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  • A 30-minute Threads movie edit focused on the documentary aspect of the film.
    Threads is a 1984 apocalyptic BBC nuclear war documentary drama. Centred on the industrial city of Sheffield in the north of England, it presents a grim vision of the likely effects a nuclear war will have on Britain and the planet. This video contains excerpts from the film documenting the US-provoked Russian invasion scenario that leads to nuclear war.
    Tensions between Russia and the West escalate after a covert US operation to bring down the regime in Iran. Russia, which invaded Afghanistan in 1979, invades northern Iran. America responds to the Russian invasion by sending a rapid response force to protect US interests in the oil-rich south. A series of incidents cause events to spiral out of control leading to the use of tactical battlefield nuclear weapons and nuclear war.
    Shot on a budget of £400,000, Threads was the first film of its kind to depict a nuclear winter. A groundbreaking BBC documentary drama, Threads is:
    "A film which comes closest to representing the full horror of nuclear war and its aftermath, as well as the catastrophic impact that the event would have on human culture."
    Threads was produced in Britain a year after its contemporary counterpart, The Day After, a 1983 ABC television film depicting a similar scenario in the United States. Threads was nominated for seven BAFTA awards in 1985 and won Best Single Drama, Best Design, Best Film Cameraman and Best Film Editor.
    Threads Movie 1984 BBC Nuclear War Documentary Drama
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  • @frazerguest2864
    @frazerguest2864 Месяц назад +47

    I’m from Sheffield, born and bred.
    I had to watch Threads at school aged 10. It scared the hell out of me then and it still bloody does now.
    Without a doubt, Threads is the most frightening and utterly depressing piece of filmography ever made.

    • @louwoods9278
      @louwoods9278 Месяц назад +3

      My friend and I watched it at my house. We were 14. I had to accompany her back home and had nightmares that night.

    • @Weird.Dreams
      @Weird.Dreams 20 дней назад

      No it isn't, get a hold of yourself woman! 👋

    • @Dweller415
      @Dweller415 9 дней назад

      @@Weird.Dreams😂😂😂

    • @christopherjones6607
      @christopherjones6607 8 дней назад

      It's very realistic..brutally be even worse now with the higher level on nuclear weapons they is today

    • @v4vaughan74
      @v4vaughan74 4 дня назад +1

      I watched this on my portable b/w Tele in my bedroom the night it was broadcast -I was 11. Im not from Sheffield, I was born and bred in Halifax so the scenery/accents were so familiar....
      Terrible mistake.
      I spent the remainder of the 80's with knots in my guts waiting for the inevitable wail of air raid sirens.
      Unbelievable that 40 years later this film is more relivent than ever. The only difference now is I'm not waiting for the sirens I'm waiting for my phone to alert me.
      M.A.D.

  • @DeniseFactor
    @DeniseFactor Год назад +215

    The most gripping, grim and depressing TV drama I have ever watched by a mile. Incredible piece of work.

    • @corriemcnab
      @corriemcnab Год назад +4

      I totally agree

    • @alonenjersey
      @alonenjersey Год назад +8

      I agree. this was a much better production than "The Day After."

    • @orourkeda
      @orourkeda Год назад

      I was sobbing and wanking in the foetal position for days after watching this movie.

    • @rooty
      @rooty 11 месяцев назад

      You should watch Cracker lol

    • @cv507
      @cv507 10 месяцев назад

      1:15 rip hitch -:-
      2:10 ´FF blv skhäi disstänt ´$tärr FööLZ -.-
      vvätt $€ Fräck abävD zäh sync didnt you gett?? itz öle bückce?? xxxP

  • @louwoods9278
    @louwoods9278 9 месяцев назад +60

    This scared the hell out of me in the 80s and still does today, even more so.

    • @lifeistooshort-lj6yg
      @lifeistooshort-lj6yg Месяц назад

      I’m not scared

    • @louwoods9278
      @louwoods9278 Месяц назад +2

      You should be! If this ever happens it's the end. I grew up in the 80s and this was a terrible threat hanging over us, it went away and I hoped it would never come back, but it has. I hope your courage doesn't crumble. 😢

    • @CryingAutumn
      @CryingAutumn 20 дней назад

      We are all going to die. Dark.. Dark days are to come. The entire northern hemisphere will be reduced to ash.

  • @briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206
    @briansaiditsoitmustbetrue4206 6 месяцев назад +43

    01:52 in this video ... Quote "Four people were killed today on the M6 motorway in Staffordshire When their car was in collision with a heavy tanker"... End quote
    THEY DON'T KNOW HOW LUCKY THEY WERE.

  • @Scrapper.
    @Scrapper. Год назад +151

    Still the ultimate horror movie, because the nightmare is entirely possible.

    • @Hellndegenerates
      @Hellndegenerates Год назад

      Nukes do not exist, 10 to 20 kilotons bombs only, like the moab bomb, it was a fear weapon only, the footage of supposed bombs was dynamite stacked up and blown up,
      Plenty of footage of the stacking of tnt.

