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The time has come for us all to seek truth and stop tolerating deception and division. Only the truth can stop the wars and make the world the paradise it can be. Search for "Truth Contest" in Google and click the 1st result, then click on "The Present" to open it. What it says will transform us and our world.
This is the most terrifying film ever, if you wanna sleep at night or have appetite for supper, dont watch it. But anyways you should watch it cuz it can happen to u one day so b rdy.
I can't imagine a world without britain. No England , No London , No Fish n Chips , No Beatles , No Rolling Stones , No Sex Pistols , Iron Maiden , Led Zeppelin , Black Sabbath , The Stone Roses , The Clash , Genesis , Wings , T.Rex , E.L.O , Pink Floyd , Fleetwood Mac , Supertramp , Queen.
This is going to happen if we don't stop mess up our relation with the islamisistic terrors like Talibans, they ARE capable to do such horrible things because theyre merely psycotic...
It is strange that at the moment Iran is on the 'list' of terror countries and the US Fucking A doesn't like them. Russia says that the nuclear facilities in Iran are as good as their soil and any direct attack would be seen as an attack on them. Hmm... maybe this was a tatser of what lies ahead.
I saw this film in 1985 when it was shown on BBC tv as part of the 40th aniversary of Hiroshima season. It scared me to death I can tell you that. Your very brave for watching it!
Nuclear war is so far off the average person's radar, this film would be largely ignored if it were released now. Sadly, although much of the technical details are dated, most of what happens in this film is still possible.
the chances of nuclear war occuring in britain is slim unless it was like a terrorist attack. but now a days people worry so much about other countries nuking eachother when the fact of the matter is nuclear weapons have only become a tool of intimidation. if a nuclear missile or for instance a soviet plane goes airborne the world would know it in less than 5 minutes. the average ICBM takes 20 to 30 min to reach a target across the globe. missile defense grade technology is now everywhere
if there is a nuclear bomb on london and government becomes ineffectual, stuff like the bins not being emptied and the bbc going off air, would i get a rebate on my council tax and a refund on my tv license? and i bet if there was a nuclear war cheryl cole would still probably be on the front page of the sun newspaper.
@bryngOneOn absolute spot on comment mate, but lets face it we wouldn't see much difference as the current coalition does jackshit anyway and since "Friday Night with Jonathon Woss" has been scrapped the programmes on the BBC have become a pile of shite (except for the apprentice). And yes I dare say the sun would get an exclusive pic of her giving head to Ashley Cole in her luxury nuclear fall out bunker, I can see the headline now "Ash and Cole fallout while bonking in the bunker!"
I watched this when it was first shown,I was fourteen at the time as well.The only thing I can say is that I would much rather go through a climate change/global warming end of civilization than a nuclear fucking apocalypse,far less mutant/canibal zombies.
the uk's response to the day after......i was a kid when these were released & they both scared the hell out of me, day after scared me more because it came out first, but this one was every bit as terrifying...........
I remember how terrified I was by this movie in the 1980s. I have thought about it many times since but could never find it again. Thanks for posting it here. Yep, it's still as terrifying as ever, 25 years plus later.
what makes this movie truly dark is the fact that it always seems to be overcast. If it were sunny outside it just wouldn't have the same effect. god what a depressing movie
I remembered when this premiered on US Television, it was aired at around 4pm in the afternoon on KCOP in Los Angeles. I always thought that was a weird time to premier a movie since KCOP at that time was reserved for Cartoons. Maybe they wanted to show kids the horror or nuclear war.
I screamed with laughter when I saw the woman piss herself down the bottom of the moor when the bomb hits. As for Park Hill flats still standing. A light breeze would make them fall over. A nuclear holocaust would be bad if all the survivors had to watch video tapes of 'Words and Pictures' most people from Sheffield who are known as Tykes although I can think of calling them something else would think that is was just a loud fart from one of the local working men's clubs.
I used to think this was the most scary film in the history of the planet. Now I can watch it with total ease. It seems after all my time researching nuclear war, its effects etc. I've become indifferent to it. I guess its a case of what we know more about we fear less.
Wow this documentary really is an eye opener in so many ways
Realistically, would any country ever actually use a nuke though? Surely if one country decided to use one in this day and age, they themselves would be bomed back to the stoneage. There is absolutely no winners with nuclear war, therefore it is difficult to imagine why someone would use them. Or am I just being incredibly naive?
Realistically, would any country ever actually use a nuke? Surely if one country decided to use one in this day and age, they themselves would be bomed back to the stoneage. There is absolutely no winners with nuclear war, therefore it is difficult to imagine why someone would use them. Or am I just being incredibly naive?
@MoleinaHole Its alright for some, I saw it when I was 13 after reading 'When the Wind Blows' I was very upset for a long while, about a year or so to be exact.
