"were for Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up, and Best Film Sound. Threads is available on DVD and was remastered by Simply Media in 2018. Simply Media will also release the remaster on Blu-Ray for the first time 17th December 2018. Threads 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 docudrama account of nuclear war and its effects on the city of Sheffield in Northern England. The plot centres on two families as a"
"the film was the first of its kind to depict a nuclear winter. Certain reviewers nominated ""Threads"" as the ""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 programme ""The War Game"" produced in Britain in the 1960s 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,"
"through the Medway Towns from Strood to Chatham. Of interest is the mention of ""inevitable traffic jams"" on the Strood side of Rochester Bridge, the novel being written some years prior to the construction of the M2 motorway Medway bypass. Rochester is the setting of the controversial 1965 Peter Watkins television film ""The War Game"", which depicts the town's destruction by a nuclear missile. The opening sequence was shot in Chatham Town Hall, but the credits particularly thank the people of Dover, Gravesend and Tonbridge. The 2011 adventure film Ironclad (dir. Jonathan English) is based upon the 1215 siege of"
"on 23 September 1984 at 9:30 pm, and achieved the highest ratings on the channel (6.9 million) of the week. 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). ""Threads"" was not shown again on British screens until the digital channel BBC Four broadcast it in October 2003. It was also shown"
"in the city and the Sheffield operations staff man their desks. At 8:35 a.m. a nuclear warhead air bursts high over the North Sea, producing an electromagnetic pulse which damages or destroys communications and most electrical systems throughout the UK and northwestern Europe. Two minutes later the first missile salvos hit NATO targets, including nearby RAF Finningley 20 miles (32 kilometres) from Sheffield. Although the city is not yet heavily damaged, the mushroom cloud from Finningley is visible and chaos reigns in the streets, with Jimmy last seen running from his stalled car in an attempt to reach Ruth. Shortly"
"British radar reached the capital. The attack started more than 600 fires, caused by a mixture of incendiaries and SC-type bombs ranging from 500 to 1000. Fulham, Putney and Chiswick bore the brunt and most of the 216 fatalities occurred in those boroughs. Had more of the bombers got through, they may have created a firestorm. Aside from the dead, another 417 people were seriously injured. Kensington was badly damaged, and St Mary Abbots suffered fire damage. Lancaster Gate and Paddington were hit and the Great Western Hotel was severely damaged. Fires broke out in Gloucester Gardens, Porchester Mews, Highgate,"
"the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1966. The film was eventually broadcast on 31 July 1985 on the BBC, during the week before the fortieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the day before a repeat screening of Threads.[4] The film was shot in the Kent towns of Tonbridge, Gravesend, Chatham and Dover. The cast was almost entirely made up of non-actors, casting having taken place via a series of public meetings several months earlier. Much of the filming of the post-strike devastation was shot at the Grand Shaft Barracks, Dover. The narration was provided by Peter Graham with"
"the BBC broadcast ""On the Eighth Day"", a documentary about the effects of a nuclear winter and ""Threads"", a drama about a nuclear attack on Sheffield while 1985 saw the first screening of Peter Watkins' nuclear war television film ""The War Game"", banned on television since 1965. ""Edge of Darkness"" also rode on a wave of preoccupation with the secretive nature of the State in both fact (e.g. ""This Week""’s “Death on the Rock” (1988) about the deaths of three Provisional IRA members in Gibraltar and ""Secret Society"" (1987) about undisclosed matters of public interest which led to the sacking"
"overflowed due to the sudden downpour and badly damaged Trinity School's astro turf to the front of the school as well as some damage to inside the school. In Reading, rail services to the southwest were affected and westbound trains from Paddington could go no further. The flood waters affected the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Burghfield, which handles Britain's nuclear warheads, resulting in a suspension of work for almost a year. On 3 June, Stoke Goldington suffered flash flooding affecting 25 homes. Stoke Goldington was affected again on 3 July, with 10 houses being flooded. By 21 July, seventy homes"
"in Nottingham: Vicky McClure, Aisling Loftus, Chloe Harris, Luke Gell and George Boden. The play is set in 1945 during the hundred days between VE Day in May 1945 and VJ Day in August 1945, a period which also included the election of the first ever Labour government and the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The play focuses on a group of women in a working-class suburb of Nottingham, especially Sandra and her sisters, Joan and Betty. Sandra has lost a child: not killed by an enemy bomb, but by a car in the blackout. Now,"
