I was 9 when this aired over two nights in '83 and it's impact on me was profound. This film effectively jarred everyone who watched it, although by it's own admission, it's depictions were actually more optimistic than what would result from an actual all out nuclear war.
Try watching the movie, threads. The full movie is on youtube, it doesn't hold back much in it's depiction. The thing to remember is the the thing that will kill more people and animals then the bombs is the nuclear winter where the global temp will drop 20-40 degrees lower depending on where you live for about 10-15 years straight, with each year improving. Not long ago where I am in the midwest we had a couple days of -35f with -70f wind chill. I can't imagine the effect of -75f and -110f windchill, don't think our furnaces could keep up with that even without the devastation of the bombs.
@@PCgamer923And that's if you buy into the theory of a nuclear winter. The complete destruction of infastructure would cause starvation and death by itself, which is kind of the whole point of Threads; the title refers to the things that keep society together. You've seen what happens during gasoline shortages; imagine what'd happen if it just straight up disappeared.
@@Takeshi357 Nuclear winter by it self won't be as bad as the worst studies say it is what I think personally. But yeah the movie threads was right that we all have to go back to plowing the fields by ox and hand, hoping the food and water we harvest aren't poisoned. Nearly all electrical parts will be fried in the event, no computers/cars/machinery, everything with even a microscopic circuit will be destroyed. We would have to rebuild nearly every factory in the world to recover, even the diggers that harvest the metal to make the factories would also be destroyed in the event. Talk about tough times...
ABC wanted kids to watch it with their parents and then have a discussion afterwards. Unfortunately, the discussion was the parents asking the kids "are you traumatized for life?" I mean seriously, this movie goes well beyond an R rating.
Me too .It was about 1985 after watching Threads that I had a nightmare that I was in study hall in the 10th grade .The principal came on the intercom and said that the nukes were on their way .The study hall monitor looked out the window and said “oh my God I see the light”I hid under the table and woke up
Saw it in 1990, at the age of 12. And even if the palpable danger of Cold War was over by then, it was so impactful and terrifying. I had to turn it off during the attack sequence when all the people get vaporized because I was completely shocked. It took me months before I could continue watching. And it haunted me for years.
@@MrJacMac1968 do you thing there was any benefit to watching this. Fortunately I wasn't born until 1986 so all my nightmares involved Micahel Myers and Hulk Hogan. :D :D
I was 22 and watched this when it first aired. I remember beforehand the local newspaper ran a full page ad which listed a phone number for people to call after the movie if they needed someone to talk to. There were a few shows around that time. One called WW3 with David Soul about Soviet soldiers in Alaska and later a mini-series called Amerika with Sam Neill about a Soviet occupation of the country. The cold war was a scary time. Its pretty fortunate we got thru it.
@James Street It’s sad when you think everyone on the left is a communist, and you can’t even recognize that much more people on the right are supporting fascism.
The day this movie premiered on television, I was on active duty in the US Army. An order restricting the broadcast was made on our base, so I never watched the movie until today.
Mom and dad didn't want me and my brother watching it so they sent us to bed ..I could see into the living room through the half open bedroom door .I snuck a peek . Saw the guy running a nd turned into a skeleton...💀💀
We had a big party where people from high school came over to watch it. One girl was from a military family, and explained how the silo-personnel, Boyle and Starr, had to go through many steps to fire a missile, to avoid the chance of misfire.
when people had to watch the 3 channels when they're told to because they couldn't afford VCRs or were too stupid to program them if they did have them
Sadly, I don't remember the M.A.S.H. finale although I wish I did cause I ended up becoming an Army Medic...but do remember "The Day After". Looks like it impacted me more than watching Colonel Potter, Lt. Callahan, Hawkeye, Cpl Klinger or Radar...lol
I was 9 years old living in Burbank, CA with my Mom. I came home from school the day it was going to air that night. She sat down and told me where there's a movie I'm going to be watching that night that will be very horrible and that I was allowed to sleep in her room that night. She reinforced it was something very important that I needed to see for my generation. I learned everything I wanted to know and didnt want to know about Nuclear War that night. For years after every time I heard a plane fly over or I saw trails from high altitude planes I think it was a full scale launch. This film still haunts me to this day. A few years after seeing The Day After I watched Threads, which was much much more grim.
Your mother is a very smart women, she wanted to educate you and protect you by showing you the horrors of nuclear war, not only to prevent you to be a war-loving teen, to be a more mature and realize how life needs to be cherished.
I am with you there. After seeing TDA, every time I saw vapor trails or distant smoke from the factories, my immediate thought was that we were under attack from the Soviets.
What's happening in the world right now should scare you. We are on the brink of WW3 with a nation that has one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear missiles in the world
God I remember the first time I saw this film on SciFi channel in the mid 90s on 4th of July weekend. It changed the way I thought about the bomb in an instant.
@@maxheadrum6751 No nightmares just lots of questions for my parents who had me around the time movie aired. Threads gave me nightmares, much more then my visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were just further eye openers.
Though now it's an insane virus pandemic known as COVID-19 that's affecting the world rather than a nuke hitting us where if that was happening I wouldn't be writing this here now.
I was 13 and my Mother used to shelter me from this sort of thing, this movie included. The next day in history class, instead of normal lessons the topic was this film and EVERYBODY had seen it but me! I was moritified! It took until years later when I bought it on DVD that I finally got to see it!
I remember watching this when it was on T.V. I was 7 years old. I'm 45 now. I still remember being paranoid of any test on the emergency broadcast system after watching this.
when the kid said he would rather die in the blast than start all over again, that is so horrible that a child would ever have to worry or consider their fate like that
I was about 10 when this aired. My parents wouldn't let me watch it back then. In school the next day we had a long discussion. Kids who saw it were freaked out. I never actually watched it until about 10 yrs back and was scary even for 2011 standards. The thought that this aired in the height of the cold war added to the feelings.
Fear and more fear. And then came the AIDS fears. Why does the government push Fear so strongly? And no WW3 Fears, yet again? Almost like demons are feeding on the human fear!
cgo825 --- BECAUSE BUSINESS is BUSINESS. | By 1979, the Russo-American Cold War had run its course, each empire had their turf, and the military-industrial complex NEEDED CONTRACTS. To that end, The One Per Cent hired the ex-actress Nancy Reagan to sic her husband upon the public imagination - "the Russians are coming! The Russians are Coming! The Russians are coming!" - and so RESURRECT the Cold War so that the U.S. government would buy more guns and ammo than needed or required or wanted, by the Department of Defence. You see, because business is business "national defence" and "national security" are matters of business (usurious contracts) and not a military threat from an atheist country in another hemisphere; from that 1980s logic emerged the M16 assault rifle as "a civilian rifle" for sport shooting.
Regardless of what movie you watch that tries to portray nuclear war it effects you, but The Day After is really quite gentle compared to other movies like Threads or documentary film and studies of humans exposed to radiation/nuclear weapons. The reality of it is far far worse.
I just keep thinking of the terrifying final moments of those in Japan who had to experience this in real life. And those who survived it with ongoing health issues and PTSD from the memories. Pure evil.