The only reason Threads is not scarier is because BBC couldn't afford better special effects. This topic is one of those in which the more you find out, the worst you feel.
I have watched this all the way through and we don't see what happens to Jimmy. Or his younger sister Alison for that matter. I suppose we meant to assume they are consumed by the fire-ball like the young boy Michael who is crying in the Pigeon coop when the bombs strike.
It is inferred that Jimmy is killed when the second ICBM hits Sheffield itself. As for Alison herself, that is her (spoiler) in the detention camp scene and it is implied that she is executed by shooting for looting.
@LoverswithCassie I always assumed that Alison was killed by the second blast. There was a brief scene of a bicycle with its incinerated rider thrown up into a tree's branches. I figured that was her. I'll have to pay closer attention to the detention camp scene.
@wilson809isback More likely a Tiger or Bandai game. This movie was shot at least 5 years before Gameboys hit the shelves; I was in the Marines and deployed with my unit to Japan when it was happening, and it was a *BIG* deal. And this was in Japan; we got back across the pond/stateside when it which rolled out in the US
as realistic as this film is, in the event of this happening (which sooner or later it will do?) things will be far more worse than you see and watch on here .. and its no use saying they will never use these weapons your to late they already have been used , back in 1945 (2 of um) this is most likely to start by an accident or mistake , the last time we went on a attack alert was 1995 as far as i remember that along with 1963 and 1983 makes me wonder how many times alerts have happened ??
Brilliant film. Scarily mentions areas and landmarks close to where I live. The only thing that annoys me is, the 'F' word is only in it once. If a bomb was dropping, I'd say more than 'bloody' or 'bugger'. The actual utterance of the f-word is after the nuke when a national guard guy finds a packet of crisps, which 'Fucking would be' prawn cocktail! Maybe it's deliberately subtle. I dunno.
@gavinpow77 Good point! But one must remember this was a BBC production & back in '84 the F-word was strictly verboten on TV. Same year I recall Southern Comfort being transmitted; the original print is awash with fuck this & fuck that - the BBC cut the lot out but curiously left 2 references to 'cocksuckers' intact...we live in a strange world.
Out of all the horror films I've seen, and like many others I have seen a lot, to the point I have become jaded to the genre, this really did scare the shit out of me and it isn't even supposed to be a horror film.
@livkivi I don't think you are ("weird," that is). Any attempt to portray the effects of global nuclear annihilation with so much as a half-stepping degree of genuine realism is bound to be "horrible and gross." It's hard to watch in places, but even if it's hard to watch, I think one can commend the producers /director for their commitment to making the story honest.
@IrishChris: Calling random strangers pussies on websites doesn't strike me as being particularly socially well-adjusted ;o) are you sure it didn't affect you? lol
Given the current world political climate, now is the time to remake this, using state of the art special effects. Shock the world again, and remind them all the horrors of these weapons.
@AmigaCoder This didn't use state of the art effects when it was made, and it has lost none of its effect for doing that. in fact, because it doesn't use state of the art special effects, it looks more reliastic than if it had used them, so it looks better for not using them. So a modern version should use better effects, but not "state of the art" effects as they are not needed.
@Kelly14UK: Actually, 1983 is a good date as well, I think..................but I suppose if you wanted to look at it from a speculative future, instead of alternate history, standpoint at the time, then yeah, I guess 1988 would've been best. :-)
@pizzaman147 I'm British and know very well how cold and cheap a lot of our TV productions used to be. But this film definitely hit it home a couple of points above The Day After.
Hands down the most terrifying movie you will ever see. Think about it for minute, this all this did come to pass? What would there be left to fight for? What kind of a world would be left for us to live in?
My mum and dad told me many years afterwards that after watching this programme they had decided that should a nuclear war ever become a certainty my mother would steal medication (morphine?) from work (she was a nurse at the time) and then if the bombs did start to fall they'd kill me and my sister and then themselves...
Brutal, bleak, and unrelenting, THREADS is one of the most important telefilms of all time. A must-see, searing us in its chillingly believable vision of a nuclear war, and the horror of starved survivors, groping to continue in the wasteland that's left. It's overwhelming, mesmerizing and unforgettable in slowly building to a worst-case scenario. Prepare yourself....
I had an EVIL bitch of an English teacher back in 1984/5 who made a class of 12 year olds watch this program.. It gave me nightmares for years... that woman should have been banned from teaching children.
how can they expect childeren before 8th grade to be able to grasp these such concepts of nukes. i have a friend who had to go to a nuclear test site as a field trip in nevada.
