THE DAY AFTER | A Warning To World Leaders
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2023
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The scene in this movie when the bombs are falling and the farmer's wife just wants to make the bed while her husband drags her to the shelter reminds me of the scene in When the Wind Blows where Hilda is worrying about her cake. These were the most harrowing scenes for me because these women had nothing to do with the disasters that were about to befall them but were helpless to stop them. They could only respond with denial.
I remember not being allowed to watch this film as a kid because the bomb-falling scenes were considered really graphic for TV. Ironically, this movie came out around the same time as the Stanislov Petrov incident, which could have resulted in a nuclear strike if Petrov and his superiors were hair trigger hotheads. We were truly lucky to survive the 80s.
The reason nuclear war will never happen is because too many people in charge have to want it. No conflict has ever been worth the end of the world and leaders know that. Even if they survive in thier bomb shelters is that where they wanna spend the rest of their days
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey That is optimistic opinion. "Too many people" - I have no confidence in that, if country is autocracy, then all the people at the top just follow the dictator, afraid to oppose him. With Russia and China already a dictatorships, and Trump pushing US to autocracy (which I hope won't be an easy task for him, although he would wish it very much) - I don't feel world is a safe place, and it never will be. There is even a slow silent proliferation of weaponry going on.
Nuclear War will happen!But not for the reasons most peeps think will apply! 🐁
Exactly who would do all the work for them , if we the worker bees are all dead . @@GrosvnerMcaffrey
I was 12, living in south Texas when this aired. My momma cried during the attack scenes. It didn't change me much, as I was terrified all the time. When the town air-raid siren tested everyday at noon, I'd struggle not to pee myself. It was pretty much ever-present in our minds, that we were going to die like this some day, just maybe not today. I think that the end of the cold war and the loss of this specific existential threat, coupled with the "everything is very much not ok"-slap-in-the-face that was 9/11, that ruined Gen X's interest in world politics. We were raised to think we were going to die any day, and then suddenly we weren't, but it turned out everything sucked anyway.
I bet a lot of people's momma's did sadly :(. I wish there were more reaction videos of the premiere out there, seeing people's faces watching it was as intense as the movie.
I was born in 82, in the UK. Growing up, I was aware of the human races capability to annihilate itself, but it wasnt at the front of my mind daily. I do remember realising how much the world was about to change on 9/11. The generation that didn't know the world before then, can't fathom just how different things would be had that terrible event not happend.
Concerning both American and British films, the Day After and Threads are terrifying
I can relate to your comment. I was also 12 at the time living in Idaho. Nuclear war was always on my mind and the movie really just fed a bit of the fear I already had every day. I think those days drove a sense of patriotism that seems to be lacking in todays world, but I guess the world changes. Interestingly my son who was 12 at the time was vacationing in Hawaii during the 2018 false missile alert. He sent me the message that ballistic missiles were inbound to Hawaii and all of those fears that I felt in the 80s came back. It was terrible, but a lot of people shrugged it off.
@@joshuawood3635 Awesome story, man and the fear is still real
The ribbon scene is the most depressing part since it means the person is likely to die and should not be given medical attention.
By that point, the doctors and nurses are probably so overworked, that they will not be able to give necessary attention even if they tried. The lesson I learned from this movie is to never again drink or smoke, or compromise my health, because no other person will care about my health as much as I will.
The Day After was the inspiration for 1984's Threads.
BBC was already going ahead with threads. Finalising script for THREADS when TDA screened. The BBC had already produced WARGAME but due to government pressure never screened it
Inspiration? Or just out at similar times?
@@NFawc yeah world like it is now. All fun and games with nuclear warheads a game for the whole neighborhood
It was released before, but threads was already in development. The director of threads decided if day after was along the lines of what he was planning, he would not bother duplicating it with threads. However, he believed it was more akin to a Hollywood disaster film, so threads had something different to say.
No, it wasn't. The BBC's The War Game (1966) was the inspiration for Threads. It was the BBC's Director General himself who commissioned Threads after watching his corporation's earlier 1966 production, with work on it beginning some time before The Day After was broadcast in the U.S, let alone the U.K.
The similarities between the two are immediately apparent, right down their docu-drama presentation. Threads was very much an updated, colour remake of The War Game.
