“You cannot win a nuclear war!” Sums up the entire movie perfectly.

@j.jasonwentworth723

3 жыл бұрын

With a single exception, there is one--and only one--way to win a nuclear war: Don't "play." The lone exception is the case when a small country with a fanatical or self-deluded leadership (like Iran or North Korea), and a small number of nuclear weapons, threatens its neighbors (or even distant countries, if they have long-range delivery systems). Also: In such a case--if their use of their weapons is imminent--a quick strike with lower-yield nuclear weapons (cruise missiles and/or submarine-launched ballistic missiles, whose launches are so timed as to ensure that they hit their targets simultaneously) would end the threat. While this may seem extreme, even a *single* nuclear warhead, detonated in space above a large country, could--via the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) effect--cause tens of millions of deaths (or more) over a year or so, by frying all of the electrical power grid equipment and solid-state electronic devices, including in vehicles of all sorts, in effect plunging the target nation back into the mid-nineteenth century. Iran--with North Korean help--has planned such a strike, using a ship-launched Scud missile; they have even conducted Scud test shots of this kind (with dummy nuclear warheads).

@johnnls94

3 жыл бұрын

If you think about it a nuclear war can establish worldwide peace

@nigeh5326

3 жыл бұрын

@@j.jasonwentworth723 problem is if say the US nuked N Korea it would risk bringing China and or Russia into the conflict too. Both countries are neighbours of N Korea and China is N Koreas ally. Also if the N Koreans had one or two nukes hidden that the US didn’t hit them the N Koreans would retaliate by destroying Seoul or Tokyo if not a US city on the west coast or Hawaii. The biggest risk at present imo though is Pakistan and India getting into a war that escalates until one side or the other presses the button. Let’s hope that a nuclear conflict never breaks out, 2 cities bombed is more than enough for all time

@nigeh5326

3 жыл бұрын

@James Mitchell I honestly doubt those around him would just say ‘ok boss’ if he did decide to launch a nuclear strike like that. He would have been prevented from launching a nuclear strike by either the military or other senior politicians. N Korea is an evil regime but it’s not worth the risk of nuclear war with the Russians or China and all sides know that.

@gebana

3 жыл бұрын

any AI: PATHETIC

Take it in, this was a 400 000 pound TV movie. I have never seen anything like this with such production quality on such a small budget, and so so quality.

@Landie_Man

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a movie that you will never ever forget.

@locutus155

3 жыл бұрын

The BBC has a habit of making such classic material on a budget. I, Claudius was one such series, never had more than about seven sets and no outside filming but still had production values worthy of the like of Rome.

@jamesmiller113

3 жыл бұрын

I've come to the conclusion that it's so monstrously effective, in part *because* of the low budget, dodgy script. Lullls you into a false sense of security, then.... pow! Absolute dramatic perfection

@gavindhailwal3432

3 жыл бұрын

The 400k probly is more today due to inflation

@megadigidave4457

2 жыл бұрын

Soon to be available on Britbox

This is honestly the most terrifying, disturbing and upsetting film I have ever seen. something about the low budget, the grim 80's northern brittish working class setting and the complete and utter lack of hope for humanity make it a film that I really respect but don't want to watch more than twice. Everything is ugly and brutal with not a hint of light or beauty.

@bornesulinowo391

4 жыл бұрын

Check soviet film "Come and See". It's partly propaganda because shows soviets as the good ones. Meanwhile they were doing the same in their prison camps and on the front. Nevertheless the film is realistic and strictly ugly. You want to forget it.

@bornesulinowo391

3 жыл бұрын

@Mahala Films Meaning of my post was Russian atrocities = German atrocities. I don't symphatise with any side nor any other bandits.

@trinitytwo14992

3 жыл бұрын

stephen hall -- I am in Canada and cant find the movie, do you know of any links to watch it on YT for free?

@mikelcali6364

3 жыл бұрын

@@bornesulinowo391 no, they weren't, stop villifying the soviets

@john111257

3 жыл бұрын

it is fantastic..and horrific

Threads is, without a doubt, one of the most important films ever made. In recent weeks it's becoming more relevant than ever though.

@nude_cat_ellie7417

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@redrum4315

2 жыл бұрын

I think the same thing.

@DSH1976

2 жыл бұрын

Im watching it now

@marigoldbells9581

2 жыл бұрын

I was also reminded of this film in light of everything lately lmao

@Faithfrogffd

2 жыл бұрын

Hope the nukes don’t go off when I’m on the toilet …

This is a movie most people can never watch twice, because it did its job the first time.

@bbc6

3 ай бұрын

i know right

I watched "Threads" for the first time yesterday and sobbed. I'm still shaking today. It is easily the scariest as well as saddest film I have ever seen. It's essential viewing, especially for anyone who thinks a nuclear war can be won.

@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of regions would still be intact today with a nuclear attack. Mostly Europe, North America, Asia (mostly China Japan Korea), and Russia would receive the blunt of it. Australia, Africa, and New Zealand wouldn't be targeted heavily. Firestorming and nuclear winter are in dispute scientifically, but they could result in climate problems. Russia has 1280 megatons at most of ICBMs and the US has ~500. 4 megatons per US state attacking major cities and already Russia is down to 1080 megatons not to mention the priority would be military targets. A conventional war could follow. Horrible holocaust, but life would continue.