No, pure evil would be not hitting the enemy with a weapon we have and ending the war quickly. If not, we have to invade which would have cost thousands upon thousand more casualties for us. People like you are unable to understand history in the spirit of the times.
2022 and people still have not learned… What will it take to keep something like this from happening? Wish we could force all the politicians of the world to watch The Day After… Maybe even make a remake version… Wonder if that would actually do any good…
99 Luftballoons and this. Whether it was genuine or hype, during much of the 1980s there was a constant, palpable, lurking sense of unease mixed with a dislike for the USSR. American kids are lucky these days not to have a Cold War on their minds, especially one that could end up like in "The Day After".
I'm not sure that this danger is gone. Those weapons are ready for use right now, and tensions with China, Russia and North Korea could bring this scenario when we are not expecting.
@James Street I believe it is true that the top military strategists/advisors predicted that Germany would be at the center of a U.S.- U.S.S.R. war. So, the German people were, rightly, justified in their concern for being in the middle of it.
I lived in West Germany during that era, with USSR clearly on the ropes the fear that they might actually attack out of desperation was very real. We practiced regularly what we would do in case that day ever came.
@@WorldwideWyatt Yeah, Germany, sadly, was thought to become an absolute bloodbath should the apocalyptic WWIII Soviet-U.S. hot war happen. Naturally, many of the German people didn't want to be in the middle of it (largely due to it being a target because of U.S. military presence there...still an issue today for some, I bet). I believe 99 Luftballoons was protesting this concern at the time. Interestingly, the Cold War didn't last, but the artistry in the music won.
I was born in 1983 and right now what’s happening in russia and ukraine is scary and Russia is setting bombs off in the Ukraine. Families are leaving and I would too even losing all my possessions cause I’m sure Russia as a nuclear bomb. I wonder why Vladimir Putin is doing this?
@@spaceballs44 That's the yr my son was born. Smh I was soo young but I sure did think I was an adult, any way Russia invaded at midnight, I would've left immediately with my pjs on. I read that the Ukraine has an large amt of mineral, or something I don't remember and Putin wants it.
@@spaceballs44 Could be cuz it was during the cold War Omg! It's so scary to think about ww3, a lot of people think it has more to do with the U.S. I think that psycho is trying to do what Hitler did. I feel so bad for the Ukrainians and the civilians and some Russian soldiers. If it's not one thing it's another these days. I wish there was something we could do. Well, take care. Wishing you and your family the best.
@@nativetexanful in fact, people committed suicide afterwards too, and this was one of the reasons that Threads was not shown for 25 years after, and re-shown on BBC3 in 2009
@@evorock I didn't know that. The first time I saw Threads I rented it from the local Blockbuster. It was on VHS. It really shocked me. I had seen other movies about a nuclear war, but wasn't prepared for Threads!
I swear this is true...I watched the first U.K. airing at a friend's house, walked home, cloudy night, thinking about the film, clouds parted swiftly revealing moon causing sudden brightness, and just for half a second I felt such terror. Also, my very last day of school '84 ('85?), we walked out the gates and the sirens started up, we laughed but weren't sure.
The nuclear attack scenerio which is more realistic than any other movie to date. The destruction and after math. The lucky ones died in the flash. I think the world should watch it again.
Except for Juneau (who somehow watched it on the same day as in the Lower 48), the rest of Alaska would see The Day After over the next two weeks in Anchorage and later Fairbanks.
I wasn't even born when this movie first came out, but I saw it in the mid-2000s, long after the USSR and Warsaw Pact had gone by the wayside. It was a terrifying, bone-chilling thing for me to watch. I don't know if I could handle seeing it a second time.
I feel that our fears back then were much deeper than today regarding "nukes" not only because of the threat itself, but because of the power people themselves have today simply from the device in their hands. We are all super informed and up to date, up to the second of each day. The world is so much smaller than back then. I don't believe it was ever a real threat, but scary none the less and the movie adjusted the psyche of billions of people.
not really. If you had to die, then you could not ask for a more painless, merciful, perfect death outside of being teleported into the sun's corona. it's only hell for the people who did not die immediately
Well, actually, it would be far worse than the movie portrayed. Even though it's stock footage, in the movie they say 300 missiles were inbound. That's more than enough to end all life on Earth, plus what we would fire. The entire planet would be dead. In the original script, the ending was actually WAY happier. In the original script Kansas was shown already being bulldozed and prepared to be rebuilt and the dying doctor actually saw the baby being born. Steve Guttenberg takes the kids home, but it's implied the woman and girl were abducted and never seen again.
Kind of ironic that this movie was released in the same year (1983) that a Soviet radar showed what looked like incoming missiles. It was in fact an anomaly caused by the setting sun, luckily there was an experienced Soviet radar operator that convinced his commanding officer of such and that they were not under attack.
M Zz . To me the irony was that at the time of release, the makers of the movie and the audience had no knowledge of how close the world came to it becoming reality, and all because of a technical glitch. Of course the purpose of the movie was to highlight the imminent peril. Unfortunately the danger has not gone away.
@@mt22201 event in which what on the surface appears to be the case or to be expected differs radically from what is actually the case. nuclear annihilation was expected, but actual attacks came from use of unexpected items to cause major emotional impact--fear and awe.
Exactly, the name of the Soviet military was Stanislav Petrov, he did not activate the commands to carry out a nuclear counter-attack against the USA, because he realized the failure. Even so, he was scolded by his Soviet superiors.
My parents kept me from watching this, but let me watch "Threads" with them a couple years later, which to this day I find even more terrifying. I should have left the room.
My parents were the exact opposite. I was allowed to watch The Day After, but not Threads. I finally saw Threads when I was 27. When I finally felt able to speak again, I called my parents to thank them for not letting me watch it when I was 11.
I'll be 45 in November. It was a scary time for us kids in the early 80's. Ironically, Zack Snyder's film version of Alan Moore's Watchmen is one of my favorite comic book movies.
Threads was horrific and affected me more than The Day After. It was impossible to get on video or dvd for years in the U.S. Finally was available a few years back. Both movies came out at the same time and maybe they were preparing us for the possibility of nuclear war?
My friend had passed out drunk. My other friend and I turned on the TV and this was on. We waked my friend up with both of us all freaked out during the "newscast" part telling him that we were under nuclear attack! Scaring the absolute shat out of my friend! Took him several minutes to realize it wasn't real only because we couldn't keep up the straight face act any longer!
@@lolmao500 Cause now we have better weapons than ever. Or more dangerous! Just watch about the Castle Bravo weapons test and how big a disaster that miscalculation was. It was supposed to be 5-6 megatons, but turned out being 15 megatons of TNT of power. Plus the wind direction made the fallout fall near populated islands. That was just 1 weapon, imagine 100s going off. All the fuss about climate change, is a joke. The real environmental risk is nuclear war. Heck we all eat extra radiation in the potassium in the bananas due to above grounds weapons testing!
