Threads [DVD]

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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.

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The narrator states the cruel irony that the more people die, the more food is available for the remaining people. It’s not an overly sharp presentation either and grain clumps together during certain scenes but resolves fairly well in others. Threads was broadcast in the United States on cable network Superstation TBS on 13 January 1985, [19] with Ted Turner presenting the introduction. The world was a very unstable place at the time with a Soviet government that seemed to change monthly.

While our young protagonists arrange, as society dictates, a marriage, matters of a much greater magnitude are bubbling away in the background. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. And this leads to Ruth going through a primeval labour process without any of the sophisticated techniques on hand to aid the birth or relieve her pain.

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Over the phone, he speaks with authority on everything from the history of arms control to the upcoming renewal of the New Start treaty – the only existing arms control pact between the US and Russia.

With Jane now an orphan, she struggles to survive in an uncertain landscape of ruined cities and harsh living. I am from the States, but saw this in 1985 when it aired twice that year, once on the national PBS stations, and once on Ted Turner's network stations -- no one would sponsor it or want their adverts on it so Turner just paid for the whole thing himself, because he knew the film was that important, and devastating. It was repeated on BBC One on 1 August 1985 as part of a week of programmes marking the fortieth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which also saw the first television screening of The War Game (which had been deemed too disturbing for television in the 20 years since it had been made). I believe I saw "Threads" before the TV broadcast of "The Day After" because my reaction was one of slight indifference. All the Generals and Politicians in the world should be required to watch this before being given their office .

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Several people, including Ruth, flee to the Buxton countryside where she briefly meets Jimmy's old work colleague Bob. I have ever since believed that every newly seated world leader should be made to watch it in their first month in office.It's a rare TV show that can tap into all our fears with such brutal realism, but it's rarer that a narrative has such a searing emotional intensity that it removes us from the confines of comfortable viewing due its proximity to our worst fears. Again and again, Ruth, the innocent citizen that represents us all, is bludgeoned by the harsh realities around her. With a baby on the way, Ruth Beckett embodies the future, but it's one where toxic mushroom clouds threaten to envelop all sense of hope. The United States responds by occupying southern Iran and deploys B-52 Stratofortress bombers to Turkey upon learning that the Soviet Union has moved nuclear warheads into Mashhad. Whereas the previous releases had no extra features, the Special Edition included commentaries and associated documentaries.