"Countdown To Looking Glass" (1984) Cold-War USSR Nuclear Attack Film

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Docudrama uses fictional reports of a crisis in the Middle East, which leads to a nuclear confrontation between the US and the USSR. The story is told through a live news report that follows the apocalyptic world-ending nuclear exchange. An excellent, dramatic doomsday scenario in which the Cold War fully escalates. "Looking Glass" is the code word for the Strategic Air Command's control plane which is to be used in the case of nuclear war.
A Canadian made-for-television movie, and the narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons, which was triggered by a banking crisis, from the perspective of an ongoing news broadcast.
The nuclear powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz portrayed in this movie is actually the museum ship U.S.S. Yorktown (ex CV 10) moored in Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina. Starring Scott Glenn, Michael Murphy, Helen Shaver as Dorian Waldorf, Eric Sevareid (as himself) and a young Newt Gingrich (as himself).
First aired on October 14, 1984. For education, entertainment, enlightenment and inspiration.
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@russchiappa4870 Год назад

Forty years later and we are in the same looped nightmare

@straywolf77 Год назад

Right?

@axelscharf2415 Год назад

Even worse .

@azaretskyc Год назад

The time has come. It will happen this time. Make sure you are right with God.

@gussstavo Год назад

you are... me i live in Argentina

@jw325 Год назад

@@gussstavo no matter where you are on earth you will not escape the effects of a full blown nuclear war, you will have to deal with the fallout and nuclear winters for years, those who would be taken in the first seconds of the war will be the lucky ones

@unknownfilmmaker777 5 месяцев назад

It feels like this movie is now a couple steps closer to being real.

@machellebarrington9476 4 месяца назад

FACTS✌️💯

@Troy-sn2hi 4 месяца назад

The secretary of defense had a heart attack 😂😂😂 and now? 😂😂😂

@user-yi6nb9sj9i 4 месяца назад

Just a few ?!?!

@marksretrogames9297 4 месяца назад

It is turning out like that but ww3 will never happen there is know winners

@tobiojo6469 4 месяца назад

It really is

@davedixon2068 2 месяца назад

I was in the RAF and based in West Germany during 1980, looking at the world today I am far less confident that a nuclear war can be avoided as there are far more unstable leaders with nuclear weapons under their fingers.

@crocodile1313 2 месяца назад

You got that right my British friend! As an American, I tremble at the thought of any similar crisis happening with our inept "leadership" in charge today.

@subzero3056 Месяц назад

Positive

@Sweetwater20120 Месяц назад

It’s what happens when you let the north koreans and iranians het nuclear weapons

@jimbotron70 Месяц назад

@@Sweetwater20120 You sound like the proverbial wolf and lamb in Aesop's tale.

@Sweetwater20120 Месяц назад

@@jimbotron70 well the west could have stopped this, if obama had given the requested arms to Israel it could have kept iran from them and if The world would have kept other nations from selling the technology to north korea then they wouldn’t have them

@rustymascari7554 6 месяцев назад

I was on active duty in the USAF, working communications on the National Emercency Airborne Command Post, from 1981-1986. These movies were almost surreal in the accuracy of some aspects of the information. The cold war movies were a real reminder of how vulnerable we could be to a bad choice. All I will say is our checks and balances were above question.

@rd264 6 месяцев назад

above question? LOL.

@marcd2743 5 месяцев назад

@@rd264 Haven't had a nuke war yet have we?

@Sunny25611 3 месяца назад

My dear brother George was also may he RIP😔

@KtotheL 3 месяца назад

Thank You for your Service !

@DaOvaseea 3 месяца назад

Brother, you said it. I was in the AF 1980-2000, mostly in intelligence. When I first saw this movie, I was TDY in western NY Fall of 1984. I walked in the hotel room & this was already on. Not knowing the local channels, I thought this was a real broadcast for a few minutes. I realized it was a movie when I started flipping channels looking for coverage on other channels & no other channel had coverage. & a Phil Rizzuto “The Money Store” commercial calmed my nerves…lol

@greggd2027 Год назад

I saw this movie when I was a teenager.. and remember how frighteningly realistic it was. Especially the last 20 minutes or so. I have thought of it often, as well as The Day After, Threads, etc. And I've thought how fortunate we were to have made it through this time without nuclear war. Now fast forward to 2022, and the madness is unfolding again 😳

@thefrase7884 Год назад

We will really have no clue how a real life scenario would play out. We really can’t say this is realistic. All of these nuclear Armageddon acts are way underplayed

@Rambonii Год назад

The news woman was in tremors 2 aftershock

@NYCamper62 Год назад

Watched this film when it came out I was a year or so out of the Navy. Didn't sleep for two days.

@kelleygreenEmpressOne Год назад

I watched threads this morning...