Which is why you see no inflammatory language or moves by NATO or USA. Putin may see that as weakness, however, and try something even more stupid than Ukraine.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Do you go about your daily business wearing a blindfold every day? Because that's the only way I think you can reasonably believe that.
@@plaistowbill My guess was the people making this couldn't imagine seeing us now with a deadly COVID-19 pandemic and people really hoarding stuff like that.
I first watched this movie in 1990 and it's right up there with threads. I saw threads in 1987 and it scared me bad right after it was over I went right to my mother and told her what I just seen on tv. I asked what I had just seen was real and could that really happen? She paused for a few seconds and she did not lie to me. I knew of the day after movie but I could not bring myself to watch it until 1990 . I watched the movie by dawn's early light and then got the balls to watch the day after threads was far more terrifying.
@@spaceman081447 yes your right on the money Disney for sure. It's kinda funny was just talking about this with some fellas at work. It turned into a bickering match they seem to believe because we live in Canada that we would be safe if a nuclear exchange occurred. I tried to explain to them maybe some parts of Canada would be ok.But unfortunately we live in central Ontario 1 hour north of Toronto and this part of the country would take major fallout from the minuteman missile fields in north Dakota. Not to mention the second part of NORAD is just north of us and would definitely be hit. They still don't get it lol
I was in 6th grade when this came out. We had a bad house fire that weekend and were stuck at a Holiday Inn that weekend. 8 years later , when I had breakup , I got the VHS tape from the library to watch while drinking. It made good breakup therapy.
This movie gave me nightmares as a kid! I was only seven and I'll never forget that scene where the old man was in his car while the bombs exploded! That ending was so traumatizing too. It felt so hopeless. I've learned to appreciate life every waking day!
In the UK, this aired around the same time as our own nuclear nightmare film Threads. I think I saw TDA first, and did find it disturbing. I was about 14 at the time, and an anti nuclear campaigner. I sat and watched TDA with my parents. It was shown on a commercial channel, but after the attack, they thankfully didn't have any more ad breaks! TDA is very different to Threads. Although still petty harrowing, it's presented more as a motion picture, and not the part drama/part documentary format of Threads, the latter being far more chilling and realistic despite TDA having a far bigger effects budget! Both films are historically very important, and no less frightening today IMO.
I was having supper at my Grandmother's house while we watched this movie. I remember feeling it in the pit of my stomach. I was 16 years old and wondered if I would even make it to HS graduation. It was a very scary and tense time in 1983.
Yesterday was the 37th anniversary of its original airing. The following year, the BBC released Threads. It made The Day After look like a day at Disneyland.
My favorite part is the 4th grade teacher who is sitting in the bar, saying that she knew her kids would likely ask her about this during the next session, so, "I was out tonight and I needed to find a place with at TV." :D
This movie and Threads(1984) and Testament should be shown to the Fallout generation, who think post nuclear war will be like a video game. When TDA first came out even Ronald Reagan watched it, it actually admitted it changed his mind about nuclear war and softened his stance towards the USSR, which pissed off the military-industrial complex at the time. Before this movie, there was an older generation who went through the Cuban Missile Crisis with the government telling them Civil Defense and "duck and cover" worked. If you read up on the timeline of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, there were hawkish generals in the US military who were actually spoiling for nuclear war! They wanted a first strike on the USSR and they hated JFK's cautious approach and using back channels to defuse things, General Curtis LeMay was one of those hawks and he was actually parodied by Stanley Kubrick in his dark comedy Dr. Strangelove, as Gen. Jack D. Ripper. I was 20 when this movie came out and have heeded its lessons for 40+ years, and it's a shame that it's lessons have been forgotten by a new generation of western politicians who think WW3 is not actually a bad idea.
I was 11 and my brother was 9. I remember my Mom and Dad actually argued about if we were to young to watch it. My Dad. A Vietnam vet told her we needed to see it because it's reality. We watched it together.
This is a movie that needs to be shown again, I saw this movie, and it was more tban a bit frightening even back then. This is a movie that people need to see it today, that special effects back then were very good today, those same effects today are even better.
A precocious child, I had a habit of reading the local newspaper every Sunday. I was 9 when this movie aired. A year prior, at age 8, in Second Grade, with no prompting from teachers, parents, or any adult, my young self started a petition to President Reagan asking him to end the Nuclear Arms race. Most of my fellow students had no idea what I was talking about. What I told them scared them. I collected over 100 signatures and my teacher helped me address the package to the White House. Nowadays, it's common for kids to be civic-minded, but in 1982, not so much.
I remember when I was about 11 and this was on for the first time in the UK. My folks watched up until the nuclear attack bit, got bored with the part where everyone's dying slowly from radiation sickness and turned over to watch Jasper Carrott instead. If I remember rightly, he made a joke about it, which was quite weird actually. I don't think it had quite the impact on them that was intended. Threads, on the other, hand...now that did hit home - for them and me. I had nightmares for years about Threads.
Threads is a more realistic film than The Day After, as it reports on the long-term effects of a nuclear war in England (13 years). The BBC produced it, without of course the high American budget, but even so, it produced a very good and educational film. It really is a film that impacts anyone, especially children and teenagers.
I watched this movie 2 years ago, and I swear those scenes will never leave my brain. I don't know how the hell all of you Brits survived watching this, and so many that were so young! God forbid this thing ever makes it into reality.
My thoughts as well. My 14 year old son has been asking his Grandfather about the main events of the cold war, due largely to current events in the Ukraine.
recently I had several nightmares when died because of war, I remember when my body and eyes was boiling from radiation... I have the filling it will happen soon
I wasn’t born by the time this movie came out, but I remember mentioning the movie to grandfather who’s also a Vietnam veteran, back when he was raising my mom and was about to watch the movie she made my mom and aunt not watch because he knew how real, and he told me that movie feel extremely to real even for him, because he always did share the fear that one day the Soviet Union was going to wipe out this country one day, well thank god that never happened.
This movie is mere childsplay compared to the movie about nuclear war called "threads". It's also available to watch free on UA-cam. Just search for it. It paints 🎨 a much darker, grimmer, horrifying, nightmarish picture about how things would really go, and how things would really be after a nuclear war.
I hate to say this but we need another, similar movie now to reach the generations that have come since 1983. A film where everything starts "normal", but on the news is the international crisis leading to initial military escalation... that spirals out of control, like it would in real life. And then show very graphically -- but now with MODERN special effects -- what it would be like. Such a film would be almost unwatchable, and it would truly shock most viewers, even beyond the 1983 version. Scare the living crap out of a few hundred million people, again. That's what we need to do, so that people stay real about nukes -- both here and in Russia and in China and in India and Pakistan.
Excellent movie. I've watched it many times and anyone who hasn't seen it should. Now in 2022 we are even closer to this very movie playing out than ever before. I think they should make another one with today's technology. Our world leaders should watch this movie and think twice about pushing the button. God help us all.
Yeah well a year later now in 2023 - considering all the god damn nonsense going on in the world (people's strung-out-on-stupid issues & the heat) - it would be a blessing to blow this rock up into bits and pieces.