@ulysses6426

2 жыл бұрын

@@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu It's true that the regions you mentioned would probably avoid the worst of the immediate effects, but there would still come a catastrophic societal and economic slump that would naturally follow most of the world's population centers being annihilated overnight, not to mention the climate issues you mentioned being a very real possibility. Also, the current stockpiles won't necessarily continue to reduce, if tensions spark up again then I'd expect to see them increase. It's already happening, e.g the cap on Trident being increased by 40%, India/Pakistan continuing to arm themselves. Hopefully we'll never find out how bad it'd be, as even a "good" result would be nightmarish.

@the_panos

2 жыл бұрын

@@MiguelRuiz-vp1hu you're wrong about Australia, we have massive US bases here and also some of their main radar apparatus.

@alisonstead-spiritualmediu7115

2 жыл бұрын

@@the_panos Sad but true 🥲

@bobhabib7662

2 жыл бұрын

The point of nukes is not to win with them. It is to prevent any future conflict by making the end result unwinnable for any side. By making the conflict unwinnable, rational analysis results in not having the conflict in the first place.

As a Sheffield native, and having visited Hiroshima and the Peace Museum there multiple times... This film hits more deeply than I can describe.

@Hushey

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@random6809

Жыл бұрын

Sheffield looked better after the nuke went off!

@Sakkeru96

Жыл бұрын

@@random6809 when did you last visit?

@westaussie965

Жыл бұрын

Why would you go to Japan multiple times? Once is enough surely 😂

@Sakkeru96

Жыл бұрын

@@westaussie965 ... I'm not answering that since it sounds like you've already got a strong opinion and probably wouldn't actually care if I explained my own opinion. Feel free to tell me otherwise if you really do want to know, but I won't hold my breath.

I will never forget the sense of impending doom I felt watching this film with my school mates as a teenager. The scenes before the bomb were bad enough but the aftermath was grim and horrific beyond belief. They probably shouldn't have let us watch it to be honest (we were 12/13 at the time) and I was deeply affected by it for years. It was important we did see it though.

@johnflavin1602

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I was about 12 when I first saw it and I couldn't get it out of my head. Couldn't sleep as I was convinced the world was coming to an end. Certainly no happy ending in this film.

@evilreligion

2 жыл бұрын

I think everyone of our generation that watched this as a kid was deeply affected by it. My mum would not let me watch it so I secretly set the VHS recorder to tape it off the telly and watched it when she didn't know. I was 10 at the time. Suffice to say my mum had never been more right about anything and it was really not something a 10 year old should ever watch. I had horrific nightmares for months afterwards. I still get that "threads feeling" whenever I watch scenes from it, like you said, a deep feeling of impending doom and utter helplessness. I have watched it again as an adult several times but it always takes me back to those childhood 1980's terror. A horrible brutal movie but an absolute masterpiece.

@justathought7221

Жыл бұрын

Yeah me too. Saw it. Messed me up. I saw it in Bradford when I was a teenager. Sheffield was a hip skip away from there.

@jocelyneke6445

Жыл бұрын

The movie is still relevant in 2023. I am going to watch it. I never even heard of it til today

@lpg12338

Жыл бұрын

@@jocelyneke6445 Yes Sir, I just watched “The Day After” and now watching this.

Ha ha. Just seen this. I was in the shot next to the woman giving the speech on the town hall steps (I was a trade union official). God I was a looker. Lol.

@MrDaveyboy125

4 жыл бұрын

You look like Peter Sutcliffe the Yorkshire ripper...

@glasgowdmon

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrDaveyboy125 What do you mean, he 'looks' like?

@SilverMist0121

4 жыл бұрын

Look like a nonce

@rabidrabbitshuggers

4 жыл бұрын

@Gordon Liddle You’re super humble for someone who was in an incredibly important scene in the best horror movie of all time. If I had been cast as a foot sticking out of concrete I still would have been impossible to deal with.

@TheTurkaderr

3 жыл бұрын

I would have hit that lol

Grew up in Sheffield. They made us watch this at school. Basically shit myself.

@jaggy-snake

3 жыл бұрын

Got shown this too, 100% caused depression

@ecnalms851

3 жыл бұрын

Damn that's horrible. Didn't think they would be allowed to?

@zhukie

2 жыл бұрын

@@ecnalms851 More like too important not to, at that time

@jaynej9924

2 жыл бұрын

They’re still terrorising children.

@theythemgae9025

2 жыл бұрын

We dont need no education

Movies like this are needed to remind people 'no, it won't be OK in the end'

@APoliticalConfusionAndMess

3 жыл бұрын

Ok, but even if it won't - try to make it ok in the present.

@bbc6

3 ай бұрын

i know man

Is anyone else find themselves here thanks to our world's recent geopolitical developments? This is some existential shit right here.

@daddysfatsausageinyourbumb4419

2 жыл бұрын

Just waiting for the tsar bomba to be dropped any day now

@gaelicjane1613

2 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed. Scary times. All world leaders should be forced to watch this.

I am Argentinean and saw this film many years ago. As the war against Britain had just ended we were mentioned in the movie, the first thing I remember. And then the fear and the complete sense of impending doom for all mankind if a nuclear war were to occur. Watched it twice and taught me more than any other film ever. Will not watch it again for sure, as it is more than sad but totally terrifying.