@mrslothguy Yes rather silly to think thing they could. But there's 50s government information film where it told primary school kids to duck under their tables if the bomb hit. I think at the time they called it 'Duck and Cover.' Makes the British gove's 'Protect and Survive of the early 80's, look positively sain in comparasion.
@Professor6871 When the announcement comes in both movies that a nuclear attack is imminent, the citizens of both nations go into panic mode. Nuclear missiles destroy both nations, and citizens are left to fend for themselves without a government, although in DA the US government is continuing to maintain some semblance of operations.
Given that rollocla is obviously from the UK, there's about as much chance the teacher was Margaret Thatcher as there is of her being a Democrat. Why do you Americans *always* have to drag your tedious politics into things regardless of how irrelevant it is?
@rollocla Pussy! i watched this at 10. It made you a little more wary of real life, and the possibilities. Your English teacher did not want to wrap you in cotton wool.
As the headlines have it at 4:50 "Afghanistan Again".... and again and again and again since the 18th century.... Let's leave them to it and get out....again...
WARNING. This stuff makes The Day After look like a Walt Disney production. Unless you are looking for a strong depresive disorder, please avoid watch it.
@anisete46 No, the US TV film The Day After Tomorrow did not depict a nuclear winter while Threads definitely did. The Day After did not also mention the reduced o zone layer, after the nuclear winter, that would happen. The political scenarios that caused the war were differenent in both of these films. Iran in Threads and West Germany and Berlin in the Day After. So where's the similarities then I can't find them.
@Professor6871 If you compare the two movies, you will finds some similarities. Two families in each movie (DA: The Dahlbergs and the Oakes; Threads: the Becketts and the Kemps). Both depict the aftermath of a full nuclear exchange, although Threads does a more thorough job with nuclear winter. Both movies involve a couple: The Day After with Denise and Bruce; Threads with Ruth and Jimmy. There are many similarities between the two films.
@Professor6871 Also, Denise and Bruce are in the final days before their wedding. Ruth and jimmy plan and actually get their families together to discuss a wedding, sine Ruth is now pregnant with Jimmy's child. The Dahlbergs are strugling in a recession (although Jim Dahlberg is a farmer, he is having a tough time). The Kemps are struggling to make ends meet with four children, and Jimmy now looking toward a bleak future and as a young father. However, Ruth's parents, the Becketts are well off.
@timoshenko1971 Yes, I agree! The Day After was scary too. It was shown here in Toronto a few weeks before they showed Threads. Threadsm is the scariest movie i have ever seen to this day!!
@timoshenko1971 i remeber i was scared as hell, when i watched "day after" as a child, watched it some weeks ago again. even 20 years later it was distrubing.. never heard of this bbc production before...now im really tensed
great movie, check out "the war game" too. Similar sort of scenario involving the chinese sending troops into north vietnam and russia rolling into west berlin. It was made in 1965 but was banned till the mid 80's...its on here too
you know i live in the united states and i am a shamed to say this but i dont feel comfortable with the was we have done our policies the last 9 years and during the cold war but its been said its not the people in the united states they hate its our government old saying people should not be affraid of the government the government should be affraid
its got a young zak dingle in it!
TheEdgy1968 1 week ago
I think this Government are following the exact script'...Talk about'...Stranger than fiction uh?...Recession...Then war...?
Jangalene1 3 weeks ago
This was a requirement in my 3rd year english class. everybody in the class was miserable for weeks.
breaneainn 4 weeks ago in playlist Threads (1984 BBC Documentary/Film)
I still think it might be Jimmy in the final episode.... ironic watching his daughter give birth...
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jchijan 3 months ago
this movie fucin sucks
nemzz9st 3 months ago
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This is the most terrifying film ever, if you wanna sleep at night or have appetite for supper, dont watch it. But anyways you should watch it cuz it can happen to u one day so b rdy.
pipenissen 3 months ago
We need to destroy Iran as fast as possible, or else they will destroy us.
SpecialWire 4 months ago
I saw this for the first time about 2 yrs ago. Scared the living daylights out of me. I never want this to happen
Josh82488 4 months ago
Thanx for uploading this. Scarier than any horror film!!
1965iansmith 4 months ago in playlist Threads (1984 BBC Documentary/Film)
@Garfield2011Odie yeas and there was the BBC QED documentary I remember too.
Professor6871 4 months ago
popjoeandco true but how about by accident?
Professor6871 4 months ago
I can't imagine a world without britain. No England , No London , No Fish n Chips , No Beatles , No Rolling Stones , No Sex Pistols , Iron Maiden , Led Zeppelin , Black Sabbath , The Stone Roses , The Clash , Genesis , Wings , T.Rex , E.L.O , Pink Floyd , Fleetwood Mac , Supertramp , Queen.
MyMerlin1 4 months ago
Does anyone know the name of a documentary about a nuclear attack that shared some footage with Threads.