    • @camerondelamotte159
      @camerondelamotte159 Год назад +4

      bread and milk is over 5 bucks in australia war tax

    • @vultusalbus4216
      @vultusalbus4216 Год назад +5

      The scariest thing is there were more warheads than ever in the mid-1980s. Sure present-day weapons are way more powerful, which means their effects impact an entire country. But atmospherical pressures create winds that may blow fallout back towards the origin of the warhead. Does anyone in the comments who happens to be an expert in science, physics or weather agree with my opinion, or do they have a different approach to it ? If so, may they feel free to let me know

    • @cv507
      @cv507 10 месяцев назад

      vväD evä v # läß sLäyy

    • @vultusalbus4216
      @vultusalbus4216 10 месяцев назад

      @@cv507 1 4ო и0т ٨ი عχρєгէ ւո сяур7ø6rαקнў Ьע եћ3 աач

  • @hub5343
    @hub5343 Год назад +120

    Threads really affected me. Never before had I felt the inevitable weight of people's hubris, ignorance and callous disregard to life by those who easily commit readily to war - and the dreadful hopelessness, despair and reprehensible consequences as a result. We have all witnessed the same rhetoric, the same escalation and the same dismissal of human life and livelihoods as depicted in this clip here. Sometimes I despair, when I realise those in charge of and have power over our destiny have the minds of children in adult bodies, playing games like children, thinking childish thoughts, never seeing the solutions behind those immediately presented, never seeing the incalculable suffering as a result of their actions.

    • @seanknapton7449
      @seanknapton7449 Год назад

      Politicians are evil and corrupt,the World would be a far better place without these dangerous fruit loops

    • @garyparnell1327
      @garyparnell1327 Год назад

      Never you worry WW 3 will not start like this trust me

    • @ozzyphil74
      @ozzyphil74 Год назад +6

      It will... It's upon us already... Any day now, nukes 😕

    • @antispindr8613
      @antispindr8613 Год назад +2

      So how will a nuclear war start? Might it involve the Ukraine by any chance?

    • @bacilluscereus1299
      @bacilluscereus1299 Год назад

      Well said.
      In the USA context:
      It is just jaw-dropping the attitude of those who waggle the flag even more fiercely b/c the sociopath @ the top labels themselves a 'Democrat'. Saint Obama comes to mind.
      These people will take pride in their analytical prowess & make sure you know they have it, yet it's not on used/applied for the last coupla years or so.

  • @BNCA70
    @BNCA70 4 месяца назад +14

    I heard Tomorrow's World starting on BBC in that house! That means it was Thursday night and Top of the Pops was on in half an hour!

  • @Krankyoldtime64
    @Krankyoldtime64 4 дня назад +1

    I have very clear memories of watching this programme, and the timing was absolutely spot-on. Prior to this, it was only CND's The War Game (frequently shown at rallies and anarchist punk gigs) but nothing came close to Threads for the impact it had on EVERYONE. Incredible filmmaking, combined with actual newsreel footage showing numerous Cold War escalations from around the world. We've become acclimatised to the 'mockumentary' and 'reality t.v' format since this was made, but in 1984 it was very much in its infancy. The impression it left has never been surpassed in my opinion. Many thanks for posting.

  • @desiderious1
    @desiderious1 Год назад +87

    This movie may be dated but it is still very accurate on how the public would react to the threat of nuclear war.

    • @motionbrickvlogs.
      @motionbrickvlogs. Год назад +7

      And that will never change for sure

    • @ActiveAussie2024
      @ActiveAussie2024 Год назад

      The public panicked at supermarkets for a very low level virus that was actually just BS, imagine the reaction in a real deadly crisis like this!

    • @Feargal011
      @Feargal011 Год назад +4

      @@motionbrickvlogs. The changes that have happened since 1984 have reduced the scale of a nuclear disaster: from about 66 000 nuclear warheads to around 16 000 in 2022 and command systems less likely to unleash a nuclear strike without confirmation a nuclear attack is occurring. That said, the UK is highly likely to suffer dreadful consequences, particularly if ground strikes follow first wave air burst attack. The horrors depicted in Threads warn us today that all nations should relinquish the possession and any use of nuclear weapons. Their possession and use would eclipse the Holocaust for unimaginable deaths and suffering.

    • @danyoutube7491
      @danyoutube7491 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@Feargal011 16,000 could easily end modern civilization on Earth though, couldn't they?

    • @Feargal011
      @Feargal011 8 месяцев назад

      @@danyoutube7491 Europe would be ravaged, and the UK probably would be destroyed. The mid-west USA would be blasted and heavily contaminated. Russia would lose virtually all its urban centres and known military facilities. China, India etc... dunno. There probably are not sufficient weapons to devastate any nations outside NATO+Russia.

  • @alexanderforselius
    @alexanderforselius 10 месяцев назад +146

    Meta's naming of their new social media app to 'Threads' feels chilling as we havent been so near the scenario depicted in this movie than now in 2023

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 10 месяцев назад +12

      Hmmm, talk to folks who actually lived during the height of the Cold War. There was fear of a nuke war all through the 50s/60s. It was omnipresent.

    • @LauraS1
      @LauraS1 9 месяцев назад +12

      @@yvonneplant9434 I lived through and during the height of the Cold War. I honestly don't think we were as in danger so much as the governmental hype around things made us think we were. Today? Yeah, today, we are skating on a knife-edge of "peace" much more so than during the Cold War, IMO. None of us in modern developed countries seem to have learned ANY lessons from the Cold War whatsoever, either. Humans have really poor memories as a species and a real talent for destruction.

    • @retrowatches1655
      @retrowatches1655 8 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@LauraS1twat

    • @Southern_Scenery
      @Southern_Scenery 6 месяцев назад +3

      Message boards call lists of messages 'threads'

    • @Abacab965
      @Abacab965 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@LauraS1huh ???