@guitarman8462

6 ай бұрын

Watch the movie " The Day After ". Also a movie from the 80's that scared everyone and even made the news.

I have seen A LOT of scary movies in my life and this beats them all. The single most brutal piece of media I have ever experienced. Pure fucking terror. I believe it should be viewed as a critically important educational tool for the sake of our society. If you ever find yourself thinking it's okay that we have nuclear bombs...this will get that idea out of your head really fucking fast. If you choose to watch this (and you should) it will change your life. I wish every politician and crooked businessman could see Threads. Like a wake up call from a nightmare future trying desperately to get us to LISTEN and save ourselves from the destruction, while there's still time!

@chasehedges6775

4 ай бұрын

👍

@chasehedges6775

4 ай бұрын

I have watched it and I agree

October 2022 and the Threads dreads are starting to creep up again.

"If however, you have had a body in the house for more than five days, and, if it safe to go outside, then you should bury the body in a trench or cover it with earth, and mark the spot of the burial."

It's an impressive and good movie, because it obviously totally achieves its intention: Making the gruesomeness and desperation seeable, feelable. But I don't wanna watch it again, it pierced my marrow and bones. It doesn't occure very often, but this movie kept me thinking for the rest of the day and night...

@emmielshof3442

4 жыл бұрын

right? its the only movie that made such a big impact that i cant watch it again

@flannelsykes0

4 жыл бұрын

Wholeheartedly agree. It's terrifying enough watching it once

@flannelsykes0

4 жыл бұрын

@Rory O'Donnell Yes. Although bleak amd terrifying it's certainly worth watching

@piratealeks6865

4 жыл бұрын

Rory O'Donnell yes, but you’ll never want to see it again

@jackwest3282

4 жыл бұрын

wait til you contemplate what happens if all the heaven, hell bs doesn't exist...you just become nothing...how does becoming nothing feel...can you even wrap your head around your total existence is gone forever? that is what I would call scary. so lets all hope the religious nuts are right so we can have something after this life...but then again if you are a horrible person you might prefer nothing.

Quite possibly the most terrifying and disturbing made for tv movie ever. A brilliant masterclass in displaying pure and simple terror and a reminder of why no one wins a nuclear war.

@gregmorrill4783

2 жыл бұрын

Watch By Dawns Early Light

@maverickbull1909

9 ай бұрын

no it's NOT. It's not even remotely terrifying or disturbing.

@DemPilafian

8 ай бұрын

I get the sense you are unfamiliar with the word _"deterrence"._ The goal is not to win a nuclear war -- it's to *deter* a nuclear war.

@excessmaterial

4 ай бұрын

Meh, "The Day After" is not only more brutal, but it shows a better depiction of life before, during, and after a nuke in a large city and the special effects and dialogue are better.

I watched this yesterday, I don’t think I could ever erase some of those scenes from my memory. Truly terrifying.

This is one of the greatest movies of all time. An horrifying masterpiece from start to finish.

@chasehedges6775

5 ай бұрын

A brilliant film

One of the most bleak and horrific movies I ever watched. the ending still gives me chills.

@TheSlighty

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I hear you.man. I was probabaly 11 when I saw this in 84. 47 now BUT still get the chills in that closing scene. What was it that the nurse passed her ?

@woodlandmist77

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSlighty - The nurse passed to her , her still born and badly deformed baby to which Jane then open's her mouth to scream in horror.

@TheSlighty

4 жыл бұрын

@@woodlandmist77 Yes i meant it hypothetically, what 'was it' - what did it look like? the horror of the imagination mate . Argh I saw a brilliant BBC 2 documentary a few years back called 'Electric dreams' - basically every episode was a different year and they (re)introduced the family, mum n dad and teenage kids' to a new technology, fad or something of that year. They put Thread son and they watched it and the Mum cried and said it reminded her of the effect it had on her at that time and i totally dug it. Its how i felt. Looking back i am thankful mum n dad let me stay up and watch it but it gave me a VERY troubled time sometime after. We had the Protect and Survive leaflets/Adverts and knew a bit of the cold war - but Threads showed us how unrelentingly grim life would be and i hated it. A very powerful piece of TV, I be honest some 35 years later i am not sure i am ready to watch it again !

Was shown this twice at school in the 80's. This film will never leave my mind. I watched it recently and still couldn't get over the real depressing nature of the silly men in charge of the world stage, we all live in fear of a handful of irresponsible people. This film is no less scary now than it was then.

@mypersonalstuff8456

6 ай бұрын

“Silly men in charge” - - - anyone who thinks Donald Trump is capable of acting outside of his own insatiable ego, particularly in an event such as this, is hastening his / her own demise.

This film changed my entire outlook on life, I have never watched a film so life changing like this before.

@chasehedges6775

9 ай бұрын

Soooo true. This film will stay with you.

@guitarman8462

6 ай бұрын

Watch another movie from the 80's called " THE DAY AFTER ".

@bbc6

3 ай бұрын

scary stuff mate

@Randy-do3dz

2 ай бұрын

They played this and The Day After for us in school when I was in grade 4

Watched this as a kid and remember saying "Well Birmingham looks like this already"

Fun fact, they actually blew up Sheffield in the filming of this movie

Those sirens are horrifying.

