One thing I'm just starting to appreciate about this film is the lack of a musical soundtrack. The drama here speaks for itself and doesn't require the support of music. That, and it gives you an idea of how much less constant noise there would be after a war such as this: no traffic, no TV, no radio.
...Actually, I wouldn't return home. I would've disobeyed orders and do a lot of trouble, just so they can shoot me. I wouldn't like surviving through a nuclear winter...
They've got bugger all fuel, so they fly planes around telling people to go back to their flattened, non-existent homes. What a great use of dwindling supplies...
@123WhiteHawk123 That, and it's possible to shield electronics from the effects of EMP, either putting them in Faraday cages or built specifically with resistance to electromagnetic radiation damage in mind.
Most consumer electronics aren't built that way, but the government and military would definitely have at least a few vehicles/facilities with resistant electronics. Certainly they're required for high-altitude aircraft and spacecraft.
@rbryant100 No, they all die apart from Old Bill unless hes dead in that photo were we last see him @3:42 but I think hes just sleeping. Either way, his hair is falling out so hes had a big dose of radiation and will probably die soon anyway.
So, at best, the emergency/disaster authorities would last about a month. Further, they would at no point be of any use to anyone at all during that month.
It would not take this long for the deaths attributed to radiation to become so prominent. Every breath a person took in an unregulated air suply up to a week after the attack would be chock full of radioactive particles. It wouldn't matter if people huddled in their basements. Every sip of water, and every bit of food exposed to open air would be prone to have particles from the fallout going down with it.
@GWBreck I agree. "Doses of 300 rems or more cause temporary hair loss, significant damage to nerve cells and the cells that line the digestive tract. Severe loss of white blood cells, the body's defense against infection, makes victims highly vulnerable to disease. It also reduces production of blood platelets, which aid blood clotting, so victims of radiation sickness are also vulnerable to hemorrhaging. Half of all people exposed to 450 rems die; doses of 800 rems or more are always fatal."
The denier in me wants to say, "No, this is ridiculous. It would NOT get that bad that quickly." But we sat and watched an entire city fall apart in a matter of days when Katrina hit New Orleans in '05, and the conditions even then weren't as bad as they would be in a nuclear aftermath.
Notice the local army unit waits a whole month before digging out the local head of government and his team @4:55 despite their earlier desperate telephone calls for help. The local army unit commander must have wanted to keep local power in his own hands.
@whowantsabighug Ok, but it doesn't matter what type of gun it is. Giving a traffic warden a live gun is like giving shares in nuclear arms to North Korea!
Sad to say that both Dictators, powerful Politicians and the super wealthy probably wouldn't be phased by this film for one major reason, they'd convince themselves that their money will save them and the rest of us, Oh well....
@anisete46 No, that's not the daughter @4:31. I recently read somewhere on the internet a synopsis of Threads in which the writer made the same mistake claiming "Allison survived the attack, we catch a glimps of her later in the film being held in an improvised camp for looters." - But take another look at her face, it's definitely not her.
@timo25ification No, it is the same man. he didn't die earlier, his wife died behind the door-shelter. He was next seen amongst a hungry crowd demanding food from an army depot. When you next see him - in the graveyard - he looks different because his hair is falling out.
@5thcenturyad Well you probably know by now is that it's him. But what I want to know is what happened to his daughter and Reece Dinsdale and is that the daughter we see holding onto the wire fence? And would they shoot a 15 year old girl?
@Noodles37UK Yes I now know that man IS Jimmys dad... Jimmy (Dinsdale) died in the Nuke strike: he was outside in street running to find Ruth... The girl glimpsed in the detention camp was NOT Alison: look at the girls face, she looks nothing like Alison. Alison died in the Nuke blast on her way to buy bread from local shop.
@5thcenturyad See that's just it because I was always certain it wasn't her, but because of her dishevelled appearance I was unsure, and a bit annoyed at them for giving us a quick glimpse of someone that resembles her. They're supposed to filter out these clashes. I think the prisoner girl looks older anyway. Cheers.
@Noodles37UK I actually read a synopsis on a movie website about Threads and the writer made that mistake. He said somthing like: "Their daughter Alison survived the blast, we catch a glimps of her later when we see her in a prison camp for looters" I suppose its a common mistake if even a film critic gets it wrong.
The novel 'Domain' by James Herbert (first published the same year as this) has equally grim descriptions of what happens after a nuclear strike on London.
Survival of the fittest? Conveniently ignoring the fact that some people are so fucking 'fit' only because someone put a gun in their hands and food in their belly.Strip them of their miltary might, and they're just another shmuck, trying not to die.
Given the utter desperateness of their situation, the one male in the group simply would have killed the old man and taken over his house. And since the cop had told them they could be there, there would be no penalty.