I saw this movie when I was about 8 in the early 2000s. Terrified me but intrigued me. I would watch it on replay. My dad didn't like me watching it but never he didn't care enough stop me from watching. Funny enough, another scene that scared me as a child was the nuclear blast that Sarah Connor has in T2.
I was little when my older brother watched it. And when I saw the woman with her legs on fire, that was m first panic attack. Years later, I was maybe 12 I watched it again and I was shoked and scared during life... Watch it again when I was 37... No kid should watch this... Not even teenagers
@@willr7849 50% of the Russian nuclear arsenal is destroy the world as we know it. Not to say the entire population would be wiped out, however the way we live would be radically altered for several generations.
Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was not bluffing on the use of nuclear weapons and ordered partial mobilisation of 300,000 reservists in a last-ditch effort to turn the war in Ukraine in his favour....[22 September 2022]
Back in the days before streaming you had to plan your day around when a big TV show was on at night get up during the commercials to go to the bathroom or get a snack and if you were young like me back then hope you were lucky enough that your parents would let you stay up and watch it.
I'm reading these comments and I totally understand the fear this movie generated. But imagine being a young US airman in Germany on an airbase with these weapons and watching this film. I knew if such a war happened, we'd have been one of the first hit. I told my family this without telling them why. Even though I might have been one of the early deaths, I truly felt I'd have been one of the lucky ones. Who would want to live with the aftereffects of such stupidity? This video was interesting. We were so isolated in our world, I never got to talk with anyone from the "outside" about their reaction to the film.
Fun fact: Immediately after the film's original broadcast, a special news program featured a live discussion between Dr. Carl Sagan, who opposed the use of nuclear weapons, and conservative writer William F. Buckley, who supported the concept of "nuclear deterrence." During this heated discussion, aired live, Dr. Sagan introduced the concept of "nuclear winter" and made his famous analogy, "Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches, the other 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger."
The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction has worked and has prevented large scale wars. Everyone swore Reagan was going to get us into a nuclear war, and some people called for unilateral disarmament on our part.
This movie came out the year before I was born but I watched it for the first time when I was a senior in high school which was also the first time I knew this movie existed.
I was 9 when this aired over two nights in '83 and it's impact on me was profound. This film effectively jarred everyone who watched it, although by it's own admission, it's depictions were actually more optimistic than what would result from an actual all out nuclear war.
Try watching the movie, threads. The full movie is on youtube, it doesn't hold back much in it's depiction. The thing to remember is the the thing that will kill more people and animals then the bombs is the nuclear winter where the global temp will drop 20-40 degrees lower depending on where you live for about 10-15 years straight, with each year improving.
Not long ago where I am in the midwest we had a couple days of -35f with -70f wind chill. I can't imagine the effect of -75f and -110f windchill, don't think our furnaces could keep up with that even without the devastation of the bombs.
@@PCgamer923And that's if you buy into the theory of a nuclear winter.
The complete destruction of infastructure would cause starvation and death by itself, which is kind of the whole point of Threads; the title refers to the things that keep society together. You've seen what happens during gasoline shortages; imagine what'd happen if it just straight up disappeared.
@@Takeshi357 Nuclear winter by it self won't be as bad as the worst studies say it is what I think personally. But yeah the movie threads was right that we all have to go back to plowing the fields by ox and hand, hoping the food and water we harvest aren't poisoned.
Nearly all electrical parts will be fried in the event, no computers/cars/machinery, everything with even a microscopic circuit will be destroyed. We would have to rebuild nearly every factory in the world to recover, even the diggers that harvest the metal to make the factories would also be destroyed in the event. Talk about tough times...
One night event, airing November 20, 1983.
ABC wanted kids to watch it with their parents and then have a discussion afterwards. Unfortunately, the discussion was the parents asking the kids "are you traumatized for life?"
I mean seriously, this movie goes well beyond an R rating.
I guess you won’t see something like this anymore: empty streets on a Sunday night to watch a tv movie
yes its happening now cause of convid 19
@@michaelbates2575 what is convid?
@@Drizzt_Do_Entreri lolll convid
I'd imagine the GoT finale had some effect on foot traffic in some cities
That’s because it made Democrats look like total morons.
This movie scared me so much as a kid. I was having nuke bomb nightmares for years.
Me too .It was about 1985 after watching Threads that I had a nightmare that I was in study hall in the 10th grade .The principal came on the intercom and said that the nukes were on their way .The study hall monitor looked out the window and said “oh my God I see the light”I hid under the table and woke up
I hear ya. Same thing happened to me. I still have those dreams from time to time.
Saw it in 1990, at the age of 12. And even if the palpable danger of Cold War was over by then, it was so impactful and terrifying. I had to turn it off during the attack sequence when all the people get vaporized because I was completely shocked. It took me months before I could continue watching. And it haunted me for years.
@@MrJacMac1968 do you thing there was any benefit to watching this. Fortunately I wasn't born until 1986 so all my nightmares involved Micahel Myers and Hulk Hogan. :D :D
Me too! I grew up in the Eighties.
Still one of the best and scariest movies ever made
scarier than the Amityville Horror & Poltergeist at the time those 2 movies scared me
I was 22 and watched this when it first aired. I remember beforehand the local newspaper ran a full page ad which listed a phone number for people to call after the movie if they needed someone to talk to. There were a few shows around that time. One called WW3 with David Soul about Soviet soldiers in Alaska and later a mini-series called Amerika with Sam Neill about a Soviet occupation of the country. The cold war was a scary time. Its pretty fortunate we got thru it.
This is a scary time in The US because of internal events.
@@csarock1csarock187 much more scary now.....the communists are here, now, with a lot of power.
@James Street Idiotic statement. Just because someone doesn't have your same political beliefs doesn't make them a Communist.
@James Street
It’s sad when you think everyone on the left is a communist, and you can’t even recognize that much more people on the right are supporting fascism.
@James Street
The entire Trump movement and the actions of Jan. 6th are the definition of fascism.
The day this movie premiered on television, I was on active duty in the US Army. An order restricting the broadcast was made on our base, so I never watched the movie until today.
Wow....that tells you that the military wanted to control the narrative but obviously couldn't stop this film.
@@jaditelady173mary4 exactly, I am still puzzled, but of course today it would be much harder to try to keep anyone from finding out about anything
Mom and dad didn't want me and my brother watching it so they sent us to bed ..I could see into the living room through the half open bedroom door .I snuck a peek . Saw the guy running a nd turned into a skeleton...💀💀
@James Street For the obvious reason: to impede that the soldiers question commands and start to thinking.
You should check out Threads 1984. It's way more brutal and probably more accurate than The Day After. It's one of my favorite movies now.
The 2nd ultimate "where were you" moment of 1983 just behind the M*A*S*H finale. It even drew more viewers that night than that year's Super Bowl.
We had a big party where people from high school came over to watch it.
One girl was from a military family, and explained how the silo-personnel, Boyle and Starr, had to go through many steps to fire a missile, to avoid the chance of misfire.
