T/TTHREADS PART 4

Description

Near-legendary BBC film dramatising the effects of a nuclear strike on Sheffield. Mick Jackson directs from 'Kes' writer Barry Hines' script Originally made for broadcast by the BBC, Threads is grimly educational and politically charged, much like Peter Watkins' comparable The War Game, which was made for and then banned by the corporation two decades earlier. The film tells of events leading up to, during and after a nuclear exchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The twist is ...