At 7:46, what roundel/aircraft insignia is that on the airplane? Doesn't look like Royal Air Force ... I tried looking up civil service aircraft insignia used in Britain and I couldn't figure it out.
Is it just a fictional post-nuke war authority's insignia or is it based on an actual civil service?
@HooshIsASoup it may have been the army as they had loads of different insignia.
the RAF would still be around because they had small RAF bases that werent hit. the aircraft is a basic training aircraft wich if it is military it would only have been used to train recruits or even cadets but i suppose it had an alternate (law and order) purpose in whats left of britain.
@HooshIsASoup its a bulldog light aircraft. the raf has, or had back then, a fair few of them to use as trainers. they can take off and land on any relatively flat field.
I pray to God that this never happens. Although I think the danger of an all out nuclear war is not as great today as they were in the 80's. However there is a possiblity of a group of terrorists getting their hands on a bomb and detonating it in one or more of our cities.
thats why i find it funny about people complaining about the price of things before devastation money will hold no value only food water and fuel only commodities will be of value
You thought the Holocaust was bad? Meh, teddy bear compaired to nuclear war. Then again if we lived on the moon at the time, nuclear war is an option.
It can't all be this bad, it doesn't show what would happen to resourcefull people, members of the armed forces, police etc. I assume groups like mercenary companies would begin to take advantage of the situation as well.
@moleman9000 This is an undeniably optimistic presentation of what would happen at the time considering that the supposed exchange (3,000mt) is actually less than a third of total nuclear capability at the time, the fact that there is any organisation or even humans knocking around is extremely upbeat compared to the reality of mass extinction which would've occured in a 1980's nuclear war. Thankfully we've disarmed a lot since then.
@moleman9000 It can't be all this bad? Sadly you are a very naive person or perhaps this is your defence mechanism. This is how it would be - and worse. Would a resourceful person find water that was uncontamonated? Would a resourceful person manage personally to make work all sanitation, communications, power? Would a resourceful person find medication to help all the injured? When everything is contaminated or burnt, there is nothing left. Nothing, not even hope.
@moleman9000 If you read up on the goverment policy of the time it states that new 'states' that were to be created after a nuclear exchange were to 'selectively help' people. Therefore those who had specific skills or expertise. It was a given that most people wouldn't survive therefore it would be important to pick those that could best rebuild society to an extent.
@moleman9000 It can't be all this bad? Sadly you are a very naive person or perhaps this is your defence mechanism. This is how it would be - and worse. Would a resourceful person find water that was uncontamonated? Would a resourceful person manage personally to make work all sanitation, communications, power? Would a resourceful person find medication to help all the injured? When everything is contaminated or burnt, there is nothing left. Nothing, not even hope.
As an american hearing the part at 02:15 where the old guy goes "I use to love a fag after a meal" is just too funy lolol. Word has a different meaning here in the state.
I'd stop eating. I'd get so despondant and negative- family's gone, every day is the same ie crap, everyone like zombies. I'd just sit in a corner and trance myself into starvation.
after seeing this movie and the day after, i find that the nuke segment of the day after was ten times' better then this one., sorry my opinion, but peace everyone both movie are horrific
@1965ismaninblack You were born in 1965? Do you honestly think a movie that has nothing to do with religion would convince people to abandon their faith?
If it did happen - it would probably be the religious men and women helping their fellow man, and not screaming for the government to do something for them.
@1965ismaninblack You were born in 1965? Do you honestly think a movie that has nothing to do with religion would convince people to abandon their faith?
If it did happen - it would probably be the religious men and women helping their fellow man, and not screaming for the government to do something for them.
@AnarchistGoth I think by that point it's more of a reflex than anything. They don't want people wandering about -- why, I have no idea -- so tell them to "return to your homes" despite the fact most people's homes are piles of rubble.
All would be chaos if this happened and I doubt that police would be trying to enforce the law by protecting properties against looters. Former police, along with everyone would be doing everything to survive (or commit suicide). Total hell.
That's just crap, when people are in short supply and the economy is non existent, they wouldn't shoot people for looting. They'd first drain him of his useful sperm, then they'd shoot him, like in a boy and his dog :)
I believe most of them are already aware of what a modern war between powerful countries would be like.
That's why there wasn't such a war ever since WMD became widespread. And there likely won't be any, ever. Cold war was a way to make people forget of their county' failures and focus of non-existent "Communist Threat" or influens of "Decaing West".
Nuclear war was never really an option. Neither in Sixties, nor now.
@Andros2709 A good idea...trouble is, would they actualy give a toss? In the end they're the guys who'll live in comfort of a bunker for a good while when they start kicking off WW3.
