I remember watching this back in the 7th grade and all we could think about the next day at school was man the world is eventually going to end because of a nuclear war. I no Republican but you have to give props to Regan for destroying the USSR, this was bound to happen if it weren't for him destroying American's policies to help the less fortunate and focusing on Russia. Then again, as a minority who was alive back in those days, maybe it wasn't so great of a move, lol.
@lamareaton Reagan didn't destroy the USSR; it was brought down by internal instability. Reagan's amicable relationship with Gorbachev possibly hastened it, but the Soviet Union collapsed from the inside.
@lothartheterrible i, no republican as well, also think reagan OUTSPENT the soviet union into ruin....internal instability often starts when a nation goes broke...just read the newspaper today:) but that was the ONLY thing ronnie did well.....
@lamareaton its just to bad we are in the beginning of the next cold war with russia...King putin will be pres. for 8 yrs and PM for 4...again and again for life no doubt....scary thought! at least ronnie reagan gave us another 30 to 40 years before we are toasted;)
@tellerulam1 speaking of Teller-Ulam.......what type of warheads were the Soviets using in the early 80's? I heard Sakharov had an interesting twist on the classic T-U design.......
He calls his daughter fruitcake? That isn't very nice. Wow, does this movie start off slow. But I suppose it's good to get the emotional attachment to the characters.
@lothartheterrible Boy I'm intimidated just sitting a million miles from this comment, wow, from a proud american served 20 years, Arrogance offensive comments to even our advesaries does not equal a positive. Sorry, but back forth exchanges like this often mirrors this this film. Interesting also, if people with the same level of rage as seen in many of these comments, were delegated the authority to push the nuc button everytime hatred flared in dialogues like this. Save me from this madness
9:00 See those toolboxes the maintenance crew are carrying? They each contain 2 pieces of scrap metal, wonderglue and a wrench. Old Walter, the day shift worker at the Water Processing Plant in Megaton will give you 10 caps for each piece of scrap metal you bring him. Pretty sweet deal...
Lol! This film is a KGB funded propaganda film. Most of these actors and the Jewish director were all proven to be card carrying communists in an investigative report. Oh, and this 'lothartheterrible' did work on behalf of the Sandinistas in Northern Mexican states during the 80's trying to foment communist rebellion. He also has distributed anti-American pamphlets to his students...Yep!
@lotharthehomo Dude, how the hell did you know? I thought I buried that deep enough to never get caught! I suppose I should be proud of my service; I was, after all, the only 7-year-old they had ever seen that could shoulder an RPG *and* speak fluent Spanish.
wow, amazing how many people who weren't even born at the time are fighting about british and usa crap. hey guys....it wasn't even the citizens fight at the time it was going on, it was the corrupt government who wanted the fight....and btw what you are fighting about ended years ago....put it away already, along with your stupid egos. how pointless and ridiculous. lol.
Face it: The Day After was filmed, not as a cautionary tale, but to garner ratings. It purports to be a "this is what will happen when the USSR & the US are consumed by nuclear bombs" but in reality, the ABC network that aired this enjoyed the highest number of viewers that the network had ever seen. Don't fool yourself. Go rent Threads & see, via a documentary-like format, what would really happen if or when doomsday eradicates. Using a cast of unknowns was a big part of it.
Christ, come off of "Threads" already; I've read so many comments over the past 4 years about how much better it is, or how it makes TDA look like a "comedy". It is indeed a spectacular film, but you're missing the point: both were *social statements* meant to convey a message. Next time you might want to do a little research before launching a tirade: ABC did *not* want to have anything to do with this film at first. It took a lot of persuading to get it the green light.
@lothartheterrible i remember that ..i can't remember who oppose this movie but yeah ..some network in those days in the usa ..didn't really want to touch this with a 10 foot pole ..yeah BBC did but that's because well their goverment must have thought oh it's a movie but i guess after it aired ..it was more like um this. .......SHOCK AND AW.. now this movie is good yes it is alittle softer meaning there's no hardcore scary scenes BUT u have to get the real pic and that is WE DON'T NEED NUKE !
@lonelyheroine You miss a critical point: Yes, Threads is a Great Film, no question. But it's about what would happen if THE UK got plastered in a full-on nuclear war. The situation in the US would be different. Not necessarily better or worse, but different. Apples and oranges, IMO.
By the time of the film's creation there were more than enough deployable weapons in the American and Soviet arsenals to completely blanket the earth several times over. Assuming everyone's observation and communication systems are operating, it would be impossible for one side to win once they employed nuclear weapons. That's not propaganda, it's common sense.
@Bluehawk2008 *Everything* is propaganda to some people; these same people have no use for common sense. For proof of this, look no further than my little troll up there. Since I don't openly praise nuclear proliferation, I *must* be a communist. He obviously has a firm grasp of the principles of Communism; that's *totally* what they're all about. I mean, forget about the fact that I support free enterprise and individual liberties. I don't want to die in a nuclear war, so I'm a "commie lover".
@Bluehawk2008 ...that's the definition of "mutually assured destruction" (M.A.D.)...which dominated American nuclear thought for more than 50 years (ditto for the Soviets)...
Have you noticed that the only actors who made it big after this were JoBeth Williams and John Lithgow? Oh, oops, Farmer Dahlberg turns up on Law and Order SVU once in a while.
@jolpenrose Well, John Cullum (Farmer Dahlberg) is a well respected stage actor as well. Plus, as much of a punchline as Steve Guttenberg became, in the 1980s he was a pretty well known face, and arguably his star fell at relatively the same rate as JoBeth Williams (quick; name a film she's been in over the past 20 years). Also, Amy Madigan has managed to find steady work over the years as well.