Mopic3d 4 months ago
Fuck me that opening shot of Sheffield looks grim.
manicbabyshambles123 5 months ago
This is going to happen if we don't stop mess up our relation with the islamisistic terrors like Talibans, they ARE capable to do such horrible things because theyre merely psycotic...
icotop 5 months ago
It is strange that at the moment Iran is on the 'list' of terror countries and the US Fucking A doesn't like them. Russia says that the nuclear facilities in Iran are as good as their soil and any direct attack would be seen as an attack on them. Hmm... maybe this was a tatser of what lies ahead.
MrUAV100 5 months ago
Its Dixie from Casualty at 4:38!!!! She looks very young!!!
MrBJC1996 5 months ago
I saw this film in 1985 when it was shown on BBC tv as part of the 40th aniversary of Hiroshima season. It scared me to death I can tell you that. Your very brave for watching it!
meetthefocker2 6 months ago
This and Men behind the Sun are probably the scariest movies I've seen in my life.
Telele2 6 months ago
when my dad was in the army, they played this as part of their education on nuclear warfare
00die00991 7 months ago
This film still scares the shit out of me, probably one the most realistic films about nuclear war I think
DefTheMarxist 7 months ago
Nuclear war is so far off the average person's radar, this film would be largely ignored if it were released now. Sadly, although much of the technical details are dated, most of what happens in this film is still possible.
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jamestargetedindiv 7 months ago in playlist Threads (1984 BBC Documentary/Film)
the chances of nuclear war occuring in britain is slim unless it was like a terrorist attack. but now a days people worry so much about other countries nuking eachother when the fact of the matter is nuclear weapons have only become a tool of intimidation. if a nuclear missile or for instance a soviet plane goes airborne the world would know it in less than 5 minutes. the average ICBM takes 20 to 30 min to reach a target across the globe. missile defense grade technology is now everywhere
MrMeineNamen 7 months ago
if there is a nuclear bomb on london and government becomes ineffectual, stuff like the bins not being emptied and the bbc going off air, would i get a rebate on my council tax and a refund on my tv license? and i bet if there was a nuclear war cheryl cole would still probably be on the front page of the sun newspaper.
bryngOneOn 7 months ago in playlist Threads (1984 BBC Documentary/Film)
@bryngOneOn absolute spot on comment mate, but lets face it we wouldn't see much difference as the current coalition does jackshit anyway and since "Friday Night with Jonathon Woss" has been scrapped the programmes on the BBC have become a pile of shite (except for the apprentice). And yes I dare say the sun would get an exclusive pic of her giving head to Ashley Cole in her luxury nuclear fall out bunker, I can see the headline now "Ash and Cole fallout while bonking in the bunker!"
bl0xta 7 months ago in playlist Threads (1984 BBC Documentary/Film)
Just the spider at the beginning was gross for me.... I turned it off after that.
pigsdontsmell 7 months ago
@pigsdontsmell I jacked off over it!
walleyrt69 7 months ago in playlist ....etc...
Nihil kaos!
Raveneyes 8 months ago
Gimme the top of a hill in Renfrewshire Scotland anyday : )
Noodles37UK 8 months ago
At least West Ham Beat QPR That day!!! lol 2:39
moonsugar1 8 months ago
Remember this from 1984 and how it scared the hell out of my generation.
bobgrantsbus 8 months ago
its alowd of rubbish how is it scary '_-
nerfgun3000 9 months ago
@nerfgun3000 Its a Nuclear version of Eastenders ;)
Raveneyes 8 months ago
that's funny they're having their tea and they tell their son to play his game
lewenheart 9 months ago
perfect no hyped up american shit!
Testostrone250 9 months ago
I watched this when it was first shown,I was fourteen at the time as well.The only thing I can say is that I would much rather go through a climate change/global warming end of civilization than a nuclear fucking apocalypse,far less mutant/canibal zombies.
admillnx6 9 months ago
the uk's response to the day after......i was a kid when these were released & they both scared the hell out of me, day after scared me more because it came out first, but this one was every bit as terrifying...........
jgagz73 10 months ago
Has anyone seen any clips from 'Special Report' on here?
ssoperator2 10 months ago
@ssoperator2 If you mean "Special Bulletin"...yes, they are on here.
You are referring to the live news broadcast-like from Charleston, with the four terrorists with the bomb that blows in Charleston arbor, correct?
riceboy1701e 9 months ago
@riceboy1701e Charleston Harbor, that is.
riceboy1701e 9 months ago
Very real - very scary - one of the best anti war movies ever made IMO
darkkramer666 10 months ago
I remember how terrified I was by this movie in the 1980s. I have thought about it many times since but could never find it again. Thanks for posting it here. Yep, it's still as terrifying as ever, 25 years plus later.