Not born
when people had to watch the 3 channels when they're told to because they couldn't afford VCRs or were too stupid to program them if they did have them
Diane & DAWN LIVES MATTer
Sadly, I don't remember the M.A.S.H. finale although I wish I did cause I ended up becoming an Army Medic...but do remember "The Day After". Looks like it impacted me more than watching Colonel Potter, Lt. Callahan, Hawkeye, Cpl Klinger or Radar...lol
I was 9 years old living in Burbank, CA with my Mom. I came home from school the day it was going to air that night. She sat down and told me where there's a movie I'm going to be watching that night that will be very horrible and that I was allowed to sleep in her room that night. She reinforced it was something very important that I needed to see for my generation. I learned everything I wanted to know and didnt want to know about Nuclear War that night. For years after every time I heard a plane fly over or I saw trails from high altitude planes I think it was a full scale launch. This film still haunts me to this day. A few years after seeing The Day After I watched Threads, which was much much more grim.
Your mother is a very smart women, she wanted to educate you and protect you by showing you the horrors of nuclear war, not only to prevent you to be a war-loving teen, to be a more mature and realize how life needs to be cherished.
Come on, what's so good about that lame movie Threads, compared to this one?
I am with you there. After seeing TDA, every time I saw vapor trails or distant smoke from the factories, my immediate thought was that we were under attack from the Soviets.
Thanks very much for uploading this. This movie still gives me the chills.
Have you seen the British film Threads, it's just as unnerving. In fact I have only been able to watch it once
My God! The human race must survive!" - humans
What's happening in the world right now should scare you. We are on the brink of WW3 with a nation that has one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear missiles in the world
God I remember the first time I saw this film on SciFi channel in the mid 90s on 4th of July weekend. It changed the way I thought about the bomb in an instant.
This movie was nothing but anti-nuclear weapons and anti Ronald Reagan ! you had nightmares for no reason at all
@@maxheadrum6751 No nightmares just lots of questions for my parents who had me around the time movie aired. Threads gave me nightmares, much more then my visits to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those were just further eye openers.
Though now it's an insane virus pandemic known as COVID-19 that's affecting the world rather than a nuke hitting us where if that was happening I wouldn't be writing this here now.
@@maxheadrum6751 yeah it is all about Reagan. Moron
What did you think of thermonuclear weapons before that?
2:56 That woman is savage.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mom??
That woman totally missed the point. It wasn’t supposed to be entertaining. I wonder how bored she’d be if there was a real nuclear attack.
I was bored 🤣😂😯
@@BigNoseDog She’d say I’m not bored anymore before becoming a crispy piece of bacon
I was 13 and my Mother used to shelter me from this sort of thing, this movie included. The next day in history class, instead of normal lessons the topic was this film and EVERYBODY had seen it but me! I was moritified! It took until years later when I bought it on DVD that I finally got to see it!
Your mother wasn't sheltering you she was conducting censorship.
I always felt bad for the kids who's parents wouldn't let them watch Simpsons etc because we all talked about it and they got left out big time.
No point in watching propaganda
Im not gonna lie im 26 and when I watched it I had nightmares for weeks lol so she did the right thing
I know this film scared me when I watched it on dvd
I remember watching this when it was on T.V. I was 7 years old. I'm 45 now. I still remember being paranoid of any test on the emergency broadcast system after watching this.
Same with me, I remember I had a sudsitute teacher that was an extra in that film .
Same age as you. I remember...probably one of my first cinematic memories other than E.T. and Empire Strike Back
when the kid said he would rather die in the blast than start all over again, that is so horrible that a child would ever have to worry or consider their fate like that
I was about 10 when this aired. My parents wouldn't let me watch it back then. In school the next day we had a long discussion. Kids who saw it were freaked out. I never actually watched it until about 10 yrs back and was scary even for 2011 standards. The thought that this aired in the height of the cold war added to the feelings.
Fear and more fear.
And then came the AIDS fears.
Why does the government push Fear so strongly?
And no WW3 Fears, yet again?
Almost like demons are feeding on the human fear!
Media was complicit in this propaganda campaign.
cgo825 --- BECAUSE BUSINESS is BUSINESS. | By 1979, the Russo-American Cold War had run its course, each empire had their turf, and the military-industrial complex NEEDED CONTRACTS. To that end, The One Per Cent hired the ex-actress Nancy Reagan to sic her husband upon the public imagination - "the Russians are coming! The Russians are Coming! The Russians are coming!" - and so RESURRECT the Cold War so that the U.S. government would buy more guns and ammo than needed or required or wanted, by the Department of Defence.
You see, because business is business "national defence" and "national security" are matters of business (usurious contracts) and not a military threat from an atheist country in another hemisphere; from that 1980s logic emerged the M16 assault rifle as "a civilian rifle" for sport shooting.
Guess the oil barons' propaganda of scaring the kids worked really well.
Regardless of what movie you watch that tries to portray nuclear war it effects you, but The Day After is really quite gentle compared to other movies like Threads or documentary film and studies of humans exposed to radiation/nuclear weapons. The reality of it is far far worse.
I just keep thinking of the terrifying final moments of those in Japan who had to experience this in real life. And those who survived it with ongoing health issues and PTSD from the memories. Pure evil.
No, pure evil would be not hitting the enemy with a weapon we have and ending the war quickly. If not, we have to invade which would have cost thousands upon thousand more casualties for us. People like you are unable to understand history in the spirit of the times.
@@MegaMkmiller It would be soldiers vs soldiers, not housewives and kids.
@@MegaMkmiller That's a myth.
Our soldiers got to come home.
Japan should not have attacked the US
2022 and people still have not learned… What will it take to keep something like this from happening?
Wish we could force all the politicians of the world to watch The Day After… Maybe even make a remake version… Wonder if that would actually do any good…
99 Luftballoons and this. Whether it was genuine or hype, during much of the 1980s there was a constant, palpable, lurking sense of unease mixed with a dislike for the USSR. American kids are lucky these days not to have a Cold War on their minds, especially one that could end up like in "The Day After".
I'm not sure that this danger is gone. Those weapons are ready for use right now, and tensions with China, Russia and North Korea could bring this scenario when we are not expecting.
@James Street I believe it is true that the top military strategists/advisors predicted that Germany would be at the center of a U.S.- U.S.S.R. war. So, the German people were, rightly, justified in their concern for being in the middle of it.
I lived in West Germany during that era, with USSR clearly on the ropes the fear that they might actually attack out of desperation was very real. We practiced regularly what we would do in case that day ever came.
@@WorldwideWyatt Yeah, Germany, sadly, was thought to become an absolute bloodbath should the apocalyptic WWIII Soviet-U.S. hot war happen. Naturally, many of the German people didn't want to be in the middle of it (largely due to it being a target because of U.S. military presence there...still an issue today for some, I bet).
I believe 99 Luftballoons was protesting this concern at the time. Interestingly, the Cold War didn't last, but the artistry in the music won.
@@rjr6274 this aged well
I was 16 when that movie aired, it's the only movie that scred me so bad I cried.