@bradcogan8588

2 жыл бұрын

Even worse when they go off randomly for no reason which happened a few years ago. I shit bricks lmao 🤣

@BasslineDJs

2 жыл бұрын

They sure do have the desired effect, one of the main companies Castle Castings were contacted for most of the UK. I used to visit my grandparents in Scarborough, on my way to the bay,I had to walk past one of these on atop a metal pole. Was forever paranoid it was going to startup

That woman shouting "YOU CANNOT WIN A NUCLEAR WAR!" is burned into my mind

The sound of that baby crying made me cry. What a terrible possibility and seems we are in an identical situation today.

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. Brutally realistic.

This is the scariest movie I have ever seen! This movie will probably leave you paranoid for a while 😬

Who else is watching trailer NOW and feeling MORE than just a little a bit nervous...

@MrDonny27

Жыл бұрын

Me

That dude on the toilet didn't wipe

@victoriaeugenianewton7130

3 жыл бұрын

He probably shit himself again as soon as he saw the mushroom cloud anyway.

@_tyrannus

3 жыл бұрын

@GazB Nah, he survives the attack but a couple weeks after gets his head bashed in by a bunch of looters, all for a bag of prawn flavoured crisps.

@_tyrannus

3 жыл бұрын

@GazB Threads is such a nice movie, it spares us any of the inevitable cannibalism.

@mazzyfart420

3 жыл бұрын

@@_tyrannus Goddamn I just watched it and didn’t even notice that was his house

So, who's here in 2022 for a bit of revision?

@emily.f.p5160

2 жыл бұрын

Its so bleak but it still made me laugh... followed by sitting in silence for a bit.

@bradford_shaun_murray

2 жыл бұрын

@@emily.f.p5160 ...lol

@nathaniel9526

2 жыл бұрын

No they would probably make the revision dumbed down and made less brutal

@bulldogwoof6954

2 жыл бұрын

@@emily.f.p5160 The chills damn!!

@whatever-pw3tj

2 жыл бұрын

Me, I'm a business man

I love British sense of humour imagine being caught short on the toilet when the big bomb goes off literally how embarrassing !

@sonicstep

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, or perhaps being engaged in intercourse.

@daxpwnsyouall

4 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't have to be embarrassed for long

@HarvestHome2000

4 жыл бұрын

Toilet humour is in fact one of the worst things about Britain.

@B.C36

4 жыл бұрын

Armageddon always happens at the worst possible time.

@simonprice1938

4 жыл бұрын

Someone somewhere will be having a j.arthur. lol.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Michael!" (bleached-out image and silence for several seconds ) One of the greatest pieces of directing ever.

@ellemjay

2 жыл бұрын

The complete silence really makes the whole scene.

@grahamfisher5436

2 жыл бұрын

yes . the scene immediately after..... her going up in flames, on fire, and her husband throwing the curtain over her.. it's split into 4 2 second parts . absolutely incredible.. did you know?! Jimmy.. is the guy!!!, sat in the hospital cubical, next to his daughter giving birth to his granddaughter . and absolutely no idea.. this scene is what the title of the film is all about. just how delicate and quickly the society, community, friends and family are snapped apart and separated .. T H R E A D S

@sophiaevilairobot611

2 жыл бұрын

@@grahamfisher5436 I have to admit I missed that, because of the make-up effects have changed his looks so much. I thought it was Tim McInnerny the actor, but nothing showed on the credits.

i remember watching this film when i was in year 11 (around 2016) and i came home and told my dad about it, because it truly shook me to my core. i was surprised to learn that my dad had watched the same film when he was around the same age and was also equally terrified, especially because nuclear was was a very real possibility back then. it's the kind of film you don't watch twice.

@kelthuzad842

Жыл бұрын

it is still a possibility.

@HeizelGonzalez

Жыл бұрын

@@kelthuzad842 funny how things can change in 2 years...

@mE-zx7pt

Жыл бұрын

@@HeizelGonzalez True.

@aydon1276

Жыл бұрын

yes it is

@nelotharen8599

11 ай бұрын

"back then"

"Bloody Hell!"

@MrWolfSnack

5 жыл бұрын

There's always toilet humor in every British film

@MrDaveyboy125

4 жыл бұрын

That scene is the worst part of the film!

@irritatinggitwithagrin7486

4 жыл бұрын

Then he pulls up his bags. Always someone on the s***house when something important happens.

@irritatinggitwithagrin7486

4 жыл бұрын

Then he pulls up his bags. Always someone on the s***house when something important happens.

@besnikzogaj9887

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrWolfSnack guys, i have an idea!

Scariest movie I have ever seen

@LoudmouthReviews

6 жыл бұрын

Joseph Valenti I own the Blu-Ray. Not the best quality but man this movie is a heartbreaking and disturbing masterpiece

@john111257

6 жыл бұрын

it really is

@sugar4522

5 жыл бұрын

Where could I buy this movie?, I love post apocolyptic films never heard of it

@john111257

5 жыл бұрын

Very easy, look about you can get it

@punkoid76

5 жыл бұрын

sugar-ray palfrey it’s not really a post apocalyptic film, not in the usual sense of the genre, its more like a documentary/drama, to be honest its not a remotely pleasurable viewing experience and you won’t enjoy it, its too fucking depressing.

The premise for this is straight out of 2024. How far we've come.

I can only pray and hope that something like this never happens.