  • @doublebanana-de3dt
    @doublebanana-de3dt 16 дней назад +4

    Thank you for putting this together. I watched Threads I think 2 or 3 times, but the last time was maybe 5 years ago. It is haunting, but actually the terrifying part I find is the leadup which is this first segment you have made.
    The news reportage in this first pieces does make it seem very real (obviously the filmmakers effect) but to hear the radio and TV showing events in the Middle East has an uneasy echo with today 2024....
    I also liked the pub scene they did 6:20 onwards - its very effective - when people watch the TV news and listen - it quitens down with the sobering news - then the pub owner switches the channel and then the pepole want to watch the news again!

  • @CathyKitson
    @CathyKitson 7 месяцев назад +16

    Dang. I'd forgotten how bloody marvellous this film was.

    • @JusticeAlways
      @JusticeAlways 6 месяцев назад

      I'm waiting for a climate change disaster version to come out....should be exciting!

    • @CathyKitson
      @CathyKitson Месяц назад

      @@JusticeAlways If it was done as well as this, I'd be the first one to watch!

  • @christianprepper8084
    @christianprepper8084 Год назад +18

    We're closer to day 0 now than ever before.....

    • @mast3rchief536
      @mast3rchief536 10 месяцев назад +4

      I work in a city and like a few days after I watched this movie with it still on my mind, an air raid siren went off. Think they were just testing it as there was a news article on it afterwards, my heart literally sank when I heard it.

  • @NewRepublicMapper
    @NewRepublicMapper Год назад +20

    Hoping there would be a remake of Threads in 2023 to make everything aware in this time

    • @pikachucetthesecond4296
      @pikachucetthesecond4296 Год назад +15

      I don't think you need to remake it, it's still horrifying nearly 40 years later

    • @AB-kx4ty
      @AB-kx4ty 10 месяцев назад +8

      Oppenheimer should give an idea too. Kids these days need to understand what nuclear weapons are and can do.

    • @LauraS1
      @LauraS1 9 месяцев назад +3

      To be frank, I highly doubt anyone in the US would care. We're more obsessed with fanning the flames of our own internal divisions to pay attention to something like this and its ramifications. We're also more obsessed with social media and the size of Kim Kardashian's ass than to pay attention to the very real danger that this is going to happen. I think it WILL happen eventually. Maybe not in our lifetimes, maybe next week, who knows, but it's going to happen. At some point, a leader is going to decide it's in everyone's best interests to start nuking the enemy (on whatever side things are on) and it'll be game on and game over for Humanity. I wouldn't want to survive it either. It'll be a brutal struggle to merely survive and billions will die; some from radiation sickness, some from being murdered over resources, others because they're in someone else's way, some from illnesses we will no longer have medicines to treat, and from starvation during the nuclear winter as our plants and animals will also have a massive die-off, too. Even with that, people seem to think "oh, it won't happen to me" so they don't pay attention. It's horrifying the amount of apathy to things like this there is in the US.

    • @davidwright8432
      @davidwright8432 2 месяца назад

      How much clearer do you think it could be made? Only the car and clothing styles have changed.

    • @ElizabethMcDermott-cy4cv
      @ElizabethMcDermott-cy4cv Месяц назад

      It's too crooked and they no longer value your survival. 😂
      Think about the last few years.
      Write it all down like a list on a piece of paper.
      Then add it together.

  • @markrhoden68
    @markrhoden68 Год назад +41

    Purchased Threads on DVD a few days ago having not seen it for whats coming up to 40 years, imagine a 14 year old watching this in a time when tensions between East and West were so bad.
    I wonder how today's young people would view this if it were done in a similar fashion only with a more modern environment they can relate too

    • @WaleedHiggins
      @WaleedHiggins  Год назад +17

      It's strange that no one has done a modern equivalent. They seem to remake everything else.

    • @markrhoden68
      @markrhoden68 Год назад +9

      @WaleedHiggins maybe there's simply no appetite for that much..... real. As I said what with video games that look almost real and 24hr news war isn't as scary as it was to those of us who lived and remember the cold War and the fear that instilled

    • @daleviker5884
      @daleviker5884 Год назад

      @@WaleedHiggins I don't see it as strange, because the purpose of these films was propaganda that ceased to be relevant. The Soviets were losing the cold war, their system was crumbling, they couldn't' feed their people yet they were pouring billions into nuclear weapons. These films (Threads, Day After) were made by communist sympathizers in the arts to undermine the will and strength of the West. Once the Soviets did collapse a couple of years later, the point of this propaganda disappeared.

    • @WaleedHiggins
      @WaleedHiggins  Год назад +12

      @@daleviker5884 The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight now than it has ever been.

    • @daleviker5884
      @daleviker5884 Год назад

      @@WaleedHiggins It's not closer in actuality, it's just defined that way by vested interests. The world is being run by woke governments who need to keep people under the thumb by scaring them. But anyone who was alive in the 1980s would laugh at the idea that things are tense these days.

  • @soylentgreen6727
    @soylentgreen6727 Год назад +17

    Threads is the only movie that genuinely scared me.

    • @robambrose4199
      @robambrose4199 7 месяцев назад +1

      I won't go in the sea after seeing jaws when I was a kid. I might not have even had a bath since then?

    • @jamesgornall5731
      @jamesgornall5731 2 дня назад

      ​@robambrose4199 my older brother told me that Jaws lived in the toilet after I saw it when I was 4 or 5. Think I ended up nearly hospitalised, terrified to go for a shite.

    • @jamesgornall5731
      @jamesgornall5731 2 дня назад

      Terrifying, utterly terrifying, and an example of a proxy war going out of control. Not unlike a certain one we currently face

  • @davidclarke6658
    @davidclarke6658 Год назад +41

    I remember my parents talking about the cold war in this period and how we would take off to our cabin in the mountains if anything happened. It was on the back of peoples minds with the nuclear arms race back then, hence these films being made.
    Now history is repeating itself, and I think this is more dangerous now.

