Threads
The closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war.
Overview
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
- Budget
- $420,000
- Production
- Western-World Television Inc., BBC, Nine Network Australia
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Cast
Karen Meagher
Ruth Beckett
Reece Dinsdale
Jimmy Kemp
David Brierly
Mr. Kemp
Rita May
Mrs. Kemp
Nicholas Lane
Michael Kemp
Jane Hazlegrove
Alison Kemp
Michael O'Hagan
Chief Supt. Hirst
Phil Rose
Medical Officer
Steve Halliwell
Information Officer
Brian Grellis
Accommodation Officer
Dean Williamson
Policeman
Nat Jackley
Old Man at Graveyard
Victoria O'Keefe
Jane
Paul Vaughan
Narrator (voice)
Patrick Allen
Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Ed Bishop
US President (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Mick Jackson
- Writers
- Barry Hines
- Producers
- Mick Jackson,John Purdie,Graham Massey
- Cinematography
- Paul Morris,Andrew Dunn
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znapper
February 20, 2017
This film was, for many, a turning-point regarding nuclear weapons, the cold war and nuclear-politics. Set in a 1984 UK industrial-suburbia, as the cold war gets hot, we follow regular people in their daily lives and how they prepare for the coming apocalypse. Barry Hines and Mick Jackson explains and shows us how the world is interconnected and woven together, each strand in this web is dependent on the others and when the threads start to break, the webbing that hold society together, un…
Rodney Wollam
March 17, 2018
Once again, I struggled to understand the British English. At least this time, I didn't really need to. Not a word needed to be spoken to convey the very real horror we might all be subjected to. Now, closer to that armageddon than ever before in our history. I just hope I die in the initial blast. The after is actually worse than the blast itself. God help us all.