That crazy old man in Buxton would've just had his head bashed in by the other survivors, it's unlikely he would've turned them away like that so easily.
Let me ask you: Would YOU want to be one of the "lucky" survivors of a major nuclear holocaust? The old adage, "The living will envy the dead" is absolutely correct . The despair would be overwhelming. Just what do you think the standard of "living" would be? I posted a similar comment on another "Threads" chapter here on You Tube that the film clearly shows that life would not be worth living, no matter how stoic & hardy one is. Radiation, deformities, dark ages. It wouldn't get any better.
I'd think the authorities would be very lucky to actually get away with much, unless we assume things turn into North Korea squared. Which it's looking like here.
I remember watching this movie in history class after reading Hiroshima. It was a good frightening movie and still is now. Crazy thing is, the only line I remember from this movie is, "I could murder a fag now. I use to love a fag after a meal." Fag is British slang faggot and this context, the old man is reffering to a cigarette. Just a bit of trivia.
What would be the point in making people do reconstrudtion duty, If only for food? I mean you can't rebuild what's now a radioactive wasteland. Surely the then government would've thought that to be pointless just like the Protect and Survive manuals etc, should such an event had taken place?
@BuddyFantastic Well the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki started to rebuild their decimated infrastructures almost immediately too; that is human nature, to rebuild society.
@ralucagymnast Difference being, back in 1945 the whole of Japan was never nuked. And, as you mentioned was rebuilt . If today we witness another conflict, but with massed nuclear weaponry......i just cant think how you'd rebuild a city in a heavily irradiated zone after you've had Several nuclear missiles smashing into and nearby the targeted city. And the fallout dust will be far more lethal too. Sorry, but it will be game over in my opinion
At 2 minutes- the VO sounds like this current government's policy towards the youth unemployed. Child labour or bad luck.
jazzx251 5 days ago
This is for the people who brag that they invest in gold and silver...you cant EAT gold and silver...
MercuryRis 1 week ago
See. Even after all out nuclear war you can't give a packet of Prawn Cocktail crisps away.
m00nshine2004 2 weeks ago
@m00nshine2004 walkers missed the perfect opportunity to stick that big eared wingnut gary lineker in at that very point of the film
bl0xta 2 weeks ago
@bl0xta
I think I saw Peter Beardsley laying in the rubble at one point!?!
m00nshine2004 2 weeks ago
Good reason to have a gun, so you could shoot yourself after the attack. Oh wait, UK banned all those. SOL.
PotatoGunsRule 4 weeks ago
This is also what happens when a country disarms its citizens , whatever a government decides to do to you, you have to take it.
OneLiveRound 1 month ago
so if a Nuclear war does happen the only people who will be surviving are the Army?
MegaSOSbrigade 1 month ago 3
One thing I'm just starting to appreciate about this film is the lack of a musical soundtrack. The drama here speaks for itself and doesn't require the support of music. That, and it gives you an idea of how much less constant noise there would be after a war such as this: no traffic, no TV, no radio.
StormsongK 1 month ago 3
@StormsongK yes its a nice touch. dunno what the johnny b good is all about though
joyandian 1 month ago
Rule #1: You want the bomb to hit you right on the head.
All other rules insignificant.
JRCrowley 1 month ago
...Actually, I wouldn't return home. I would've disobeyed orders and do a lot of trouble, just so they can shoot me. I wouldn't like surviving through a nuclear winter...
SonnytheArcticFox 2 months ago
id turn to drink and vomit if the only video game i could play in the post apocalypse is that handheld bleepy crap.
cooperthewolf 2 months ago
3:23 "Oh God, why are 70's games so shit.."
andy7666 2 months ago
@andy7666 i got this on an uber rare south american video
MrLukehunt666 2 months ago
@andy7666 It's a 1984 film, genius.
Noodles37UK 1 month ago
They've got bugger all fuel, so they fly planes around telling people to go back to their flattened, non-existent homes. What a great use of dwindling supplies...
Timmoux 2 months ago
@The SovietSTD the plane looks older, so it may have used vacuum-tubes, which are less affected by EMP's.
123WhiteHawk123 3 months ago
@123WhiteHawk123 That, and it's possible to shield electronics from the effects of EMP, either putting them in Faraday cages or built specifically with resistance to electromagnetic radiation damage in mind.
Most consumer electronics aren't built that way, but the government and military would definitely have at least a few vehicles/facilities with resistant electronics. Certainly they're required for high-altitude aircraft and spacecraft.
HooshIsASoup 3 months ago
It;s so unlucky. No cannabilism, as all the bodies are affected by radiation.