    • @utrapzab
      @utrapzab Год назад +6

      agreed, its 30 seconds to midnight at the moment, taking off to the mountains would only prolong your suffering though, an entirely human instinct (my plan was to head to the old nuclear bunker about half a mile from me) but the reality is survive the first few weeks, survive the blast, fall out etc, youd die of starvation, or civil unrest or most likely cancer, and as for what youd see, imagine the psychological effect of survival
      nah if there was a 4 minute warning id go and stand in the garden, the effect of the blast is quicker than the time it rtakes for your nerves to register the pain
      cheery stuff, have a great day🤣👍

    • @Sugarmountaincondo
      @Sugarmountaincondo Год назад +3

      Hope you still have access to that same cabin and keep it stocked.

    • @LauraS1
      @LauraS1 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@utrapzab Yeah, I agree with you there. I wouldn't want to live through this kind of thing. Thankfully, I likely wouldn't since I live very near the US Navy nuclear sub base ordnance storage depot where the nuclear warheads are kept and maintained. My area of the country is already ringed in military bases of all sorts so we're a pretty high profile target and would likely go in the first wave of attack.

    • @ThomasBusby
      @ThomasBusby 5 дней назад +1

      Agreed. Current situation is more dangerous.

  • @samholden4171
    @samholden4171 4 месяца назад +7

    My mum used to say if there's another war we all go together.She lived through ww2 and my grandmother ww1😢

  • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
    @insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Год назад +44

    What I learned from “Threads” is towards the end of the movie. Those with guns determine who gets to eat.

    • @johnharrison6745
      @johnharrison6745 Год назад +15

      And, the British people have been 'relieved' of their guns by their government.....

    • @roryl
      @roryl Год назад +15

      I think it's sad that that is all you learnt from this movie.

    • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
      @insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Год назад +7

      @@roryl best of luck trying to get food

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Год назад +2

      @@johnharrison6745 So, those who shoot each other get to eat.

    • @tsunchoo
      @tsunchoo Год назад

      Guns don't grow food - Farmers do that and killing people would simply mean less people to work out the infinite number of problems you would have to solve to survive in a world blown to pieces.

  • @paulineclarke5388
    @paulineclarke5388 Месяц назад +4

    I recently bought the dvd of the full threads film, god it’s so depressing 😢

  • @cathya9598
    @cathya9598 10 месяцев назад +6

    Traumatised me for years after watching that as a young teenager

  • @Brian6587
    @Brian6587 Год назад +27

    Very interesting with Iran being the flashpoint. Could have realistically happened at the time.

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 Год назад +5

      Definitely with the Iran Iraq War going on and the Soviets in neighbouring Afghanistan.

    • @VanSisean
      @VanSisean Год назад +1

      "[Iran's] independence, irrespective of current Iranian hostility toward the United States, acts as a barrier to any long-term Russian threat to American interests in the Persian Gulf region."
      - Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisor under Carter, and advisor to LBJ, Reagan, Bush 41, and Obama), "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives" (1998)

    • @mr.sophistication3232
      @mr.sophistication3232 7 месяцев назад +3

      It’s about to happen right now

    • @Brian6587
      @Brian6587 7 месяцев назад

      @@mr.sophistication3232 Great point. Hopefully not but the Middle East is near a breaking point it looks like.

    • @FullPlaythroughs
      @FullPlaythroughs Месяц назад +1

      @@mr.sophistication3232 More so now

  • @donaldwainwright
    @donaldwainwright Год назад +12

    I was serving in the army at the time I would not want to survive a nuclear war I pity the survivors

  • @angelawinwood4019
    @angelawinwood4019 3 месяца назад +6

    The teenage daughter studying while listening to classical music on her headphones is about to have her future ripped apart by something totally out of her control….. The dark side of being a teenager in the 80’s……

    • @k_a_t599
      @k_a_t599 3 месяца назад

      She is now a popular character in Coronation Street 😊

    • @wleon4068
      @wleon4068 3 месяца назад

      The dark side of being human.

    • @KEVWARD63
      @KEVWARD63 2 месяца назад +2

      I was 14 when I watched this in 1985 , fortunately by then , the late , great Mikhail Gorbachev grandually swept out the paranoid hardline old guard & it was the beginning of the end of the Cold War.

  • @olafriedel2182
    @olafriedel2182 2 месяца назад +3

    I still remember the permanent fear - living 30km from the west/east german boarder - and the words my grandfather said "If something happens, promise me you don`t seek shelter because the people who are been killed direcktly are the lucky ones."

  • @Tekknorg
    @Tekknorg Год назад +19

    The predecessor is THE WAR GAME and very gruesome too. A family burning in a car, burnt people killed wirh mercy shots, eyeballs melting... was silenced 20 yrs in Britain. 1965

    • @valley_robot
      @valley_robot 3 месяца назад

      Interesting comment, I would like to watch that film, maybe like is not the best word

  • @fives2155
    @fives2155 Год назад +9

    threads and the war game have genuinely traumatized me

  • @goldwing537
    @goldwing537 Месяц назад +1

    The BBC did a film called The War Game in 1966.
    The top bosses said it would be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting, but it was shown at a few selected cinema`s.
    1985/19 years later it finally ended up on TV

  • @charlesphillips1468
    @charlesphillips1468 5 месяцев назад +3

    Going to hell in a handbasket. I like how the film repeatedly focuses on the daily lives of the people, such as groceries, pubs, newspapers, getting to work. I was in high school in the early 1980s, I watched the Day After and many other nuclear war films (even Special Bulletin), but this was not on where I lived.

