Threads (1984)
Threads (1984)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Karen Meagher
Ruth Beckett
Reece Dinsdale
Jimmy Kemp
David Brierly
Mr. Kemp
David Brierly
Mr. Kemp
Rita May
Mrs. Kemp
Nicholas Lane
Michael Kemp
Jane Hazlegrove
Alison Kemp
Henry Moxon
Mr Beckett
June Broughton
Mrs Beckett
Sylvia Stoker
Granny Beckett
Harry Beety
Clive Sutton
Ruth Holden
Marjorie Sutton
Ashley Barker
Bob
Michael O'Hagan
Chief Supt. Hirst
Phil Rose
Medical Officer
Steve Halliwell
Information Officer
Brian Grellis
Accommodation Officer
Peter Faulkner
Transport Officer
Anthony Collin
Food Officer
Michael Ely
Scientific Officer
Sharon Baylis
Manpower Officer
David Stutt
Works Officer
Phil Askham
Mr Stothard
Anna Seymour
Mrs Stothard
Fiona Rook
Carol Stothard
Christine Buckley
Woman in Supermarket
Joe Belcher
Shopkeeper
David Major
Boy in Supermarket
Maggie Ford
Peace Speaker
Mike Kay
Trade Unionist
Richard Albrecht
Officer at Food Depot
Ted Beyer
Policeman
Dean Williamson
Policeman
Joe Holmes
Mr Langley
Andy Fenn-Rodgers
Patrol Officer
Graham Hill
Soldier
Nigel Collins
Soldier
Jerry Ready
Looter
Dennis Conlon
Looter
Greta Dunn
Woman at Hospital
Nat Jackley
Old Man at Graveyard
John Livesey
Street Trader
Victoria O'Keefe
Jane
Lee Daley
Spike
Marcus Lund
Gaz
Lesley Judd
Newscaster
Colin Ward-Lewis
Newscaster
Paul Vaughan
Narrator (voice)
Ingrid P. Frehley
Woman with dead baby (uncredited)
Michael Shale
Man who has leg amputated (uncredited)
Anne Sellors
Woman who urinates herself (uncredited)
Lee Cambell
Dead Boy Under Gate (uncredited)
Jonathan Harston
Survivor on the Moors (uncredited)
Patrick Allen
Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Ed Bishop
US President (voice) (uncredited)
Mick Jackson
Director / Producer
Barry Hines
Writer
Andrew Dunn
Director of Photography
Paul Morris
Director of Photography
Donna Bickerstaff
Editor
Jim Latham
Editor
Sally Nieper
Costume Design
Christopher Robilliard
Production Design
Graham Massey
Executive Producer
John Purdie
Executive Producer
Peter Wolfes
Associate Producer
Jan Nethercot
Makeup Designer
Graham Ross
Sound Recordist
Peter Kersey
Special Effects
Peter Wragg
Visual Effects
Dorothy Ford
Stunts
Gilly Martin
Costume Supervisor
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 23, 1984
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 57m
Budget$420,000
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Wiki.
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 plot centres on two families as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts. As the nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw Pact begins, the film depicts the medical, economic, social, and environmental consequences of nuclear war.
Shot on a budget of £400,000 (equivalent to £1,290,611 in 2023), the film was the first of its kind to depict a nuclear winter. It has been called "a film which comes closest to representing the full horror of nuclear war and its aftermath, as well as the catastrophic impact that the event would have on human culture." It has been compared to the earlier Academy Award-winning programme The War Game (1966) produced in the United Kingdom two decades prior and its contemporary counterpart The Day After, a 1983 ABC television film depicting a similar scenario in the United States. It was nominated for seven BAFTA awards in 1985 and won for Best Single Drama, Best Design, Best Film Cameraman, and Best Film Editor.