@Aengus42 Год назад

@@kelleygreenEmpressOne I spent day picking shrooms on Dartmoor & we wondered who amongst our friends would appreciate a visit from a car full of tripping, happy, bouncy people with fresh mushrooms to spare. We chose some friends of ours in a cottage on the coast. Deep in the woods with looking over sea. No streetlights, no any lights! We knocked and they said "Hey! Sit down. Threads is about to start... So we left a large cardboard nox full of shrooms in the middle of the floor for people to help themselves if they wanted some.... and we watched! I got as far as an injured cat trying to get out of a pile of rubble & I couldn't take any more! I went into the kitchen & we formed the "Who gives a toss anyway!" club! Slowly more & more people came out. We made big, comforting cups of tea there were loads of hugs to be had. Threads was just too much on mushrooms! I've seen it since & that single scene is still seared into my mind. And every time I see it it takes me straight back to that farmhouse kitchen. The hot tea, the hugs & the "Who Gives a Toss Anyway Club! We all cared. That's why it was too much! And that poor moggy... 😱

@mungojack Год назад

Well, watching this at 2am was a BAD move! Now heading out to buy canned food

@maverickhistorian6488 Год назад

I already have my two weeks supply of food

@KellyDFlynn Год назад

@@maverickhistorian6488 gonna need more than that 😊

@wateralwayswet 9 месяцев назад

make it a habbit mate, pls make it habit not compulsive little by little. also include water filters and vitamins

@kevoreilly6557 7 месяцев назад

Watching it 10/25/2023 an even worse idea

@EricCox4848 4 месяца назад

Name a crisis that didn't involve panic buying or being locked down in recent years.

@mnirwin5112 Год назад

The really frightening thing about this movie is how events escalated so quickly from a local issue to a nuclear nightmare.

@dunxy 11 месяцев назад

Yup, scary times then, still scary now...

@baldeagle4308 10 месяцев назад

The similarities to today are even scarier.

@barnabycat7002 10 месяцев назад

It wasn't a local issue that precipitated the events in the story. The bizarre over-reaction of the people and US gov to 3 (commercial?) banks closing from 3 SA countries defaulting (on what I can only assume were foreign debt obligations) is the actual start of events. The widespread violence and unrest in the Middle East is plausible as is a person or group attacking an embassy of the country deemed responsible but it would be the same in the US if not worse eg if you have $10 in your wallet, that's all you have to live on until further notice because there are no checks being taken, there is no use of credit and the $3b taken out by some has nowhere to go so it just collects at stores -- remember, there is 0 banking of any kind happening. I'm just guessing that this is one of or based on one of Bloomfield's (in the movie) own wargames but it is severely flawed.

@livetotell100 10 месяцев назад

That's how it usually happens. I was 10 in 1984. We lived through this possible scenario. Imagine wondering if this was your last few days on Earth. Just wondering if the "bomb" would drop. The 1980's and early 1990's were an awesome time to live, yet scary as well.

@HobbyOrganist 10 месяцев назад

all it takes is one conflict and then one renegade, drunk or suicidal guy in the field or air to make a stupid move that starts WWIII, it could be as simple as a renegad pilot in a jet firing on the other side's jet or launching a small nuke missile from a mobile platform

@nizloc4118 3 месяца назад

For anyone interested in this, look up "By Dawns Early Light" Its on here too. Great movie...

@MAGABorderSolutions Месяц назад

Watch Threads (if you havent already) It makes By dawns early light look like a disney movie. Be warned, its a hard watch but brilliant.

@piotrd.4850 Месяц назад

@@MAGABorderSolutions The Day After makes "By Dawn's Early Light" (Btw: terrific movie) like Disney, while "Threads" makes "The Day After" look as Day at the races.

@danthomas6587 Год назад

How did we go from having old men with white hair giving us our news to young men who instead give us their stupid opinions?

@RideAcrossTheRiver Год назад

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@antpearson9676 Год назад

Hair dye Ant p uk teacher retired

@richardheadly7466 Год назад

Good question but there was a time when the news was more informative. Now it's used to shape political opinions for one party or the other depending on who the parent company is that owns a particular news outlet. The truth isn't as important, at least not all the truth. Instead we seem to be being pitted against one another while we're all poorly informed.

@factsoverfeelings1 Год назад

I thought the media reported on whatever trends on twitter. Feelings not facts !!!

@gregoryhagen8801 Год назад

Political correctness.

@Morcaiden Год назад

That final sequence with Scott Glenn, damn...still packs a punch 40 years later.

@marypartridge5154 Год назад

I thought we were talking about Alan Turin????? And God has nothing to do with religion. Religion is invented by man.

@18dmedic Год назад

@@marypartridge5154 hater and may your soul rot in Hell.

@patrickscalia5088 Год назад

It does indeed. Even having some idea of where things were going in the plot, that last scene was a real shocker. It made me gasp. I hope many many people watch this remarkable movie. All of the "experts" that the media in the film consult were not fictional. They are the real thing. It's a movie with some real impact. And believe me, you will learn a lot. Legitimately learn real things from real experts. I would love to know how the preparation went for this movie, inviting real pundits and experts to step into the camera and tell us what they know. Amazing that so many chose to participate. And that news anchor? I forget his name but he was a renowned and well-liked newsman in Canada.