  • @arthurbaldwin1804
    @arthurbaldwin1804 2 месяца назад +5

    Oh for supermarket checkout prices like that nowadays.

    • @N30N_4U
      @N30N_4U Месяц назад +1

      Imagine how they will be close to a nuclear war now.

  • @elchicano187
    @elchicano187 Год назад

    Wow, thanks for sharing

  • @kennymik1509
    @kennymik1509 9 месяцев назад +9

    This feels more like a collection of "real time" news reports than a "movie". Whoa!!!

  • @CLEFT3000
    @CLEFT3000 Год назад +3

    Thank you! Looking forward to the rest

  • @jacquelinewilliamson8933
    @jacquelinewilliamson8933 9 месяцев назад +7

    I remember this ,the bbc put out a news briefing and then showed threads .I. Live in N.Ireland and the troubles were still going strong. They made a an awful cartoon showing 2 elderly people being reduced to ash this was truly an awful time. Government leaflets came through our doors recommended to get under tables. After hearing an alarm.

    • @rich_edwards79
      @rich_edwards79 5 месяцев назад +3

      'When the Wind Blows', from the same guy (Raymond Briggs) who wrote Fungus the Bogeyman and The Snowman. Except that WTWB was most definitely *not* suitable for small children!

    • @N30N_4U
      @N30N_4U Месяц назад

      ​@@rich_edwards79 It was at first, but then started getting darker and worse

  • @evilmex1962
    @evilmex1962 Год назад +40

    9:14
    as a russian i didn't even know we have surface-air missiles with nukes
    history teachers don't tell us so much

    • @Tekknorg
      @Tekknorg Год назад +1

      If russia launches ICBM against Britain, its 1.5 minutes warning time. By a russian sub max. 30 sec..

    • @Sol-Cutta
      @Sol-Cutta Год назад

      Why aren't u on the front line ??

    • @evilmex1962
      @evilmex1962 Год назад +11

      @@Sol-Cutta because i wasn't mobilised. I guess, they don't need me.

    • @jamesgornall5731
      @jamesgornall5731 Год назад +8

      Still do have nuclear air defence missiles, and nuclear torpedoes in submarines and nuclear artillery shells and pretty much anything else you can fire off into the air or across land or into the ocean

    • @NeilCWCampbell
      @NeilCWCampbell Год назад

      You should be overthrowing your dictator in chief

  • @djrichylaurence8991
    @djrichylaurence8991 10 месяцев назад +5

    The casualty rate would be much higher these days due to higher yield weapons. I forgot Lesley Judd played the newsreader.

    • @wleon4068
      @wleon4068 3 месяца назад

      Casualties would run into the billions. That was what was estimated recently, if nuclear war happens.

    • @TheKnightOfSmite
      @TheKnightOfSmite 7 дней назад

      The only silver lining is communications/distancing is better and nuclear ICBMs are.. ironically cleaner
      The old Soviet nukes I think it was estimated at least 60% of them or more are prone to fail because of age, or are slow enough that they can be shot down
      Laser weapons have also come on a long way, meaning it's possible for lasers to "snipe" nuclear warheads before hitting at vastly more cost effective ranges
      The ones you have to watch out for are supersonic nuclear missiles, which the major powers are.. investing in
      Algae farms have also been put forward as the means of feeding a population in the case of a nuclear war, where it's estimated 90% of food supply will fail
      Assuming there's enough oil reserves and order/population tolerance, it's possible I would say for humans now to survive a WW3 with what we've learned, though the casualty rate will be beyond measure and countries will never be the same again
      Generally it's assumed though Russia will not have as much sway with nukes as they did long ago with China, because the Chinese have more to lose than the Russians (condensed cities, farmland, military being nepotistic), and total MAD can only work if there's no victor, if there is a victor (in the sense say, China survives but Russia does not) then there is no incentive to do MAD, because then the Chinese will just conquer the irradiated Russians. I'd expect in a WW3 scenario there'd be a lot of side changing right before the button moment. In fact I'd go so far as to say nowadays given that Mao is long gone and the Sino-Russian pact is no more the Chinese will just abstain with an alliance only good on paper and would gladly let the Russians nuke themselves into oblivion with the West. Which means a cratered Russia and a majority death toll in one Western continent either Europe or America.

  • @notreallydavid
    @notreallydavid 9 месяцев назад +8

    One of UK TV's greatest achievements.
    Why no musical version, though?

    • @AlisonBryen
      @AlisonBryen 6 месяцев назад +2

      😂

    • @rhuephus
      @rhuephus 2 месяца назад +3

      well ... I could talk to my good friend Andrew Lloyd Webber ... maybe he could come up with something ... (like Cats - the Nuclear Version)

  • @lucasa.quiroga1246
    @lucasa.quiroga1246 Год назад +50

    In the time this movie was made (and the same goes for "The Day After") people lived under the nuclear threat. Now we realize that that world was far more predictable and stable than the one we live in today. Beyond their war rethorics, world leaders were much more responsible and there was a sort of "gentlemen´s agreement" between them. Today most leaders are little more than street gangsters, anyone may have a nuke and anyone may push the button.

    • @ThehulkGreen
      @ThehulkGreen Год назад +2

      YET NOT ONE CIVILIAN ASKED FOR IT.

    • @garyparnell1327
      @garyparnell1327 Год назад

      But on the same page Isreal will deal with Iran bet

    • @frankcessna7345
      @frankcessna7345 Год назад

      Very well said Sir and I totally agree….!

