said, 'lean the doors against a wall to make your shelter' so they had to take to doors off the make the shelter. Then it said, 'shut all the doors to prevent the spread of fire.' What doors ? The ones we just took off to create our shelter ? Honestly . . .
PurpleRain1994 1 month ago
@PurpleRain1994 The whole film is a criticism of the governmental advice given out, really. The whole Protect and Survive thing is handy and such and it's better than nothing but it has more logic holes in it than Swiss cheese. Actually, remembering Threads now, Jim and Hilda are right to be thankful that they lived in the country. If they had been in a city, you can bet that looters would've finished them off long before radiation poisoning did. :c
TheMonochromeBird 1 month ago
@TheMonochromeBird
My wife found an old cold war pamphlet from the Canadian gov't at a flea market and figured that the entertainment value would be worth the dollar price. There wasn't much in it helpful for the consumer, it was more for the poor bastards that would have to clean up afterward, up to and including tattoos as identification.
Felt tipped pens are big disaster merchandise for emerg organizations, to write your name and gov't ID on your left inner forearm with.
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@OreadNYC just have to remind you of "duck and cover" as if ducking in to a ditch/under your desk was going to save your life.
Nesetalis 1 month ago
@Nesetalis -- From what I understand, "duck and cover" was supposed to protect you from some of the effects of the blast itself -- not fallout -- and up to a point, it made some sense. At a sufficient distance from a strike, "duck and cover" had potential to reduce the severity of gamma radiation as well as injuries from broken glass and falling debris since it protected the face and several vital organs. After the blast and the shockwave, survivors then go to the fallout shelter.
OreadNYC 1 month ago
@OreadNYC I suppose it really depends on the extent of the neutron radiation from the blast. But it was a rather silly thing, period :p
Nesetalis 1 month ago
@OreadNYC It not only gave them false hope but it prolonged their death. It would have been much quicker and less painful if they'd have died in the initial blast. I'm glad that period of history is over. You're so right- it was really cruel...
PurpleRain1994 1 month ago
@PurpleRain1994
Jim and Hilda wouldn't have been close enough to a major center targeted for an initial blast to perish making the inner core shelter sad but logical. Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survived from less protective measures so there was some basis for the advice. The real danger to a couple of Jim and Hilda's age would have been looters eventually making their way to the country from major centers, but this ending is far more romantic and tragic.
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@lesterclaypool1 I hadn't realised that, I suppose if they had been as close as I thought they were to the epicentre then there would have been a lot more damage to the house. Thanks for the extra info, I'm doing a history exam this year and for my coursework, I'm including this as part of the 'cold war' so all this info is incredibly useful- thank you!
PurpleRain1994 1 month ago
@PurpleRain1994
Anytime, dude. Glad I could help with the little anecdotal information that I have. Man, would I love to go back to school to see how they teach cold war history now that it isn't an all consuming threat. Let all and sundry assembled here know how you did on your exam. Best of luck.
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@OreadNYC
There was some method to the madness of the household shelters. Lesser constructions saved lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@lesterclaypool1 -- The point I was trying to make is that while the household shelters might -- with emphasis on the word "might"! -- have protected people from being injured or killed in the initial blast (depending on the overall yield used and the distance from the epicenter of any explosions), it would have actually done little or nothing to protect them from a protracted and unpleasant death from radiation sickness caused by fallout. That's why I think it was cruel.
OreadNYC 1 month ago
@OreadNYC
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@OreadNYC
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
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@OreadNYC
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
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@OreadNYC
The possibility of a full out nuclear strike still exists (Sounds absolutely insane, I know, but it's true.) and bearing this in mind I've in my peace time spare time considered all variables. The reality is that is you can survive those first two weeks after the bomb you'll be here for the long haul in this brave, new, motherfucker of a world and in some areas what seems like a flimsy and pointless DIY may mean the difference between you surviving and the roaches :).
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@OreadNYC
If your survive the first two weeks you'll be in it for the long haul in this brave new motherfucker of a world and what seems like a cruel, not to mention flimsy, DIY job may mean the difference between you surviving or the roaches :).