@FrickingLunatic Год назад

@@patrickscalia5088 the guy who played Don Tobin? i know this was in 1984, but there's an actor that looks like him to me now. i can't even place this guy in a movie right now.... but i thought Tobin's performance was very good

@patrickscalia5088 Год назад

@@FrickingLunatic My understanding is that the actor who played Don Tobin wasn't actually an actor. If what I've read is accurate, he's actually a very well known and admired news anchor for one of the nationwide Canadian networks. Sort of a Canadian Walter Cronkite. If that's true all he was really doing was playing himself. Not that it takes anything away from his performance. He was fantastic. I don't know his real name. But it wouldn't be hard to pause the credits on the movie and find out that way. Unrelated, but I usually try to plug this on any comment I leave dealing with any nuclear war movies. The most realistic, the best acted, and no kidding the most gut-wrenching and horrifying movie depicting the run-up to war and the war itself is the 1984 BBC movie Threads. Hands down it's the most amazing and hard-hitting movie in the genre. Not because it's gory or gross but because it's unrelentingly believable. Threads is available to watch on RU-vid if you just do a search for it. It's my vote for the most frightening movie ever made. Like Countdown to Looking Glass, Threads too is a docudrama in that it to gives you information along with the entertainment. And the movie gives you these horrifying facts in a dry, calm manner that only adds to the dread and panic the movie evokes. One of the most effective ways they ratchet up the tension and dread is by having televisions and radios, always in the background of scenes, playing a series of public announcements called "Protect and Survive" that tries to tell citizens how to prepare for nuclear war. The were real, produced by the government and BBC to broadcast in the event a real nuclear war was threatening. Though they try to tell people how to prepare, the only thing you can come away with is that if it actually happens, there's NO way to prepare. It's futile and you will probably die. Fast or slow. Each one of those announcements ends with a little musical blurb that by the end of the movie every time you hear it your stomach is going to knot up on you. Threads: if you like movies about nuclear war and haven't watched it yet, believe me, you should. Don't expect to have an easy time getting to sleep after.

@bancte Год назад

The News Anchor Actor is incredible. Better than any actual news anchor I know of today.

@dawnwinter8867 Год назад

Better B Cor actors

@kellyvaters1689 Год назад

That's because he was an actual news anchor, Patrick Watson. He was a presenter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for years and years.

@mark33545 4 месяца назад

It’s because the news is so much less fake then.

@Sunny25611 3 месяца назад

@@kellyvaters1689yes 3 of them were actual newscasters. . And a Very young Newt 😂

@wonderdog1210 3 месяца назад

stay classy saudi arabia

@jameswarner3599 5 месяцев назад

How the cogs turn, here we are in 2024, the players are different but the game is the same as back then. Problem is todays players have very big balls, and miniscule brains. And we let it happen........

@cambodianwavelength 4 дня назад

Spot on Mr. James!!!

@mikekopack6441 Год назад

I remember watching this as a 11 yr old. Back in those days the threat of nuclear war was so high that it nearly consumed the zeitgeist. This and "The Day After" really freaked a lot of people out...

@D4rkMatter1975 Год назад

Don't forget Threads that film is even scarier in it's realism than The Day After, although they are both great movies

@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu Год назад

the USSR had a great disinformation deo't back then.

@mottthehoople693 Год назад

@@D4rkMatter1975 Dawns Early Morning Light is another good one

@PedroVera Год назад

@@mottthehoople693 that's the nuclear triad right there: The Day After, By Dawn's Early Light, and Countdown to Looking Glass. I was 12 when The Day After came out and it shocks me how well these three movies have survived the test of time.

@mpalfadel2008 Год назад

Ahhh The good old days when total destruction was imminent n cartoons depicting warfare were the norm

@mgaamerica9185 11 месяцев назад

What was so great about this movie was how much it resembled actual news cast, and world news of the time.

@noahhyde8769 11 месяцев назад

And world news now, too, actually. And the worst part? The roles have been almost completely reversed, as to who are the bad guys needlessly instigating and escalating things.

@BucyKalman 5 месяцев назад

Funny how that, in 1984, the US deploying troops in Saudi Arabia was seen as a trigger for World War III while, in the 2000s, the US literally occupied Iraq for more than a decade without any major foreign opposition.

@rainbowseeker5930 6 дней назад

Because the USSR had collapsed and Russia was in a critical condition with high inflation and unemployment....This situation went on till Putin reached Power and things began to improve again for the Russians around 2010. From then on they began to strengthen their Armed Forces even more than the Western countries, especially the European NATO members who had drastically reduced their military.

@devinjanosov 4 дня назад

That’s because the USSR was imploding when we first did it; and no one was in a position to oppose us (especially after 9/11) the second time. Plus, Iraq is a FAR CRY from Saudi Arabia (see where the 9/11 hijackers came from, and where our response was directed for further proof).