@lothartheterrible but even though the Soviet Union is no more, Russia still has alot of nuclear weapons so what happens in this movie can still happen. A remote chance of that going on today, but its still possible
@DASCO2136 I doubt it will ever happen (a full scale attack). The worry now is nuclear and biological terrorism, which if you ask me is even more unsettling.
Great video and I remember seeing this for the 1st time. I was a 2nd year college student and we were all expecting the Cold War to go hot with the pre-Gorbachev Russian government under Andropov. The with the space cowboy Ronald Raygun as we used to call him in charge of the U.S we expected anything horrible was possible.
@marathon1974 lol. Thanx! I never noticed that lill 'dialogue bubble' thing was red when the comments were on screen. Hehehe, I feel so silly >.< Thanx again ^.^
@fixdeluxe1 reat video and I remember seeing this for the 1st time. I was a 2nd year college student and we were all expecting the Cold War to go hot with the pre-Gorbachev Russian government under Andropov. Then with the space cowboy Ronald Raygun as we used to call him in charge of the U.S we expected anything horrible was possible.
This would have been a good video, if it wasn't for those stupid fucking little homosexual side notes the uploader just had to throw in there. He should have just gotten it over with and uploaded the audio only with the video being nothing then a fat pulsating cock he munched down last night.
@OwMyNuckinFuts What is it like to be a virgin? It's been so long since I was one, I've forgotten. ...
Go back to your ICP cd's and bottles of MD 20/20, and try not to jizz all over your parents' basement carpet when you're jerking off to internet porn, troll.
gosh ,I saw this movie it really scared the shit out of me glad its over ,but now we have the terrorist ,hope they never get their hands on nuclear weapons ,
As someone from Kansas City, Kansas born and raised it makes me proud to watch this movie. Lots of memories from my childhood. This movie scared the crap out of my parents. Thank you for posting it.
Ah, the fun of watching this back in the day. Having grown up at ground zero in N.Dakota, doing 'desk-ducking' as a child and dancing around Field Section L ABM silos during my protesting days, by the time this came out it was all rather anti-climatic. Up there the common reaction was, "Yeah, well, what's new? We've been 'living' this scenario for 20 years."
thanks for the uploads man, ive been dying to watch this but couldnt find it anywhere else, too bad i didnt just check youtube right away lol and at first i thought the captions would get annoying but theyre a cool addition
I was two years old when this aired...maybe a year and a half. I didn't know about this movie until a college history class called, "War in the 20th Century", pretty good class.
History in the making, but not with Russia, this is Iran... funny how things change in just a short 20 years later,, fear Iran,,, not north Korea, Russia, china, or south America... they are country's that have something to live for,, Iran could give a shit about anyone, even them self's..
Yep. The warmongerers and the media are ramping up the war propaganda with old intel that has already been discredited.
War with Iran is inevitable. The sanctions we imposed are a predecessor to war. We have already committed to it.
It's no dark secret. Neocons like Wolfowitz are very open about their intent to wage permanent war in the ME. And nothing has changed in foreign policy since the 08 election. Neocon philosophy still dominates.
@bambam4LSU Don't 'fear Iran' its this kind of scaremongering that could kick of some big fat nuclear war with them, or at least a limited one in the Gulf.
@moleman9000 *seethes* Limited nuclear war is DAMN unlikely. Any use of nukes is enough to get another nation involved. Shit can snowball pretty easy in international war. WWI is a good example.
I feel the same way, that we are using the Iraq blueprint to set up war with Iran.
I believe it is inevitable that we will go to war, which is NOT SAYING I SUPPORT THE WAR. I am a pacifist. Our policy though is pretty much guaranteeing it. Sanctions are a prelude to war. Weaken the country economicaly then invade it.
What a load of nationalist claptrap... Why is the US allowed the privileges of defence and offence and not others?
Would the US and various other superpowers not throw their weight around quite as much, there'd be none of the aggression we nowadays seem to face.
And the solution is really quite simple: all put their weapons down at the same time, but, it is not likely as the weaponsindustry and warmachine, generates far too much... MONEY and WEALTH and thus POWER.
@macintosser If you do not live in the US, and you do not know how average Americans think and feel, and you form your opinions from abroad based upon what you see and read, then you are no authority on what the hell the US ought to question. Take care to keep your balance on that soapbox you speak from, and remember that British imperialism is the only reason we are having this conversation: it was perfected before either of our great-grandparents were born, you hypocritical ass.
@lothartheterrible Yes, if we don't live in the US, we don't have a say. If you don't want us to base our opinions on what we "see and read", then do something about your government, and make it stop doing things that piss everyone off.
@Richiepookinshoo If we really had that power, it would have been done long ago. Every intelligent American knows that "of the people, for the people, by the people" is a farce.
BTW, I dig your avatar; I wish there had been more films with the Eighth Doctor.
@lothartheterrible Just like "Truth, justice and the American way." That's a laugh! I really wish the people had the power, instead of the morons at Capitol Hill.
@lothartheterrible If "of the people, for the people, by the people" is a farce, it's because "the people" are too divided in what they think is right, and too many people think they're the only intelligent ones.
There have been scientific studies done on this. Conservatives and liberals alike will dismiss contradictory statements made by the politicos and pundits they support, yet harp on those made by the opposition. (The study likened the brain activity to drug addicts getting a fix.)
@ThInTrM Wonderfully stated! When it is all said and done, the whole "Republican vs. Democrats" battle that continues to be waged today is in itself a farce; what appears to be opposing sides in politics is all just a game to divide us and keep us from focusing on real issues. In reality, the only true opposing sides are the wealthy and powerful versus the poor and powerless.
@HippyWitchGal Relief to find someone sees whats really happening! The golden rule, for every single step forward for the lower class, ends up with a thousand steps backwards in life(ie, life savings or house almost paid for after 30 years of equity,all gone in one hour to pay medical bill for a night or two in the emergency room. And families making ends meet, are just on borrowed time for them, unless they win the lottery, etc. and wars are a blessing in disquise for the rich.
@jabrown45100 I know how you feel! Most people I talk to about this think I am a wacko. But what you say is absolutely true. I would make a decent wager that the Middle Class is absolutely non-existent within 10-15 years (to extend that distance between rich and poor). If you haven't see it yet, you should check out a lecture by Elizabeth Warren...scary stuff indeed. You can find it on YouTube by searching "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class."
@HippyWitchGal If you have a nac for history, you'll see that even the working class today, increasingly over years, has put in more hours for less. An attribute of that is reflected in more day care centers for both parents working (not out of choice), but just to make ends meet. Meeting profit margins in business have become more of a war zone than just a goal, and a staging game to see which business fall or merge. The workers seen as a cog in a wheel and dwarfed with no identity. wacko-No
@Richiepookinshoo Well the problem with that is that most of my country's citizens don't realize that they CAN fire their government, or they are afraid to do anything about it. Revolution is not illegal and doesn't have to be violent.
@lothartheterrible Do you not know that America took over the British world bases after WWII as part of the payback for the Lend/Lease? Britain could no longer afford them and rebuild after the destruction.
Who's the imperialist now?? Sarah Palin has her eyes set on Russia...
@leftatalbuquerque And exactly when and where did I say anything about America being perfect? Oh that's right, I didn't. I just find British people squawking about America being the "Evil Empire" to be hypocritical and laughable. The truth is, any nation, when given the opportunity, would gladly seize what did not belong to them in order to expand their wealth and resources. Not just Britain, not just Russia, and not just America.
@leftatalbuquerque Bullshit. Lend-Lease (enacted in March 1941) came after the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
In September of 1940, the United States sent 50 destroyers to the British and Canadian navies in exchange for the right to build naval and air bases in seven or nine areas in the American continents.
You're just another raging hypocrite, eager to demonize the United States while pointedly ignoring that your country is just as guilty of the things for which you denounce Americans.
Thank you, and I am far from worried. If I shed a tear each time I fielded a barb from some half-wit spouting verbal revenge upon the world for his social shortcomings, likely from the comfort of his parents' basement, I would likely need a lifebelt.
I find it interesting that they show Oscar Control out in the middle of the country when, in reality, it was located on Whiteman AFB itself. Since the filmmakers didn't have the cooperation of the Air Force and the missile facility in the First Strike documentary was the Oscar Control at Minot AFB, ND, they did the best they could.
Eh. I wasnt old enough to know about the "Cold War" but I always thought those stories about making kids duck under desks during class at school was funny though.
We did the same drills except for us it was jsut in case of a hurricane or something. lol.
This was banned from network T.V. to this very day, (dont know why) in fact most movies about nuclear war doesn't play on network tv. they must have gotten bombarded with complaints. Seeing as how things are going full circle & we once again have that threat hanging over us its understandable some people are afraid.
grips187, they probably won`t show them as they were too busy showing them in the 80`s and scaring the crap out of everyone. The 80`s was a scary decade and i dont mean fashion wise.
I was in high school when this came out. It seems cheesy in retrospect but at the time it was disturbing...some thought it was for real. Love the OD Air Force fatigues...better-looking than my BDU's.
That's one use. Their other use comes once the other side has attacked you conventionally. IN this case Russia still has overwhelming numerical superiority in Armor, and fighter aircraft in Europe.
The difference is now they would invade to brutally impose capitalism not communism.
I watched this movie in apush last year and scared the crap out of me. That night at work I started freaking out and thought I saw mushroom clouds outside.
Contrary to popular belief, Dr. Emmett Brown was not the inventor of the Flux Capacitor. This device was actually invented by a group of scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory under the direction of Robert Oppenheimer for the Manhattan Project. It was an early contender for use with the Fat Man bomb but was quickly abandoned.
It wasn't until four decades later that Doc had discovered that it could be modified and used for a far more astonishing scientific achievement.
I remember watching this back in the 7th grade and all we could think about the next day at school was man the world is eventually going to end because of a nuclear war. I no Republican but you have to give props to Regan for destroying the USSR, this was bound to happen if it weren't for him destroying American's policies to help the less fortunate and focusing on Russia. Then again, as a minority who was alive back in those days, maybe it wasn't so great of a move, lol.
lamareaton 1 month ago
@lamareaton Reagan didn't destroy the USSR; it was brought down by internal instability. Reagan's amicable relationship with Gorbachev possibly hastened it, but the Soviet Union collapsed from the inside.
lothartheterrible 1 month ago
@lothartheterrible i, no republican as well, also think reagan OUTSPENT the soviet union into ruin....internal instability often starts when a nation goes broke...just read the newspaper today:) but that was the ONLY thing ronnie did well.....
McPuffins509 1 month ago
@lamareaton its just to bad we are in the beginning of the next cold war with russia...King putin will be pres. for 8 yrs and PM for 4...again and again for life no doubt....scary thought! at least ronnie reagan gave us another 30 to 40 years before we are toasted;)
McPuffins509 1 month ago
Did I hear that guy right, telling Airmen McCoy to "Go visit the nice plantations".
sinusbradycardia 2 months ago in playlist day after
wow, at 8:35 the daughter looks an awful like an 80's Tina fey, whom is HOT by the way!!! TINA! whaz AUP!!
jonathanaguire 3 months ago in playlist Nuclear Holocaust Theatre
@tellerulam1 speaking of Teller-Ulam.......what type of warheads were the Soviets using in the early 80's? I heard Sakharov had an interesting twist on the classic T-U design.......
rattinox 3 months ago
@4:53: "Sorry we're late - we were screwing like mink on Spanish Fly..."
snidelywhiplash 4 months ago
I was totally believing the premise of this movie until the black guy in the hospital said his favorite flavor of ice cream was vanilla.