SweetGalDecals 10 months ago
what makes this movie truly dark is the fact that it always seems to be overcast. If it were sunny outside it just wouldn't have the same effect. god what a depressing movie
joshman783 11 months ago
Horrible Movie...hope that never happens.
michelkoch 11 months ago
haha that song off back to the future :P
deadstarlinz 11 months ago
I watched all of this last year, probably the scariest thing I have ever watched. Beats any horror film going.
integraf40 11 months ago
great documentary film making.... terrifying, really is...
orichalcum1 1 year ago
@orichalcum1 it was directed by a gentleman named Mick Jackson from the UK, who has also directed LA Story and The Bodyguard!
nicksmith12 11 months ago
@nicksmith12 - yes i knew that Nick.... "Threads" is certainly the best of those 3 movies!! though Whitney can certainly hold down a tune!
orichalcum1 11 months ago
@nicksmith12 so he did his best stuff with this then.
Professor6871 4 months ago
@ameronkella Oh no! ;)
livkivi 1 year ago
I have italian subtitles. Contact me with private message if you want.
jacktorrance1978 1 year ago
of all horror films this one is the worst
TheDEATHSTARIII 1 year ago
Repent, Pray! God Bless you.
2000yrCatholic 1 year ago
@2000yrCatholic You are the reason wars happen.
albettatrue 1 year ago
@albettatrue so true
wish i could thumbs up your comment a million times.
iamSOlate 1 year ago
Lady at the end has a mutant baby
jtp0321 1 year ago
@jtp0321 Dude, spoilers!
clerlic 11 months ago
This movie is horrifying
RainbowManification 1 year ago
I remembered when this premiered on US Television, it was aired at around 4pm in the afternoon on KCOP in Los Angeles. I always thought that was a weird time to premier a movie since KCOP at that time was reserved for Cartoons. Maybe they wanted to show kids the horror or nuclear war.
JENDALL714 1 year ago
"You get on with your game!" Check out the 80's version of the Nintendo DS. I want one!! Not!!!! lol
genisisarc 1 year ago
Since when was Lesley Judd a newsreader? Couldn't they get a real one to do it?
genisisarc 1 year ago
i still watch this film if im bored and make dinner at the same time lol
pinnexmoor 1 year ago
I screamed with laughter when I saw the woman piss herself down the bottom of the moor when the bomb hits. As for Park Hill flats still standing. A light breeze would make them fall over. A nuclear holocaust would be bad if all the survivors had to watch video tapes of 'Words and Pictures' most people from Sheffield who are known as Tykes although I can think of calling them something else would think that is was just a loud fart from one of the local working men's clubs.
PedalSteelKing 1 year ago
I used to think this was the most scary film in the history of the planet. Now I can watch it with total ease. It seems after all my time researching nuclear war, its effects etc. I've become indifferent to it. I guess its a case of what we know more about we fear less.
moleman9000 1 year ago
Wow this documentary really is an eye opener in so many ways
Realistically, would any country ever actually use a nuke though? Surely if one country decided to use one in this day and age, they themselves would be bomed back to the stoneage. There is absolutely no winners with nuclear war, therefore it is difficult to imagine why someone would use them. Or am I just being incredibly naive?
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Realistically, would any country ever actually use a nuke? Surely if one country decided to use one in this day and age, they themselves would be bomed back to the stoneage. There is absolutely no winners with nuclear war, therefore it is difficult to imagine why someone would use them. Or am I just being incredibly naive?
popjoeandco 1 year ago
4:00
"He [Gromyko] warned the United States of the dangers of seemingly what he called an easy return to the reign of the Shah"
So the coup was an American backed, pro-Shah uprising? Interesting...
darkhyena 1 year ago
This movie taught mankind a valuable lesson:
Don´t smoke weed and don´t go to lover´s lane.
You risk nuclear war if you do.
PavirryPe 1 year ago
Just want to thanks my mum AGAIN for not letting me watch this when I was 12 even though I BEGGED to. Frankly it would have sent me nuts.
MoleinaHole 1 year ago
@MoleinaHole Its alright for some, I saw it when I was 13 after reading 'When the Wind Blows' I was very upset for a long while, about a year or so to be exact.
moleman9000 1 year ago
The only reason Threads is not scarier is because BBC couldn't afford better special effects. This topic is one of those in which the more you find out, the worst you feel.
timoshenko1971 1 year ago
I have watched this all the way through and we don't see what happens to Jimmy. Or his younger sister Alison for that matter. I suppose we meant to assume they are consumed by the fire-ball like the young boy Michael who is crying in the Pigeon coop when the bombs strike.
hill9868 1 year ago
@hill9868 Jimmy appears at the very end, just before Rith's daughter gives birth. The two did not reaslise they were related.
sunaru1 1 year ago
@sunaru1 Thank you.
hill9868 1 year ago
It is inferred that Jimmy is killed when the second ICBM hits Sheffield itself. As for Alison herself, that is her (spoiler) in the detention camp scene and it is implied that she is executed by shooting for looting.