This is one of the few movies my dad refused to watch. He was the toughest person I knew, but I remember him telling me "I remember that nuclear war movie in 1983, The Day After. Eff that, I hated the idea of it then and I didn't wanna see everyone get killed so I skipped it." It blew his mind when I told him I watched it, "Damn son, your tougher than I am." And I replied back: "I just wish we never have to experience it. It shoulda never been made to begin with."
That defines the movie in a nutshell. It wasn't made for kicks or to be torture porn, it was made to open everyone's eyes and make them less ignorant. And boy did it work.
Should show him Threads, makes The Day After look like Disney movie night
Anyone with common sense knew way before this movie that nuclear weapons have the potential to destroy all of us and this planet. Hell, most people making the first bomb knew that! Did you not see Oppenheimer or have any knowledge of him and history? Do you not know exactly what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki?! This sure as hell wasn't news to anyone in 1983! We have known exactly this since WWII!!!
@@marniekilbourne608 Anyone with a functioning brain knows that fear of nuclear war is just lefty scaremongering.
@@marniekilbourne608 I think a lot of people who hadn't seen the destruction or footage of it first hand were happy to deny how bad it would be. This kind of filmmaking is essential because it shows us ordinary folks what could happen. Putting it in America or Britain (as Threads did) also blows away the idea that nuclear war is only something that can happen to other people on the other side of the world.
I was made to watch this and the British post-nuclear apocalypse film Threads when I was in school. Apparently somebody thought showing this to children was a good idea and wouldn't traumatise an entire generation. Great job Education Department, great job, the bill for my therapy is in the post.
It was designed specifically for that in mind. This movie and Threads is nothing but propaganda made to brainwash a generation into anti-nuke hysteria.
Why is this channel so under-rated?
Thank you Mike!
YT isn’t what it used to be.
I was 11 when I watch this with my grandparents. That was the first time I ever seen my grandfather cry. All he said was I hope we go fast.
Aww 😢😢. Bless him!
I highly recommend seeking out the 3 hour work print cut that’s on the internet archive. It’s from a vhs tape and is missing special effects but the extra hour really pushes the movie to Threads levels of atomic horror.
Gonna have to find that!
What's it called? I see "ABC Movie Night The Day After 1983 Premiere VHS Re-created Edit With Commercials" that's nearly 3 hours and "The Day After (1983) rough cut dvd9" that's in 8 files totaling 172 minutes and 13 seconds?
I agree. One of the most horrifying scenes on the "work print" is the return of the trio to the farm from the hospital. The screen door of the farmhouse blows open and shut in the wind, suggesting that the farmhouse is abandoned (presumably because the rest of the Dahlberg family members who remained behind are dead).
That scene of Steve Gutenberg managing to talk the farmer into letting him into the shelter really hit me when I was a kid. Made me think there might come the time when I’d have to figure out how to talk someone into letting me into their shelter instead of shooting me. Not sure I’ve figured that out yet.
That part stuck out to me too.
Sadly, the fact that he did it only further compromised his family's safety.
As much as I would want to empathize with someone in that situation, I'm going to take your life before you doom the lives of my family and my children, by bringing radioactive fallout into my shelter.
No it's not fair, none of this would be fair to anyone affected, but it's the way it would have to go. If I were caught out in the open and in that position, I'd expect anyone sheltering in place with their loved ones to do the same.
I think in this situation death loses it's power, nobody would be concerned about immediate death but slow death and discomfort , like an animal you are geared towards shelter, food, comfort , so my feeling is you'll take whatever chances , you'll roll the dice . You'll say 'if you're gonna shoot me , shoot me in the head and make it quick now because i want to stay here and i'm not taking no for an answer'
You might get lucky ...or you get shot dead.
This, Threads and a couple of others should be required viewing for all world leaders. The wrong people in power at the wrong time…. a bit worrying.
My ninth grade geography teacher showed the class this in January 1996. Class let out right after the bombs dropped. I was pretty distraught for the rest of the week.😂
The ending scene of that movie is so damn heart breaking.
I was in high school when this aired. My school had special sessions to discuss it and the guidance department offered counseling to anyone who thought they needed it. We're talking about 13 to 17 year old kids.