    • @binder946
      @binder946 Год назад +1

      They seemed smarter and well versed not like today's leader trash talking.

    • @remus80
      @remus80 Год назад +2

      Stop being a drama queen.

  • @johnnls94
    @johnnls94 18 дней назад +1

    It starts off slow people don't listen to the news

  • @McDowallManor
    @McDowallManor Год назад +35

    Remarkably scary given the current state of play in Ukraine.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy Год назад

      Nothing will happen. Nuclear war didn't happen over Korea, or Vietnam, or Afghanistan. When pushed comes to shove, one side will back down.

    • @GodBlessTheBaroness
      @GodBlessTheBaroness Год назад

      You can blame the war mongering goblin Zelensky for that

    • @sickrantorum693
      @sickrantorum693 Год назад

      @@GodBlessTheBaroness GTFO Vatnik shill

  • @irene-jb7jc
    @irene-jb7jc День назад +1

    It has you on the edge of your seat? Imagine if this was really going to happen

  • @briantaylor9285
    @briantaylor9285 7 месяцев назад +5

    It's happening now.

  • @LauraS1
    @LauraS1 9 месяцев назад +6

    You know, I think we're closer to nuclear war today than we ever were during the Cold War. I grew up during the Cold War and remember doing the nuclear attack exercises mandated in public schools here in the US (useless as we all now know them to be) and my parents didn't really shelter us kids from the exigencies of what was going on. They believed in educating us in the Cold War plus the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, both proxy wars between the US and USSR at the time. We are engaged again in a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine now, as well, but the stakes are higher since it isn't just the US and Russia who have nuclear weapons and who may choose to use them once the first shot is fired (nuclear shot that is). I truly think it's really only a matter of time before someone or an advisory committee thinks it'll be a good idea to actually use these weapons on "the enemy", whomever that may be, and I really do think it'll be game on around the world as countries settle differences or try to acquire territory. Civilians, as usual, will pay the heaviest price but that's war in general. Back then, there seemed to be a sort of unspoken agreement that weapons like this, although we had them, shouldn't actually be used. Sure, there was saber rattling and still is but today the rhetoric is sharper and much more aggressive and our leaders much different kinds of people than back in the Cold War. It doesn't help that politically unstable countries are also nuclear countries now and are kind of unknown players should a nuclear war break out. It's a genie we humans will NEVER put back into its bottle.

  • @annethomas9302
    @annethomas9302 Год назад +25

    History repeating…

    • @mr.evasion
      @mr.evasion Год назад +1

      Somebody will have the last word.
      It's only human in the end....

    • @charlottebowes7666
      @charlottebowes7666 Год назад

      @@mr.evasion Indeed.

    • @johnroeii8352
      @johnroeii8352 9 месяцев назад

      YES!!!! If things keep happening with Putin and King Trump getting their Communist, Terrorist and Nazi evil hands on a: Biological, Chemical, and NUCLEAR weapons??? Plus, used it at US????!!!!!
      Then, it's the end of the world as we know it!!!!
      Plus, in the words of Einstein about weapons of World War IV (4)????
      Sticks and Stones!!!!!

    • @Justanythinggood
      @Justanythinggood 10 дней назад

      Repeated by who? Anglo saxon world

  • @oreilly1237878
    @oreilly1237878 Год назад +14

    It's now 27/1/23 ,90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday clock.God help us.

    • @ohenekojo2561
      @ohenekojo2561 Год назад +5

      I feel like everyone around me is going mad for their support for escalation

    • @robbibittybob20
      @robbibittybob20 Год назад +5

      ​@Ohene Kojo we need as much antiwar protestation as possible

    • @wleon4068
      @wleon4068 3 месяца назад

      Especially with Russia and Israel threatening nuclear war against the West.

  • @jasonhand1742
    @jasonhand1742 12 дней назад

    The way the crisis slowly but surely builds up and the way people start noticing it is so clever.

  • @jamesgornall5731
    @jamesgornall5731 2 дня назад

    They should show this again on all TV stations in the UK. One of the most incredible anti-ear movies EVER made. The US did their own, "The Day After," but it was nowhere near as horrific.

  • @iansmith2997
    @iansmith2997 11 дней назад

    I think this was made because of Able Archer in 1983. My father said that we would all go upstairs lay on the bed and hold hands. We really did come close, if wasn't for the Russian who refused to push the button. A very chilling time as a child.

  • @MrIncendiarydevice
    @MrIncendiarydevice 7 месяцев назад +2

    This would have been scary... Back when I was born...

  • @Phantom_961
    @Phantom_961 2 месяца назад +3

    Really brutal movie 😢

  • @cuauhtemoc8350
    @cuauhtemoc8350 Год назад +4

    Amanpour appears as the presenter in TV!

  • @garyturner5739
    @garyturner5739 Год назад +6

    I wonder if anybody will screen this chilling drama again on network tv. Mind you given the present situation I don't think so.

  • @regularguyrunning174
    @regularguyrunning174 Год назад +4

    Well done. That final scene is just terrible.

  • @Vlada988Bg
    @Vlada988Bg 10 месяцев назад +2

    Where to download this app?

  • @stevengreen4620
    @stevengreen4620 Год назад +2

    Me and my father watched that movie going way back I was 10 years old when The First I watched it it was on Cable Channel Superstation WTBS and a year later I watched it on KDNL-TV 30.

    • @johnhuntmorgan142
      @johnhuntmorgan142 Год назад +1

      Its.....My Father and I....not me and my father.......sorry......

    • @philipdru9290
      @philipdru9290 Год назад

      @@johnhuntmorgan142 Man, will you go out and pull your butt cheeks apart, bend over and insert your head. Then, fart!