I was born in 1983 and right now what’s happening in russia and ukraine is scary and Russia is setting bombs off in the Ukraine. Families are leaving and I would too even losing all my possessions cause I’m sure Russia as a nuclear bomb. I wonder why Vladimir Putin is doing this?
@@spaceballs44 That's the yr my son was born. Smh I was soo young but I sure did
think I was an adult, any way Russia invaded at midnight, I would've left immediately with my pjs on.
I read that the Ukraine has an large amt of mineral, or something I don't remember and Putin wants it.
Lizzet Torres, my spouse talked about that. I wonder if that’s the reason involving the minerals? I hope WW3 does not happen.
@@spaceballs44 Could be cuz it was during the cold War
Omg! It's so scary to think about ww3, a lot of people think it has more to do with the U.S. I think that psycho is trying to do what Hitler did. I feel so bad for the Ukrainians and the civilians and some Russian soldiers.
If it's not one thing it's another these days. I wish there was something we could do.
Well, take care.
Wishing you and your family the best.
My folks made me watch this when I was about 11 years old. Scared the hell out of me.
Like hell fire snd damnation religion, that was the whole point. 😁😁😁😁😁😁
Yeah me too. I watched it with my family. It left me scarred.
I cried myself to sleep. I was in 2nd grade.
It’s a good thing they did that.
You think The Day After was scary, you should watch Threads.
The Day After is like watching a children’s movie compared to Threads.
I agree. Threads is much scarier. After Threads was shown on TV people in Britain were having nightmares for years.
@@nativetexanful in fact, people committed suicide afterwards too, and this was one of the reasons that Threads was not shown for 25 years after, and re-shown on BBC3 in 2009
@@evorock I didn't know that. The first time I saw Threads I rented it from the local Blockbuster. It was on VHS. It really shocked me. I had seen other movies about a nuclear war, but wasn't prepared for Threads!
@@nativetexanful if you are interested in that sort of thing, check out the atomic hobo podcast. It's really good 👍
I watched the day after I was OK but then I watched Threads and compared to that the day after is like an episode of Sesame Street.
I'm from Lawrence, KS, and knew some people who were extras in the movie. I couldn't tell you how massive the hype there was.
I never would’ve thought a TV movie would ruin my life but here we are.
I love that you posted this on November 20. :) And yes, I remember that night very well.
I remember our family all watching it together silently.
It frightened us
I swear this is true...I watched the first U.K. airing at a friend's house, walked home, cloudy night, thinking about the film, clouds parted swiftly revealing moon causing sudden brightness, and just for half a second I felt such terror. Also, my very last day of school '84 ('85?), we walked out the gates and the sirens started up, we laughed but weren't sure.
It scared me as an 11 year old. Dad was in Air Force and I was very aware of the threat the Soviets posed at the time.
Now we have Putin making direct threats about using nuclear weapons should anyone help Ukraine.
You gonna volunteer. And FYI we have crazed maniacs in Washington provoking this.
Saw this movie when I was 12.
I saw this movie with my family.
Scariest movie I ever seen.
I was 11 and I remember this ABC special freaked the entire country out level 10.
The nuclear attack scenerio which is more realistic than any other movie to date. The destruction and after math. The lucky ones died in the flash. I think the world should watch it again.
Except for Juneau (who somehow watched it on the same day as in the Lower 48), the rest of Alaska would see The Day After over the next two weeks in Anchorage and later Fairbanks.
40 years later, I'm not even American and it sent chills down my spine,
I wasn't even born when this movie first came out, but I saw it in the mid-2000s, long after the USSR and Warsaw Pact had gone by the wayside. It was a terrifying, bone-chilling thing for me to watch. I don't know if I could handle seeing it a second time.
I was born in '88 and I wonder if fears were much more because of this movie than the Y2K concern back in the 90's
I feel that our fears back then were much deeper than today regarding "nukes" not only because of the threat itself, but because of the power people themselves have today simply from the device in their hands. We are all super informed and up to date, up to the second of each day. The world is so much smaller than back then. I don't believe it was ever a real threat, but scary none the less and the movie adjusted the psyche of billions of people.
Were those days scarier than the 90's Y2K concern?
Threads is way scarier.When The Day After premiered,the grown ups at church made sure that we didn’t get home until the movie was over.
Ever wonder what Hell looks like?
We just seen a glimpse of it.
not really. If you had to die, then you could not ask for a more painless, merciful, perfect death outside of being teleported into the sun's corona. it's only hell for the people who did not die immediately
This is a tad bit of a glimpse what the situation would be. It would be a hell of a lot worse (pun intended) what we'd experience.
To me, it was a glimpse of the end of the world.
Well, actually, it would be far worse than the movie portrayed. Even though it's stock footage, in the movie they say 300 missiles were inbound. That's more than enough to end all life on Earth, plus what we would fire. The entire planet would be dead. In the original script, the ending was actually WAY happier. In the original script Kansas was shown already being bulldozed and prepared to be rebuilt and the dying doctor actually saw the baby being born. Steve Guttenberg takes the kids home, but it's implied the woman and girl were abducted and never seen again.
I was 10 yrs old when this came out. Oh man, it scared me so much. Truly horrifying.
I just saw the movie now in 2021, and it still scared me for a young man, compared to the films nowadays.
Kind of ironic that this movie was released in the same year (1983) that a Soviet radar showed what looked like incoming missiles. It was in fact an anomaly caused by the setting sun, luckily there was an experienced Soviet radar operator that convinced his commanding officer of such and that they were not under attack.
the irony is 28 years later, NYC was Ground Zero.
utubewatcher806 - In what way is that ironic?
M Zz . To me the irony was that at the time of release, the makers of the movie and the audience had no knowledge of how close the world came to it becoming reality, and all because of a technical glitch. Of course the purpose of the movie was to highlight the imminent peril. Unfortunately the danger has not gone away.
@@mt22201 event in which what on the surface appears to be the case or to be expected differs radically from what is actually the case. nuclear annihilation was expected, but actual attacks came from use of unexpected items to cause major emotional impact--fear and awe.
Exactly, the name of the Soviet military was Stanislav Petrov, he did not activate the commands to carry out a nuclear counter-attack against the USA, because he realized the failure. Even so, he was scolded by his Soviet superiors.
they should air this again :-(
My parents kept me from watching this, but let me watch "Threads" with them a couple years later, which to this day I find even more terrifying. I should have left the room.
My parents were the exact opposite. I was allowed to watch The Day After, but not Threads. I finally saw Threads when I was 27. When I finally felt able to speak again, I called my parents to thank them for not letting me watch it when I was 11.
Threads was much more realistic, much more graphic, and much more scientifically accurate than The Day After
It was scary when I saw it in 1983 as a 8 year old and it’s terrifying now as a 45 year old
I'll be 45 in November. It was a scary time for us kids in the early 80's. Ironically, Zack Snyder's film version of Alan Moore's Watchmen is one of my favorite comic book movies.
Dude, play a fallout game. It's not that scary.
In reality,I can only pray and hope that a day like this (that fateful day) will never come.
