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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.
The War Game is a 1966 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath. [1] Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC, [2] it caused dismay within the BBC and within government, and was withdrawn before the provisional screening date of 6 October 1965. [3]
A Guide to Armageddon (1982) – the effects of a one megaton nuclear bomb being exploded over London. [2] [3] Director Mick Jackson went on to direct the 1984 docu-drama Threads, an account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England, and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization. [4]
The War Game (BBC, 1965) – an early drama-documentary that depicts the effects of a nuclear war in Britain following a conventional war that escalates to nuclear war; WarGames (1983) – about a young computer hacker who accidentally hacks into a defense computer and risks starting a nuclear war
The two-part BBC Two documentary Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story, shown in March and April 2022, looks back on Whitehouse's life. It features contributions from Gyles Brandreth, Michael Grade, Beatrix Campbell, Ken Loach, Peter Bradshaw, Ben Thompson, Peter Tatchell and David Sullivan. [141]
Documentary films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (14 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about nuclear war and weapons" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
In the five decades between 1945 and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out, 1,032 of them by the United States and 715 of them by the ...
Nuclear Secrets, aka Spies, Lies and the Superbomb, is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series which looks at the race for nuclear supremacy from the Manhattan Project through to Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme.