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  • i woudnt want to live through that just thinkin bout it makes me scared stiff

  • I second the comment how the developments with Iran Israel and the US are showing some shocking similarities to the fictional scenario leading up to the war in Threads. I was thinking about this a few days ago.

  • Desperately frightening.Nothing has come close to the impact this film had on me,or indeed,has on me.

    On the plus side,at least we beat Portsmouth 1-0 apparently.

  • @unit23. Fair comment well presented. It's still a danger worth trying to avoid though isn't it?

    Have you seem the cover of the economist this week? A very good article in it about the futility of bombing Iran to stop her getting nuclear capability. My point still remains though, we should at least try and avoid a conflagration between Israel and Iran, because that could lead to WW3 and you know it.

    Damned if we do, damned if we don't.

  • wtf

  • Iran ☣ ☢ ☣ ☢ ☣ ☢

  • While watching this film, I couldn't help but notice, how the events leading to the nuclear strikes, are very similar to current events happening between the U.S., and Middle East today. This is frightening to say the least. Knowing what to expect, and how to prepare, would be crucial to survival durring, and after a nuclear attack. This film, as dismal as it is, contains a great wealth of information. I will share this film with everyone I know. Thanks many times over, for sharing this.

  • @BeGoneTrolls4evR yup the similaritys are staggering including how most of the nation is unaware of the danger. The danger of course being us and our hunger for nation stealing, destabilisation and just keeping us all scared. Watch the other films i posted, When the wind blows also showing the total futility of it all and Rollerball to see what the utopian vision of our corporate led government really has and is working towards.

    eurocon 5 minutes ago

  • @eurocon I definatly will watch When The Wind BIows etc. I have never seen, or heard of a lot of these movies. I guess because l was once consumed by the rat race, like most everyone else. It's was shocking to wake up, and realize how blind I really was for so many years. Mistrust of the mainstream media ignited the spark for me, as well as, the book 1984. Seeing that this movie aired in 1984, really sparked my interest in watching it. Thanks again

  • @eurocon

    Rollerball is a classic - I simply can't believe more people haven't seen it and realise what its message is. Much like this film.

    [And Rollerball has some of the best made and edited sports footage I've ever watched - it's like being at the game, and yet it's totally imaginary!]

  • i'm sorry but i laught at 8:09 RAF comm centre

    RAF also means Red army fraction

  • I never knew this movie existed. It's just as sobering as the US version "The Day After". Great post!

  • Most chilling film ever made. I used to work admin support on Trident and I remember feeling sick to my stomach every day I went to work knowing I was essentially supporting something that was an abomination. No country must have nukes, Not us, not the USA, China, Russia or anyone else. They must be dismantled now.

  • Isn`t it frightening to live in the world, where we have nuclear weapons (and nuclear power plants)?

  • That ending is so chilling.

  • Oh and yes. I did watch it. What an idiotic question.

  • Total nonsense.

    My warning is not to invade Iran but to stop it getting a nuclear capability. A completely justifiable and achievable aim.

    So no, its not an idiotic suggestion. I'm pretty sure Mossad/MI6 and the CIA are already on it. You know, behaving idiotically and all.

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  • Didn't Ahmadinejad say on IRIB that he wanted to "wipe Israel off the face of the earth." and that Israel was a "disgraceful stain on the middle east" in his very wise "world without Zionism" speech.

    Ahmadinejad is a nutter, who needs to be stopped getting nukes at all cost. Watch this film, relate it to now, change the players as Iran and Israel and shit yourselves.

  • Many thanks for this. I remember seeing it as a kid and it scaring the s#%t out of me. Many thanks.

  • A complete analysis and timeline of THREADS is available at

    h t t p : / / b i t . l y /mHjHA7

  • @plymouthbelvedere That was really interesting thank you.

  • @eurocon My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it.

  • It's freezing outside, my central heating broke down and I had a little row with my husband. I'm watching this to remind myself that it could be a lot worse.

  • You're doing a big service posting this.. you have to worry if today's and future generations will lose track of how dangerous nuclear weapons are. Threads is an excellent depiction of how terrible they are.

  • Totally harrowing & depressing, but certainly made me feel entirely thankful for all that I have - even though I moan about my life on a day to day basis, I'll think twice next time!