"The Day after" is undoubtely an scary movie, but if you compare it with "Threads" seems like a Princess's fairytale movie from Disney.
Threads was horrific and affected me more than The Day After. It was impossible to get on video or dvd for years in the U.S. Finally was available a few years back.
Both movies came out at the same time and maybe they were preparing us for the possibility of nuclear war?
I agree. Threads is so overrated. Nothing scary about that movie.
My friend had passed out drunk. My other friend and I turned on the TV and this was on. We waked my friend up with both of us all freaked out during the "newscast" part telling him that we were under nuclear attack! Scaring the absolute shat out of my friend! Took him several minutes to realize it wasn't real only because we couldn't keep up the straight face act any longer!
Pretty chilling how the scenario could play out the same way with the Ukraine crisis underway now.
Except The Day After is a joke compared to what would really happen. Watch Threads 1984 instead for a much more realistic movie.
@@lolmao500 Cause now we have better weapons than ever. Or more dangerous!
Just watch about the Castle Bravo weapons test and how big a disaster that miscalculation was.
It was supposed to be 5-6 megatons, but turned out being 15 megatons of TNT of power. Plus the wind direction made the fallout fall near populated islands. That was just 1 weapon, imagine 100s going off. All the fuss about climate change, is a joke. The real environmental risk is nuclear war.
Heck we all eat extra radiation in the potassium in the bananas due to above grounds weapons testing!
@@lolmao500 Both are good movies.
Which is why you see no inflammatory language or moves by NATO or USA. Putin may see that as weakness, however, and try something even more stupid than Ukraine.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Do you go about your daily business wearing a blindfold every day? Because that's the only way I think you can reasonably believe that.
Coronavirus and empty grocery stores remind me of that scene where everybody were buying everything up
Best way covid-19 is b******* just like this anti Ronald Reagan nuclear war movie
At least with a virus it keeps the building intact and videos can still be around along with things where in a nuclear war that is really impossible.
In The Day After, people in the grocery store sce didnt seem to be buying lots of toilet paper.
@@kellychuang8373 True. If a virus wiped out mankind there would be all sorts of goodies for our successors to be awestruck by.
@@plaistowbill My guess was the people making this couldn't imagine seeing us now with a deadly COVID-19 pandemic and people really hoarding stuff like that.
I first watched this movie in 1990 and it's right up there with threads. I saw threads in 1987 and it scared me bad right after it was over I went right to my mother and told her what I just seen on tv. I asked what I had just seen was real and could that really happen? She paused for a few seconds and she did not lie to me. I knew of the day after movie but I could not bring myself to watch it until 1990 . I watched the movie by dawn's early light and then got the balls to watch the day after threads was far more terrifying.
@yyz-airspace ILS
RE: "Threads was far more terrifying."
You got that right. Threads makes The Day After seem like a Disney special.
@@spaceman081447 yes your right on the money Disney for sure. It's kinda funny was just talking about this with some fellas at work. It turned into a bickering match they seem to believe because we live in Canada that we would be safe if a nuclear exchange occurred. I tried to explain to them maybe some parts of Canada would be ok.But unfortunately we live in central Ontario 1 hour north of Toronto and this part of the country would take major fallout from the minuteman missile fields in north Dakota. Not to mention the second part of NORAD is just north of us and would definitely be hit. They still don't get it lol
USA: this real
Trollge: nice that that nuke was trolled
A remake of this movie would be great!
I was in 6th grade when this came out. We had a bad house fire that weekend and were stuck at a Holiday Inn that weekend. 8 years later , when I had breakup , I got the VHS tape from the library to watch while drinking. It made good breakup therapy.
Just started working at pentagon. Terrified me to this day.
We need a remake of this movie with exactly the same chilling details!
This movie gave me nightmares as a kid!
I was only seven and I'll never forget that scene where the old man was in his car while the bombs exploded!
That ending was so traumatizing too. It felt so hopeless.
I've learned to appreciate life every waking day!
In the UK, this aired around the same time as our own nuclear nightmare film Threads. I think I saw TDA first, and did find it disturbing. I was about 14 at the time, and an anti nuclear campaigner. I sat and watched TDA with my parents. It was shown on a commercial channel, but after the attack, they thankfully didn't have any more ad breaks! TDA is very different to Threads. Although still petty harrowing, it's presented more as a motion picture, and not the part drama/part documentary format of Threads, the latter being far more chilling and realistic despite TDA having a far bigger effects budget! Both films are historically very important, and no less frightening today IMO.
Threads, ironically, was nowhere near as censored as TDA was. and all the effects were stock footage and cheap overlays.
I was having supper at my Grandmother's house while we watched this movie. I remember feeling it in the pit of my stomach. I was 16 years old and wondered if I would even make it to HS graduation. It was a very scary and tense time in 1983.
I saw it when young now in my 50s and never forgot it
I live 11 miles north of Lawrence Kansas where this movie was filmed which is fitting considering Kansas has more missile silo's than any state.
I live in Michigan and Monroe County had few Silo in 1983 1984 they had to removed them.
Dam. Thank goodness I was too young to have been actively aware of this film when it actually aired.
You can't help the feeling that this may happen soon...
I was 7 and I miss the 80s.
I was 13 and I miss the 70's
i was 14 and a sophomore in high school. we studied that movie in science class for about a week after. so much to unpack!
Yesterday was the 37th anniversary of its original airing. The following year, the BBC released Threads. It made The Day After look like a day at Disneyland.
Amen to that.
I just watched the day after (Preview) And it shook me to my core like im crying inside-
My favorite part is the 4th grade teacher who is sitting in the bar, saying that she knew her kids would likely ask her about this during the next session, so, "I was out tonight and I needed to find a place with at TV." :D
2021 needs to put this theaters again
This movie and Threads(1984) and Testament should be shown to the Fallout generation, who think post nuclear war will be like a video game.
When TDA first came out even Ronald Reagan watched it, it actually admitted it changed his mind about nuclear war and softened his stance towards the USSR, which pissed off the military-industrial complex at the time.
Before this movie, there was an older generation who went through the Cuban Missile Crisis with the government telling them Civil Defense and "duck and cover" worked.
If you read up on the timeline of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, there were hawkish generals in the US military who were actually spoiling for nuclear war!
They wanted a first strike on the USSR and they hated JFK's cautious approach and using back channels to defuse things, General Curtis LeMay was one of those hawks and he was actually parodied by Stanley Kubrick in his dark comedy Dr. Strangelove, as Gen. Jack D. Ripper.
I was 20 when this movie came out and have heeded its lessons for 40+ years, and it's a shame that it's lessons have been forgotten by a new generation of western politicians who think WW3 is not actually a bad idea.
I was 11 and my brother was 9. I remember my Mom and Dad actually argued about if we were to young to watch it. My Dad. A Vietnam vet told her we needed to see it because it's reality. We watched it together.
This is a movie that needs to be shown again, I saw this movie, and it was more tban a bit frightening even back then. This is a movie that people need to see it today, that special effects back then were very good today, those same effects today are even better.