@marksamuelsen2750 8 месяцев назад

I was stationed at SAC HEADQUARTERS Offutt AFB near Omaha, Nebraska back in 1973 I had a chance to take a look inside a Looking Glass aircraft. A mechanic let me take a 5 minute peek and I remember thinking how High Tech it looked. lol I was impressed looking at the Generals seat where he would start WW3 If he had too.. Very strange. I’m worried more today than back then about WW3

@watchman4835 3 месяца назад

The next war for the United States will be over extremely quick, at least for the United States... Since the mid-1980s, God has been sending His warnings that the United State will be destroyed in a nuclear attack from China, Russia, and possibly one other country. In April 1994, the Holy Spirit whispered in my left ear to lead me to the first of three pastors whom God had gave visions of the destruction of the U.S. One pastor stated, he saw submarines rising to the surface of each oceans and the Gulf and firing their nuclear missiles. God has never allowed the destruction of a nation nor of its' people before first sending His warnings, hoping that the hearts of the people might turn to Him to be saved. With the destruction of the U.S. the remaining countries will embrace the NWO agendas, and the NWO leader, who will be the Antichrist will sign a seven-year peace treaty, and this action will usher in the beginning of the Seven-Year Tribulation Period, a period in which many pastors have said, approx. three-quarters of the Earth's population will perish. God is about to save the born-again Christians in the blink of an eye; however, God is not going to save this wicked nation and people who have slaughtered 70 million of the most innocent of all life in the womb of their mothers, nor will God save those who have rejected His gift of salvation through Christ Jesus. There is none of us so good that we do not need God’s forgiveness, and there is none of us so bad that we cannot receive God’s forgiveness for our sins. Seek Christ Jesus today, tomorrow is not promised to anyone.

@MrJest2 26 дней назад

Back then, it was made very clear to us - those of us with our "fingers on the trigger" so to speak - that _we_ were the final arbiter and decision gate in any such use of nuclear weapons. At the end of the day, politicians and senior brass could shout orders until they were blue in the face... but the final deciders were *us* - the pilots and crew. And we all knew that only in the most grave and extreme circumstances would we ever deploy those weapons. I am not sure today the same gravely serious and careful consideration applies....

@JamesSmith-je7vf Год назад

I paraphrase a quote from this Docudrama I found poignant: “If the present leaders don’t have the will and wisdom to intervene now, back-up and stop the escalation, then god will have to forgive them because no one else will be left behind to do it.”

@jkeelsnc Год назад

This applies now more than ever before at the present moment. God help us all.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 месяцев назад

@@jkeelsnc How do we stop Putin?

@jkeelsnc 11 месяцев назад

@@RideAcrossTheRiver Keep stoking the Ukrainians with arms and keep them in good morale. They are whittling down Putin’s military every day. Eventually, he will either be a paper tiger with no teeth or there will be a coup that will overtake him after his military power (and Loyal officers and officials) is gone.

@Hand-Solo852 10 месяцев назад

@@RideAcrossTheRiverwith nukes

@jwales8133 4 месяца назад

@@RideAcrossTheRiverhow do we stop the MIC?

@splean75 Год назад

I was amused by how the news reporters were adamant about getting two sources (@ 36:48 & 42:34). These days opinions are paraded as news.

@tlamn1905 Год назад

Award for the most Based and Spot-On Comment of the Season. Well Played.

@mundanestuff 4 месяца назад

these days the "news" is so far up the current administration's ass they can tell what he's about to put into this mouth. They would be cheering this action on, indeed they ARE cheering this same string of events on, instead of questioning or finding the truth.

@deelala1925 2 месяца назад

Amen to that.They just search out a body and say they are an expert on said topics.So annoying.

@nate61 20 дней назад

News reporter's back then wanted to make sure it's was true and could be undisputed but now they don't care if it's true or not they only want one source and they will post it if it's fits their narrative depending on the network

@robirvine6970 7 дней назад

That's because ALL your news networks are owned by one group of people. You haven't had an actual free pres for 20 years.

@foreverpinkf.7603 Год назад

Slow paced, but intense. Those days they understood to make movies. No CGI crap, no goofy jokes, just pure suspense.

@leroy.jackson.4804 6 месяцев назад

It almost became a ⚱️ Right.

@Switcharoo12 4 месяца назад

This was a serious matter back in the day for sure.

@thomashenshallhydraxis Месяц назад

It’s amazing how movies have changed to Michael Bay style. I’ve been watching 80’s movies lately and that was last decade of decent cinema.

@tkskagen 9 месяцев назад

I have never heard of or seen this film until now... Thank you for sharing this!

@alals6794 Год назад

Whoa.....I watched all 1 hour and 27 min......thank you for putting this up on youtube. More people should watch it.