Someone on this page mentioned heading for a strategic target. That would be my plan. Big shot of morphine, Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" on the radio topping out my 5L Mustang headed for the city lights. If I survive the city is mine!
lesterclaypool1 1 month ago
@OreadNYC
I like it when people recite how the movie describes itself on the back of the cover as if it is their own original derivation.
bracketdance 1 month ago
@OreadNYC I'm getting fairly bored of the "Hah! Nuclear preperation? What a joke" crowd on youtube and elsewhere. Presumably if they knew a nuclear weapon was about to hit their town they wouldn't try and seek any sort of cover from it? They'd just stand outside like a bunch of deadbeats and go "uhhhh the end is nigh". Bullshit. These are the kind of people who'd beat you up to get into your cellar if they thought they had a nuke landing close.
alexanderheritage 4 weeks ago
@OreadNYC Furthermore, when people rag on things like the "protect and survive" series it's usually because they're the kind of retards who don't actually understand the effects of nuclear war. They think radiation is some sort of "Killerio enterius" harry potter curse. Some boards and sacking might not totally protect you from radiation like a ditch won't totally protect from blast but saying it wont help is like saying a fire extinguisher doesn't help in a burning building. Fuckin' retards.
alexanderheritage 4 weeks ago
@OreadNYC we used to get leaflets posted through the door, they told us to build shelters lined with books stacked on top of each other. Being dense material the books were supposed to help much in the same way as lead shielding, the part about putting your personal details into a biscuit tin are true.
850ovlov 3 weeks ago
@850ovlov -- I'd think that if books were really an effective equivalent to lead shielding, radiologists wouldn't bother covering bits of your body with lead aprons when they take an X-Ray...they'd just hang the telephone directory around your neck! (I know, I know -- some people wouldn't even know what a telephone directory is anymore.)
OreadNYC 3 weeks ago
@OreadNYC books are a readily available dense material unlike lead hence the usage, intresting stuff
850ovlov 3 weeks ago
@OreadNYC I think it's actually not that bad an idea, for the initial blast wave I mean. Once the pressure wave has died down and glass and masonry has stopped flying, it'll have served its purpose.
Mantonization 2 weeks ago
@OreadNYC im sure that was the point.
ZLi0n 2 weeks ago
@OreadNYC
You have to realize that back then, nobody really knew what would happened if somebody was exposed to radiation. The government actually went as far as teaching children in schools to hide under their desks in the event of a nuclear attack. Later on, we all found out that radiation is more powerful than that. I know that there is a video somewhere with this. There was a turtle that would tell everybody to "Duck and cover" and had a catchy little tune.
GaaraBabyEater 2 weeks ago
Can someone expalin this to me? I dont get it?
Katykool1265 1 month ago
I saw this when I was 8 and no one under 10 should watch it -- too depressing and the message goes over children's heads! Looking back, though, I'm glad my dad made me watch it ;-)
lynxvex 1 month ago
@lynxvex I was 8 when I first watched this as well. 10 years ago!
HaydnFitzsimons 1 month ago
Love the reference to skinheads haha that was nice
JRokicki1312 1 month ago
Waters? as in Pink Floyd? Sounds like them ...
SwpJr1979 1 month ago
What's good and original with this film is that it doesn't mention what happens abroad because we would of fired at Russia and France and America would shoot Russia who in turn would nuke them, MAD . Films great made me cry a bit as I can relate the pensioners to my own grand parents
munkofpunk 1 month ago
Larry Shitter.
lydiahoggarth 1 month ago
Even though we all hope for an extinction level event that eradicates all living species from this GODDAMNED planet, this is still kind of sad...But yea, it's still an uplifting story.
lydiahoggarth 1 month ago
@lydiahoggarth
. . .
Who is this "we" of which you speak of?
Cant say that I know anyone who wants to eradicate all life from earth.
theknack101 1 month ago
Deutsche Übersetzung haben sie wegen urheberrechtlichen Gründen gesperrt und die Engländer und die Amerikaner dürfen es gucken! Total ungerecht, arrrrgh....
Fliegerbombe 1 month ago
@Fliegerbombe What???
lydiahoggarth 1 month ago
@lydiahoggarth I have said, the movie with german translation is copyright protected here on youtube, but you englishmen can watch and enjoy it :)
Fliegerbombe 1 month ago
my husband is in the army,and works maintaining the DEW line and PINE Tree line( radar etc. systems set up to detect an incoming nuclear attack)...he told me that they still maintain a lot of the equipment and radar bases and wait for the cold war attack that never came ( I find this disturbing...what is it that they are waiting for now? f there was no threat, they would not be there..or would they?)
hplexmark1 1 month ago
Found this on the TV Tropes page. For the first 20 or so minutes I watched more or less neutrally, somewhat irked by their seemingly lack of understanding of the imminent situation...but then when they said there was only three minutes...when he swore at her in desperation for her stay inside..and finally when the bomb came and everything's being destroyed...Good God. I had to pause it for a few minutes before going on.
This is truly an amazing film.
MultiMaige 1 month ago
Thanks kindly for this upload.
eternalnate 1 month ago
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I Can't Imagine the world without England, no London and Fish n Chips.
MyMerlin1 2 months ago
@eurocon THE GOVERNMENT IS ALL LYING TO US!!!
Jakezing 2 months ago
:'(
So sad couldn't even watch through and skipped to the end.
Now even sadder.
MsElloon 2 months ago
Very sad and scarey film!
I remember watching it when it first came out at school of all places??!!
Does well for us all to remember what we should do when the Russian and Chinese attack in the the next year or so.
I just hope the thing drops on my head, I'd hate to die of radiation sickness!
Drobium77 2 months ago
@Drobium77 If you construct an inner core, or refuge you should be fine!
Prairielander 1 month ago
And everyone dies, a perfect childrens movie and film :D
DancingMadRB3 2 months ago
wow i remember watching this when i was about 6 i think,im 29 now.such a sad movie.
horrorkev 2 months ago
this is rather fighting ... but quite cute... ...
BlackCatXxXKuroNeko 2 months ago
Can someone please tell me why the hell as a Class we was made to watch this when we was only 9??????
Traumatised the hell out of us...
triniriderz 2 months ago
@triniriderz heeheehee
machtrebel 2 months ago
I am slightly confused by the ending; did the Bloggs chose to commit suicide by suffocating in the paperbags because they knew there was no hope, or did they die from radiation poisoning? Or both? Please help.
lofthouse23 2 months ago
@lofthouse23 i was literaly 36 mins into the film when i dare scroll down....and now the movie is spoiled thanks to you. hahaha its my fualt i knew i shouldnt have scrolled down hahaha
sladerfoster 2 months ago
@sladerfoster oh sorry :-(
didn' think!
lofthouse23 2 months ago
@lofthouse23 they died from radiation poisoning due to the fact that they were exposed many times over to lethal amounts of radiation. the idea is, so to say, they were pretty much dead from the moment the bomb went off in close proximity, most of the (if not all) the information provided in the pamflet (the door shelter, placing themselves in paper body-bags, putting their id cards in a box,etc) were not meant to help them survive, but to provide a potentially faster cleanup.
Weirdgus 2 months ago
@lofthouse23
Radiation poisoning
DancingMadRB3 2 months ago
@lofthouse23 potato bags where used as protection and warmth back in ww2, it was a futile excercise from them because they were dying but its all they knew, they didnt know the differences between the after effect of a nuke drop, poor souls.
grendel2012 2 months ago
Liberal dribble from the side that said; "Roll over and take it, don't resist". Their philosophy was wrong and this is animated garbage. Nose to nose and gun to gun was what made them blink and THEIR SIDE CRUMBLED, not ours. Take 2 dimwits, put them in a complex situation and extrapolate EVERYONE is a dimwit just like them. This is rubbish!
sigma80 2 months ago
thatd be a horrible way to go
waabiiaamaiingan 2 months ago
I saw this in my early teens, and I don't think I ever recovered
machtrebel 2 months ago
@machtrebel same man. hardcore lessons.
