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Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
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The film, which is based on the 1978 book Boarding Party by James Leasor, is the true story of Operation Creek during the Second World War. In the covert mission, the Calcutta Light Horse , part of the Cavalry Reserve in the British Indian Army , successfully sank a German merchant ship in Mormugão Harbour in neutral Portugal 's territory of ...
War depictions in film and television include documentaries, TV mini-series, and drama serials depicting aspects of historical wars. Ancient history (3050 BC – AD 476) [ edit ]
The conning tower of the submarine, at Bavaria Studios, Munich. Das Boot (German pronunciation: [das ˈboːt], The Boat) is a 1981 West German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer and Klaus Wennemann.
The Dogs of War is a 1980 action-thriller war film directed by John Irvin and starring Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger and Colin Blakely.Based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth, it follows small mercenary unit of soldiers is privately hired to depose the president of a fictional African country modeled on Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Equatorial Guinea and Angola (as ...
Attack Force Z (alternatively titled The Z Men) [1] is a 1982 Australian-Taiwanese [2] World War II film directed by Tim Burstall.It is loosely based on actual events and was filmed in Taiwan in 1979.
Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on October 14, 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.