@ryancoulter4797 Год назад

Patrick Watson. Part time anchor. Part time newsman. Part time documentarian. And all of it on one leg. RIP

@claytondusauzay6745 Год назад

Wow. Didn't realize he died a few months ago.

@Praise___YaH Год назад

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@electronixTech Год назад

I didn't realize that either. I thought he passed away years ago.

@arthurweems2839 3 месяца назад

Reminds me of the Late Don Harrison on CNN Headline News. He had one legs alsom

@mikegallant811 2 месяца назад

Patrick was an amputee? Interesting.

@TheKurtsPlaceChannel 9 месяцев назад

Great video and very moving as well. Thanks for posting this. Have a nice day.

@ThomasGrillo 10 месяцев назад

I saw this movie, when it was aired on network television, back in the mid 80s. A very realistic dramatization. Not long after, a natural gas pipeline valve junction exploded a few miles from our home, in the direction of an Air Guard base. In fact, not far from it. We lived near enough to the blast, it looked, sounded, and felt like a low kiloton tactical atomic blast. We only figured out it was not an atom bomb, when the roar kept on going, minutes later. Everyone who saw, and heard the blast thought the worst, and commented about this movie, along with Threads. Very creepy experience. Glad it was just a gas line valve.

@jflclc 4 месяца назад

I'm sure that was terrifying!

@Medic91101 Год назад

Missed this one back in the day. Good timing posting this. The more things change....the more they stay the same. 😕

@legneil Год назад

Yeah great timing with Joe in office lol

@andrewdaley5480 Год назад

You got lucky this is the best quality upload I've seen of this film. 🇬🇧👍

@colinstewart1432 Год назад

@@legneil He thinks the Red Button is to order ice cream 🤣

@FinalFront Год назад

One of the biggest things I noticed in this is how the media outlet is so insistent on getting confirmation before airing anything. They refused to air a story based on just one source from the white house, it had to be at least two & they needed to be reputable. These days all the corporate media outlets like CNN & MSNBC constantly broadcast total lies while claiming they "received the information from an anonymous source in the white house". Just look it at how they spent the last 4 years claiming the election was stolen & trying to overthrow a democratically elected government.

@utubewatcher806 Год назад

Preview to the Gulf War.

@Opurt1971 Год назад

Saw this as a kid in the 80s, was able to record it but was lost over the years. Thanks for sharing

@abathens Год назад

Same here. Not as powerful as the Day After, but still entertaining.

@pschroeter1 Год назад

Thank you for the opportunity to watch this again four decades after I watched it live. When I wrote my last comment I had only watched my favorite most remembered part, the attack on the carrier and now I've watched the entire movie. It builds slowly and I always remembered the stress and chaos in the White House near the end. It's a bad sign if the stress of the crisis kills your SecDef with a heart attack. I remember in the early 70s graduating high school and when people suggested joining the army thinking, why so I could get nuked when the Russians poured through the Fulda Gap. I had to laugh when they show kids being drafted. My response would have been they'll never have us trained before this goes nuclear and we all die. Now to watch Without Warning.

@pschroeter1 Год назад

I meant Special Bulletin.

@Scottrchrdsn 9 месяцев назад

A nuclear war would probably be a one shot (on each side) exchange. If this had been real; then the discussion on the hot line between the two leaders would probably have been abut a cease fire.

@iambatman6120 7 месяцев назад

@@Scottrchrdsn we can only hope

@JohnFrancis66 9 месяцев назад

Hope Scott got the posthumous Pulitzer he deserved. This was great--thanks for posting it.

@sergioadrianmercado2849 Год назад

Thanks for posting this film!

@persona83 Год назад

A simple premise/setup and yet a great and tense movie. Thanks for sharing.

@YoungGagarin 2 месяца назад

I'm Russian, it's very difficult for me to watch films like this. I grew up in the USSR, with everyone saying that nuclear fallout would happen at any moment. If you can find it on the internet, there is a Russian film on this same topic. It was produced in the Soviet era, and is called "Dead Man's Letters". It is a record of nuclear destruction from the Soviet perspective. It tells about an old professor of natural history, who survives the nuclear war by taking refuge in the bunker beneath the Moscow library. He survives the devastation along with a group of children and some other employees. He lives there, sick and weakened. And in addition, he tries to keep children's hopes alive so that they can build a better world, if it continues.

@stmartinregis8957 2 месяца назад

A great cold war theme movie!

@keithlillis7962 2 месяца назад

I am English and old enough to remember the Cold War and the then USSR. I believe that the USSR was less likely to start a full-scale war than Putin is today.

@YoungGagarin Месяц назад

@@keithlillis7962Nuclear weapons have the same function on both sides. They serve to threaten and give power to their owners. I must remind you that the US was the only one to use the weapon. Putin has fewer nuclear weapons than the USA. I don't like the position he has put us in, but I don't understand what the difference is between Russia and the USA. The harm we were doing to Ukraine was no greater or lesser harm than the harm done against Iraq. A country that was once the greatest civilization in the world is now in ruins. And no one, absolutely no one did anything against them! There were no sanctions and there were no boycotts.