123WhiteHawk123 3 months ago
So the whole Kemp family is dead..depressing. Ole bill should have taken a moonlight flit.
rbryant100 3 months ago
@rbryant100 No, they all die apart from Old Bill unless hes dead in that photo were we last see him @3:42 but I think hes just sleeping. Either way, his hair is falling out so hes had a big dose of radiation and will probably die soon anyway.
cadwalauni 3 months ago
Bit of a waste of bullets, shooting people.
123WhiteHawk123 3 months ago
Ironically, the politicians who in a small part (or larger in bigger countries) survive to deal with the world they helped destroy.
switcherxx 4 months ago
@2112murphy Yes, that part is unrealistic.
5thcenturyad 4 months ago
This is my idea of hell. Only Prawn Cocktail left.
MacJaxonManOfAction 4 months ago
Unrealistic! In real life, that old cunt would get a savage beating if he tried to kick those people out his house.
LordRassy 4 months ago
@LordRassy over here in the U.S. one tries to get into one's home to do that, they would be shot by the home owner themselves.
sr71ablackbird 4 months ago
@LordRassy NO... maybe you didnt notice the "old cunt" had a shotgun. The people he threw out were unarmed.
5thcenturyad 4 months ago 2
Where'd the hell that plane come from? i thought the EMP knocked them out or they were destroyed in the blast, WTF?
TheSovietSTD 5 months ago
@TheSovietSTD Shelterd vehicle bays.
RenaissanceMan1993 4 months ago
wow, he barfs up whiskey, plays Micheal's game for a few seconds than dies under a statue of an angel. That's depressing
TheSovietSTD 5 months ago
I bet that "Game and Watch" still works.
SloreTactician 5 months ago
SEE !?!! smoking ONE cigarette killed that chap.....
alansmithee95608 5 months ago
was the guy at about 3:00 playing Micheals games?
How'd it survive the EMP?
WTF?
tjmick1992 5 months ago 2
@tjmick1992
Hay man, Nintendo make their shit to *last*.
HypaSonicDeathMonkey 5 months ago
So, at best, the emergency/disaster authorities would last about a month. Further, they would at no point be of any use to anyone at all during that month.
kayper54 6 months ago
And the moral of the story is just run a knife across your throat and save yourself unnecessary pain.
Crazydog7 6 months ago
It would not take this long for the deaths attributed to radiation to become so prominent. Every breath a person took in an unregulated air suply up to a week after the attack would be chock full of radioactive particles. It wouldn't matter if people huddled in their basements. Every sip of water, and every bit of food exposed to open air would be prone to have particles from the fallout going down with it.
GWBreck 6 months ago
@GWBreck I agree. "Doses of 300 rems or more cause temporary hair loss, significant damage to nerve cells and the cells that line the digestive tract. Severe loss of white blood cells, the body's defense against infection, makes victims highly vulnerable to disease. It also reduces production of blood platelets, which aid blood clotting, so victims of radiation sickness are also vulnerable to hemorrhaging. Half of all people exposed to 450 rems die; doses of 800 rems or more are always fatal."
kayper54 6 months ago
@kayper54 In Ruth's area, they'd measured rems of 800 to 1000.
kayper54 6 months ago
At least the ratties and roaches will stay well-fed.
Nowhereman10 6 months ago
The denier in me wants to say, "No, this is ridiculous. It would NOT get that bad that quickly." But we sat and watched an entire city fall apart in a matter of days when Katrina hit New Orleans in '05, and the conditions even then weren't as bad as they would be in a nuclear aftermath.
kayper54 6 months ago
PS The scotch was not for drinking
Rereversed 7 months ago
Alcohol on a radiated stomach. Bad.
MasterJediDude 7 months ago
Notice the local army unit waits a whole month before digging out the local head of government and his team @4:55 despite their earlier desperate telephone calls for help. The local army unit commander must have wanted to keep local power in his own hands.
5thcenturyad 8 months ago 7
@5thcenturyad who wouldn't want to keep a bunch of politicians buried underground if they were given the chance lol
bl0xta 8 months ago 5
I don't know what would be worse facing starvation or trusting a traffic warden with an M16 Automatic Rifle!
bl0xta 8 months ago 2
@bl0xta It's an l1a1 SLR.
whowantsabighug 8 months ago
@whowantsabighug Ok, but it doesn't matter what type of gun it is. Giving a traffic warden a live gun is like giving shares in nuclear arms to North Korea!
bl0xta 8 months ago
@whowantsabighug Yeah and they are worse. Those SLR's hit like a truck. :P
Muntman 7 months ago
Sad to say that both Dictators, powerful Politicians and the super wealthy probably wouldn't be phased by this film for one major reason, they'd convince themselves that their money will save them and the rest of us, Oh well....
macross25 8 months ago
Alcohol abuse 2:53
Nakor420ish 8 months ago 2
Is the ginger-haired man who vomits the whisky @ 2.55 the same man as earlier, I mean the father of Ruth's boyfriend?
5thcenturyad 9 months ago 16
@5thcenturyad Yes, that is Ruth's boyfriend's father.
MrsNorris55 8 months ago
@5thcenturyad Yes.
ricarleite 7 months ago
@5thcenturyad I think yes
anisete46 6 months ago
Respond to this video... and that is the daughter at 4:32 ?
anisete46 6 months ago
@anisete46 No, that's not the daughter @4:31. I recently read somewhere on the internet a synopsis of Threads in which the writer made the same mistake claiming "Allison survived the attack, we catch a glimps of her later in the film being held in an improvised camp for looters." - But take another look at her face, it's definitely not her.
5thcenturyad 6 months ago
@5thcenturyad I think it is, he's playing his son's game.
efcboy 6 months ago
@5thcenturyad same actor probs, the guy earlier died
timo25ification 4 months ago
@timo25ification No, it is the same man. he didn't die earlier, his wife died behind the door-shelter. He was next seen amongst a hungry crowd demanding food from an army depot. When you next see him - in the graveyard - he looks different because his hair is falling out.
5thcenturyad 4 months ago
@5thcenturyad Well you probably know by now is that it's him. But what I want to know is what happened to his daughter and Reece Dinsdale and is that the daughter we see holding onto the wire fence? And would they shoot a 15 year old girl?
Noodles37UK 1 month ago
@Noodles37UK Yes I now know that man IS Jimmys dad... Jimmy (Dinsdale) died in the Nuke strike: he was outside in street running to find Ruth... The girl glimpsed in the detention camp was NOT Alison: look at the girls face, she looks nothing like Alison. Alison died in the Nuke blast on her way to buy bread from local shop.
5thcenturyad 1 month ago
@5thcenturyad See that's just it because I was always certain it wasn't her, but because of her dishevelled appearance I was unsure, and a bit annoyed at them for giving us a quick glimpse of someone that resembles her. They're supposed to filter out these clashes. I think the prisoner girl looks older anyway. Cheers.
Noodles37UK 1 month ago
@Noodles37UK I actually read a synopsis on a movie website about Threads and the writer made that mistake. He said somthing like: "Their daughter Alison survived the blast, we catch a glimps of her later when we see her in a prison camp for looters" I suppose its a common mistake if even a film critic gets it wrong.
5thcenturyad 1 month ago
The novel 'Domain' by James Herbert (first published the same year as this) has equally grim descriptions of what happens after a nuclear strike on London.
Dristarg 9 months ago
02:53 Turns out it was Tesco's own whisky
Noodles37UK 9 months ago 3
when are they going to start to eat each other
andresrojas22 9 months ago
The real glory of war: puke, snot, blood and diarrhea.....
crocfme 10 months ago 49
@crocfme And arms cut off.
RadioFAF 9 months ago
@crocfme & panic terror fear dispair. the 8 ingredients of hell
kurlobe 5 months ago
Survival of the fittest? Conveniently ignoring the fact that some people are so fucking 'fit' only because someone put a gun in their hands and food in their belly.Strip them of their miltary might, and they're just another shmuck, trying not to die.
MyLatestEscape 10 months ago
I'm surprised that primitive handheld videogame still worked. Wouldn't the EMPs of the nukes have wiped out such things, especially with microchips?
Foebane72 10 months ago
@Foebane72
Not if it had been within a Faraday Cage, I think.
RobotwarsKing 9 months ago
at 4.32. isnt that the Kemps daughter?
yuckfooie 11 months ago
@yuckfooie i thought that myself.
hogalog 10 months ago
@yuckfooie
Yep,
brethynda123 9 months ago
9:18 wouldn't of happened.
Given the utter desperateness of their situation, the one male in the group simply would have killed the old man and taken over his house. And since the cop had told them they could be there, there would be no penalty.
EntropicMisanthropic 11 months ago
What people seem to forget on these comment sections is that the concept of "human rights" kind of disappear when social collapse happen.
HassuTheDanish 1 year ago
At 7:46, what roundel/aircraft insignia is that on the airplane? Doesn't look like Royal Air Force ... I tried looking up civil service aircraft insignia used in Britain and I couldn't figure it out.
Is it just a fictional post-nuke war authority's insignia or is it based on an actual civil service?