I remember watching this. I live in Rotherham and was absolutely cacking myself

Meta’s HQ: perfect name for our next app 🎉

I regard myself as having a very thick skin and a strong stomach, but after watching the entire film on KZread back in 2013 before it was taken off, I was so traumatised that I had trouble sleeping for many nights after watching it! I also watched the American Hollywood depiction of a nuclear war called The Day After and that film pales into insignificance compared to the raw horror of nuclear war so realistically portrayed in Threads. This must be mandatory viewing for every world leader and should be also shown in our secondary schools so that young people, (the world leaders of tomorrow), are fully informed with what awaits humanity if anyone is mad enough to start a nuclear war that can't be won by any side!

@Galactipod

2 жыл бұрын

It's still on KZread.

@madness8556

2 жыл бұрын

@@Galactipod where? Could you please provide a link?

@Galactipod

2 жыл бұрын

@@madness8556 kzread.info/dash/bejne/e62tm9BxopScmNY.html

@nellz72

Жыл бұрын

@@madness8556 kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4em09udaKWfl6g.html

I haven't seen it, but even the trailer is giving me chills

@6079SmithW

Жыл бұрын

Watch it

@A..Shadow..

10 ай бұрын

Watch it mate. It's a rough viewing, but in my opinion also extremely important. Good luck.

@guitarman8462

6 ай бұрын

Watch another movie from the 80's called " THE DAY AFTER ". Then give your thoughts.

This movie and Requiem For A Dream (2000) are the two most depressing movies I’ve ever seen. But both of them are absolutely PHENOMENAL! 👏👏👏

@MrDirkles

2 жыл бұрын

Well don't forget to watch, when the wind blows, just to complete the set

@michaelpelzek8882

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrDirkles I actually just watched that a couple days Ago its not nice obviously but this and requiem are in a league of there own.

@MrDirkles

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelpelzek8882 I've never seen requiem so I'll give It a watch

@andykolb6502

2 жыл бұрын

Come and see

@DanielAspajo9930

Жыл бұрын

I love Requiem for a Dream watch it several times, well I live near Connie Island lol

One of the best films made on the topic to this day.

@chasehedges6775

10 ай бұрын

👍👍💯💯

The only post apocalyptic movie you will ever need to see

@excessmaterial

4 ай бұрын

Meh, "The Day After" is not only more brutal, but it shows a better depiction of life before, during, and after a nuke in a large city and the special effects and dialogue are better.

@DanielGjrTing

4 ай бұрын

@@excessmaterial Too hollywood for me I guess. Somehow that cheap old BBC flair just hits better.

One of the most important films made, and as relevant now as it was in '84. A depressing and numbing film, but should be shown to everyone in secondary school. So if one ends up taking office like Bden or Putin, they won't be so likely to cause WWIII.

I think people of a certain age (like me) have started thinking about this in light of recent events. Damn scary stuff.

@leemason6897

2 жыл бұрын

I certainly have, which is why I re-watched this and The War Game today. Back in the 80s, I would have been one of the peace protestors. Now I feel like I need to be on the streets again.

@karenjohnson2720

2 жыл бұрын

We were shown this in school in the 80s

@anakinsoyo

10 ай бұрын

exactly . A lot of younger people dont understand it but the day russian troops went into ukraine all that child hood trauma came flooding back . I was so anxious for the first month of this current conflict . These fucking maniacs are playing a very dangerous game indeed

Was looking for a product preview for Meta's Threads. Wasn't disappointed.

I am here because of Meta Threads. Mark was born too in 1984... why it gived it this name of the movie? Is this a sign?🤔

Most frightening movie I have ever seen . It came close to being a reality back then .

@jackwest3282

4 жыл бұрын

that is not true at all, there were incidents that could have lead to it, there were even shots fired on both sides by our planes...but would they ever have the capability and resolve to end their nations lives...no. maybe if stalin or lenin were alive fuck yes we would all have burned cause they were both crazy idiots. but yeltzen and regan understood what was at risk and neither side wanted to end their countries.(yes the rest of the countries would have gone fuck you guys...we are not launching and in books as well as interviews in later years previous world leaders have said as much. England especially cause they handed over their nuke control to the U.N. lolz there is a brilliant move. any way both stock piles of nukes were in shitty condition and majority of the 50k bombs/missiles on both sides were being disassembled and more than half the silos had missiles with conventional high yield explosives of a non-nuclear nature by the mid 80s. why...cause unfortunately most of the nukes had such high radiation material that it broke down the casing and systems within them making them a risk to keep in active service. they tried to maintain them as best they could but they still leaked like a siv into the control systems of the missiles. they had more than a few give false launch signals and pre-detonation warnings...etc..so they would just disarm and replace them with nuke looking missiles, but filled with the regular high yield explosives instead. Russia had a big problem with that too...more than a few actually detonated in their silos too. only thing either side was close to was poluting and ruining their own countries with their own weapons. in the 90s similar thing happened with US stock piles of biological bombs/missiles stored in the north eastern part of oregon state and in the midwestern part of Washington state. lot of them started leaking as their seals degraded and they couldn't disarm them quick enough. more than a few personnel died in those efforts to disarm them.

@pilekarker

4 жыл бұрын

It was a reality for the Japanese.