  • Could have done with some mint sauce on that lamb.

  • 50:20 .. ET NOOOOOO

  • I've always felt biological weapons of mass destruction are more of a threat than nuclear weapons

  • I am waiting since 1992 to see this movie complete... XD

  • Am I the only one who cant believe this hasnt happened?

  • i like custard tarts

  • I saw this on Seattle TV after it came out. It made "The Day After" look like a joke. I'd say the only US nuclear film that was comparable was "Testament", but "Threads" is more comprehensive. The irony in this plot is that in spite of the Soviet Union being dead, Iran right now is seen as the current nuclear threat. Anyway, thank you very much for putting this up, it's been 25 years since I last watched this. Still gut-wrenching to this day.

  • @SenorSpode: Well, actually it is still Russia. Iran is a nuclear threat only to Israel. But since both we and Soviet Union have stake in our respective sides of the middle East, what happens there is always waiting to spill out

  • @DChatc I agree; Russia's not what it use to be, but what little nukes they have left can certainly create hell. As far as Iran, they'd probably try and nuke anyone, since the rest of us are 'infidels'. And they're arrogant enough to do it, I believe.

  • there was an animation movie called"which way the wind blows" aired around the same time which was scary and moving aswell set during the run up to a neclear strike going off from an elderly coup;es perspective ..that was a sad a thought provoking movie aswell

  • @reksub10 Was written by Raymond Briggs who also wrote "the Snowman" Very powerful bit of film

  • @h1ppyjon yeah i agree..i got the title wrong its "when the wind blows" it on you tube ..i seen it when i was young and it woke me up to a few realites but was a good thing coming into my teens a bit more savy if you know what i mean ,,it got me into reading in a big way ,very important film for that time in my life,,and the word powerful is the best word to describe the movie ,its an peice of art well chosen

  • The retrospective view is that one day this will happen again. Iran is volatile and the uncertainties of the West is paramount in all of our minds ,as we don't have any cash. The present issues with our planet far out weigh the issues in which the problems in the 80's ever did. I can only hope that either 1. Strong leaders as Reagan, Thatcher or Gorbachev grace us or 2. We prepare for all out war! This is going to happen, really it is.

  • For the last 20 minutes of this film I just wanted it to end. Thought about just closing it. But I didn´t. I had to make it to the end. This should be mandatory viewing, especially for politicians.

  • This was filmed when people had work and had pride & self respect. Now there would be dirty scruffy chav's walking about with can's of cheap cider, Smoking lambert & Bulter cigs, Wearing Kappa shell suits, And 14 Year old girl's pushing a push-chair around. But DONT worry as David Cameron is going to fix everything.

  • awesome flick! i'd be a badass wastelander!

  • Here - in case you need cheering up, here's a British lad who CLEARLY isn't worried about a nuclear holocaust - wYX_zhlTDr8

  • Wow - massive grimfest. I swore to myself about 40 minutes in that I would immediately watch 19 episodes of 30 Rock right after this ended. Makes 1984 look like the Nutcracker Suite.

  • @Deekin1234 whats 30 rock about???

  • The stillborn baby at the end has anencephaly hasn't it?

  • scariest movie ive ever seen god help us as long as these evil weapons exist

  • this film just shows us the horror of a nuclear war and how much would be destroyed simple facts like food would not be given out to people after the first few weeks after attack because that's when most people will die of effects/indirect effects, population would decline to medieval times, watch QED - a guide to Armageddon if you really want to have some sleepless nights

  • this was probably the most depressing thing i've seen.

    I felt like shit after seeing it, then seeing that the girl who played Ruth's daughter died in a car crash sometime in the early 90s added insult to injury

    :_:

  • Very sad :(

  • all the people are dead and burned but the cat was just fine well the have 9 lifes but its a lie that they always land on there feet

  • I suddenly feel the urge to drink myself into oblivion after watching this.

  • I'm amazed on how destructive a nuclear war is. I think the worst part is the aftermath of the war, where there is little food, no medicine, electricity, and survival is key to living. I hope to goodness that a nuclear war will never happen, because that would be the worst decision ever made. Yet, we Americans did drop two atomic bombs on Japan, and still the aftermath was just horrible. Just think now the bombs are ten times bigger and it's the whole world being bombed.

