Karen Meagher

Reece Dinsdale

David Brierly

Rita May

Nicholas Lane

Jane Hazlegrove

Henry Moxon

June Broughton

Sylvia Stoker

Harry Beety

Ruth Holden

Ashley Barker

Michael O'Hagan

Phil Rose

Steve Halliwell

Brian Grellis

Peter Faulkner

Anthony Collin

Michael Ely

Sharon Baylis

David Stutt

Phil Askham

Anna Seymour

Fiona Rook

Christine Buckley

Joe Belcher

David Major

Maggie Ford

Mike Kay

Richard Albrecht

Ted Beyer

Dean Williamson

Joe Holmes

Andy Fenn-Rodgers

Graham Hill

Nigel Collins

Jerry Ready

Dennis Conlon

Greta Dunn

Nat Jackley

John Livesey

Victoria O'Keefe

Lee Daley

Marcus Lund

Lesley Judd

Colin Ward-Lewis

Paul Vaughan

Ingrid P. Frehley

Michael Shale

Anne Sellors

Lee Cambell

Jonathan Harston

Patrick Allen

Ed Bishop

Mick Jackson

Barry Hines

Jim Latham

Paul Morris

Sally Nieper

Andrew Dunn

Donna Bickerstaff

Christopher Robilliard

Peter Wolfes

Graham Ross

Peter Wragg

Jan Nethercot

Gilly Martin

John Purdie

Peter Kersey

Dorothy Ford

Graham Massey

Drama

Science Fiction

Threads

Western-World Television Inc.

Nine Network Australia

Australia

United Kingdom

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, unravel and we are quickly left with hardship and irreparable loss.

There is no help from the outside, as most places are left in the same sorry state.

With the lingering pollution from the war, there is only one way human kind can go from there.

This film has no high-notes and there are no cheesy Hollywood-lines to comfort you during the viewing, just cold-hard facts and statistic. 

When the inevitable starts, we follow Ruth in particular, the main character, on her journey, 13 years into the future. We see how she tries to cope, as the remnants of the industrial world and human kind slowly crumble and whither around her.

The film use simple effects and has a natural gritty style. 
This prevents the film from looking too dated. In addition, most of the film work with limited sets and scenes, so the time-period it is shot in, is somewhat removed from the story and experience. 

The acting is real and very good, they are real people, playing real people, 'no time for plastic Hollywood-figures here'.

What we are left with, is most likely one of the bleakest, grimmest and most depressing film, that everyone needs to see at least once.

It will remain a testament to the cold war, but as long as there are nuclear weapons, it will continue to be an ever-relevant warning.

It will stick with you indefinitely.

Rodney Wollam

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.

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