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Post by emapocalyptic on Dec 10, 2011 15:05:19 GMT
I was wondering if any of you guys have watched all 10 installments of "Threads" on YouTube. I watched 5 and had to stop as I found it far too harrowing, and then had nightmares for weeks.
I remember it first being on TV when I was very small in the 80s and everyone talking about it. Now I know why. They don't make Docu-dramas like they used to...
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Post by Matthew on Dec 10, 2011 17:57:29 GMT
An absolute classic and one of those post-apoc shows that gets revered around the global fan community. Lots of our American cousins compare, very unfavourably, an American docu-drama called 'The Day After' which came out at about the same time and Threads seems to be held in the highest of esteem. There are some issues concerning its portrayal of the nuclear winter that follows the war itself but all in all its superb.
You might want to also look out for an earlier British made docu-drama which deals with a very similar senario (this time focusing on a nuclear attack on a kent town) called 'The War Game'. Its in black and white but offers a fascinating insight into how things might have panned out in the early 60's
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Post by emapocalyptic on Dec 10, 2011 18:56:30 GMT
I'm not sure I can watch the last five, I'm guessing it's pretty damn bleak. I've heard of the Day After, but not seen that one.
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Post by edwin on Dec 10, 2011 22:41:34 GMT
Saw threads on BBC, I think it was a "celebration" of them being able to show "War Game" and they included "The Day After". Quite realistic although Nuclear Winter would depend.
Didn't bother me much, just saw them as films. Worked as a volunteer community information officer for Wiltshire County Emergency Planning Department and we were mostly concerned with post-strike aid to locality. Perhaps I shouldn't admit it but I loved parts of it.
Of course, we were always working within the bounds of a handleable strike. Little bit bigger and it would have been the head between knees advice as the only option.
"Warday and the journey onwards" by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka is a sobering faction novel of post-strike America.
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Post by Matthew on Dec 17, 2011 12:38:44 GMT
"Warday and the journey onwards" by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka is a sobering faction novel of post-strike America. A fantastic book and one of the post-apoc fiction classics that never gets the recognition it deserves. Also came across this. Surely the greatest cover of the radio times ever ? Attachments:
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