  • @MountainDewVoltage44 The bombs are actually more than ten times bigger. The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba which had an explosive yield equivalent to over 3000 Hiroshima bombs. The bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were soley nuclear fission devices, but modern bombs utilise nuclear fusion and are called hydrogen bombs. They are hundreds of times more powerful. It's all rather depressing.

  • You'll never forget this movie.

  • Probably the most frightening film ever made.

  • if ruth was my lass i would have beaten her to death a long time a go selfish f**king bitch

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  • Thanks for uploading. A chap in 2000ad once wrote 'Threads is more terrifying than your worst nightmare. UNLESS YOU'RE ALREADY HAVING A NIGHTMARE ABOUT THREADS.'

  • I remember seeing this on PBS as a young teen in the mid/late 1980s. I happened upon it today and it scared me as much now as it did when I first saw it. Not a pleasant film to watch by any stretch of the imagination, but one I believe deserves to be watched in every world history class around the world. Thank you for sharing it.

  • The movie that made me the sickest watching it. That is the only way to get its message truly. To be disgusted and shaken....... Everyone should be required to watch this. Politicians, military, students, everyone.

  • Many years later when I was pushing 40 I had talked to a guy about by same age when the topic of nuclear war came up somehow, I asked him if he had seen "The Day After" when he was a kid, he had and it had scarred him just as much as it did me. It also made me into a pacifist committed to fighting the injustices and bigotry in our world which I still believe is how wars ultimately start, even if created and spread by our gov'ts in order to gain support for war as such sentiments often are used.

  • I guess it was around the same time that "The Day After" aired on North American TV which haunted me so badly for many years, especially knowing that it presented a very sanitized version of the aftermath of nuclear war & that reality would be much worse. In many ways I wish I didn't see "the Day After" at the age I was at the time, about 12-14 years old, I forget when it actually aired but I was very young. I grew up full of doom & dread believing that was my future portrayed on TV that night

  • When the alarm sounded that scared the shit out of me

  • Evokes memories of when I was a 16, when the film was first aired. Scary then and scary now, really thought rendering drama. Bravo-Zulu to all involved.

  • Feel good movie of the year!

  • Well, wasn't that a cheery little excursion?

    Now, if you'll all excuse me, I have to go put myself out of my misery

  • @krystlerita That was pretty much my reaction the first time I saw this movie ...

    o_O

  • BEAUTIFUL quality! THANK YOU! Liked AND favorited!

  • gasp...

  • Holy shit that was a powerful film. If anything alone was responsible for stopping this happening, it was this film

  • @Xbox360TipsnTricks LOL maybe not just for the cat though

    Good thing he's making out of nice sturdy non-flammable logs though :L

  • powerfully accurate in the probable inadequate coaching you would receive from the establishment. I still can't figure out who won the war....

  • Is this the full length film?

  • 47:37 xD

  • i felt bad when i saw the cat dying. This is why Im building a $1 million log cabin/ bunker in the woods in PA. Guns/ ammo/ canned food/ etc.

  • @jamesgambino In the case of nuclear attack, there is no where on the eastern seaboard you could live. Pennsylvania will be irradiated. I grew up in NJ and paranoid of these types of things. Between NY, Philly, all of NJ (earl weapons base, fort dix, Princeton weapons research etc.) as well as Pittsburgh, You'd have to have your million dollar log cabin 200 feet underground, encased in concrete with lead lined walls before you could even think of trying to survive on the east coast.

  • @Schizophaith really? Well I live in florida too. anywhere safe there?

  • @jamesgambino Your cat can handle a gun?

  • Have you ever noticed the E.T. melting down at 0:50:17?

  • must've seen this film about 30 times, but I never previously noticed the voice saying "Keep them nice and small" at 1:41:09

  • if you wait for a nuclear strike, then from America as they bombed Japan and fight with someone only possible

  • Way to bag her boy! (first 2 min)

  • Awesome, Well done, Thank you for sharing this.  Peace,,,,

  • Awesome production. What an amazing film. May we never experience anything that gruesome in our lives, on this planet.

  • Out standing.

  • good movie but I believe The Day After was a little more realistic.

  • Thanks for this, adding to my favorites and thumbed UP.  Also, thank you for the nice message earlier!

  • This is one scary piece of film.

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