The scenes showing humans getting x-ray’d by the bombs light, was absolutely terrifying for me when I was 10 and watched this for the first time. This movie didn’t need state of the art special effects to achieve what it did because 40 years later people still talk about it.
First time I saw it was in 10th grade during Religious Education.
When the missile impact scenes began, our teacher gave permission to leave the classroom and wait outside until it`s over, in case somebody would get too scared.
And the first time I heard the "WW4 being fought with sticks and stones" quote also occured in context with the movie: our teacher quoted it after we had finished watching.
The orange-lighted skeletons; Dr Oakes witnessing the executions on his way home, then finding his wife`s watch in the rubble and the squatter trying to comfort him...
Also, one scene that stuck with me was when the screams of a woman giving birth were heard outside of a building (the hospital, I think).
Then you see the mother in her room, hear the baby scream...and the mother starts to laugh.
A new life coming into a destroyed world, quite a haunting contrast.
The Day After is often, and unfavourably, compared to its British counterpart, Threads. I seem them both as equals. Dealing with the same grim topic, but with a from a different angle. Threads his you in the head with a visual hammer and gives it to you straight: The aftermath of a global nuclear conflict will devastate society and leave precious few survivors in a hell-world. TDA strikes you across the face with a graphical broken bottle and tells you nuclear war will be pain upon pain! And more pain on top of that. And that's before we talk of any survivors!
From what others have discussed of the two films, I like the idea that The Day After can act as a prelude/companion piece to Threads, especially with the caption at the end being what it is.
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@@embercoral Soooo true
Is that the name of the British movie?
The world will end not with a bang, but a whimper. This movie definitely captures that sentiment all the way back from ww1, but now its truer than ever.
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I was 10 when this came out. I’ve tried to explain to my husband what it was like as a child in the UK at that time (he’s not British). We had Protect & Survive public information films in the public consciousness, Nightmare Fuel of their own. Nuclear war was constantly being discussed on the news, in newspapers, it was everywhere, and as a child your mind processes these things in really weird ways. When The Day After was shown in the UK it was followed at some point by a discussion show about the subject matter, and I just remember thinking - there will be a nuclear war next year and they’re preparing us for it. I was terrified. I already have pretty macabre interests (I mean, hello, this is why I’m on this channel!) but I was left with a life long obsession about nuclear war and weaponary. I took my husband to The Imperial War Museum to show him the nuclear exhibit. They were showing loops of Protect & Survive, they showed maps with blast radiuses, and I was desperate to explain - we lived this! It seems such a weird thing in hindsight. And despite all that, I still haven’t seen Threads and I think it’s because I know it will be even more frightening, but at 50 it’s probably time to bite that bullet. 😂 Thanks for the amazing channel!
One of the most successful propaganda campaigns the western world ever conducted. Managed to traumatize an entire generation with a completely far fetched scenario that had no actual chance of occurring. All because anti war and environmental activists wanted to disarm western countries in order to subvert western influence on the world which in their minds is the root of all evil.
I appreciate someone from the U.K. not trashing this film and lauding over "Threads" instead.
I recommend a made for TV movie called "Special Bulletin" which is a terrifying look at what if terrorists got their hands on a nuke
Thanks for the tip. I’ll look for it.
@@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 it on you tube
I recall this film as being well done. I thought, though, that "Threads" was a far more realistic World War 3 film due to its overall bleakness, with the effects reaching decades after the war. The American film shows off a higher budget, with better FX, as I think "Threads" used mostly declassified stock footage for the attacks.
And 4 decades later we would Still Live under the threat of a nuclear holocaust
I was 10 when this aired...It too freaked me out.
Yep. This along with Threads(1984)
Yep. I was 9. I remember what a huge deal it was
They really low balled the amount of nuclear devices inbound. There’s thousands and thousands.
The events depicted looked EXTREMELY SEVERE to me.
And they say at the end of it, this is probably a best case senario.
@@dianafarmer5445 The real thing would be worse. MUCH worse!
I have watched this movie several times, although I don't fully remember the night it was first aired, the one thing I do remember was my dad, a man who didn't cry when his old son died, crying like a baby, and that is what I remember
The weird thing about nuclear war was that Mutually Assured Destruction (aptly shortened to "MAD") made this sort of war undesirable because everyone on both sides knew that such a war was unwinnable. Unfortunately fanatics, which was shown during WWII, are willing to go to great lengths to reach their goals and to them there are no innocents just targets.