LoverswithCassie 3 months ago
@LoverswithCassie I always assumed that Alison was killed by the second blast. There was a brief scene of a bicycle with its incinerated rider thrown up into a tree's branches. I figured that was her. I'll have to pay closer attention to the detention camp scene.
brucearmstrong1 2 months ago in playlist Threads
horrific shit..peace you all
jocelyna38 1 year ago
06:10 old gameboy
wilson809isback 1 year ago
@wilson809isback More likely a Tiger or Bandai game. This movie was shot at least 5 years before Gameboys hit the shelves; I was in the Marines and deployed with my unit to Japan when it was happening, and it was a *BIG* deal. And this was in Japan; we got back across the pond/stateside when it which rolled out in the US
usergreg1498 1 year ago
@wilson809isback
this doucmentary is from 1984, the original game boy wasnt released at that time u piece of shit
FakeAssKilla 1 year ago
as realistic as this film is, in the event of this happening (which sooner or later it will do?) things will be far more worse than you see and watch on here .. and its no use saying they will never use these weapons your to late they already have been used , back in 1945 (2 of um) this is most likely to start by an accident or mistake , the last time we went on a attack alert was 1995 as far as i remember that along with 1963 and 1983 makes me wonder how many times alerts have happened ??
sluggs51 1 year ago
Brilliant film. Scarily mentions areas and landmarks close to where I live. The only thing that annoys me is, the 'F' word is only in it once. If a bomb was dropping, I'd say more than 'bloody' or 'bugger'. The actual utterance of the f-word is after the nuke when a national guard guy finds a packet of crisps, which 'Fucking would be' prawn cocktail! Maybe it's deliberately subtle. I dunno.
gavinpow77 1 year ago
@gavinpow77 Good point! But one must remember this was a BBC production & back in '84 the F-word was strictly verboten on TV. Same year I recall Southern Comfort being transmitted; the original print is awash with fuck this & fuck that - the BBC cut the lot out but curiously left 2 references to 'cocksuckers' intact...we live in a strange world.
MapsOfJupiter 1 year ago
this is a far cry from boys bumming kestrels
timmythevoe 1 year ago 2
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Out of all the horror films I've seen, and like many others I have seen a lot, to the point I have become jaded to the genre, this really did scare the shit out of me and it isn't even supposed to be a horror film.
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Mindsore 1 year ago
This movie is horrible and gross, but i love watching it and its my favourite. Am i weird? ;D
livkivi 1 year ago 42
@livkivi Nah, when i first discovered YT 2 years ago, i kept coming back to it. I also kept looking at other people's tropical fishtanks.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
@livkivi I'm scaring myself so much here yet I can't tear myself away from this or those 'Protect and Survive' videos...
Angusismyhero 1 year ago 16
@Angusismyhero YEAH! You know there is something strangely hypnotic about this stuff.
mahound9 8 months ago
@mahound9 There truly is! I guess it's similar to people watching horror films...
Angusismyhero 8 months ago
@Angusismyhero Neither can I!
CaRBoNxHaCkZ 8 months ago
@Angusismyhero i watched this with my gf 9 months ago and now shes pregant with our first born child. i shall name her threads
sativacyborgful 7 months ago
@Angusismyhero Agreed! Terrifying for me to watch, but strangely addictive and interesting at the same time.
WhiteLionness 7 months ago
@livkivi I don't think you are ("weird," that is). Any attempt to portray the effects of global nuclear annihilation with so much as a half-stepping degree of genuine realism is bound to be "horrible and gross." It's hard to watch in places, but even if it's hard to watch, I think one can commend the producers /director for their commitment to making the story honest.
usergreg1498 1 year ago
@livkivi it used to terrify me as a kid.
hogalog 1 year ago
@livkivi no your not weird i thought i was while making dinner and watching lol
pinnexmoor 1 year ago
@livkivi : nope... you just like to be informed and know everyday, how thankful we should be that we are still here.
doxo1978 11 months ago
@livkivi they made us watch it at school..... scared the shit outta me!!
hogalog 10 months ago
@livkivi No...unless I am too!!! I'm looking for this on North American format but I haven't had much luck...