TheIntruders 4 months ago
And what's with the sound right then? In every copy of this film I've seen it has a weird flanging effect.
snidelywhiplash 4 months ago
Hey, what's eating you fruitcake?
LOL.
boxers7x5 4 months ago
nice PipBoy at 0:45 .
hykenfreak 4 months ago
@hykenfreak Lol.
TheWCWite 4 months ago
He calls his daughter fruitcake? That isn't very nice. Wow, does this movie start off slow. But I suppose it's good to get the emotional attachment to the characters.
ficken3 5 months ago
@lothartheterrible Pesci threatened you, didn't he? I bet that's why you thanked him. He's one bad-ass little man.
electrogeek77 5 months ago
@electrogeek77 Indeed. He's an intimidating little fucker.
lothartheterrible 1 month ago
Her glasses are sexy and she is hot too !!!
Eurosoooooooong 7 months ago
2:20 LOL, that sounded JUST like Skolnick's laugh in Revenge Of The Nerds. :)
bluecollarcanuck 8 months ago
The Day After: We are all dead.
bunny153649 8 months ago
@lothartheterrible Boy I'm intimidated just sitting a million miles from this comment, wow, from a proud american served 20 years, Arrogance offensive comments to even our advesaries does not equal a positive. Sorry, but back forth exchanges like this often mirrors this this film. Interesting also, if people with the same level of rage as seen in many of these comments, were delegated the authority to push the nuc button everytime hatred flared in dialogues like this. Save me from this madness
jabrown45100 9 months ago
@jabrown45100 I'm guessing you do not have much of a grasp of sarcasm or irony....
lothartheterrible 9 months ago
9:00 See those toolboxes the maintenance crew are carrying? They each contain 2 pieces of scrap metal, wonderglue and a wrench. Old Walter, the day shift worker at the Water Processing Plant in Megaton will give you 10 caps for each piece of scrap metal you bring him. Pretty sweet deal...
lotharthehomiehomo 9 months ago 17
@lotharthehomiehomo Does he accept vanadium? Because if not, he's a fraud.
lothartheterrible 9 months ago
@lotharthehomiehomo Walter is, oddly enough, the guy I regret killing the most whenever I nuke Megaton.
kazen2 9 months ago
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Lol! This film is a KGB funded propaganda film. Most of these actors and the Jewish director were all proven to be card carrying communists in an investigative report. Oh, and this 'lothartheterrible' did work on behalf of the Sandinistas in Northern Mexican states during the 80's trying to foment communist rebellion. He also has distributed anti-American pamphlets to his students...Yep!
lotharthehomo 9 months ago
@lotharthehomo Dude, how the hell did you know? I thought I buried that deep enough to never get caught! I suppose I should be proud of my service; I was, after all, the only 7-year-old they had ever seen that could shoulder an RPG *and* speak fluent Spanish.
lothartheterrible 9 months ago 10
@lotharthehomo shut up you thick right wing cunt
theboy459 7 months ago
wow, amazing how many people who weren't even born at the time are fighting about british and usa crap. hey guys....it wasn't even the citizens fight at the time it was going on, it was the corrupt government who wanted the fight....and btw what you are fighting about ended years ago....put it away already, along with your stupid egos. how pointless and ridiculous. lol.
itstime4change13 10 months ago
Face it: The Day After was filmed, not as a cautionary tale, but to garner ratings. It purports to be a "this is what will happen when the USSR & the US are consumed by nuclear bombs" but in reality, the ABC network that aired this enjoyed the highest number of viewers that the network had ever seen. Don't fool yourself. Go rent Threads & see, via a documentary-like format, what would really happen if or when doomsday eradicates. Using a cast of unknowns was a big part of it.
lonelyheroine 10 months ago
Christ, come off of "Threads" already; I've read so many comments over the past 4 years about how much better it is, or how it makes TDA look like a "comedy". It is indeed a spectacular film, but you're missing the point: both were *social statements* meant to convey a message. Next time you might want to do a little research before launching a tirade: ABC did *not* want to have anything to do with this film at first. It took a lot of persuading to get it the green light.
lothartheterrible 10 months ago 4
@lothartheterrible i remember that ..i can't remember who oppose this movie but yeah ..some network in those days in the usa ..didn't really want to touch this with a 10 foot pole ..yeah BBC did but that's because well their goverment must have thought oh it's a movie but i guess after it aired ..it was more like um this. .......SHOCK AND AW.. now this movie is good yes it is alittle softer meaning there's no hardcore scary scenes BUT u have to get the real pic and that is WE DON'T NEED NUKE !
TOXICFLOWZSHOW 8 months ago
@lonelyheroine You miss a critical point: Yes, Threads is a Great Film, no question. But it's about what would happen if THE UK got plastered in a full-on nuclear war. The situation in the US would be different. Not necessarily better or worse, but different. Apples and oranges, IMO.
snidelywhiplash 9 months ago
so did the doc order the prospective patient's icecream before heart surgery?Now THAT is scary!
kzam717 1 year ago
By the time of the film's creation there were more than enough deployable weapons in the American and Soviet arsenals to completely blanket the earth several times over. Assuming everyone's observation and communication systems are operating, it would be impossible for one side to win once they employed nuclear weapons. That's not propaganda, it's common sense.
