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Threads is a 1984 BBC television play depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was filmed in late 1983 and early 1984. The premise of Threads was to hypothesise the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom after an exchange between the Soviet Union and the United States escalates to include the UK.

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Film & Animation

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• Nuclear
• War
• Winter
• Holocaust
• Film
• UK
• Barry
• Hines
• Mick
• Jackson
• Documentary
• Banned
• Bleak
• Disaster
• WW3
• Sheffield

[WhoStoleMyFlamingo]

I'M HERE FOR ANNE SELLORS! <3

[rbryant100]

"Over my dead body." LOL, talk about foreshadowing.

[CainG88]

Thumbs up if you saw the flash of lightning at 6:57

[psychonaut3]

@raphael44ify It always gets me too. Whenever I hear the music it reminds me of the day in the early 80s when the Protect And Survive leaflet came through the door. My mum snatched it off me before I could read it, and it was hidden away in a cupboard, where I found it 1997.

[antourte1]

FINALLY

[Furball2k]

Thumbs up if you came here looking for Anne Sellors 7:56

[holmsatlarge]

@raphael44ify AGREED!!!!



[holmsatlarge]

@DannyB587 I totally agree! It is scary because it could happen!!! These movies are REAL horror movies!!

[raphael44ify]

It's that music from "Protect and Survive" which gives me the shivers.

[raphael44ify]

@holmsatlarge It makes the American films, like "By Dawn's Early Light" and the "The Day After" seem feeble in comparison. British film-makers have got a tradition of portraying devestating realism, and they've done it here and in the much earlier "The War Game".

[holmsatlarge]

This is the best movie of its kind. Realistic and horrible. I hope it never happens. If it does, please just drop the bomb on too of me and my loved ones. It has been said "The living would envy the dead".

[holmsatlarge]

@raphael44ify I totally agree!!!