HooshIsASoup 1 year ago
@HooshIsASoup Might be a fictional post-nuke war faction. Doesnt look like some friendly. Not like Followers of the Apocolypse. Boomers i guess.
pipenissen 1 year ago
@HooshIsASoup it may have been the army as they had loads of different insignia.
the RAF would still be around because they had small RAF bases that werent hit. the aircraft is a basic training aircraft wich if it is military it would only have been used to train recruits or even cadets but i suppose it had an alternate (law and order) purpose in whats left of britain.
SPIKEYSPOOK 1 year ago
@HooshIsASoup its a bulldog light aircraft. the raf has, or had back then, a fair few of them to use as trainers. they can take off and land on any relatively flat field.
hogalog 10 months ago
@hogalog Aah, okay. Thanks for the heads up!
HooshIsASoup 10 months ago
I pray to God that this never happens. Although I think the danger of an all out nuclear war is not as great today as they were in the 80's. However there is a possiblity of a group of terrorists getting their hands on a bomb and detonating it in one or more of our cities.
anthonyhantonh 1 year ago 2
thats why i find it funny about people complaining about the price of things before devastation money will hold no value only food water and fuel only commodities will be of value
jonbobbie 1 year ago
thats why i find it funny about people complaining about the price of things before devastation money will hold no value only food water and fuel
jonbobbie 1 year ago
The irony here is that those died or got killed ended up with a better fate than those alive...
It's obvious that the film is trying to say "There is no hope" again and again...
MahBoi0375 1 year ago 2
You thought the Holocaust was bad? Meh, teddy bear compaired to nuclear war. Then again if we lived on the moon at the time, nuclear war is an option.
VanHollam 1 year ago
I wouldn't WANT to survive this! Drive me to Ground Zero and leave me there!
stelllabloo 1 year ago
It can't all be this bad, it doesn't show what would happen to resourcefull people, members of the armed forces, police etc. I assume groups like mercenary companies would begin to take advantage of the situation as well.
moleman9000 1 year ago
@moleman9000 This is an undeniably optimistic presentation of what would happen at the time considering that the supposed exchange (3,000mt) is actually less than a third of total nuclear capability at the time, the fact that there is any organisation or even humans knocking around is extremely upbeat compared to the reality of mass extinction which would've occured in a 1980's nuclear war. Thankfully we've disarmed a lot since then.
DanGod07 1 year ago
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moleman9000 1 year ago
@moleman9000 It can't be all this bad? Sadly you are a very naive person or perhaps this is your defence mechanism. This is how it would be - and worse. Would a resourceful person find water that was uncontamonated? Would a resourceful person manage personally to make work all sanitation, communications, power? Would a resourceful person find medication to help all the injured? When everything is contaminated or burnt, there is nothing left. Nothing, not even hope.
RosebudliasCabochons 1 year ago
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moleman9000 1 year ago
@moleman9000 If you read up on the goverment policy of the time it states that new 'states' that were to be created after a nuclear exchange were to 'selectively help' people. Therefore those who had specific skills or expertise. It was a given that most people wouldn't survive therefore it would be important to pick those that could best rebuild society to an extent.
moleman9000 1 year ago
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@moleman9000 It can't be all this bad? Sadly you are a very naive person or perhaps this is your defence mechanism. This is how it would be - and worse. Would a resourceful person find water that was uncontamonated? Would a resourceful person manage personally to make work all sanitation, communications, power? Would a resourceful person find medication to help all the injured? When everything is contaminated or burnt, there is nothing left. Nothing, not even hope.
RosebudliasCabochons 1 year ago
@moleman9000 I wonder what the navy would be doing before, during and after N-Day?
Brecconable 9 months ago
Money is only useful here, if selling or buying food, and drink.
jjovereats 1 year ago
"return to your homes" oh really arsehole? What fucking home? lol
NerdyCanadian 1 year ago
As an american hearing the part at 02:15 where the old guy goes "I use to love a fag after a meal" is just too funy lolol. Word has a different meaning here in the state.
ItalianAce 1 year ago 2
I'd stop eating. I'd get so despondant and negative- family's gone, every day is the same ie crap, everyone like zombies. I'd just sit in a corner and trance myself into starvation.
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
The pic of the guy at 3:41 looks a lot like me. Probably what I will look like in 10 more years.
4SCARECROWS 1 year ago
@4SCARECROWS I already do Lol!
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
3:20 just made me realize... I have a huge stockpile of electronics but rarely any food stocked up... hmm, brilliant.
HWGuyEG 1 year ago
I don't see how they can 'proove' a worldwide nuclear winter until it happens? This would be pretty close surely
Cardiff67235 1 year ago
after seeing this movie and the day after, i find that the nuke segment of the day after was ten times' better then this one., sorry my opinion, but peace everyone both movie are horrific
jocelyna38 1 year ago
i think we all should take a good look at this , as its not far from our future ,
alaskakiska 1 year ago
All religious people should look at this film...WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, ARSEHOLE?