"afterwards Sheffield is targeted by a one-megaton warhead which air bursts directly above the Tinsley Viaduct. Strategic targets, including steel and chemical factories in the Midlands, are the primary targets, with two thirds of all UK homes destroyed and immediate deaths ranging between 12 and 30 million. The resulting East-West exchange amounts to 3,000 megatons. About 210 megatons fall on the UK. Sheffield Town Hall is destroyed in the attack and traps the city's emergency operations team in their shelter underneath it. Over the next several days, the trapped team attempts to coordinate the city's chaotic emergency and relief efforts"
"Army. Fallout from the ground-burst blast contaminates Sheffield and other adjacent cities, worsening their existing problems after being hit in a fictional nuclear exchange between NATO and the USSR in this television docudrama. Notes Bibliography Crewe Crewe ('Cryw' in Welsh) is a railway town and civil parish within the borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The area has a population of 71,722. Crewe is perhaps best known as a large railway junction and home to Crewe Works, for many years a major railway engineering facility for manufacturing and overhauling locomotives, but now much reduced in"
"gunners received a prize from the Lord Mayor of London. From 1921 to 1936, Purfleet formed an urban district of Essex including the parishes of Aveley, West Thurrock and South Ockendon. It covered an area of and in 1931 had a population of 8,511. The parishes and urban district were abolished in 1936 and their former area was used to form part of Thurrock Urban District. Reflecting a strong port and storage history, Purfleet was listed by the Ministry of Food as one of 14 sensitive A-bomb targets in 1955, including for the supply of tea. In Bram Stoker's novel,"
"Coventry Blitz The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word ""Blitzkrieg"" meaning ""lightning war"") was a series of bombing raids that took place on the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force (""Luftwaffe""). The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940 and continued into the morning of 15 November. At the start of the Second World War, Coventry was an industrial city of around 238,000 people which, like much of the industrial West Midlands, contained metal and wood–working industries. In Coventry's"
"the village of Stromness having to leave their homes as a result of uranium contamination. The ""Revue"" was first performed at the St Magnus Festival, in Orkney, by Bron, with the composer at the piano, in June 1980. Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney, would have been two miles from the uranium mine's core, and the centre most threatened by pollution, had the proposed development been approved. In the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003 he marched in protest, and he was an outspoken critic of the Labour governments of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Davies's appointment"
"with inhabitable corpses, Gwyneth sacrifices herself by causing a gas explosion, which seals the Rift and apparently kills the Gelth. The episode ""Boom Town"", set in modern-day Cardiff, revisits the Rift. The Rift now runs through Roald Dahl Plass, and emits a radiation which the TARDIS can use as fuel. However, a member of the Slitheen crime family, Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen, disguised as a woman named Margaret Blaine, becomes elected to Mayor of Cardiff and plans to build a defective nuclear power station on the Rift, which would then cause a nuclear meltdown. The resulting energy shockwave would destroy"
"and the Soviet Union entered conflict over hypothetical instability in Iran, which escalated into full nuclear war. In the ensuing nuclear exchange, a one megaton nuclear missile detonates above the Tinsley Viaduct, devastating most of surrounding Sheffield. Tinsley Viaduct Tinsley Viaduct is a two-tier road bridge in Sheffield, England; the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. It carries the M1 and the A631 over the Don Valley, from Tinsley to Wincobank, also crossing the Sheffield Canal, the Midland Main Line and the former South Yorkshire Railway line from Tinsley Junction to Rotherham Central. The Supertram route to Meadowhall"
"the old slums were cleared and replaced with housing schemes such as the Park Hill flats, and the Gleadless Valley estate. Sheffield's traditional manufacturing industries (along with those of many other areas in the UK), declined during the 20th century. In the 1980s, it was the setting for two films written by locally-born Barry Hines: ""Looks and Smiles"", a 1981 film that portrayed the depression that the city was enduring, and ""Threads"", a 1984 television film that simulated a nuclear winter in Sheffield after a warhead is dropped to the east of the city. The building of the Meadowhall shopping"
"later published in paperback book. The play was memorably presented in repertory by the Theatre Royal, York in 1972, and was also shown by Bench Theatre in Havant for seven nights in July 1981. The play is set in a post-apocalyptic London, nine months after World War III (the ""Nuclear Misunderstanding""), which lasted for two minutes and twenty-eight seconds – ""including the signing of the peace treaty"". Nuclear fallout is producing strange mutations in people; the title refers to the character Lord Fortnum, who finds himself transforming into a bed-sitting room (other characters turn into a parrot and a wardrobe)."
