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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 Day After, a 1983 television film about nuclear war that aired 2 weeks after Testament was released. Threads, a 1984 British television film that centers on nuclear war and the societal after-effects. List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction; List of nuclear holocaust fiction
Testament (PBS, 1983) – depicts the after-effects of a nuclear war in a town near San Francisco, California; Thirteen Days (2000) – tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962; Threads (BBC, 1984) – this film, set in the British city of Sheffield, shows the long-term results of a nuclear war on the surrounding area.
Born in New York City on Dec. 24, 1945 — four months after the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II — Meyer grew up in the shadow of the ...
In the near future of 1989, the world has collapsed during a nuclear war and the few survivors must make do as best they can. Ben Faber operates a family farm and is isolated from world events. They live a reasonably happy life until they are besieged by a brutal and cannibalistic motorcycle gang who want to eat men and reproduce with the women ...
The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. The film postulates a fictional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Meyer was born in New York City on December 24, 1945 — four months after the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II — and grew up in the ...
On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins.Produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, [2] it is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel On the Beach depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. [3]