@berlinlion Месяц назад

@@keithlillis7962 Putin paranoia, if anyone starts a 3rd world war it will be America with its murderous foreign policy and it's little puppy dog the UK

@SurnaturalM Месяц назад

It was translated in German, as I was living in Dresden at the time and remember seeing this film. We were likely one of the target and we were afraid too. I was 15.

@natedoggcata 6 месяцев назад

56:10 this is the moment that always gives me chills. This is when the shit truly hits the fan. The President obviously gave the order that nukes will be used and the spokesman is scared shitless knowing whats coming. Especially after saying all news media are suspended because they are probably all going into the underground bunker soon. Not to mention just a few moments later the secretary of defense dies of a "heart attack", though I suspect that may have been a cover and it was a suicide. Probably because he couldnt live with himself or knew that life wouldnt be worth living soon enough after the nukes start flying.

@loneilderssr8246 Год назад

As chilling as it was in 1984.

@jkeelsnc Год назад

And it still applies today.

@noelht1 Год назад

Scott Glenn didn’t die in the exchange. He went on to Captain the submarine that captured Red October a few years later.

@liden77 Год назад

Yes and USS Dallas would have gotten that russian sub

@christophersermeno8631 Год назад

Then he went on to aid a young FBI cadet in apprehending one of the most diabolical cannibals to ever live....

@noelht1 Год назад

@@christophersermeno8631 good one !!!

@justasurfer8596 Год назад

He did get around, didn't he

@noelht1 Год назад

@@justasurfer8596 popped up here and there from time to time, so he did.

@zaperfield 8 месяцев назад

Wow. I lived the eighties but didn't know about this until now and I'm literally hooked (just watched first 30 mins). Somebody should make an updated TV Show with this style.

@ponypalpaula 2 месяца назад

Back in the 90’s, one night I fell asleep watching tv and woke in the early hours to what I think was this movie. It took a while for me to realise it was a movie and not happening in real time. 😂

@davebusink2019 Год назад

In 2022. This can still be relevant.

@foobarmaximus3506 Год назад

Can be? lol It will happen soon. Enjoy your end times.

@Spooky_515 Год назад

@@foobarmaximus3506 I don’t know about end times but the world as we know it today is close to coming to an end

@frankpienkosky5688 Год назад

we stopped the policy of nukes on our lesser ships after Cuba...["The Bedford Incident"]....just too risky....always laughesd at the policy of washing down the ship after a nuclear blast....with water that was now radioactive....

@tobiojo6469 Год назад

This is really close to actually happening in real life.

@nyki7fykxtjxyi Год назад

It's worse these days the president is brain dead.

@briansimerl4014 Год назад

Love this channel. Totally got me through Covid.

@steveb3885 6 месяцев назад

I haven't seen this since the 80s. It's a scary parallel to today's world

@BellsofNevermore 11 месяцев назад

I was 19 when this came out. I caught one of the news spots, thought it was real, freaked out and called my dad, who talked me down and told me it was just a movie. Cold War scarred me for fricking life, man...

@michaelsummerell8618 Год назад

Overall a very good film, if not perfect. Well written, and the lead anchor news reporter was excellent. Unsettling watching.

@doncarpenter1040 Год назад

Always loved this movie. Thanks for sharing.

@finisher3x 10 месяцев назад

I didn't get to see this news style TV movie as a kid. This was very well done, much like the other 2 movies I saw as a kid during this era. One was "Special Bulletin", about the terrorists who had a nuclear bomb on a ship in Charleston, SC. The other one was "Without Warning", which was about an incoming asteroid attack. Like this movie, those 2 movies did not have a happy ending, but the news perspective in all of these movies were excellent.

@The_Ninedalorian 10 месяцев назад

I was 12 yrs old and this move absolutely terrified me even more than the Day After. Mainly because it was so realistic with the news bits

@martingreen4707 Год назад

Just watched the movie, it was well made. Brilliant acting, it was frightenley to close for comfort, especially what's going on at the moment

@tooldog5062 Год назад

is this what Fuhrer biden is trying to accomplish in reality today with China and Russia!

@marcusaurelius6012 Год назад

100% Martin. (85% of the world is watching reality TV and gossiping about the rebirth of Britney Spears) Hope all well w you, and you ok. There is definitely some rough sea ahead. Take care

@railgap Год назад

No, what was frightening close for comfort was our ACTUAL near-misses where we came within minutes of nuclear war and it never hit the news. Three times that I know of.

@yourearidiculouslunatic8435 Год назад

How about the fact we have an Alzheimer’s patient in the White House at the moment? That’s comforting. 🍺🌝

@yourearidiculouslunatic8435 Год назад

A whole faction of politicians laundering money in the Ukraine, that is in a hot war with Russia. What could go wrong?