"the US, leading one of them to say ""I think we just started World War III."" In the early 1980s, there were a number of films made for television that had World War III as a theme. ABC's ""The Day After"" (1983), PBS' ""Testament"" (1983), and the BBC's ""Threads"" (1984) depicted nuclear World War III. The three movies show a nuclear war against the Soviet Union, which sends its troops marching across Western Europe. These films inspired many to join the anti-nuclear movement. ""Threads"" is notable for its graphically disturbing and realistic depictions of post-nuclear survival, depicting a nuclear strike"
"to over 470 tonnes of high explosives. Over 30,000 incendiary devices were dropped on the city with nearly 45,000 buildings damaged or destroyed, with most of the city's High Street being hit. The Supermarine factory building making Spitfires in Woolston was a key target in the city. On the 24 and 26 September, 1940 the ""Luftwaffe"" attacked the riverside factory during two day-time raids. Much of the factory was destroyed and 110 people were killed. Northam gasworks was also targeted on 26 September and 11 workers were killed in the raid. A daylight raid on 6 November, 1940 targeted the"
"Sheffield Outrages The Sheffield Outrages were a series of explosions and murders by a small group of trade unionist militants carried out in Sheffield, England in the 1860s. Sheffield's early success in steel production had involved long working hours, in desperately unpleasant conditions which offered little or no safety protection. In ""The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844"", Friedrich Engels quotes a local doctor, Dr. Knight, regarding the so-called ""Grinder's Asthma"" suffered by the Sheffield cutlery workers in the mid 19th century: It was, perhaps, no coincidence, therefore, that the city became one of the main centres"
"through their few remaining short wave radios. At 10:00 a.m. local time, nuclear fallout from a ground burst at Crewe descends upon Sheffield on a northwesterly wind, with Jimmy's mother Mrs Kemp succumbing to radiation sickness and severe burns after being caught by the Tinsley Viaduct explosion. His children dead or missing and his wife dying, Mr Kemp sets out on a desperate search for food and water and dies. The dangers of fallout prevent the remaining functioning civil authorities from fighting fires or rescuing those trapped under debris. Ruth leaves her surviving parents and grandmother in their basement, making"
"people in the U.S. heartland states of Kansas and Missouri attempting to survive during and after the nuclear exchange. ""Testament"" is a 1983 drama film based on a three-page story ""The Last Testament"" by Carol Amen which tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war destroys outside civilization. The 1984 BBC television film ""Threads"" depicts life before, during, and after the detonation of a Soviet nuclear bomb over Sheffield, England. The Terminator film franchise (first introduced in 1984) depicts an artificial intelligence called Skynet becoming self-aware"
"part in the raid on Leeds; in all 451 were over Britain that night. Incendiary bombs were first dropped onto the city on the Friday night, later high explosive bombs were dropped on the Saturday. Targets hit in the city centre included the Town Hall, the city's museum (then on Park Row), Leeds New station (now Leeds City station), the Kirkgate Markets, the Central Post Office, the Quarry Hill flats, the Hotel Metropole and the area now occupied by the Inner Ring Road. Around 100 houses were destroyed, 4,600 sustained damage, and around 65 people were killed. Other nearby towns"
"in Edinburgh. He also smokes cigarettes and cannabis, drinks copious amounts of alcohol, plays computer games, and has adventurous sex with a married woman, Yvonne. He regrets his addictions and misdemeanours and tries half-heartedly to give them up occasionally. He reflects on his awful experience of witnessing the aftermath of the massacre at the 'Highway of Death' in the Gulf War, and covers the deployment of HMS Vanguard, Britain's first Trident nuclear missile submarine. He thinks he has a scoop when he receives anonymous phone calls about a series of mysterious deaths. Suddenly he has mysterious deaths of his own"