Poor doggie.
This video ignores the horrific conclusion of the original broadcast, worse than the fiery skeletons, the miserable survivors or the charred ruins. At sixteen, I was well aware of the possibility of nuclear war, and as the son of a World War Two veteran, all too aware of the human capacity for brutality and madness. I was also a fan of Dr. Carl Sagan's Cosmos series, so when he popped up in a discussion panel following The Day After, I felt immense relief at the sound of his nasal, reassuring, always rational voice. He seemed disappointingly rude to Conservative Dr. Bill Buckley, a man I disagreed with but who enjoyed polite sparring.
Then, Dr. Sagan provided the evening's climax. Practiced as he was in explaining science to the layman, he produced a ream of paper documenting what he named "nuclear winter." World War Three would be an extinction level event, freezing and starving all the world. "We would bequeath the Earth to the cockroaches." I remember Dr. Kissinger and Dr. Buckley at a loss, their political bickering rendered pointless. Only survivor Elie Weisel could produce a cogent response, warning us of humanity's capacity for self-destruction.
It is just possible that, in that moment, Dr. Sagan and his colleagues saved humanity.
We’ll be VERY lucky to not experience this in our lifetime.
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The October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis lasted a week - 10 days at most. This Russo-Ukrainian War has been going on - with all its warmongering and brinksmanship for more than two years. Our luck is going to run out.
I have long said that I want to go in the blast if this ever happens. Quick, over before I even know what's going on. I don't want to live in the world that will be afterward.
What a coincidence that I decided to watch this movie tonight just two days after you posted this. This might be the first movie to mention how an EMP would work. This had to inspire games like Fallout and the first couple of Modern Warfare titles.
I remember watching it when it aired in the 1980s as a child, at the time many of us were convinced the Soviets turning our world to radioactive ash was not so much a matter of if, but when. And then Chernobyl happened...
This is our elites dream for us 🇺🇸
This and Threads scared the shit out of me as a kid. Threads actually made me throw up. I still have Flash dreams.
One of the things about this movie that bugs me. Was the fact that Steve Guttenburg's character was the exact same distance from a blast yet completely survived it, but Jeff Eastman's character Bruce dies.
Interesting
There were several inconsistencies I noticed upon watching it again recently. Still doesn’t take away from the power of the film
Bruce estaba más cerca del radio de la explosión y el shock térmico lo alcanzó el estaba en Lawrence Stephen estaba en harrisonville mucho más lejos como para apreciarse hongo atómico
Here's a little fun fact, some of the military footage used in The Day After came from an earlier TV film called First Strike (1979) which was meant to call attention to possible perceived inadequacies in the US ability to deter or counter a suprise nuclear strike by the Soviet Union. Lastly, I'd like to recommend the German alternate history documentary World War III (1998) as a candidate for a video.
"The Atomic Cafe" is a must watch, best film about nukes.
Will need to check that one
Also the 1984 Australian film One Night Stand
For maximum discomfort, watch this right before watching Dr. Strangelove.
That… understanding… is the closest we can get to the context of when Dr. Strangelove was released.
I was 8 years old when this tv film came out, not fully understanding the magnitude of nuclear war but everyone in my family and Neighbour's including myself were glued to the TV and each other as if it was a horror film. In 2017, a friend handed me the DVD version, saw it again for the 2nd time and still gave me nightmare. The "day after after" i saw the DVD, I went to smoke a joint, for calming effects. Life is short for conflicts.
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What I always found funny about this movie and "Testament", is that NONE of the survivors do anything correct. None of the survivors take potassium iodide, none of the survivors bother to wear a mask, and none of the survivors take shelter (or even bother to seal their shelter) for at least 3 weeks for the half-life of the radioactivity to die down. It's like everyone in this movie and "Testament" are on a suicide mission. Jesus, they could at least filter their water.
What you say brings up good points, but I think the producers of The Day After probably wanted the TV audience to be able to see the faces of the characters in the movie.
Threads (1984) is - I think - MUCH more effective. Being British rather than American it feels less polished and a lot more naturalistic and - fittingly - grim rather than cinematic. It's pretty unflinchingly bleak.