PsychoticNeurotic 2 months ago
@machtrebel I'm watching it right now and I'm in my early teens
a1b26600 2 months ago
@a1b26600 poor kid
machtrebel 2 months ago
@a1b26600 youre an early teen . okay thats a very notable fact and so very important
Cobac 2 months ago
@Cobac did you read the comment I was responding too?
a1b26600 1 month ago
Even though I'm American... I would have to say that most Americans are horrible. Our government hides so many things from us.
AlexOneill9 2 months ago 7
@AlexOneill9 every government is the same. It's mankind in general, not just Americans.
PurpleRain1994 1 month ago
Why are Americans monsters? It said it was an attack by the soviets.
AlexOneill9 2 months ago
seeing this movie just makes me think of what horrible monsters americans in general are. as opposed to this piece of emotional cartoon fiction, they actually did bomb other communities of human beings with the atom bomb and did cause tens of thousands of them to "rot from the inside out" and die in the fallout from radiation poisoning. hopefully such a horrific even will never happen again on this earth
Weirdgus 2 months ago
@Weirdgus ooh god shut the fuck up, when you say "Americans in general" your talking about all 311,000,000 of them. You ignorant fool. Coming from America I can say if we invaded Japan it would have resulted in the loss of MILLIONS of lives, the bomb cost THOUSANDS of lives, now which is worse? Yes, both of them are terrible, but the bomb was the quickest "cleanest" way to end it. Your country would have done the same thing.
sladerfoster 2 months ago
@sladerfoster the bomb is worse, fuck off.
Weirdgus 2 months ago
@Weirdgus The strategic thing to do ass hole, why what would u have done? Invade Japan and cause a bathtub of blood with the death of millions? Or drop a bomb or 2 that would only cost thousands of lives? It was the quickest way to end the war and it was the best way to end the war, even the japanese were revleved when the bomb was dropped because they knew that was the end of that horrible war. It saved millions of lives. So please shut the fuck up
sladerfoster 2 months ago
@sladerfoster Seriously... the single biggest act of terrorism ever committed on this planate in all history.. was a good idea? Out of all the arguments I have ever seen on YT, all the trolls I have slain in 5 years and all the fuckheads you just bump into on YT.. that is and by some margin them most stupid comment I have ever ever witnessed. "even the Japanese were relieved"
You are out your mind and have no concept of the suffering involved and the diplomacy that was ignored.
eurocon 2 months ago
@eurocon You know what, the Americans dropped papers all over the two cities warning them of the hell that was to come, alotta people heeded the warning and fled, but many stayed...we warned them that this was going to happen yet they refused to listen. Their fate was sealed, we told their politicians as well, they didnt want to give up, many politicians wanted to surrender the the US because they knew what was about to happen, they attacked us first we fired the final shot. idiot
sladerfoster 2 months ago
@sladerfoster Another comment, stop sugar coating dropping the bomb. You say it so casually as if it was a piece bringer not the beginning of unimaginable suffering for INNOCENT people. There is no difference between that and me turning up at your door and shooting you in the balls with a 9mm. It is indiscriminate killing and you justify it by saying well it would have been worse.. oh well thats ok then, just a little H bomb. You are devoid of humanity and I laugh at your insults.
eurocon 2 months ago
@eurocon so i guess that the japanese killing 10 million people in china alone and causing countless countries asian countries was ok since they didnt use atomic weapons is ok? What excuse did there deaths have? And the japanese got away innocent even when they dropped bombs filled with bubonic plague to infect chinese peasents. Remeber Japan attacked Pearl Harbor we didnt attack first.
TheCriton 2 months ago
@TheCriton "We didnt attack first" uh huh, but your problem is you never wonder why??
You blindly assume your leaders are there just to make you happy and safe.. they are not.
Heres another story,
Roosevelt provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn the Hawaiian commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war, since the public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. It was his backdoor to war.
eurocon 2 months ago
@eurocon The japanese also attacked the phillipines and went down through british malaya and attacked the straits settlement(Singapore). The war was going to happen sooner or later. The japanese clearly need those colonies to support itself. Even if Roosevelt had warned his comanders the war would have gone on.