Bluehawk2008 1 year ago
@Bluehawk2008 *Everything* is propaganda to some people; these same people have no use for common sense. For proof of this, look no further than my little troll up there. Since I don't openly praise nuclear proliferation, I *must* be a communist. He obviously has a firm grasp of the principles of Communism; that's *totally* what they're all about. I mean, forget about the fact that I support free enterprise and individual liberties. I don't want to die in a nuclear war, so I'm a "commie lover".
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 5
@Bluehawk2008 during the cold war.. alone in germany there were enough weapons to destroy the world: 42 times!
chaizy23 1 year ago
@Bluehawk2008 ...that's the definition of "mutually assured destruction" (M.A.D.)...which dominated American nuclear thought for more than 50 years (ditto for the Soviets)...
zenithomega19 1 year ago
@lotharthegaylord How's stupidity working for ya?
Athanatizein 1 year ago
Have you noticed that the only actors who made it big after this were JoBeth Williams and John Lithgow? Oh, oops, Farmer Dahlberg turns up on Law and Order SVU once in a while.
jolpenrose 1 year ago
@jolpenrose Well, John Cullum (Farmer Dahlberg) is a well respected stage actor as well. Plus, as much of a punchline as Steve Guttenberg became, in the 1980s he was a pretty well known face, and arguably his star fell at relatively the same rate as JoBeth Williams (quick; name a film she's been in over the past 20 years). Also, Amy Madigan has managed to find steady work over the years as well.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible never use "quick: name a ____" on the internet. It's quite quick these days ;)
Just being a pedant while watching this through. thanks.
k386 1 year ago
@jolpenrose
You left out Steve Guttenberg
stavrophotography 1 year ago
i rented this video years after seeing it on TV
At the time, I was working in the building (KC Board of Trade) shown in the begining scene of this clip
really gave me the creeps
hpmc9 1 year ago
Thx for uploading this - I remember seeing it during high school! I also enjoy the annotations - gives a lot of good trivia info which I enjoy.
bitingontinfoil 1 year ago
Included among the list of stars of course is John Lithgow (3rd rock from the sun)
adze1969 1 year ago
6 years after this movie was made the Berlin wall fell. two years after that there was no more Soviet Union
texasreb58 1 year ago
@texasreb58 Amazing how rapidly things can change (for the better or the worse), isn't it?
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible but even though the Soviet Union is no more, Russia still has alot of nuclear weapons so what happens in this movie can still happen. A remote chance of that going on today, but its still possible
DASCO2136 1 year ago
@DASCO2136 I doubt it will ever happen (a full scale attack). The worry now is nuclear and biological terrorism, which if you ask me is even more unsettling.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@DASCO2136 but of curese russia will not atack usa they are more like alies now,the treat is now terrorism,N.korea,china,
stjepanzero 1 year ago
@DASCO2136 Soviet ICBMs are on the Middle Eastern black mmarket for just $100,000. Scarry, huh?
Nanomaster828 1 year ago
@Nanomaster828 jesus
DASCO2136 1 year ago
@Nanomaster828 I found it more scary than scarry, personally. lol
jg2904 1 year ago
I am ashamed to admit, I actually like the pop-ups, and I'm not a kid anymore. What does that say about MY sense of aesthetics!?!?
dariodepiante 1 year ago
@dariodepiante You watched a lot of "Pop-up video"?
Wafflepudding 1 year ago
one of the most acurate films about nuclear war (since Threads) I have have seen
purplefurball 1 year ago
@purplefurball The two films had much in common. Both scared the hell out of people, as well.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
Great video and I remember seeing this for the 1st time. I was a 2nd year college student and we were all expecting the Cold War to go hot with the pre-Gorbachev Russian government under Andropov. The with the space cowboy Ronald Raygun as we used to call him in charge of the U.S we expected anything horrible was possible.
rallwood1 1 year ago
awsome movie, you know how close we came to this war? we were as close as a hair
TheBlackworth 1 year ago
Lothartheterrible, tyvm for uploading this !
Stellerlass 1 year ago
@Stellerlass Welcome.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
very interesting movie, thanks for the upload
Dragst3er 1 year ago
Please take those stupid comments out,your not funny.
This is being taken seriously.Nobody cares about the actors.
But thanks for the uploads,very informative and very realistic.
fixdeluxe1 1 year ago
@fixdeluxe1 Yeah, how about you just turn them off and shut the fuck up.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 6
@fixdeluxe1 Wow, another poster that cannot work a youtube menu bar, yet calls someone's comments "stupid". Bottom right of the screen dingleberry.
marathon1974 1 year ago
@marathon1974 lol. Thanx! I never noticed that lill 'dialogue bubble' thing was red when the comments were on screen. Hehehe, I feel so silly >.< Thanx again ^.^
GaoAsaurusG 1 year ago
@fixdeluxe1 reat video and I remember seeing this for the 1st time. I was a 2nd year college student and we were all expecting the Cold War to go hot with the pre-Gorbachev Russian government under Andropov. Then with the space cowboy Ronald Raygun as we used to call him in charge of the U.S we expected anything horrible was possible.
rallwood1 1 year ago
They should make a blue-ray version of this
y512516 1 year ago
This would have been a good video, if it wasn't for those stupid fucking little homosexual side notes the uploader just had to throw in there. He should have just gotten it over with and uploaded the audio only with the video being nothing then a fat pulsating cock he munched down last night.
OwMyNuckinFuts 1 year ago
@OwMyNuckinFuts What is it like to be a virgin? It's been so long since I was one, I've forgotten. ...