Totally agree. I remember The Day After even ending on a somewhat optimistic note, Threads however is genuinly nightmarish. Threads was so realistic shot and acted, it was also filmed in a unique way, sort of like an intermediate of a live action film with a documentary film. I highly recommend Threads, even though it is one of the most depressing films ever made.
As an American it will be interesting, though grim, to watch this. Slightly off topic, I wish more sci-fi and horror movies were made in Britain. 28 Days Later was fantastic, and terrifying.
TDA was a big, flashy disaster mini-series. Threads is much better compared to the 1983 US film, Testament. Instead of big budget and big stars and big cast and a sprawling story, Testament concentrates on a single small town. You never really see outside the community (no military or Washington DC). And while its small budget didn't allow for big name stars, there are a lot future stars in the cast like Kevin Costner and Rebecca De Mornay before they were famous. It goes more along with Threads and When the Wind Blows than TDA. It also has haunting score by James Horner.
Ive seen both, but in my opinion this movie hits way harder than threads does.
HOLY! how come this isn't even talk about neither tackled nor recommended often in youtube!?!?
The living will envy the dead. 😥😥😥
The day after is a underrated masterpiece but we stil have Nukes. Its need just a accident and the Problem is big.
I was a teenage wreck having seen "Threads" so never watched this. The clips I've seen are pretty grim.
There are differences between the films, the one I noticed is that following the thorough scientific research for "Threads" it was shot to show the sunlight being blocked out long term by the many tons of dust and ash being thrown into the atmosphere, whereas in TDA normal daylight and sunshine is shown.
Who saw the movie THREADS?
Try “when the wind blows”
The thumbnail is the one scene that stayed with me all thise years after seeing it at 9 when it aired in 83. I never forgot the woman (who it turns out was Dr Oakes daughter) with her legs on fire and suddenly you could see her skeleton as she was vaporized. Really creeped me out!! It’s still a really uncomfortable scene to watch.
I genuinely don't think anything can be more terrifying than a nuke and it's aftermath
I remember doing duck and cover drills in the early 80s. It was just as weird and scary back then as it would be today.
I watched this after seeing threads. I wasn't expecting an American movie to go this hard, but by the final scenes. It had confirmed it's place in nuclear based armagaddeon hell.
This movie & the movie threads scared the Jesus out of me
I watched this with my parents I was in third grade and also from Kansas city it scared the shit out of me
I remember seeing this and it scared me I’m in the U.K. then a year later we got our own version of a Nuclear horror what if movie called Threads also the actress that plays Denise she has been in a lot of horror movies and is on Facebook I found her their
I grew up in this area during that time. It scared me to death as a little kid!
This Movie should be aired again all over the World just to remind everyone what the horror of Nuclear War is. There was also an English version of it which I'd like to watch again but I can't remember the name of it.
I would like to see a completion of these films from different countries 👍
I’m a huge horror fan, and I think they should do “Nightmare Fuel” videos on these horror movies because I think they would be perfect for “Nightmare Fuel”:
Dracula (1931)
Psycho (1960)
The Innocents (1961)
The Birds (1963)
The Haunting (1963)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Thank you for all of your recommendations Nick!
Just gotta imagine you’re playing Fallout in VR on survival difficulty
Anyone else remember the 80s book series that cropped up around the same time? Stuff like Endworld, The Survivalist, Deathlands, and whatnot?
Don't forget the novel "Warday."
The movie Threads is also about this horror scenario 😮
Saw this for the first time recently. Thought it was very tame compared to Threads.
Both films are still terrifying
Do “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.” That’s a good “Nightmare Fuel” movie.
I think it's based on the truth of the mental health system at the time. I'm sure I remember the author actually worked in an asylum and based nurse ratchet on a real person.
THE DAY AFTER changed my Life ! At 62 Today i do volunteers work- help street addict beggers by buying instead of gfiving cash! Buy somebody TODAY $20 worth of groceries-Change their LIFE=Don't just talk about it OR offer opinions AND $20 isn't gonna kill you-Is it?
There's a really interesting video of Carl Sagan and some political bigwigs from the Cold War Era discussing this movie as part of a panel around the time it was broadcast. It's on RUclips and worth a watch.