@user_16309 Год назад

Approximately at 57 minutes the walking off with no questions is familiar, now.

@phil20_20 Год назад

Thanks for actually putting the information up in the description! 😂

@Arc_5 Месяц назад

For those of you who like watching movies like this, you should definitely check Without Warning (1994)

@johnkeller6063 Год назад

This is the first time seeing this. Very well done

@jpmnky Год назад

Check out World War III. About how things could’ve went in 1989.

@Caffeine_Club Год назад

This was a Canadian made film originally briadcast on CTV and HBO. . Patrick Wilson was an actual Canadian broadcaster on television. I'd completely forgotten about this film, thanks for posting!

@chrishogan4968 Год назад

And the reporter "Dorain Waldof" is Canadian actress Helen Shaver

@GeoffCK 3 месяца назад

Watson. Patrick WATSON

@Palpatine001 4 месяца назад

Thanks YT for putting this at the top of the Recommended board which the problems in the Red Sea right now

@fryoung1 9 месяцев назад

I remember this. Patrick Watson (a respected broadcaster) stars with Helen Shaver another Canadian. This production was very intense and we'll done.

@FelixstoweFoamForge Год назад

All too believable. Subbed on the strength of you posting this up.

@insertnamehere5146 Год назад

We could be living through a variation of this movie now and not really know it. No one really knows where Russia will take us all

@sn4rff Год назад

i hadn't seen this before - thanks for sharing it.

@mtm101designs9 6 месяцев назад

Excellent movie, right up there with Threads. This movie was aired about 3 weeks before the 1984 presidential election. Some felt that it was a attempt to diminish support for Regan.

@joaquinarmendariz676 6 месяцев назад

I wish to God the vile criminal Agnew/Reagan regime never existed! Maybe in the Multiverse there is another Earth where their gangrene never took over the presidency of the US!

@George-hs2zm 4 месяца назад

I live about 20miles from where threads was based in Sheffield, the aircraft you see taking off came from RAF Finningley which is 5miles from me. From the late 50s to the late 90s this airbase was the strike command HQ and was a prime target the Avro Vulcan strategic nuclear bombers were based there, and now the last Vulcan is on display in the hangar. We saw these daily fly over our school and they are awesome in size and sound. It's frightening how close we are to WW3 right now, I try not to think too much about it.

@wcraigburns3458 5 месяцев назад

Amazing documentary. Stands up even today . Ww3 is overdue it's a miracle we are still here .

@mpatrickthomas Год назад

Does anyone remember being in school in the 70s and 80s and hearing the sonic booms from the jets practicing.,how it would rattle windows. 😅😅. I LOVED them.Made me feel secure.

@PeterLawton Год назад

Not exactly, for me. I moved to a home near a Marine Corps Air Station, but there were lots of trees and a river between us, so I didn't know. Sometimes the jets were loud enough to drown out my phone calls, so I felt annoyed. But then I was across the river (i.e., out in the open) and jets flew by, low and slow. Pure awesomeness! I remember thinking it felt like a private air show.

@PeterLawton Год назад

Also, I remember when Saddam Hussein began to really thumb his nose at the US. My reaction was, Saddam ought to know better than that. And the jets noticeably increased their training flights, and Saddam kept ramping it up. I knew where it was going, and sure enough (yadda, yadda, yadda) he's dead now.

@jcmontecarlo6123 2 месяца назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@unchargedpickles6372 Год назад

Saw The Day After several times but I've never seen this one. Thanks for posting it.

@HuplesCat Год назад

Threads is the best one of the 80s

@tlamn1905 Год назад

Give Threads a watch. that will mess with your head, proper-like. Cheers!

@zacharybailey158 Год назад

Yeah I remember watching that years ago. But now look what Ukraine is going through with the Russians that started early this year. I just thought the riots between the Ukraine's and Russians was fake news back in 2014 back 8 years ago but I guess I was wrong. I mean the media is such beyond a plague like anything could happen...

@Golf4All 3 месяца назад

That front-line news anchor went on to command the USS Dallas during a daring Soviet Submarine defection and was one hell of a Captain.

@elessartelcontar9415 25 дней назад

Don't forget he was the first American in space too!

@christophersermeno8631 21 день назад

He then went on to mentor a young FBI agent in apprehending one of the most diabolical cannibals ever....

@Requis_Bartholomew_Jones 5 месяцев назад

This movie followed by another movie called Threads is great for visualizing what nuclear war could look like

@MrKen-wy5dk Год назад

"Threads" puts all other movies like this to shame. Very difficut to find these days. You will not sleep at night after watching it.

@sarahwynn6486 Год назад

It’s on daily motion

@jacksonvilletaxman1 Год назад

You can see burnt skeletons with heads bashed in. The only good news was the dead cat was not actually dead. Apparently there was backlash on that

@grahamfisher5436 Год назад

or.. the TV documentary version - QED A guild to Armageddon equally terrifying In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable. THREADS May sense and sensibility lead and prevail

@user-jl6ln4ix4s 3 месяца назад

DVD available on ebay, reasonable price

@MAGABorderSolutions Месяц назад

@@jacksonvilletaxman1They gave the cat some catnip and filmed it, then replayed it backwards in the film.

