I gotta tell ya: this movie scared the crap out of me. Everyone was freaked out...a part of it was because they used fake news alerts in the movie. It seemed oddly real...and plausible at the time.

Small town Kansas gets 3 and 4 bombs each?

Were the Soviets trying to take out Superman?

Manufacturing consent?

This brings back memories. This movie scared the crap out of EVERYONE. And not in the sense of "oooohhh, scary" but in the sense of being a defining moment in the collective consciousness.

I'm always shocked by the things that aren't taught later on. I was born in '83 and had never heard of this before. Seems like a rather large omission in the continued cultural memory(along the lines of Budd Dwyer).

I'll have to watch this. Thanks.

Theo47: Maybe Jericho like CBS' TV show? Terminator 2's movie had a realistic nuclear attack.

http://video.google.com/url?docid=-2023790698427111488 for UK's Threads (1.75+ hours) movie. I will try to submit this.

Heh, ant, I was just about to link in the IMDB on Threads - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/ - I saw that one, too, it it was even more intense than The Day After. Both were monumental movies.

Seems like a rather large omission in the continued cultural memory(along the lines of Budd Dwyer).

Hey, man...nice shot.

The one that scared a fraternity brother of mine was "Countdown to Looking Glass" on HBO. He came running from the television room to tell a group of us talking in our courtyard. The videotaped newscast from the tv movie looked like an actual newscast. It premiered October 14, 1984. I haven't spotted a clip yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_to_Looking_Glass

This film doesn't even come close to showing the horrors of Nuclear War.

Behold 'Threads' - http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488&hl=en-GB

Threads is a 1984 television docudrama depicting the effects of a nuclear war on the United Kingdom and its aftermath.. 1 hr 47 min 45 sec.

Nuclear war is cool! Did you see that dude! AWESOME!

Being glib is cool too!

The Scary thing to me at the time was that the movie was a "limited" war of 300-500 missiles and there were thousands and thousands available for the WP and NATO to launch.

Thanks for the suggestions, all!

Great bit of propaganda film making. Studied this in film school. Great stuff!

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