Threads [DVD]

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Sadly, due to the fact that she herself was born into an era of intense radiation poisoning, Jane's baby is born stillborn. I won't spoil the surprise of the myriad insights waiting within the extras, but rest assured that the Mick Jackson and Karen Meagher commentaries will bring a whole new dimension of understanding to Threads.

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While viewers who caught A Guide to Armageddon may have well felt a sense of unease, it would little prepare them for Jackson’s next project, given the green light in late 1983. Yet, while the people of Sheffield go about their everyday lives, television and wireless bulletins in the background carry news of growing tensions between the US and Soviet Union in Iran. Where once there was love and community, there now remains nothing but piles of rubble full of rats and disease. Originally broadcast in September 1984 on BBC2, Threads is a drama-documentary which presents a disturbing look at the effects of a nuclear attack on Britain.They’ve put together a fine package with quality extras that give us plenty of insight into a time when something like Threads was able to air on network TV without any real controversies. The detonation causes massive structural damage to Sheffield, and an estimated 12 to 30 million people in the UK are instantly killed in the wider exchange, including Jimmy as he races to be with Ruth. At first, they are given short shrift, before it emerges that the situation is more serious than it first appeared.

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A month after the attack, soldiers enter what remains of the Sheffield Town Hall (where the local authority was based), and they find that the council had long since perished, suffocated from the lack of oxygen in the confined space. And to read his comment about the fate of the young actress who played Jane, my heart breaks again, but even more so.A secondary attack then impacts NATO military targets, including RAF Finningley, 17 miles (27km) from Sheffield. Such is her predicament, though, there's no point planning for an uncertain future and she has to force down the raw, contaminated meat. quotidian details that makes it so terrifying - What if that branch of BHS that you've walked past hundreds of times was blown to pieces by a nuclear shockwave? It's made all the more disturbing by the fractured, damaged dialect which has arisen as language falls by the wayside in a broken society. This is actually footage of a cat enjoying a hefty dose of catnip, then they just reversed the film to give the impression of the cat suffocating (the way the cat is rolling on the ground is the giveaway).

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S. A fictionalized (but not totally unrealistic) take on what would happen before, during, and after a nuclear attack, it’s known today as one of the darkest and most frightening looks at the subject matter, particularly for a TV movie. Next is Audition for the Apocalypse, an interview with actress Karen Meagher in which she tells of her experiences making the film, which were positive. A new, nuclear dawn soon arrives as all out nuclear war breaks out between the Americans and the Soviets. The head of the Sheffield city council is instructed to start making preparations for a nuclear war and is informed that all control of Sheffield and the surrounding area after a nuclear attack will be passed on to him and other local officials should the central government be destroyed. Threads, filmed in Sheffield (my home city) in 1984 presents a warts and all view of the horrors of nuclear war and its aftermath.

Even the shoestring budget, which limited the makeup for burns victims to a mix of tomato ketchup and Rice Krispies cereal, does nothing to detract from the horror that unfolds. The makeup for extras playing third-degree-burn victims consisted of Rice Krispies and tomato ketchup. At 8:30 am in Britain (3:30 am in Washington, the time when Western response would be at its slowest as the President and the senior staff would be asleep), Attack Warning Red is transmitted. We soon learn that Ruth is pregnant, much to the consternation of both sets of parents, who hail from differing sides of the British class divide (Jimmy is working class, while Ruth is middle class). An hour following the attack, prevailing winds have sent fallout from a ground burst at Crewe over Sheffield.

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This was considered a breakthrough at the time, considering the previous banning of The War Game, which BBC staff believed would have resulted in mass suicides if aired.

We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. While our young protagonists arrange, as society dictates, a marriage, matters of a much greater magnitude are bubbling away in the background. Adjusting to this shock, they prepare for their new arrival with the help of their respective parents. The BBC’s hard-hitting and unflinching nuclear fallout drama Threads was recently remastered and re-released on DVD. Although the British public were well aware that relations between the USA and Russia had reached an all time low, they were unaware, in 1984, just how close the world had come to nuclear war in the previous five years.