• Threads (1984)
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For those who haven't seen or heard of it, Threads is a very good feature length Docudrama by the BBC, showing the before, during, and after effects of a nuclear invasion. [quote]It is the mid-1980's, during the Cold War. Ruth Beckett & Jimmy Kemp, residents of the British city of Sheffield are planning for their upcoming marriage and birth of their first child. Sheffield is home to a major R.A.F. base and has a major industrial base of steel production. But the Soviet Union marches troops into Iran, in a plan to convert it to a Soviet satellite state. The United States, the United Kingdom, and other members of NATO angrily condemn the Soviet aggression and military activity in the United Kingdom starts to mount, especially at the nearby R.A.F. base. The families of Ruth & Jimmy go about their daily business, paying little attention to what is going on in Iran. One spring day, without warning, the Soviet Union attacks the United Kingdom with ICBMs - two of which hit Sheffield, annihilating most of the city and its inhabitants. But what is even more horrifying is the aftermath that follows - a world without public order, clean food, water, electricity, or the ability to produce any of them. Ruth struggles for more than 10 years just to stay alive in this horrible, barren, radioactive homeland...[/quote] [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/[/url] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg[/media]
This movie really touched me.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;38024789]This movie really touched me.[/QUOTE] Show me on the doll where this movie touched you.
Threads still depresses the shit out of me.
this movie made me scared of other people for a while it fucked all my dreams up too I believe I'm a worser person after watching it
thanks alot now I had a terrible dream because i remembered this
I was at the Imperial War Museum in London, and there was information about the bombs that the Soviet Union produced and their payloads. I can't remember what the payload of the largest one was, but its total area of effect was around 120km, as a circle (can't remember if that's the diameter or the radius). Thank fuck we never got to dropping bombs.
One hour and fifty-two minutes of being stabbed in the heart with an icepick. Oh joy.
Threads is brilliant! I loved threads!
[QUOTE=Jamsponge;38030621]I was at the Imperial War Museum in London, and there was information about the bombs that the Soviet Union produced and their payloads. I can't remember what the payload of the largest one was, but its total area of effect was around 120km, as a circle (can't remember if that's the diameter or the radius). Thank fuck we never got to dropping bombs.[/QUOTE] It was probably this one [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba[/url]
Thank god both armies were atleast sane enough to not start a nuclear war.
Oh the poor kitty at 51:46 :(
This movie gives me terrible cognitive dissonance. I want to watch it because it's so real, and interesting. And I want to hate it because it's so real.
This documentary made me apply for CBRNe training in my military service. Nuclear weapons are fucking brutal.
This movie made me piss my pants.
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