1965ismaninblack 1 year ago
@1965ismaninblack You should look at real world yer fucking asshole.WHERE IS YOU GOD DAMN WAR NOW,FUCKING INVERTEBRATE?
patria0tehuelche 1 year ago
@1965ismaninblack You were born in 1965? Do you honestly think a movie that has nothing to do with religion would convince people to abandon their faith?
If it did happen - it would probably be the religious men and women helping their fellow man, and not screaming for the government to do something for them.
SCE2AUX 1 year ago
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@1965ismaninblack You were born in 1965? Do you honestly think a movie that has nothing to do with religion would convince people to abandon their faith?
If it did happen - it would probably be the religious men and women helping their fellow man, and not screaming for the government to do something for them.
SCE2AUX 1 year ago
"Return to your homes"
What homes you fucking git?
AnarchistGoth 1 year ago
@AnarchistGoth I think by that point it's more of a reflex than anything. They don't want people wandering about -- why, I have no idea -- so tell them to "return to your homes" despite the fact most people's homes are piles of rubble.
MrsNorris55 1 year ago
I like when the old guy said "I used to love a fag after a meal." I know he meant cigarette, but I still laughed.
TheBackOfTheBoat 1 year ago 2
The absolute currencies: Food, Fuel and Firearms. Have the latter and you [can] have it all.
apuzyr 1 year ago 2
Xcellent everytime I watch this I still get a shiver down my spine. Nocks the socks off the american version. Well done
mcgrady2000 1 year ago
@emerald4321 They werent; they were sheltering in the cellar of their home.
ralucagymnast 1 year ago
man the one thing this film reminds of, is how god damn ugly most Brtis are. Oh well, at least us Americans are all just fat
DaytonaRoadster 1 year ago 2
@DaytonaRoadster
haha you're watching this documentary and you're paying attention to peoples appearences! You Americans always were a shallow bunch!
popjoeandco 1 year ago
@popjoeandco butthurt much eurofag?
DaytonaRoadster 1 year ago
@DaytonaRoadster
Go back to 4chan junior
popjoeandco 1 year ago
i used to go raving in one of them NBC smocks,exactly the same as the ones the army are wearing..
ADZ23774 1 year ago
Nuclear apocolypse don't have pip-boys? =( *sarcasm*
qweadsf 1 year ago 2
This future has been brought to you by Blackwater/Xe, Raytheon, Boeing, GE, Halliburton, Goldman Sachs, BP, Exxon,
SubmarinerAndroid 1 year ago
All would be chaos if this happened and I doubt that police would be trying to enforce the law by protecting properties against looters. Former police, along with everyone would be doing everything to survive (or commit suicide). Total hell.
kimmijo 1 year ago
This should be made mandatory viewing for all newly elected nuclear power leaders.
Alan7997 1 year ago
That's just crap, when people are in short supply and the economy is non existent, they wouldn't shoot people for looting. They'd first drain him of his useful sperm, then they'd shoot him, like in a boy and his dog :)
heatflash888 1 year ago
@heatflash888: Useful sperm contaminated with chemicals! Doubt it.
Cardiff67235 1 year ago
Did say " Probably the looters!"
Love this film....Like a real life Coranation St without the cheese.
Cardiff67235 1 year ago
after being put in a microwave I guess it doesnt matter if your burning wood that is just going to put out more radiation!
chocolatethunder1968 1 year ago
02:12 I wonder what American viewers make of his use of the word " fag".
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
@Kelly14UK translated into e-bonics. Square or cigarette.
chocolatethunder1968 1 year ago
bleak with a capital B
tzeetch75 1 year ago
Fuck, I'm glad the hospital scene is over...
darkhyena 1 year ago 2
The fucking leaders of those fucking nations with a nuclear arsenal should be forced to see Threads every single day of their lives.
Andros2709 1 year ago 44
@Andros2709 i agree!! This is just fucking insane!
YeahSure72 1 year ago
@Andros2709 That would probably make them numb if they watched it enough.
sparksbleeder 1 year ago
@Andros2709 how about a constant loop
Frankiezollo58 1 year ago
@Andros2709 FUCK!
iceguy0077 9 months ago
@Andros2709
I believe most of them are already aware of what a modern war between powerful countries would be like.
That's why there wasn't such a war ever since WMD became widespread. And there likely won't be any, ever. Cold war was a way to make people forget of their county' failures and focus of non-existent "Communist Threat" or influens of "Decaing West".
Nuclear war was never really an option. Neither in Sixties, nor now.
