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- An uncompromising reportage-style drama, Threads was the first film to realistically depict the horrors of a nuclear winter. Shocking, harrowing and hard to watch, it nonetheless made an important contribution to an increasingly urgent debate about the world’s ever-growing nuclear stockpile.
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Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
Sep 17, 2024 · Broadcast on BBC2 in 1984, Threads dramatised the fallout from a nuclear attack on Sheffield with harrowing realism. We look back on a TV movie that scarred a generation of viewers for life.
Oct 9, 2024 · Instead, it is a work of uniquely stoic British brilliance that stands in sharp contrast to the other big nuclear war movie of the era, the big budget, blockbuster American TV movie, The Day...
Oct 9, 2024 · One of the most terrifying programmes ever shown on British television, Threads is the nuclear apocalypse drama-documentary that continues to haunt people’s nightmares 40 years on.
Mar 17, 2018 · Here come the bombs: the making of Threads, the nuclear war film that shocked a generation. Inspired by the leaked “Protect and Survive” films, in 1984 a BBC team set out to create a relentlessly accurate vision of an atomic bomb landing on Sheffield. Here’s how they did it. By Jude Rogers.
May 19, 2024 · Mick Jackson's Threads portrays the devastating aftermath of the nuclear war in Sheffield with chilling realism and detailed accuracy. Unlike traditional horror, Threads...
Sep 4, 2017 · Threads is certainly reflective of the 1980s fear of a nuclear war in the midst of Cold War tensions. But perhaps the film wouldn’t have been made in quite the same way if it wasn’t for an earlier and equally as shocking film from another period.