"areas of the city centre and to Coventry's historic cathedral, leaving only a shell and the spire. More than 4,000 houses were damaged or destroyed, along with around three quarters of the city's industrial plants. More than 800 people were killed, with thousands injured and homeless. Aside from London, Hull and Plymouth, Coventry suffered more damage than any other British city during the Luftwaffe attacks, with huge firestorms devastating most of the city centre. The city was probably targeted due to its high concentration of armaments, munitions, aircraft and aero-engine plants which contributed greatly to the British war effort, although"
"radius than the impact bombs. By now, the Port of London had sustained heavy damage with a third of its warehouses destroyed, and the West India and St Katherine Docks had been badly hit and put out of action. Bizarre events occurred when the River Lea burned with an eerie blue flame, caused by a hit on a gin factory at Three Mills, and the Thames itself burnt fiercely when Tate & Lyle's Silvertown sugar refinery was hit. On 3 March 1943 at 8:27 p.m., the unopened Bethnal Green Underground station was the site of a wartime disaster. Families had"
"""Music for Films III"". The first single of the UK rap crew Gunshot, from 1990, was entitled ""Battle Creek Brawl (4 Minute Warning)"". A Radiohead track from the 2007 Bonus Disc album ""In Rainbows"" Disk 2 is titled ""4 Minute Warning"". The four-minute warning was a central plot and narrative device in dramas (both on stage and screen) and novels, often being the motor force of plays, films, novels and cartoon strips. The BBC drama ""Threads"", about how society decays after a nuclear holocaust, focuses on an attack on Sheffield. ""The War Game"" also portrays the four-minute warning, pointing out"
"focus of their respective regions and Leeds is generally regarded as the dominant city of the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire. Leeds made a notable contribution during the First World War. Leeds suffered no raids during the war; however, it suffered significant losses during the war. Barnbow in Cross Gates was a large ammunitions factory producing ten thousand shells per week by August 1915. The worst tragedy ever to happen within Leeds (in terms of fatalities) happened at the Barnbow tragedy of 5 December 1916. 35 workers (all women aged 14 or over) were killed in the Barnbow Munitions Factory,"
"deaths. At least one civilian victim was an off-duty member of the Territorial Army. Most killings took place within Northern Ireland, especially in Belfast. Most of the killings in Belfast took place in the west and north of the city. Dublin, London and Birmingham were also affected, albeit to a lesser degree than Northern Ireland itself. Occasionally, the IRA attempted or carried out attacks on British targets in Gibraltar, Germany and the Netherlands. The Troubles The Troubles () was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, and the"
"has its own roller derby team, Railtown Loco Rollers, founded in September 2013. They skate at Sir William Stanier Leisure Centre and compete with skaters and teams from all over the North West. Crewe's main leisure facility is the Crewe Lifestyle Centre, which now houses Crewe's Swimming Pool after the Flag Lane premises closed in 2016. Other notable leisure facilities include Sir William Stanier Leisure Centre and Victoria Community Centre. In ""Threads"" (1984), Crewe is destroyed by a single megaton Soviet Union nuclear weapon, given its strategic roles as a transport hub and manufacturer of small arms for the British"
"that the atomic bombings occurred first, followed by civil war featuring ""confused street fighting in London itself"" and the societal postwar reorganisation, which the Party retrospectively calls ""the Revolution"". Most of the plot takes place in London, the ""chief city of Airstrip One"", the Oceanic province that ""had once been called England or Britain"". Posters of the Party leader, Big Brother, bearing the caption ""BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU"", dominate the city (Winston states it can be found on nearly every house), while the ubiquitous ""telescreen"" (transceiving television set) monitors the private and public lives of the party members. Military"