ThunderHead72 8 months ago
@livkivi yes
bl0xta 7 months ago in playlist Threads (1984 BBC Documentary/Film)
@bl0xta Thank you
livkivi 7 months ago
@livkivi If you are, I am too..
anisete46 6 months ago
@IrishChris: Calling random strangers pussies on websites doesn't strike me as being particularly socially well-adjusted ;o) are you sure it didn't affect you? lol
rollocla 1 year ago
The best director to do a re-make of this would clearly be Danny Boyle:
He did 28 days later.
MDEMONIC689 1 year ago
I remember this, watched on tv
purplefurball 1 year ago
War sucks, Nuclear war sucks outloud
highwayhokie 1 year ago
My professor recommended this film. I can't wait to see the whole thing. This type of program was on television all the time when I was growing up.
TheGreenwoodfamily 1 year ago
Wait... shes pregnant and shes drinking beer and sitting in a bar full of smoke? After that, radiation is nothing for that baby o.O
livkivi 1 year ago 2
the only movie worse than this is the grifter
adrasvaiyen 1 year ago
This is by the same guy who wrote the novel that Kes was based on.
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
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therealMrMackem 1 year ago
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therealMrMackem 1 year ago
Given the current world political climate, now is the time to remake this, using state of the art special effects. Shock the world again, and remind them all the horrors of these weapons.
AmigaCoder 1 year ago
@AmigaCoder Just don't let the Americans do it, it'll have a happy ending and Tom Cruise will waltz away with that cheesy grin!
therealMrMackem 1 year ago 5
@therealMrMackem give it to the Canadians. We take the fun out of EVERYTHING!
Testement117 1 year ago
@AmigaCoder I'd rather someone make a movie about a future race war that leaves nothing but tears and destruction. Either that or a religious war.
CosmicGrounds 1 year ago
@AmigaCoder This didn't use state of the art effects when it was made, and it has lost none of its effect for doing that. in fact, because it doesn't use state of the art special effects, it looks more reliastic than if it had used them, so it looks better for not using them. So a modern version should use better effects, but not "state of the art" effects as they are not needed.
AidanLunn 1 year ago
1988. The dates check out. It ends in 2001, strangely enough.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
@Kelly14UK: Actually, 1983 is a good date as well, I think..................but I suppose if you wanted to look at it from a speculative future, instead of alternate history, standpoint at the time, then yeah, I guess 1988 would've been best. :-)
JDart1776 1 year ago
i happen to agree this movie is by far better than the day after
pizzaman147 1 year ago
@pizzaman147 I'm British and know very well how cold and cheap a lot of our TV productions used to be. But this film definitely hit it home a couple of points above The Day After.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
Hands down the most terrifying movie you will ever see. Think about it for minute, this all this did come to pass? What would there be left to fight for? What kind of a world would be left for us to live in?
SlightyDisturbedNBK 1 year ago
"What's an abortion?" ahhahahaha
zawlinmoe 1 year ago
Scary Real Scary
Justdisco 1 year ago
Ahhh newcastle drew with swansea !! bugga
ryannichols113 1 year ago
@ryannichols113 at least yous lot got a point marra!
therealMrMackem 1 year ago
My mum and dad told me many years afterwards that after watching this programme they had decided that should a nuclear war ever become a certainty my mother would steal medication (morphine?) from work (she was a nurse at the time) and then if the bombs did start to fall they'd kill me and my sister and then themselves...
fangorn40 1 year ago
Brutal, bleak, and unrelenting, THREADS is one of the most important telefilms of all time. A must-see, searing us in its chillingly believable vision of a nuclear war, and the horror of starved survivors, groping to continue in the wasteland that's left. It's overwhelming, mesmerizing and unforgettable in slowly building to a worst-case scenario. Prepare yourself....
Icarais69 1 year ago 2
Great film and morbidly enough, I got hooked first time on YT before I realised the prettier sides to the site.
This is better than The Day After.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
I had an EVIL bitch of an English teacher back in 1984/5 who made a class of 12 year olds watch this program.. It gave me nightmares for years... that woman should have been banned from teaching children.
rollocla 1 year ago 3
@rollocla Omg crazy bitch ;/
Alienbird100 1 year ago
@rollocla
how can they expect childeren before 8th grade to be able to grasp these such concepts of nukes. i have a friend who had to go to a nuclear test site as a field trip in nevada.
mrslothguy 1 year ago
@mrslothguy Yes rather silly to think thing they could. But there's 50s government information film where it told primary school kids to duck under their tables if the bomb hit. I think at the time they called it 'Duck and Cover.' Makes the British gove's 'Protect and Survive of the early 80's, look positively sain in comparasion.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 When the announcement comes in both movies that a nuclear attack is imminent, the citizens of both nations go into panic mode. Nuclear missiles destroy both nations, and citizens are left to fend for themselves without a government, although in DA the US government is continuing to maintain some semblance of operations.
riceboy1701e 1 year ago
@rollocla Bet she was a Democrat.
swami1 1 year ago
@swami1
Given that rollocla is obviously from the UK, there's about as much chance the teacher was Margaret Thatcher as there is of her being a Democrat. Why do you Americans *always* have to drag your tedious politics into things regardless of how irrelevant it is?
beastatlay 1 year ago
@rollocla Pussy! i watched this at 10. It made you a little more wary of real life, and the possibilities. Your English teacher did not want to wrap you in cotton wool.
irishchrisc 1 year ago
This is the most realistic movie about nuke war!
hispula 1 year ago
Which is the part when the women urinates on herself?