TheCriton 2 months ago
@TheCriton Im not trying to justify anyones actions let alone the Japanese however your premise is in short fighting fire with more fire is ok, IMO it is not and never will be as it bolsters and always has just bolstered our raging military industrial complex.
Furthermore if you are open to the idea FDR did not warn anyone is it not now a moot point, how can you argue the case of a corrupt government? And the smart money says.. he knew, just like all the other examples I listed.
eurocon 2 months ago
@TheCriton And there is lots of other storys but you just believe the ones you learnt at school without ever thinking.. hmm that dont sound right.
Before you go cool-aid bonkers
please research:
Operation GladioNATO/CIA “Stay-Behind” Secret Armies
Operation Northwoods
Gulf of Tonkin Incident1964 Pretext for the Vietnam War
WTC 93World Trade Center 1993 Bombing
Oklahoma City 1995OKC Murrah Federal Building Bombing
All officially for and on the record, now.. you were saying?
eurocon 2 months ago
@eurocon And would you rather send in the troops to invade homeland japan where millions upon millions would be slaughtered? Massive casualties on both ends? Think we wanted to kill all those people? We had no choice, our diplomacy was rejected by them ass hole, and they knew damn well what was to come.the smart ones left japan..the ones who thought with the warrior mentality die..instantly, in 150,000,000 degree fires. They had their chance. Read a fucking history book
sladerfoster 2 months ago
@sladerfoster missed your comment calling me an ass hole.. nice. Your premis that the bomb is better than invasion shows your lack of understanding and your one side mentality about this topic. Above all you talk about the deaths of millions of people as if it was ment to be, it was not. How this for a premis, we stop attacking people. No matter what you say next, the US mainland was never under serious threat of invasion. Dont read a fucking history book, we are the terrorists.
eurocon 2 months ago
@sladerfoster Utter crap, it's blindingly apparent that it's you who needs to, and this is a huge understatement, "do a bit more reading". I'd suggest that next you might try selecting something that doesn't simply cater to your (laughably obvious) preconceived notions of history.
XavierNinnis 2 months ago
@eurocon My neighbor is a 76 year old japanese man, i asked him about the bombings and he said,"We were all devastated by the bombs, many of my family were killed by the bombs, but in a way i was relieved because i knew it was finaly over and we can begin to rebuild our economy. In order for you to build something stronger you must brake it down all the way and build it up." Look at Japan now, they are one of the best economies on earth, why? because we ran it for many years.
sladerfoster 2 months ago
@sladerfoster Sorry Japan is the 3rd most in debt country in history because we ran it.. into the ground.
History is written by the winners and the west have been lying good and proper about war for 300 years, as much as I respect your 76 year old neighbor his rhetoric is pure dogma. There is no argument to letting off any nuclear device, killing untold amounts of innocent people over decades, none. Dont believe our history books, stand back and make your own informed decisions.
eurocon 2 months ago
@sladerfoster A typically ignorant, pessimist, postmodernist crap that nobody believes our history books. How can you make informed decisions if you don't read them?
Professor6871 2 months ago
@Professor6871 History books are all stories lol, Someone's account of what happened. And in some cases it is even less than that as somtimes it is just someone's guesses of what happened...
reef99red 1 month ago
Seeing people die from getting nuked and radiation poisoning, a nice way to celebrate Christmas huh?
DancingMadRB3 2 months ago
@DancingMadRB3
Also:
David Bowie
DancingMadRB3 2 months ago
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films a bit slow. but i like the accuracy in how radiation sickness would be like :) lol thay dies.
MiniCrahanClown 3 months ago
@MiniCrahanClown Dying from radiation sickness is nothing to lol about. -_-
You're particularly falling apart from the inside. That's what those 'spots' were on their bodies; their flesh and muscles were rotting on the inside. Believe me, if a nuke fell near my house and I had no suitable cover whatsoever, I would be the first to put a gun to my head, coward's way out or not.