@timtrek

3 жыл бұрын

@fpsMaverick it actually came very close to occurring in 1983. The Russian missile defence system detected a single missile coming in their direction. The Soviet commander reasoned that it was unlikely the US would attack using a single missile and decided it was a computer malfunction and did not retaliate. There have been other such close calls. In 2017 tensions were particularly high as Nato conducted war exercises on the Russian border.

@catoleg

4 ай бұрын

It comes close to reality again

I volunteer in a charity shop. This dvd has been donated. Should I put it out in current affairs section?

@jamjarr8808

2 жыл бұрын

@MDl3wis Animations And Trains I did

@bradford_shaun_murray

2 жыл бұрын

moved from fiction to non fiction section

Threads is a good example why culture and art can make a difference in the world. It showed people and is still showing the reality of a nuclear war. Art is important.

I'm fr Kansas City, I'm 43. So I grew up as a kid with a fear/obsession over nuclear war. Then they film "The Day After" basically in my backyard in 1982. So that movie scared me in my early years. That's until I seen "Threads" bout 10 years ago for 1st time. Its the scariest movie I've ever seen. It literally made "The Day After" feel like an After School Special..

Who's here in 2023 to find out what Zucks new film is about?

I remember being told about this film at some point in the 80s... I watched it tonight for the first time, and it's crazy how factual this really could become!! 😥

@chasehedges6775

10 ай бұрын

Sooooo true. This film is terrifying

Watched this yesterday never again completely freaked me out especially at the moment the way the world is

@tedegato7931

11 ай бұрын

where 😢?

@jellbean207

10 ай бұрын

@@tedegato7931 i think it was on prime

I own this movie on DVD and it's one of my most prized possessions. Everyone should see it. Such a shame it's not a little more accessible. Hugely moving. Desperately sad. Terrifying and sadly just as relevant and possible as it was 40 years ago. 😢

Get the DVD only about 20 pounds now. It is a 2 disk set with loads of extras and 2 commentaries. One with the director mick jackson

If you like this movie, then check out “The Day After”.

This film is a masterpiece. I love it. Gonna be rewatching it for years

@AntonArmsberg

4 жыл бұрын

You can find the whole movie on archive.com

@judyb1539

2 жыл бұрын

Xfinity and I imagine other Broadband cable systems might have it on demand. That's where I've seen it and actually purchased it. It is a powerful movie!

@StuJee1

Жыл бұрын

Jesus Christ, it took me several sittings to watch this film - I doubt I’ll ever rewatch it 😂

@A..Shadow..

10 ай бұрын

​@@StuJee1 Well at least you got through it eventually. 👍🏻 I personally think everyone should see it at least once. Especially the younger generations who will one day be the World leaders of tomorrow. In the hope it can show them exactly why nuclear war can NEVER be an option.

It's upsetting enough to watch as a fiction. When you remember this really happened to real people in Japan, it's unbearable.

@teamatfort444

4 жыл бұрын

except japan was unexpected if im correct, out of the blue nuclear bomb

@mikitz

4 жыл бұрын

All of this was extremely close to happen just a year prior to the film's release...

@SMGJohn

4 жыл бұрын

@@teamatfort444 Out of the blue, they killed 600 000 people in total from the bombs, around 350 000 in the initial explosion, the rest died agonising deaths. There now revealed documentation the nuclear bombs were nothing but a test and a show of force towards the Soviets.

@ozmid40scouple

4 жыл бұрын

160p2GHz you mean a nation that waged war on other nations, killing untold thousands and atrocities beyond belief against allied service men and women.....

@smashrockefeller7261

4 жыл бұрын

That's what the government did, not the innocents who were killed.

Remember watching this l was trembling!!!!! Never been so scared, even a few years before as a 16/17 year old everytime I heard planes late at night...l thought this is it!

I watched this an hour ago. I live in Sheffield so it hit a bit close to him and kind of disturbed me but in a good way.

@neothew0lf

5 ай бұрын

*close to home

i'd worry about my cat

@johnsmith-bx4rn

5 жыл бұрын

don't talk silly

@waynekerr866

5 жыл бұрын

@@SSNebula you're a fucking weirdo

@mikecarone7320

5 жыл бұрын

Saddest part of

@maiasmall7895

5 жыл бұрын

Kronorium Kaos sicko

@krazyoldkatlady192

4 жыл бұрын

john smith nah, the cats will survive. They're not dumb like us humans.😁

This movie is much more terrifying than the day after. Its depiction of life after a nuclear Holocaust / exchange or whatever you want to call it is so bleak. They ought to make us all watch this again or movies like this so we can calm down the tensions in our world

There is a great hidden Easter egg on threads (there may are more, I've listed some I found on threads after dinner commentary here on utube. If anyone finds more pls list below) when Ruth is stripping the wallpaper off her new flat walls, the newsman on radio is telling u how to survive in event of nuclear attack. Ruth stops and breaks down crying against the wall. Jimmy stops too when he hears her and so he walks to comfort her. As he is walking, on the wall directly above and almost protruding from the top of Ruth's head is a huge mushroom cloud shape left in the wall paper where she has been removing it... Absolutely brilliant.. I never spotted it til tonight... Go have a look its magnificent subliminal messaging..

@ludy41

6 ай бұрын

The number 13 on the gate in allotment. Many think 13 is a bad luck number.