V437 8 months ago
The fucking leaders of those fucking nations with a nuclear arsenal should be forced to see Threads every single day of their lives.
Andros2709 1 year ago
@Andros2709 A good idea...trouble is, would they actualy give a toss? In the end they're the guys who'll live in comfort of a bunker for a good while when they start kicking off WW3.
BuddyFantastic 1 year ago
01:27 Pitt Bradley.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
04:31 is that Alison, Jimmy's sister?
WhiteLionness 1 year ago
If this was in Sheff, I wonder how long it'd take till one of the survivors offered to put a brew on. I'd say about 3 minutes.
ursie1986 1 year ago
That crazy old man in Buxton would've just had his head bashed in by the other survivors, it's unlikely he would've turned them away like that so easily.
TedShatner10 1 year ago
I'd rather have Scotch than a cigarette!
filrut 1 year ago
Let me ask you: Would YOU want to be one of the "lucky" survivors of a major nuclear holocaust? The old adage, "The living will envy the dead" is absolutely correct . The despair would be overwhelming. Just what do you think the standard of "living" would be? I posted a similar comment on another "Threads" chapter here on You Tube that the film clearly shows that life would not be worth living, no matter how stoic & hardy one is. Radiation, deformities, dark ages. It wouldn't get any better.
lonelyheroine 1 year ago 2
@lonelyheroine No one wants to die, but there comes a point where fear of death becomes less bothersome than fear of living in misery.
sciencealwayswins 1 year ago 2
I'd think the authorities would be very lucky to actually get away with much, unless we assume things turn into North Korea squared. Which it's looking like here.
thelyniezian 1 year ago
People suffering in a war they did not want.
Damn, we're lucky that we made it through the cold war, but their "toys" are still there, and many countries are trying to build new nukes too ...
JesusFuckingChrist, this is irracional, it looks as if they want to screw everything up, on purpose ...
DarkZholt 1 year ago
At least the dog got his dinner!
MrAmilo123 1 year ago
Pause at around 4:24 or 4:25 the guy who yells "Bastard" is smiling! There is a film extra having fun on the set!
Spudskie 1 year ago
A radioactive stone age
DidntKnowWhatToPut1 1 year ago 2
The government should just pass out cyanide pills to all the "survivors". I'd take one in their place.
fatdogtavern 1 year ago
Bloody hell, traffic wardens with guns! Thats all the world needs. Jeremy Clarkson would have a fit!
cmdfarsight 1 year ago
I remember watching this movie in history class after reading Hiroshima. It was a good frightening movie and still is now. Crazy thing is, the only line I remember from this movie is, "I could murder a fag now. I use to love a fag after a meal." Fag is British slang faggot and this context, the old man is reffering to a cigarette. Just a bit of trivia.
risingpath 1 year ago
@risingpath - Ya, I first heard that slang in a Monty Python episode and I didn't know what the heck they were talking about.
TheRadical42 1 year ago
whatta fucking idea is with goverments after attack supply if they dont give it and shoots every human who try to obtain that food...
kaheli100 2 years ago
Documentary? LOL, docudrama
danglebearing 2 years ago
This documentary exposes what those in power in the UK really think of the average person, then and now, same attitudes apply.
danglebearing 2 years ago 14
Well, at least how those attitudes change in the extremely harsh reality of civilization after its destruction by a 3000 megaton exchange.
It would truly be survival of the fittest.
Just look at how government crisis management broke down during the relatively small scale 9/11 attacks, and during Katrina.
mongoose704 1 year ago 3
What would be the point in making people do reconstrudtion duty, If only for food? I mean you can't rebuild what's now a radioactive wasteland. Surely the then government would've thought that to be pointless just like the Protect and Survive manuals etc, should such an event had taken place?
BuddyFantastic 2 years ago 2
@BuddyFantastic Not necessarily, the centre of Hiroshima is now rebuilt.
RectalSpoonNinja 1 year ago
@RectalSpoonNinja Yes that much is true. However in 1945, the world didn't have a huge nuclear arsenal.
BuddyFantastic 1 year ago
@BuddyFantastic Fair enough.
RectalSpoonNinja 1 year ago
@BuddyFantastic Well the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki started to rebuild their decimated infrastructures almost immediately too; that is human nature, to rebuild society.
ralucagymnast 1 year ago
@ralucagymnast Difference being, back in 1945 the whole of Japan was never nuked. And, as you mentioned was rebuilt . If today we witness another conflict, but with massed nuclear weaponry......i just cant think how you'd rebuild a city in a heavily irradiated zone after you've had Several nuclear missiles smashing into and nearby the targeted city. And the fallout dust will be far more lethal too. Sorry, but it will be game over in my opinion
BuddyFantastic 1 year ago