I think that the only reason why this didn't happen during the cold war was because there was always a soldier who had his finger on the trigger. Orders come down from the politicians, but it's the soldiers who have to pull the trigger, and nobody who's trained for war wants to unleash that particular horseman.
have you heard about stanislav petrov? he recognized a false alarm about US nuclear missiles that could have triggered world war 3
12:03 Carl Grimes? That's him around the time he had pudding. LOL
The EMP might not have been due to the Soviets. Anti-Ballistic Missiles which detonate proximally to incoming warheads based on radar tracking were a thing, relying on the pulse and shockwave to knock out enemy missiles and payloads. Which in a way makes the following devastation even more chilling, because then one wonders how much worse it would be without some form of defense being employed.
I saw it 1983 in new York it was scary.
Does anyone remember duck and cover? Air raid siren tests and more duck and cover... went on for several years until 7th grade. I grew up during the cold war and the Cuban missile crisis. As a child, it was part of daily life... I remember finding a bomb shelter in the woods behind my house, and it never fazed me. I'd be terrified if I heard aa air raid siren today, but back in the 60's it was a normal way of life
The British version ''Threads'' is far more realistic in every way.
I saw this movie when it came out in 1983. I was fifteen at the time. It didn't scare me. It made me angry, and it intensified my burning hatred for Russians.
Threads is scarier
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More realistic, too.
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@@jamesowen4938 Definitely! It’s sooooo disturbing, grim and depressing.
It’s their GOVERNMENT you need to be mad at. NOT them themselves. Many Russian citizens are just as against it as all the rest of us
I was born in 83 in Kansas City. Age 3, I lived my life in Lawrence, Kansas City, and the surrounding areas. Watching this film and seeing every single location (in these two cities) up close and personal, from Rusty's IGA (now called the Merc), to Kansas Memorial Stadium (being demolished and rebuilt), and even the Basic Sciences building (at 19th and Iowa St.) that I would drive by often, It was a truly somber experience, trying to imagine slamming Hiroshima together with my own cities, and having to live in them during the fallout (considering survival) was treacherous.
Amazingly, the Scriptures from Revelation (bad translation; they should've used KJV) seems very similar to what was depicted here, though what Is Written is MUCH more graphic (and True) than that...that even the enemy can bring fire from the sky (hmm....), and people will even cry out for death, but it never comes...yet, they will curse God and not Change Their Mind (the actual definition of repent) from unbelief to Belief in Him.
This movie was chilling as a young child, and sometimes, being around those very areas shown in the film had me looking into the sky, wondering...."today? PLEASE not today!"
Please do Threads a uk film that isn't shy in showing the reality of nuclear war
I covered Threads as one of my earliest Nightmare Fuel episodes!
I remember first seeing this film in 2014 here on RUclips as a 17 year old. I always was interested in the Cold War and the possibility of nuclear war, so I watched it. I’ll never forget when the panic started as the bombs fell. I remember being so horrified it froze me in place as I just watched in horror. I stood frozen for the rest of the movie, unable to move, unable to speak. It was like I was in shock. It took two weeks of venting to my mom and my friends and a ton of nightmares to finally go back to normal. I just watched it again tonight. It didn’t have the same effect, but I think it’s because I’m 26 and I know how horrifying the movie is. When I started watching it in 2014, I didn’t expect anything as horrifying as the day after turned out to be. Nowadays I collect movies about nuclear war because it’s really the only “thriller” movies that get me on the edge of my seat. But the day after, is one that I haven’t bought on blu ray or dvd. I’ve heard Threads is much more horrific so I think I’m good with the day after. My first watch of the day after will always be seared into my head. It’s truly a good movie to highlight what nuclear war would be like, and I personally think something like the day after should be made today to highlight the fear of nuclear war in todays world of autocrats and dictators.
Some good nuclear war movies that aren’t as horrific as the day after is:
By Dawns Early Light
Fail Safe. Fail Safe is such a crazy movie for a movie made in the 60s.
And war games.
I’m much older than you (59). I was actually an 18 year old freshman at the University of Kansas while the movie was being filmed in Lawrence, Kansas in the fall of 1982. The Day After debuted on national television in November of 1983. So 19 year old me and a group of friends got together to watch it as did most of America…..and much of the world. President Reagan watched it, and he said it profoundly affected him and his talks on nuclear disarmament with then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. President Reagan said the movie made him feel very depressed. The Day After is STILL the MOST WATCHED television movie ever made!!