Go back to your ICP cd's and bottles of MD 20/20, and try not to jizz all over your parents' basement carpet when you're jerking off to internet porn, troll.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 7
gosh ,I saw this movie it really scared the shit out of me glad its over ,but now we have the terrorist ,hope they never get their hands on nuclear weapons ,
amugani 1 year ago
2:03 Leave it to Geordi LaForge to travel back in time and inadvertently cause a nuclear war.
sciencealwayswins 1 year ago
As someone from Kansas City, Kansas born and raised it makes me proud to watch this movie. Lots of memories from my childhood. This movie scared the crap out of my parents. Thank you for posting it.
AngelNEVERFADEAWAY 1 year ago
6:42 Those glasses are so quintessentially 80's, ridiculously oversized. She looks like one of my 3rd grade teachers, who also had glasses like that.
Akira625 1 year ago
@Akira625
Yeah but she's still hot.
mnaz21 1 year ago
Russisn Country scared
superwfea 1 year ago
is it true a bunch of scientist wrote this to protest the nuclear buildup of the superpowers?
kellystone84 1 year ago
is that one guy in the helicopter sitting kiddie-corner from the black guy private cowboy from full metal jacket??!! i think it is
joshman783 1 year ago
@joshman783 Yes, it is; his name is Arliss Howard.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star? We do! We do
daver563 1 year ago
@daver563 Detach the stone of shame; attach the stone of TRIUMPH!!
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
the 2nd time i saw this film, i was working in the building this section starts with
talk about realism
hpmc9 1 year ago
Ah, the fun of watching this back in the day. Having grown up at ground zero in N.Dakota, doing 'desk-ducking' as a child and dancing around Field Section L ABM silos during my protesting days, by the time this came out it was all rather anti-climatic. Up there the common reaction was, "Yeah, well, what's new? We've been 'living' this scenario for 20 years."
Curious thing is, Pandora's Box remains open...
...and it still scares the hell out of me.
OneWorldHistory 1 year ago
Wow, and ABC film plugging a CBS show ( oh you saw 60 Minutes last night). XD
Zoomer30 1 year ago 2
Another bit of trivia - Kyle Aletter (petrifocals girl) was one of Barker's Beauties on The Price Is Right for a time in the early 80s.
RedbeardNC 1 year ago
@RedbeardNC Petrifocals.....
Brilliant!
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
I've been to Kansas City before....well, to the Six Flags there.
JonasBrosFan17 1 year ago
Her big hair is as funny as the glasses. :-D
SteelHyaena 1 year ago
i became SO SO afraid after watching this film back then
YNWA72 1 year ago
~ My Sister Wore Eye Glasses Simular To Those Back In The Day , ~ But ~ Somewhat Bigger ! ~
~ That Was The Style,Ya Know . . LoL ~
37lemondrop 1 year ago
thanks for the uploads man, ive been dying to watch this but couldnt find it anywhere else, too bad i didnt just check youtube right away lol and at first i thought the captions would get annoying but theyre a cool addition
FxOxAxDx 1 year ago
wish the film was a little clearer,does any one no what year this film was made???
gatorsam202 1 year ago
1983.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
thanks loth haven't seen this movie years, nice work with footnotes
markra 1 year ago
man, those glasses were huge
scottyrobot 1 year ago
this film is great , it scares me 2 think that there will some day be a nuclear war , when do you guys think there will be one?
roryduff99 1 year ago
I was two years old when this aired...maybe a year and a half. I didn't know about this movie until a college history class called, "War in the 20th Century", pretty good class.
SaffronKelley 1 year ago
couinity error at 5:44, the maintenece guys were wearing kakhi colored suits before, then one guy is wearing a blue suit.
guess cause its inserted footage from the 1979 dosumentary first strike
Guynumber7 1 year ago 3
Those Glasses Made My Day!! Lmao!!!
danielreed1 1 year ago
History in the making, but not with Russia, this is Iran... funny how things change in just a short 20 years later,, fear Iran,,, not north Korea, Russia, china, or south America... they are country's that have something to live for,, Iran could give a shit about anyone, even them self's..
bambam4LSU 1 year ago
It will be a long time before Iran could inflict any kind of large scale nuclear attack. They simply do not have the resources.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
Yep. The warmongerers and the media are ramping up the war propaganda with old intel that has already been discredited.
War with Iran is inevitable. The sanctions we imposed are a predecessor to war. We have already committed to it.
It's no dark secret. Neocons like Wolfowitz are very open about their intent to wage permanent war in the ME. And nothing has changed in foreign policy since the 08 election. Neocon philosophy still dominates.
mongoose704 1 year ago
@bambam4LSU Don't 'fear Iran' its this kind of scaremongering that could kick of some big fat nuclear war with them, or at least a limited one in the Gulf.
moleman9000 1 year ago
@moleman9000 *seethes* Limited nuclear war is DAMN unlikely. Any use of nukes is enough to get another nation involved. Shit can snowball pretty easy in international war. WWI is a good example.
eddievhfan1984 1 year ago
I feel the same way, that we are using the Iraq blueprint to set up war with Iran.
I believe it is inevitable that we will go to war, which is NOT SAYING I SUPPORT THE WAR. I am a pacifist. Our policy though is pretty much guaranteeing it. Sanctions are a prelude to war. Weaken the country economicaly then invade it.
mongoose704 1 year ago
What a load of nationalist claptrap... Why is the US allowed the privileges of defence and offence and not others?
Would the US and various other superpowers not throw their weight around quite as much, there'd be none of the aggression we nowadays seem to face.
And the solution is really quite simple: all put their weapons down at the same time, but, it is not likely as the weaponsindustry and warmachine, generates far too much... MONEY and WEALTH and thus POWER.
macintosser 1 year ago
@macintosser We learn from our ancestors. The United States did not invent "privileges of defense".
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 2
@lothartheterrible
But you certainly perfected it.
