Maltin, Leonard (2006). Leonard Maltin's 2007 Movie Guide. USA: Signet. pp. 1348. ISBN 0-451-21916-3. The BBC’s hard-hitting and unflinching nuclear fallout drama Threads was recently remastered and re-released on DVD. It has now been made available as a two-disc Blu-ray feature for the first time. Threads served up a bleakly British depiction of our impending nuclear doom". The A.V. Club. 10 October 2017. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. Toy, Sam (1 January 2000). "Threads". Empire. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019 . Retrieved 28 April 2019.

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a b Binnion, Paul (May 2003). "Threads" (PDF). Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies. University of Nottingham. ISSN 1465-9166. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 February 2016 . Retrieved 4 February 2016. Agreed. My partner and I are both in our 50s. I watched as a kid the first time round, she had never seen it. Flat caps and whippets are a common sight in Sheffield, but you don't expect to see a nuclear mushroom cloud looming menacingly on the horizon. However, with the first wave of nuclear onslaught now initiated, it's a terrifying slice of reality and as the toxic flames rise high into the atmosphere, Britain's history has changed forever as a new dawn of destruction and desolation has arrived. I was pregnant with my second child at the time and Threads shook me to the core,” says Perrine. “I was literally nauseated by the final scene of the film.” a b Hall, Kevin (21 January 2013). " Threads – Select References and Bibliography". Fallout Warning. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019 . Retrieved 20 November 2018.A new, nuclear dawn soon arrives as all out nuclear war breaks out between the Americans and the Soviets. 3,000 megatons worth of nuclear weapons are exchanged between the two superpowers, with 210 megatons falling on the UK. The effects are devastating with every infrastructure in the country being reduced to a scorched shadow of its former self. An emergency response team, holed up deep beneath the remains of Sheffield town hall, attempt to exert relief, but they're thwarted at every turn by dwindling supplies and radioactive fallout. With Jane now an orphan, she struggles to survive in an uncertain landscape of ruined cities and harsh living. Forced into stealing food with similarly displaced youngsters, one particular food theft has tragic consequences as one of the young men is shot dead whilst the other rapes Jane in a desolate barn as they fight over food. It's made all the more disturbing by the fractured, damaged dialect which has arisen as language falls by the wayside in a broken society. Threads was a 1984 BBC2 drama/documentary which tried to predict what would happen to Britain if nuclear war broke out and follows the path taken by Ruth Kemp and her family. It's a show which is regularly feted as one of the most bleak, disturbing and realistic pieces of drama to ever air not just on British TV, but in the history of the entire planet's televisual output. And, no matter how many times I watch it, the unflinching honesty of Threads leaves me feeling incredibly disconsolate, but completely engrossed. Dirty, cold, homeless and hungry, Ruth finds herself on the moors where a dead sheep is the only available source of sustenance. Despite appearing to offer some brief salvation and the chance to satisfy her aching stomach, Ruth knows, deep down, that the sheep has died from radiation poisoning and munching down on it is only going to cause her severe health problems in the future. Such is her predicament, though, there's no point planning for an uncertain future and she has to force down the raw, contaminated meat.

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I suppose when you watch it now, you can see we didn’t have a lot of money in certain scenes,” Meagher laughs. “But that’s not what’s important. It’s about human condition, love and loss – that’s what will always be important to people watching it, regardless.” a b "Discover the post-apocalyptic nightmare of this landmark social drama". Archived from the original on 21 October 2020 . Retrieved 13 May 2020. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs last year, Brooker cited the film as a formative moment of his early adolescence. “I remember watching Threads and not being able to process what it meant; not understanding how society kept going,” he said. “I assumed it [nuclear war] was going to happen.” Threads is one of the most fantastic slices of British television ever transmitted, but it's also one that will bring you to your knees and leave your soul battered and bruised for days afterwards.Sheffield film 'Threads' ". sheffieldforum.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018 . Retrieved 4 March 2018. No matter how you slice it, films about this subject matter are going to be difficult to watch. Threads is indeed that, from the first frame onwards. Knowing what’s going to happen doesn’t soften the blow either – it only makes the inevitable nail-bitingly dreadful. Watching individual people be subjected to one of the most horrible things imaginable and then following whomever is left makes for a very downer of an experience, but an important one. Told in almost documentarian way, even with narration, it feels like a piece of history – like it actually happened, which makes it that much more potent. The performances from everybody involved feel genuine, and there isn’t a moment where you feel any sense of irony about it all. This is serious business, and the film doesn’t have any other purpose than to scare you. It was created as a warning to those who watch it.