After the movie was over, ABC News held a nationally-televised Town Hall discussion about the movie and what the effects of nuclear war might look like. That Town Hall went on for at least two hours I believe. The Day After was THE MAJOR topic of discussion for weeks, if not months, afterwards. The movie was quite moving to the entire American population. The movie was also aired in the Soviet Union…..at least to Communist Party officials and KGB officers.
Viewing by Russians is also depicted in the EXCELLENT television SERIES, “THE AMERICANS which debuted on FX in 2013 and ran for 6 seasons. I watched The Americans on one of the streaming platforms, either Netflix or Hulu….or maybe Amazon Prime Video. It has a rating of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes…..because it’s an EXCELLENT show. The Americans is set in the 1980s at the height of the Cold War. It is about what appears to be an average American family with 2 children and a nice suburban home.
But these two “Americans” are not what they seem. This married husband and wife are actually SOVIET spies who were sent to the USA as teenagers or younger and learned to speak with an American accent. They work for the government of the USSR, but even their two children have absolutely no idea, and neither does their next-door neighbor who is an FBI agent! The FBI agent and the male Russian spy actually become legitimately very close best friends. In the show, they show KGB officials watching “The Day After”. That’s how BIG THE MOVIE WAS. Btw, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND “THE AMERICANS”. It’s one of the best series I’ve ever watched.
@@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13 I remember reading about how leading up to the day after airing, tons of crisis counselors were set up so anyone extremely distressed by the movie can call in for emotional support. Up to that moment, no American made nuclear war film captured how horrifying nuclear war would actually be. I think Americans today need a reminder. We need a second movie similar in horror to the day after.
And thanks for recommendation, I’ll check it out! 🙂
Crazy sad stuff
The living shall envy the dead.
The ones that go the quickest are the lucky ones.
Awwwwww,... it's P.G. Threads.
Meh, you're overselling it hard. Was pretty much the same level film.
There is a channel after, and it is me. There will never be atomic warfare after 1989
This movie remains the most realistic depiction of a nuclear war. The Divide, Sum of All Fears, Peacemaker just are too fictionalized.
The Divide is HORRIFYING
Horrifying, you just hope you're one of the ones who get insta zapped away not to survive and be around the day after :)
Threads lite.
👍
In the movie the first mention of nuclear weapons being used was the USSR possibly hitting Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.
ICBMs are an abomination.
It’s good but I feel that it is just a softer threads
The skeletons you see during the attacks are there because you'd literally be able to see the bones through skin during the flash. I saw an interview with some British soldiers who were nuked in a test and they said even while facing the opposite direction with their eyes closed and hands over their eyes they could see the bones of their fingers through their closed eyelids thanks to how bright the flash was.
It was the directors way of showing the people being vaporized.
Definitely watch Threads. You think The Day After is bleak? Threads theres just absolutely no hope.
I chose not to see this when it was on UK tv back in 83 I was only 10 at the time but knew what it was about and I wanted to sleep that night , and then a year later when this film was just a distant memory I stumbled upon bbc2 , just as Threads was being aired and knew sod all about what I was watching I was horrified but couldn’t turn away , and after that I thought no more nuke films for me , so still haven’t seen Day After. Urgh..
"The Day after" is a Disney's Princess fairytale movie comparated with "Threads"
Realism and pessimism are close relatives.
40th anniversary today of TDA! Sadly I've not seen 1 news piece or many posts remembering it, very very sad. People are just as ignorant of nukes now as they were in 82/83 smh.
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You are a diamond
If you can find stick and stones. 😮
Nuclear Weapons are nasty.
I emember running across this movie online when I was trying to look for the movie The Manhattan Project. I googled John Lithgow and nuke sitting next to the movie I was looking for I found the movie poster for the second after. I tracked down a copy of the movie and watched it. I wasn't ready for the horrors conatai ed in this film. It holds no punches and effected me deeply. I think this should be shown in every history class that revolves around the cold War.
I was sure that was Kyle aletter
I actually like thus movie more than Threads