CRooster3 1 year ago
This film is so incredibly depressing.
tezzrexx 1 year ago
@tezzrexx It is perfect for this film, it is a depressing subject. None of this Hollywood-everything-will-be-ok crap.
Muntman 1 year ago
@Muntman Oh definitely. It's also made me appreciate life in a way too.
tezzrexx 1 year ago
As the headlines have it at 4:50 "Afghanistan Again".... and again and again and again since the 18th century.... Let's leave them to it and get out....again...
anisete46 1 year ago
Patmix this film wasnt a Science Fiction... It was a Documentary/Commentary and what WOULD happen if a nuclear war was to happen.
Radman2307 1 year ago
WARNING. This stuff makes The Day After look like a Walt Disney production. Unless you are looking for a strong depresive disorder, please avoid watch it.
timoshenko1971 1 year ago 35
@timoshenko1971 They both follow the same exact scenario, only the cinematography is different...but the British version is better
anisete46 1 year ago
@anisete46 No, the US TV film The Day After Tomorrow did not depict a nuclear winter while Threads definitely did. The Day After did not also mention the reduced o zone layer, after the nuclear winter, that would happen. The political scenarios that caused the war were differenent in both of these films. Iran in Threads and West Germany and Berlin in the Day After. So where's the similarities then I can't find them.
Professor6871 1 year ago
@Professor6871 If you compare the two movies, you will finds some similarities. Two families in each movie (DA: The Dahlbergs and the Oakes; Threads: the Becketts and the Kemps). Both depict the aftermath of a full nuclear exchange, although Threads does a more thorough job with nuclear winter. Both movies involve a couple: The Day After with Denise and Bruce; Threads with Ruth and Jimmy. There are many similarities between the two films.
riceboy1701e 1 year ago
@Professor6871 Also, Denise and Bruce are in the final days before their wedding. Ruth and jimmy plan and actually get their families together to discuss a wedding, sine Ruth is now pregnant with Jimmy's child. The Dahlbergs are strugling in a recession (although Jim Dahlberg is a farmer, he is having a tough time). The Kemps are struggling to make ends meet with four children, and Jimmy now looking toward a bleak future and as a young father. However, Ruth's parents, the Becketts are well off.
riceboy1701e 1 year ago
@timoshenko1971 I agree but that's what makes it so good, illustrating why we should be so scared of nuclear war.
sonrosado 1 year ago
@timoshenko1971 Yes, I agree! The Day After was scary too. It was shown here in Toronto a few weeks before they showed Threads. Threadsm is the scariest movie i have ever seen to this day!!
holmsatlarge 1 year ago
@timoshenko1971 i remeber i was scared as hell, when i watched "day after" as a child, watched it some weeks ago again. even 20 years later it was distrubing.. never heard of this bbc production before...now im really tensed
domdadon018 1 year ago
one of the scariest realistic things iv ever seen lets hope it never happens
alexander5860 1 year ago
These think Yorkshire accents are hard for a North American to understand.
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
This movie is brilliant. This and
the wargame are the two best nuclear war films
blue32ism 1 year ago
is that guy the same guy who played gails husband in coronation street recently?
hod05 1 year ago
I dont understand why E.T. is in this film though, can anyone tell me?
woolycock 1 year ago
very good film, thanks for posting.
lunchmeat400 1 year ago
Wow... Ruths mom looks like Rowan Atkinson!
Binky40SW 1 year ago
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love this movie
pizzaman147 1 year ago
love this movie
pizzaman147 1 year ago
great movie, check out "the war game" too. Similar sort of scenario involving the chinese sending troops into north vietnam and russia rolling into west berlin. It was made in 1965 but was banned till the mid 80's...its on here too
matt21will 1 year ago 4
@matt21will: I love that movie. It's a bit hard to watch at certain points, though.
JohnnyDart76 1 year ago
you know i live in the united states and i am a shamed to say this but i dont feel comfortable with the was we have done our policies the last 9 years and during the cold war but its been said its not the people in the united states they hate its our government old saying people should not be affraid of the government the government should be affraid
of the people
pizzaman147 1 year ago