Anyway... there is no smoke without fire... the US ought to question why it is that people are so upset with the way the US throws its weight around.
macintosser 1 year ago
@macintosser If you do not live in the US, and you do not know how average Americans think and feel, and you form your opinions from abroad based upon what you see and read, then you are no authority on what the hell the US ought to question. Take care to keep your balance on that soapbox you speak from, and remember that British imperialism is the only reason we are having this conversation: it was perfected before either of our great-grandparents were born, you hypocritical ass.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago 18
@lothartheterrible yea i m an american and i dont have any worng opions about the country actullay i love america and the people in there love it too
kidwithanuke 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible Yes, if we don't live in the US, we don't have a say. If you don't want us to base our opinions on what we "see and read", then do something about your government, and make it stop doing things that piss everyone off.
Richiepookinshoo 1 year ago
@Richiepookinshoo If we really had that power, it would have been done long ago. Every intelligent American knows that "of the people, for the people, by the people" is a farce.
BTW, I dig your avatar; I wish there had been more films with the Eighth Doctor.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible Just like "Truth, justice and the American way." That's a laugh! I really wish the people had the power, instead of the morons at Capitol Hill.
InAGaddaDaVida29 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible If "of the people, for the people, by the people" is a farce, it's because "the people" are too divided in what they think is right, and too many people think they're the only intelligent ones.
There have been scientific studies done on this. Conservatives and liberals alike will dismiss contradictory statements made by the politicos and pundits they support, yet harp on those made by the opposition. (The study likened the brain activity to drug addicts getting a fix.)
ThInTrM 11 months ago
@ThInTrM This is true, and is a reason why a pure and true democracy cannot exist; a consensus is impossible.
lothartheterrible 11 months ago
@ThInTrM Wonderfully stated! When it is all said and done, the whole "Republican vs. Democrats" battle that continues to be waged today is in itself a farce; what appears to be opposing sides in politics is all just a game to divide us and keep us from focusing on real issues. In reality, the only true opposing sides are the wealthy and powerful versus the poor and powerless.
HippyWitchGal 10 months ago 2
@HippyWitchGal Relief to find someone sees whats really happening! The golden rule, for every single step forward for the lower class, ends up with a thousand steps backwards in life(ie, life savings or house almost paid for after 30 years of equity,all gone in one hour to pay medical bill for a night or two in the emergency room. And families making ends meet, are just on borrowed time for them, unless they win the lottery, etc. and wars are a blessing in disquise for the rich.
jabrown45100 9 months ago
@jabrown45100 I know how you feel! Most people I talk to about this think I am a wacko. But what you say is absolutely true. I would make a decent wager that the Middle Class is absolutely non-existent within 10-15 years (to extend that distance between rich and poor). If you haven't see it yet, you should check out a lecture by Elizabeth Warren...scary stuff indeed. You can find it on YouTube by searching "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class."
HippyWitchGal 9 months ago
@HippyWitchGal If you have a nac for history, you'll see that even the working class today, increasingly over years, has put in more hours for less. An attribute of that is reflected in more day care centers for both parents working (not out of choice), but just to make ends meet. Meeting profit margins in business have become more of a war zone than just a goal, and a staging game to see which business fall or merge. The workers seen as a cog in a wheel and dwarfed with no identity. wacko-No
jabrown45100 9 months ago
@Richiepookinshoo Well the problem with that is that most of my country's citizens don't realize that they CAN fire their government, or they are afraid to do anything about it. Revolution is not illegal and doesn't have to be violent.
KarenEngelhardt 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible Do you not know that America took over the British world bases after WWII as part of the payback for the Lend/Lease? Britain could no longer afford them and rebuild after the destruction.
Who's the imperialist now?? Sarah Palin has her eyes set on Russia...
leftatalbuquerque 1 year ago
@leftatalbuquerque And exactly when and where did I say anything about America being perfect? Oh that's right, I didn't. I just find British people squawking about America being the "Evil Empire" to be hypocritical and laughable. The truth is, any nation, when given the opportunity, would gladly seize what did not belong to them in order to expand their wealth and resources. Not just Britain, not just Russia, and not just America.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@leftatalbuquerque Bullshit. Lend-Lease (enacted in March 1941) came after the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.
In September of 1940, the United States sent 50 destroyers to the British and Canadian navies in exchange for the right to build naval and air bases in seven or nine areas in the American continents.
You're just another raging hypocrite, eager to demonize the United States while pointedly ignoring that your country is just as guilty of the things for which you denounce Americans.
ThInTrM 11 months ago 6
@leftatalbuquerque under lend lease the british gave the bases to the US,it was apart of their agreement
rickjames541 10 months ago
Hey, that's Private Cowboy from Full Metal Jacket at 2:05 talking about going fishing.
snidelywhiplash 1 year ago
2:08 the guy said this weekend he was going fishin, more like going fission. hahaha, uh...sorry
Camera2Studios 2 years ago 34
@Camera2Studios naaaa, that's a good one!
YusefDeeb69 1 year ago 2
@Camera2Studios an absolutely *glowing* pun deserves another! :-D
tojiroh 1 year ago
@Camera2Studios Goin' fission and catchin' rads... er, rays.:)
Akira625 1 year ago 2
@Camera2Studios I'm ashamed at how funny that little word play was to me.
izzieuk 1 year ago
her glasses look like petri dishes * Now, that's a humdinger of a zinger *haha
saveartificer07 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
It's annoying the cock stain who put this video has felt the need to narrate it to us like we're effing children! How big is his ego?
jayellucaz 2 years ago
Huh...."cock stain"; certainly not a "childish" phrase at all. Piss off and crawl back under your rock, junior.
lothartheterrible 2 years ago
Don't worry lothar, some of us actually appreciate the commentary you so generously provided us.