TheMonochromeBird 2 months ago 5
@TheMonochromeBird if a nuke falls near your house you living is a "miracle" in of itself
Jakezing 2 months ago
@Jakezing Ah, touche. lol
TheMonochromeBird 2 months ago
Wow, what a good film about a rather depressing and serious theme.The Blogg's are such a charming couple, Jim has such faith all through the film as he cites government directives from the "protect and Survive" leaflets. I guess the director is satirically pointing out the futility of trying to survive a nuclear war as everything we take for granted, the food, water, communication systems break down.Excellent film, well worth a look.
georgethedog100 3 months ago 9
This is sad
domowije1213 3 months ago
I wish I never saw this film. After I saw this film I didn't sleep for weeks. For a good few years after I saw this film this was all I could think about. Everyday I just kept replaying that heartbreaking ending in my head. I tried to stop but I just couldn't. Brilliantly made film but hell it's one of the most disturbing films ever made. It just affected my day to day life too much and I felt that I couldn't be cheerful.
Django5198 3 months ago
I like Briggs's use of comedy in this film, it borders on satire. There are some good jokes in this, like Hilda's calling Stalin a "nice chap". Another two good gags being "58 pints of milk" and the keeping doors closed to prevent spreading fire when he took all but the front doors off the walls.
ChrisHenniker 3 months ago 3
If people found this interesting they should watch something called "Threads". Its a similar theme, based in the north of England. Very very moving and as equally sad ending.
SgtLovely 3 months ago
You can find it on YouTube
SgtLovely 3 months ago
can anyone tell me if the dots and dashes at the end of the credits are morse code, and, if so, what do they mean?
hplexmark1 3 months ago
@hplexmark1 Yes, it's morse code for MAD.
lizzieloubee 3 months ago
for what it's worth,the troops of countries in NORAD are still training and taught to be "ready" to use the equipment to track enemy aircraft, missiles etc. ..just like they were then...
hplexmark1 3 months ago
@hplexmark1 I find this very disturbing...almost like the cold war never really ended...just shifted focus somehow
hplexmark1 3 months ago
@hplexmark1 What scares me most is thinking our current enemies would think nothing of nuking every major city in the UK where as the Communists didn't as they knew they would get it back, our current enemy has nothing to loose....
qwertasdcfghjklmo24z 3 months ago
@qwertasdcfghjklmo24z Hmm, I don't know. I'd like to think we are aware of the threat of nuclear weapons coming from terrorists but the thought is unlikely, not impossible but unlikely. The Soviet Union had the luxury of testing their nukes before the Cold War, corrupt places like Iran would probably get a foot up their arse if they tried to test a nuke with the sanctions that are imposed on them. I wouldn't bank on an effective nuke coming from them to be honest. Then again, I may be naive. :/
TheMonochromeBird 3 months ago
@ChaosDynamics: There was something like this in the infamous duck and cover film where it seriously advised people to protect themselves with a piece of newspaper in case of an atomic bomb...
Anyway, watch this film together with Barefoot Gen and "The Day After" for a truly uplifting movie night (-:
Supenmanu 3 months ago
@Supenmanu Well at least Barefoot Gen gives us a character that still tries to be optimistic against all odds.
RetroToledo 1 month ago
what is the clip in the begging? they moving nuclear bombs or something?
AradSP 3 months ago
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saddest film ever made
Django5198 3 months ago
I do not dislike "ANYONE!" it just happens to be "Hidden FACTS" from the Worlds Masses! that's why it is SO WRONG! If one speaks the "TRUTH?" then why do you NOT let others "QUESTION?" and if one were to really do some research... or just go to: wake-upbeforeitstoolate(dot)com which will even tell you "Who Owns What!" (Which so many are TOTALLY BLIND to) then we will see... just How WE are ALL being Massively LIED to and DECEIVED! Even Millions of "Unsuspecting Jews!" WE ALL Need to "Wake-UP!"
einrib4truth 3 months ago
This movie was aired in Germany in the mid 1980s on the 23th of December and it had a traumatic impact on me.
Etcircenses 3 months ago
@Etcircenses
Yeah. that's something not to put on TV on the night before xmas eve. Especially during the cold war. But it is a great and touching movie, it's not that.
GamleErik100 3 months ago