  • @kitharrison8799
    @kitharrison8799 Год назад +2

    What gives, OP? Did you have to cut the dramatic elements? Mick Jackson did superbly with a totally unknown cast. There's no doubt that Threads had a huge impact on UK consciousness of nuclear conflict and Reagan himself watched it.

  • @robinhodson9890
    @robinhodson9890 Год назад +5

    Thursday May 12th, corresponds to 1983, not 1984. A minor slip, indicating the film was originally intended for release the previous year.

    • @welshcowboy306
      @welshcowboy306 Год назад +2

      Eerie coincidence that James Cameron made the same mistake when me made the Terminator.
      'Thursday' May 12th 1984 is the day Kyle Reese arrives from the future. (Which also depicts a nuclear holocaust)

  • @Carl-Gauss
    @Carl-Gauss 6 месяцев назад +2

    The American president’s voice in the film sounds unsettlingly reminiscent of Ronald Raegan’s.

  • @nuescht79
    @nuescht79 2 месяца назад

    Warum gibt es kein link zu den anderen beiden Teilen? Auch wenn es auf diesem Kanal "normal" ist, nicht zu antworten, würde ich mich freuen, diesmal ein zu erhalten

  • @robert-hh2ft
    @robert-hh2ft 7 месяцев назад +4

    as of this last week i would watch this again just to be ready for what will happen soon

    • @plxton
      @plxton 7 месяцев назад +2

      Then you missed the point, there is no way to be ready for what would happen

  • @AradSP
    @AradSP 7 месяцев назад +3

    Happening now

  • @TheLordIsMySheppard-bx1jo
    @TheLordIsMySheppard-bx1jo 3 месяца назад +4

    If America only listened to Patton

    • @benbow7
      @benbow7 3 месяца назад

      They had to silence him very quickly.

    • @scottmatheson3346
      @scottmatheson3346 2 месяца назад

      yes, if only they had prompted the ussr to spread all the way to the english channel, i'm sure that would have resolved things.

  • @k_a_t599
    @k_a_t599 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm in the UK, and had to use a VPN (USA connection) to find Threads in full on You Tube 🤔

  • @sarahjamieson-bas6156
    @sarahjamieson-bas6156 3 дня назад

    On the Beach also is a good watch. With the northern hemisphere gone and the radiation creeping southwards..

  • @UTRipleyxoxo
    @UTRipleyxoxo 5 месяцев назад +1

    God this is depressing 😢

  • @pongolowpill8596
    @pongolowpill8596 11 месяцев назад +1

    Came to watch this after that demon 79 ending

  • @rooty
    @rooty 11 месяцев назад +1

    The things change, the more they stay the same

  • @stephanielaurenbounds4958
    @stephanielaurenbounds4958 Год назад +1

    LOVE the BBC 1 newswoman’s hairstyle. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @LeeManchester
    @LeeManchester Год назад

    I remember this in 1984 I was 8

  • @Curi0u50ne
    @Curi0u50ne Год назад +7

    Do you know what shocked me most about the dock your film is the advanced looking jet aircraft that they’re using
    Even in 2023 they don’t look amiss, I remember as a 3year old kid being scared shitless by low flying jets from raf Driffield in 1972!

    • @grahambuckerfield4640
      @grahambuckerfield4640 Год назад +2

      That’s a F-4, prototype flew in 1958, entry UK service 1968, last RAF ones, seen in the film, retired in 1992.

  • @paulnaylor062
    @paulnaylor062 12 дней назад +1

    Not a Muslim in town. How times have changed.

  • @johntreherne4611
    @johntreherne4611 Год назад +3

    No one panic buying toilet paper

  • @iancoles1349
    @iancoles1349 Год назад +2

    When it gets to 90 ms to the witching hour I may stock up on some soup.

  • @JakubPyrachewsky
    @JakubPyrachewsky 14 дней назад +1

    Kirov class sustaining damage from the collision with a destroyer 😂 nice story, bro but the mass difference is ranging between 7 and 20 times between those two.

  • @davepowell7168
    @davepowell7168 Год назад +1

    A new version with the contemporary information technology now inseparable from todays youth would have greater impact perhaps

  • @nathancoleman8413
    @nathancoleman8413 5 месяцев назад

    This is like American movie "The Day After"which was made the year before this(1983)and had also aired in Britain

  • @reatvsocialmedia
    @reatvsocialmedia Год назад +1

    POV: It’s early March 2022

  • @thirdlantern
    @thirdlantern День назад

    As long as they don't hit Basildon.

  • @seattlecathey9710
    @seattlecathey9710 Год назад +2

    Sounds familiar doesn't it?

  • @henrynasal7682
    @henrynasal7682 Год назад

    Better than the movie!👍

  • @rnorthey4008
    @rnorthey4008 Месяц назад +1

    Even in the logic of this movie, the reason why the Americans are involved is because they keep repeatedly involving themselves?

  • @karadan100
    @karadan100 7 месяцев назад +1

    The Daily Mail was 33p in 1984!!

  • @bushcraftandastronomer.3775
    @bushcraftandastronomer.3775 Год назад +4

    All world goverment leaders should watch this film and see what could happen if they all press that nuclear button.
    It's the only war this world has never had and it could happen any time!

  • @AB-kx4ty
    @AB-kx4ty 10 месяцев назад +4

    These were some of the films of my childhood. Another is When the Wind Blows and The Day After - we grew up in the shadow of the Soviet bomb. Maybe these films should be shown to the current crop of clowns in the Russian government as they seem to freely throw around nuclear threats every day as if somehow they can win a nuclear war. Maybe they've forgotten what thermo nuclear war would mean for Russia....