DTanza 2 years ago 3
Thank you, and I am far from worried. If I shed a tear each time I fielded a barb from some half-wit spouting verbal revenge upon the world for his social shortcomings, likely from the comfort of his parents' basement, I would likely need a lifebelt.
lothartheterrible 2 years ago
@lothartheterrible lol who says cock stain what kind of stain wud that be lol
smokeb3atz 1 year ago
@lothartheterrible ..hey loth....I like the footnotes...good work!!!
Hanniker 1 year ago
Thanks.
lothartheterrible 1 year ago
@jayellucaz
I think the annotations are excellent. Really well researched, thoughtful and helpful. Hardly evidence of a 'big ego'!
How's your ego, btw ;)
ludocrat 1 year ago
Thanks for the info about Nick Myers work to get the actors he wanted ...this film really etched itself in my mind way back then...
DVincentW 2 years ago 2
I find it interesting that they show Oscar Control out in the middle of the country when, in reality, it was located on Whiteman AFB itself. Since the filmmakers didn't have the cooperation of the Air Force and the missile facility in the First Strike documentary was the Oscar Control at Minot AFB, ND, they did the best they could.
DrStrangelove843rd 2 years ago
This is great, but the best nuclear war film was "Fail Safe".
TenderTrap86 2 years ago
"Fail Safe" is indeed a great film. You also have to mention "Threads" and "When The Wind Blows" along with it.
lothartheterrible 2 years ago
Eh. I wasnt old enough to know about the "Cold War" but I always thought those stories about making kids duck under desks during class at school was funny though.
We did the same drills except for us it was jsut in case of a hurricane or something. lol.
mongoose100989 2 years ago
This was banned from network T.V. to this very day, (dont know why) in fact most movies about nuclear war doesn't play on network tv. they must have gotten bombarded with complaints. Seeing as how things are going full circle & we once again have that threat hanging over us its understandable some people are afraid.
grips187 2 years ago
grips187, they probably won`t show them as they were too busy showing them in the 80`s and scaring the crap out of everyone. The 80`s was a scary decade and i dont mean fashion wise.
Scooby71Doo 2 years ago 2
I was in high school when this came out. It seems cheesy in retrospect but at the time it was disturbing...some thought it was for real. Love the OD Air Force fatigues...better-looking than my BDU's.
DissentingVoice 2 years ago 2
Fruitcake? I guess. With a shirt like that. And the Petri glasses. JoBeth Williams should have gotten implants.
stableshadow 2 years ago
Saw when it first was shown and I was 12 and it scarred me for freaking life.
silikon2 2 years ago 3
That's just the same for me... I still remember i was very scared by its vision...
jimsy73 2 years ago 3
I remember seeing this when I was like 3 or 4 years old. I'm still sure such a war will happen because of it (and $hitty human nature).
BrendaQG 2 years ago
@BrendaQG Nukes are used to make sure the other side dosent use theirs. Nukes are bluffs these days
totsgood2 2 years ago
That's one use. Their other use comes once the other side has attacked you conventionally. IN this case Russia still has overwhelming numerical superiority in Armor, and fighter aircraft in Europe.
The difference is now they would invade to brutally impose capitalism not communism.
BrendaQG 2 years ago 2
@BrendaQG I'm sorry, but no.
totsgood2 2 years ago
I watched this movie in apush last year and scared the crap out of me. That night at work I started freaking out and thought I saw mushroom clouds outside.
TheTrueSadielo 2 years ago 3
scary shit...leaders of the world have to watch this movie
joshman783 2 years ago 4
brilliant film !
I watched it when I was about 14
Totally awesome !
WAAKEND 2 years ago 3
If this was broadcast to the Soviet Union, I have a feeling they were like, if this is what the Yanks deem entertaining, we'll just stay put for now.
CzechDetectingTours 2 years ago 2
It was designed to scare the shit of of everyone
umahuma4 2 years ago 3
it did scared the shit out of me too
TOXICFLOWZSHOW 2 years ago
to this day it still scare the shit out of me. i hope it'll never happen
TOXICFLOWZSHOW 2 years ago 4
Really wish you had a hd version, but thanks a bunch for post.
Dadzee 2 years ago 4
Contrary to popular belief, Dr. Emmett Brown was not the inventor of the Flux Capacitor. This device was actually invented by a group of scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory under the direction of Robert Oppenheimer for the Manhattan Project. It was an early contender for use with the Fat Man bomb but was quickly abandoned.
It wasn't until four decades later that Doc had discovered that it could be modified and used for a far more astonishing scientific achievement.
fasdgrefgagsdasdgasd 2 years ago
Most people also do not know that the original time machine was not a DeLorean DMC-12 but was, in fact, a mint green Vespa.
lothartheterrible 2 years ago
i dont mean to sound ignorant but what is a vespa? a van? you dont have to answer just never heard of that before thank you have a good day
MrStriker431 2 years ago
It's a scooter.
lothartheterrible 2 years ago
Cool story, Bro
Crim1983 2 years ago
oh! my...crispy sony PVM9000 at 0:25
py2ti 2 years ago
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elawton1980 2 years ago
hrhr the good old NATO Green uniforms without any camo, i had hate them in the german Army soooo when i served it :D
Vaeleagle 2 years ago
haha ur rite those glasses are huge
skullz89 2 years ago
foul quality. but still thanks for posting. i was trying to see it for years.
zmoresperros2007 2 years ago
much thanks for commentary! makes it much better. =)
WaterHawk13 2 years ago 2
i find it incredible that they had technology back in the 80s.
groovybum 2 years ago
You are aware that a significant amount of technology that we have today was invented in some form or fashion before even the 1980's, right?
lothartheterrible 2 years ago