Director: Mick Jackson
Cast: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May, Nicholas Lane,
Plot: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Nuclear war and the movies
20 years after the BBC commissioned and then suppressed The War Game, Peter Watkins’ devastating depiction of a nuclear attack on England, the Corporation produced Mick Jackson’s Threads, an even more powerful film on the theme. […]