0:17 that's ironic considering what's been on the news for the last few months

@saloona_

5 ай бұрын

Exactly! muricunty hegemony is brutal to this day!

Even more terrifying in 2022

@dereenaldoambun9158

Жыл бұрын

And less terrifying in 2023.

@rottingcorpse1990

3 ай бұрын

@@dereenaldoambun9158 And more terrifying in 2024.

I asked for this for my eighteenth birthday(which is the 18th of November) and I loved it.UNDERATED!😩😍

We need more films like this rather than those cringy super hero action movies or those lame jump scare horrors.

As curious as i am, i do not plan on seeing this film for my own emotional good. However, if the reactions alone from those who have seen it aren't a testament to just how powerful a work of fiction can be, i do not know what is.

@theouter_banks7260

2 жыл бұрын

I had to turn it off halfway through and take a breather, first time I've ever had to do that during a film.

@grahamfisher5436

2 жыл бұрын

watch it !! and you'll pray fiction NEVER becomes fact . I'm 49, grew up in Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire boarder. completely surrounded by RAF airbases, so in the 70's and 80's fighters and bomber planes were always in the sky's above.. terrifying to know what they were up there to do .. fly directly to Russia and drop the nuclear bombs.. not being macabre, however nothing would survive a Global nuclear war.. KZread ON THE 8TH DAY may sense and sensibility lead and prevail

Rip Woolworths

@flannelsykes0

4 жыл бұрын

​@@jernaugurgeh451Very true. Also you wrote this 4 months ago and we still have sorted it out and I'm certain this December election is going to do nothing more than prolong it even bloody further

@ulysses6426

2 жыл бұрын

@@flannelsykes0 And here we are in 2021, with the same bumbling idiots in charge of the circus. Never going to end is it? 2024 seems a long way away, and I think we'll be in for another 4 years of them regardless.

this movie should be mandatory watching in schools

@guitarman8462

6 ай бұрын

Watch the movie also from the 80's called " THE DAY AFTER ". Then give your thoughts .

@excessmaterial

4 ай бұрын

Meh, "The Day After" is not only more brutal, but it shows a better depiction of life before, during, and after a nuke in a large city and the special effects and dialogue are better.

@stayhungry1503

4 ай бұрын

Meh@@excessmaterial

I bought so much pick n mix from that Woolworths as a kid 😢

1:58 Pink toilet paper is the most British thing I have ever seen.

@dbzispimpin

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the US in the 90s and my Grandmother had pink toilet paper at her house throughout my childhood... it varied from Pink to Mint Green sometimes... I haven't seen colored toilet paper since I was a kid now that you mention it. Strange.

@EmmaAmandaMilli

2 жыл бұрын

Growing up we had orange and scented still haunts me more than 20years on to wash your ass and buy normal paper no need for fancy shit my aunt brought

Threads was first shown on my 17th birthday and still haunts me today, it pulls absolutely no punches and is unrelentlessly bleak, this film is beyond scary, it is damn right bloody disturbing, but everyone should see it, but once is quite enough.............

2022 is emulating 1984 in FAR too many ways...

Two questions unanswered by Threads kind of hang in the air by the film's ending..1) How did the attack pan out worldwide? We are told 'East-West exchange 3,000 megatons total' ,,,I would guess that means the USA/USSR got about 1,000 MT each with the remainder of strikes spread across Europe and various Third World countries with USAF bases. Even so large parts of the southern hemisphere at least would not be directly targeted. Would these areas do better or simply be decimated by famines as nuclear winter caused worldwide agriculture and trade to collapse? Might countries like Australia/NZ recover within 50-100 years? 2) by the end of Threads, the population drop has bottomed out but electricity, mining and basic farming has returned. There is even steam power and perhaps some possibility of trade with whatever remains of the other nations. On the other hand, the population could be wiped out by the next crop failure, there no more petrol so no more heavy industry, the postwar children (the ones not born stunted or dead) are little savages and the remaining adults are riddled with cancer. Is slow extinction (at least in the northern hemisphere) inevitable or might some recovery of urban civilization, through the survival of the fittest, happen within a century or two?

@mirandalovelace

5 жыл бұрын

8

@Ammoniumbicarbonat

4 жыл бұрын

That’s called an ambiguous ending; it poses those questions but there’s no intention to answer them. You have to make your own mind up about what could happen afterwards.

@simonprice1938

4 жыл бұрын

Best not ware anything decent that day then...

@jackwest3282

4 жыл бұрын

this movie is so far from reality of what nuclear war would be like before, during, and after its not even funny. also those mega ton amounts are insanely high...the largest nuclear fusion bomb(basically largest ever constructed for both destructive power and ability.) by russia was 50MT which equals to 50,000 kilotons. so lets do some math... 50 goes into 3k..60...so they would need to create 60 of those 50MT bombs to equal out the amount they were talking about. there is not enough material available to either side to create that amount. at that time they also decided not to use that range of bomb due to the horrible side effects that would cause not only damage to the physical structure of the areas they were dropped on, but really could destroy the atmosphere itself...ya know...the thing that lets us keep on living. so their stock piles were of the 1MT size or at most most were closer to 2MT...enough to destroy the enemy, but not enough to destroy the atmosphere. so lets go 1 into 3k...3000 bombs/missiles of that range..again most of the stock piles were not even in condition to be used though we had in the USA about 27k bombs/missiles by the 80s. so its not realistic at all. most of the missiles that were loaded and ready to use on ICBMs were in the 3 to 5MT range and those they did have in close to 20 to 30 missiles in use able condition. still way below what they spouted off about in the movie. majority though they disarmed even before the 70s -80s due to the instability of the containers which were made during the early days of nuclear weapon development. they had more than a few scared due to the containers and bomb shells deterioration made disarming them near impossible, so a lot had to be control detonated and then just clean up the nuclear debris after. they really ramped up the efforts towards the end of the 80s due to not having both enough space(don't want them all together in case one goes off...setting off multiple ones screwing your whole country and arsenal.) for safe disarmament and disposal. just like everything to do with the cold war it was all a smoke screen effort. in reality both sides had a lot of weapons..but both sides knew that the majority were just as worthless unless they really did want to end the lives of all people on the world.