Even the NYC Metro and tri-state areas weren't immune to the horrific aftermath of that movie.
I remember having dreams or nightmares after watching this
A precocious child, I had a habit of reading the local newspaper every Sunday. I was 9 when this movie aired. A year prior, at age 8, in Second Grade, with no prompting from teachers, parents, or any adult, my young self started a petition to President Reagan asking him to end the Nuclear Arms race. Most of my fellow students had no idea what I was talking about. What I told them scared them. I collected over 100 signatures and my teacher helped me address the package to the White House. Nowadays, it's common for kids to be civic-minded, but in 1982, not so much.
It reminded me of the movie, Soylent Green. Nuclear war turned the world into a dystopian world.
Can only imagine if the BBC's "Threads" had aired in America. Makes "The Day After" look hopeful
I agree- a far more terrifying and realistic scenario.
Was thinking the same thing. That was grim!
This is nothing compared to the dream sequence in Terminator 2.
well, that `dream sequence in Terminator 2' would not be anything either, especially if those icbms were actually launched and then airburst.
I was 18 when this aired. 1 missile or 1 million missiles , nobody wins in the end .
I remember when I was about 11 and this was on for the first time in the UK. My folks watched up until the nuclear attack bit, got bored with the part where everyone's dying slowly from radiation sickness and turned over to watch Jasper Carrott instead. If I remember rightly, he made a joke about it, which was quite weird actually. I don't think it had quite the impact on them that was intended. Threads, on the other, hand...now that did hit home - for them and me.
I had nightmares for years about Threads.
Aye, you don't watch Threads, you survive it.
Threads is a more realistic film than The Day After, as it reports on the long-term effects of a nuclear war in England (13 years). The BBC produced it, without of course the high American budget, but even so, it produced a very good and educational film. It really is a film that impacts anyone, especially children and teenagers.
I watched this movie 2 years ago, and I swear those scenes will never leave my brain. I don't know how the hell all of you Brits survived watching this, and so many that were so young! God forbid this thing ever makes it into reality.
I was 12 and watched it on TV in Canada with my parents.
Probably hard for them to be personally connected, the American Midwest is vastly different than the urban and suburban UK
Events unfolding in the Ukraine are eerily mimicking the events in this film.
My thoughts as well. My 14 year old son has been asking his Grandfather about the main events of the cold war, due largely to current events in the Ukraine.
Hi, it's 2 years in the future... conditions have worsened
This movie was SCARY as a kid....
@3:40 Ilove that 80s hair. Beautiful.
A far more terrifying and realistic scenario
recently I had several nightmares when died because of war, I remember when my body and eyes was boiling from radiation... I have the filling it will happen soon
I wasn’t born by the time this movie came out, but I remember mentioning the movie to grandfather who’s also a Vietnam veteran, back when he was raising my mom and was about to watch the movie she made my mom and aunt not watch because he knew how real, and he told me that movie feel extremely to real even for him, because he always did share the fear that one day the Soviet Union was going to wipe out this country one day, well thank god that never happened.
This movie is mere childsplay compared to the movie about nuclear war called "threads".
It's also available to watch free on UA-cam. Just search for it. It paints 🎨 a much darker, grimmer, horrifying,
nightmarish picture about how things would really go, and how things would really be after a nuclear war.
The government won’t let you know until you see the flash.
I hate to say this but we need another, similar movie now to reach the generations that have come since 1983. A film where everything starts "normal", but on the news is the international crisis leading to initial military escalation... that spirals out of control, like it would in real life. And then show very graphically -- but now with MODERN special effects -- what it would be like. Such a film would be almost unwatchable, and it would truly shock most viewers, even beyond the 1983 version. Scare the living crap out of a few hundred million people, again. That's what we need to do, so that people stay real about nukes -- both here and in Russia and in China and in India and Pakistan.
I saw this with my grandparents. I saw my grandfather cry. My grandmother had to leave the room.
Peace through strength...may God bless America...bless us and keep us from war..
Excellent movie. I've watched it many times and anyone who hasn't seen it should. Now in 2022 we are even closer to this very movie playing out than ever before. I think they should make another one with today's technology. Our world leaders should watch this movie and think twice about pushing the button. God help us all.
Nothing wrong with a reset of the Earth...unless you want to keep on ordering Q-Tips from Amazon.
Yeah well a year later now in 2023 - considering all the god damn nonsense going on in the world (people's strung-out-on-stupid issues & the heat) - it would be a blessing to blow this rock up into bits and pieces.
I remember watching this at my elementary school. Even on that tiny rolling TV it scared the mess out of us.
I saw this movie when I was about 8 in the early 2000s. Terrified me but intrigued me. I would watch it on replay. My dad didn't like me watching it but never he didn't care enough stop me from watching. Funny enough, another scene that scared me as a child was the nuclear blast that Sarah Connor has in T2.
I was little when my older brother watched it. And when I saw the woman with her legs on fire, that was m first panic attack. Years later, I was maybe 12 I watched it again and I was shoked and scared during life... Watch it again when I was 37... No kid should watch this... Not even teenagers
Now look at us, on the brink of nuclear war.
Seems that way but if we look at Russian military equipment at least 50% percent will fail due to lack of maintenance
@@willr7849 50% of the Russian nuclear arsenal is destroy the world as we know it. Not to say the entire population would be wiped out, however the way we live would be radically altered for several generations.
Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was not bluffing on the use of nuclear weapons and ordered partial mobilisation of 300,000 reservists in a last-ditch effort to turn the war in Ukraine in his favour....[22 September 2022]
There's gotta be some people in their 20s here saying "What was the Soviet Union? Is that the same thing as the USSR?"
It's the same
It's the same as the CCCP, too.
yup
Back in the days before streaming you had to plan your day around when a big TV show was on at night get up during the commercials to go to the bathroom or get a snack and if you were young like me back then hope you were lucky enough that your parents would let you stay up and watch it.
I'm reading these comments and I totally understand the fear this movie generated. But imagine being a young US airman in Germany on an airbase with these weapons and watching this film. I knew if such a war happened, we'd have been one of the first hit. I told my family this without telling them why. Even though I might have been one of the early deaths, I truly felt I'd have been one of the lucky ones. Who would want to live with the aftereffects of such stupidity?
This video was interesting. We were so isolated in our world, I never got to talk with anyone from the "outside" about their reaction to the film.
Fun fact: Immediately after the film's original broadcast, a special news program featured a live discussion between Dr. Carl Sagan, who opposed the use of nuclear weapons, and conservative writer William F. Buckley, who supported the concept of "nuclear deterrence." During this heated discussion, aired live, Dr. Sagan introduced the concept of "nuclear winter" and made his famous analogy, "Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 matches, the other 7,000 matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger."
The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction has worked and has prevented large scale wars. Everyone swore Reagan was going to get us into a nuclear war, and some people called for unilateral disarmament on our part.
Peace through strength!!!
This movie came out the year before I was born but I watched it for the first time when I was a senior in high school which was also the first time I knew this movie existed.
Beautifully remastered!!!
I remember being glued to the TV and freaked out for weeks.