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This a tv film from the nineteen eighties by the BBC. It's about the lead up to and aftermath of a nuclear strike. If you take out the blast and the fallout, it has a lot in common with a fast crash. The quality isn't great, but it kind of adds to the gritty realism. Stick with it:

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davep wrote:This a tv film from the nineteen eighties by the BBC. It's about the lead up to and aftermath of a nuclear strike. If you take out the blast and the fallout, it has a lot in common with a fast crash. The quality isn't great, but it kind of adds to the gritty realism. Stick with it:

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I watched that a few years back on the net. Very hard core.

I just watched it. Give me death before life in that case -- that survival stuff is horrifying. The good thing about the collapse scenario is that crops will still grow okay (if it doesn't lead to nukes first).

GoghGoner wrote:The good thing about the collapse scenario is that crops will still grow okay

That depends on how bad global warming and the mass extinction that accompanies it turns out to be.

"Threads" was the ultimate in doomer porn! I've never seen a more horrifying movie, and I think that was the point of it.

Thanks for cheering us up! GDII is not looking so bad. I guess you have to look at the bright side.

Screw Rocc and his bunker. If this scenario played out, ground zero is the place to be..................

I highly recomend "No Blade of Grass" if you can find it. I recorded it a few years ago on AMC. This film has it all-MZB, famine, guns, and doomsteads.

I couldn't find a trailer but here are a few segments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL4nVXJmEfY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w35q1sggNe0

Testament(1983) is another nice happy nuke movie to kill yourself over.

Has anyone seen GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES ? It's Japanese pre-anime, and based on a true story WW2 era.
The art and music are lovely, but watch it first before assuming it would be appropriate for children, as it portrays burn victims and death by starvation.
There is no happy ending, but if you're up for a good cry, take a look.

i just watched "Threads" and im not sure what to think...it was very hard to wrap my mind around the whole thing...Its so real yet so "bad dream"

Survivors the remake is on BBC 1 in 12 minutes - (you can watch it on BBC iplayer immediately after). (It's episode three, or 4?), but it's interesting. I'm particularly enjoying it because much of it is shot in my home town - the main house is around the corner from my Grandmas and the hospital is where I was born - even shows the ward! It's worth watching anyway.

Wow what can I say. You think you're tough watch this one. It depicts in grusome, thought out detail, the everyday life as we know it mixed in with a realistic scenario of a nuclear holocaust and the fallout and bleak aftermath. After watching this if there's ever a nuclear war I would want to be vaporized rather than survive it and if I did survive it I would probably want to commit suicide asap. It's some serious s*** for sure.

Here it is on youtube for those that are ready:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQo0BQM3OlQ

That film is the bleakest thing I've ever seen on television.

Its good in the sense that I enjoy horror films but in terms of showing the actual aftermath it is no more realistic than say Chernobyl Diaries. Unfortunately many people look at a horror film like this and think like Mmasters that everything post war would be horror piled atop horror, however that just isn't the case. There are not enough devices to create the level of contamination portrayed now and there were not even enough back when that movie was made. All explosives follow the cubed squared law, the further you are from the zero point lineally the lower the force volumetrically. Think of a fire cracker seems how the 4th of July is coming up soon. If you hold it in your hand when it goes off you are likely to be injured. If you put it on a picnic table and move your hand a foot (32 cm) away you will feel the thud but are not likely to be hurt. Move your hand two feet (65 cm) away and the chance of injury is very very low. The power of a device is orders of magnitude greater, but the principal remain the same, anything over twenty miles (33 km) is a bright light and a rumble. How many of the people on this forum live within that distance of something someone would actually take a shot at? Not very many, especially in the midwest USA where I live. Europe and Asia are much more crowded, however again the target has to be worth the effort to the attacker before you need worry about it.

Also, don't forget Testament and The Day After.

I am currently camped between an Air force barracks and an oil refinery 5km apart, 15 km from Australia's second biggest city. A fair chance of vaporization.

Its good in the sense that I enjoy horror films but in terms of showing the actual aftermath it is no more realistic than say Chernobyl Diaries.

At the time it was considered an accurate portrayal of what would happen. IIRC, Carl Sagan was a consultant for the film.

Wasn't Dr. Sagan the one who came up with the concept of nuclear winter?

Cloud9 wrote:Wasn't Dr. Sagan the one who came up with the concept of nuclear winter?

He was one of the authors of the paper that introduced the concept and later in life he admitted that as an ardent disarmament advocate they had taken data which indicated the possibility of a nuclear autumn and stretched it to the worst case scenario of a nuclear winter to make their disarmament case stronger. I got the feeling from watching that interview that he didn't regret his actions because he was fearful a nuclear exchange could break out at any time. Sometimes even scientists throw objectivity out the window if it suits their 'greater cause'.

Watching now while playing Fallout New Vegas

A/C Full blast, enjoy the good life while you can!