@DistantCousin

3 жыл бұрын

I thought similar. Was there no attempt to rescue the UK or were we left for dead?! (or am I being very naive?!) Surely the southern hemisphere would have been not massively effected?

I worked for Islington Council in the 1980’s when the Council in their wisdom decided civil defence was a waste of time, and opened the documents for all to see on what should happen in a nuclear, biological and chemical war, they were colour coded and I must say a bit of an eye opener!!!’ The civil defence bunker was also on show, and anyone interested could visit to see the preparations, the bunker and read the manuals!!!’ What struck me at the time was how dated everything was, but that was Islington!!!’ In the 1990’s I moved out of London into the shires they too had bunkers, my nearest one had OAP housing built over the top of it, that was designed to collapse and add additional protection to the bunker underneath, Hmm how civilised, I wander who came up with that plan, bloody brilliant.!!!’ In the shires we still practice for such events, shame on those that do, sick fools that they are!!!’ But it’s that sort of thinking that means we still have to fear nuclear, biological and chemical war!!!’ When will mankind learn the lessons on the futility of war and turn the weapons into plough sheers!!!’ War is not healthy for children and other living things!!!’ Bob Dylan said it all in the 60’s and yet we still have wars!!’ We must as a people put an end to war or soon we will be no more, we have to learn the lessons of history if we are to survive and divert the money’s spent on war into peaceful activities and to the benefit of mankind.!!!’ The warmongers of this beautiful planet must be eliminated that we may grow and prosper, listen to the words of Bob Dylan and weep!!!’ m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/f4F6zJqudNjIo6g.html For those that can’t listen I produce Bob Dylan’s words below: How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind Yes, and how many years must a mountain exist Before it is washed to the sea? And how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind Yes, and how many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? And how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind... Go in and spread peace my friends... ຈل͜ຈ ..........................................................

@alisonstead-spiritualmediu7115

Жыл бұрын

Yes - though may the warmongers just come to their senses so that no one else has to be tasked with their elimination?!!

Think I'll watch this movie on Christmas this year.

Well I wasn't alive to see this in the movie theater, but on the very bright sight it seems like it I'll get to see Threads in real life very soon.

I don't know why I love this film

@johnsmith-bx4rn

5 жыл бұрын

you're the type who'd press the button with glee

@Thrashaero

3 жыл бұрын

It's gritty, raw, frightening, doesn't hold much of anything back.

Threads is the true nature of man personified. This film terrified me when first viewed so heavily I will never forget it. Up until Threads aired, I wanted to survive nuclear war, no more, I want to be at ground zero so I don’t wander blind with radiation sickness until death. That’s the true horror of nuclear war.

Just watch again first time in years scary now as it was wen I watch wen I was a kid !

@0mnicide

5 жыл бұрын

Where are you watching it? I can’t find it anywhere. It’s not on KZread, not on Netflix, not on demand, not on Amazon prime..

@DjNforce90

5 жыл бұрын

@@0mnicide got it on my hard drive converted it from vhs

I first heard samplings from this in 1986 on an album by Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force". Being from the US, its not that widely known here at least back then, and it wasn't until I stumbled across it 15 years later I was finally able to hear what they were took the sound clips from.

It’s a pretty upsetting movie. The final image is burned into my skull. I felt like crying after watching this movie.

@chasehedges6775

4 ай бұрын

👍👍

VERY IMPORTANT make sure you eat before watching this movie. I couldn’t eat during and after watching it. Very disturbing 😶

@qualityghost

4 жыл бұрын

I was hungry when watching this film, but I never went to get food. I would've felt too bad to eat something while all those people are scrounging and looting for food.

@KonkeyDongkey

3 жыл бұрын

@@qualityghost Thank you Jotaro Kujo

Really good to watch during a pandemic !

here because of the app, now invested and interested because of the chills this gave me

Growing up in the 80s hey... I remember the existential dread 😢

Brilliant film. Pooed my pants watching it as a kid. Barry Hines great writer.

Not sure if this is aged well by the November 2022.

"The day after" is another good movie about nuclear apocalypse. Released around the same time as threads but on USA evening TV. The initial viewing had over 100 million viewers.

Out on blue ray soon. Can't wait to see it. Love Reece dinsdale

So, who's here in 2023 when Threads has been for meta

It can still happen.

Here in the states, we had RBS in 1983; it scared the hell out of me, as I was just a boy. If I’d seen Threads as a boy, I’d be in therapy!

Watched in school and even through I've been done with it, I still remember this.