    • @Sentrix6
      @Sentrix6 10 месяцев назад +1

      When the wind blows is an underrated masterpiece. It’s a shame not many people know of it

  • @GeneticHumanX
    @GeneticHumanX 3 месяца назад

    Oh dear God its set in Sheffield..... my nearest target city. . . Its reputation preceeds it with this film I'm on bloody tenterhooks now..... nearmind..... we'll go through this together.... will somebody old me and?

  • @annethomas9302
    @annethomas9302 Год назад

    Over and out…

  • @augustsoomre4795
    @augustsoomre4795 Год назад

    Pauluse esimene kiri korintlastele 15: 45 Nõnda on ka kirjutatud: „Esimene inimene Aadam sai elavaks
    hingeks.” Viimne Aadam sai vaimuks, kes elustab.
    46 Kuid esmalt ei ole vaimne, vaid maine, siis alles tuleb
    vaimne.
    47 Esimene inimene oli maast muldne, teine inimene oli taevast.
    48 Milline oli muldne, sellised on ka muldsed, ja
    milline oli taevane, sellised on ka taevased.
    49 Ja nii nagu me kandsime muldset kuju, nii
    kanname kord ka taevast kuju.
    50 Aga seda ma ütlen, vennad: liha ja veri ei või pärida
    Jumala riiki ega kaduvus pärida kadumatust.
    51 Vaadake, ma ütlen teile saladuse: meie kõik ei lähegi
    magama, aga meid kõiki muudetakse,
    52 äkitselt, ühe silmapilguga, viimse pasuna hüüdes, sest
    pasun hüüab ja surnud äratatakse üles kadumatutena, ning meid
    muudetakse.
    53 Sest see kaduv peab riietuma kadumatusega ja see
    surelik riietuma surematusega.
    54 Aga kui see kaduv riietub kadumatusega ja see surelik
    riietub surematusega, siis läheb täide sõna, mis on kirjutatud:
    „Surm on neelatud võidusse!
    55 Surm, kus on sinu võit?
    Surm, kus on sinu astel?”

    56
    Aga surma astel on patt, ent patu vägi on Seadus.
    57 Aga tänu olgu Jumalale, kes meile võidu annab meie
    Issanda Jeesuse Kristuse läbi!
    58 Niisiis, mu armsad vennad, olge kindlad, kõigutamatud
    ning ikka innukad Issanda töös, teades, et teie vaevanägemine
    Issandas ei ole tühine.

  • @honestmcgyver
    @honestmcgyver Год назад +2

    This and the US similar movie ‘the day after’ from the same era also about a nuclear war should be shown now in light of current world events. Right now we’re sheep bumbling around without a clue about what’s going on re Ukraine, China and NK

  • @glennoropeza3545
    @glennoropeza3545 11 дней назад

    In reality the U.S. could care less about Iran! But the movie made 40yrs ago has an accurate depiction of how society would break down after the bomb dropped! Utter caos!

  • @Imp5011
    @Imp5011 10 месяцев назад +3

    Once it's all over be sure to thank military personnel for their 'service' and for making it all possible.

  • @user-it6br5qv2q
    @user-it6br5qv2q Месяц назад +1

    Damn, global war really does suck. Let's hope we never have another one. This one could/mostly likely would be the last!

  • @thewaryears
    @thewaryears Год назад

    My dad's birthday was May 29.

  • @markc17
    @markc17 11 месяцев назад +1

    IMDb says the film is 1:52, not less than 30 mins

    • @MrDaveyboy125
      @MrDaveyboy125 6 месяцев назад

      I have this on DVD. This film has been cut to pieces on here.

  • @garyturner5739
    @garyturner5739 Год назад

    Mao said 'power comes out of the barrel of a gun.'

  • @RustyDumptruck
    @RustyDumptruck Месяц назад +2

    Silence

  • @SF-pq3sq
    @SF-pq3sq 14 дней назад +1

    Still possible 2024😊

  • @thewaryears
    @thewaryears Год назад +2

    The pubs had TV, why wasn't Benny Hill at 6:38. It's 1984.

    • @antispindr8613
      @antispindr8613 Год назад

      But did not BBC One 'Go NationWide', followed by Look North, South, East, West (or whatever local news)?

    • @thewaryears
      @thewaryears 11 месяцев назад

      @@antispindr8613 Benny Hill was aired in Canada.

  • @thomashayes2633
    @thomashayes2633 5 дней назад

    Ed Bishop provides the voice of the US president (presumably Regan)

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno Год назад +5

    At least Crewe gets vaporised.

    • @notreallydavid
      @notreallydavid 9 месяцев назад +7

      Expect reduced train services and rail delays.

    • @corriemcnab730
      @corriemcnab730 4 месяца назад +1

      Wrong radioactive snow on the line...

  • @richiehoyt8487
    @richiehoyt8487 7 месяцев назад +1

    Not that it's particularly relevant to the subject of this film, but Sheffield; the U.K's fourth largest city - really?! I know that comparing 'like' with 'like' when it comes to comparing statistics of this kind is notoriously difficult, cf, is one comparing what is within the official city boundary, the entire 'built - up' area, the metropolitan area, what? and what of contiguous towns, like in this instance, Rotherham? And so on; but still - fourth? I think all can agree that she comes behind London, Birmingham and Manchester, and though I don't know what the census figures are, I should have thought she was comparable with Liverpool and Bristol, but bigger than Leeds or Glasgow? No, I just can't see it...