@randybentley2633 Год назад

I was 11 when this came out. I remember watching this with my Dad. When possible he would assure me and fill in the details where needed and explain stuff that I didn't understand.

@frankpienkosky5688 Год назад

using a nuclear depth charge when you can't locate a sub that's a threat is a desperate measure...but it will clear out quite an area...

@SeansMusicVault Год назад

Cool dad. 👴🏼

@justsimplejustsimple3015 Год назад

Sweet of him

@GuinessOriginal Год назад

@@frankpienkosky5688 it will also definitely sink the ship that fired it

@SabineOnwuka 3 месяца назад

Very interesting, i never have seen these before. Thank you for uploading. Fact is, if they dont stop all the war, it will comes, hope never it will be 🙏

@davidcox3076 11 месяцев назад

Nicely acted. And I remember seeing bits of it back then. It is interesting how quickly everything developed and all the threads that created global instability.

@kenl5290 Год назад

I watched this, The Day After and Threads, on a Saturday at friend’s house. I guess it was a “wake up and be prepared” day on T.V. back then. My friend and I were pretty scared that day and it haunted us for quite the time, pretty much into the early 90’s, which was the confirmed end of the “Cold War”. Now, 2023, I’m 48 with a wife and son. The threat is now real again.

@alejandrohualdez5550 Год назад

Now watch, 'Threads'. It terrified me when I saw it as a kid.

@crashk1955 Год назад

Wish they still made movies like this.

@TheMerryPrangster 2 месяца назад

They do.. independence day is similar

@rickbase833 8 месяцев назад

Wow. Bart Mancuso really accelerated from reporter to captain of the USS Dallas in The Hunt For Red October.

@spikespa5208 5 месяцев назад

Well, he was a trained astronaut already.

@TheMerryPrangster 2 месяца назад

Sean connery was great

@emilschw8924 Год назад

It may be old, but it still is carrying a powerful message. And it is scary.

@jkeelsnc Год назад

And its more likely to happen now than ever before. This film is salient in our present time.

@unknowngod8221 Год назад

@@jkeelsnc would you rather destroy both of your country or just invade the enemy county against? any sane political person in charge of a nuclear power country won't want just kill everyone as probably there will be no more of united state Russia federation and people republic of china and trade and they nation

@jkeelsnc Год назад

@@unknowngod8221 not now. Now that we know that the stray missile was from ukraine, poo Tom needs to be put on notice though. And no I don’t want to start a nuclear exchange.

@carter7944 Год назад

@@jkeelsnc not true your just a fearmongerer trying to promote sucide did your parents abuse you?

@matthewparker8607 Год назад

Yes this scary. When I first saw this I thought it was like Threads happening for real. That was until I found out that it was a docudrama. But the threat of nuclear war is a neverending nightmare that we must always pray never happens.

@brianl7695 Год назад

Just found this one. Not too bad. Threads still takes the cake as the most terrifying movie I have ever seen....because it is a matter of fact, in your face realistic portrayal of the end of days. Pray that this day never comes. Ever.

@mikep4745 Год назад

Agreed. Most terrifying b/c it shows the aftermath years after the bombs drop. Civilization is GONE. Like starting out from the stone age, but with deadly radiation. When we die, we at least perish knowing mankind forges forward. If the balloon goes up, one dies in complete despair for humanity.

@daisyb5646 Год назад

The atmosphere of Threads is chilling

@amhaglos 3 месяца назад

@@daisyb5646 Threads initial airing on TV left the UK in shock for days.

@Vashti0825 Месяц назад

It's scary, because it resembles a documentary

@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Год назад

This, The day after, and Threads are the best nuclear war movies out there.

@eggreedgious5194 11 месяцев назад

Threads has always been the truly terrifying one though. The last scene of Threads still haunts my dreams.

@thetruth7633 11 месяцев назад

World War III 1998 , alternative history, also very good

@ericlassin953 10 месяцев назад

Threads outdoes all if it's the British one I saw.

@LaLaLand.Germany 8 месяцев назад

Darn right You are. Count in "Countdown to Looking Glass", please. That one especially remembered me of Threads but without the Gore. Threads, man, that one is harsh.

@jamesknight4633 7 месяцев назад

Ummmmmmm, not necessarily. On the Beach is a movie no one seems to remember but is more sobering than the rest of these mentioned.

@flatcapcaferacer Год назад

I was a nuclear missile launch officer from 1982 through 1986 and recall this movie while on alert and others like ""The Day after". I participated in the exercise "Able Archer" which nearly resulted in the Soviet Union launching nuclear weapons. The Russians in Ukraine and China threatening Twiawan are very disturbing and threatening. Today's events have similarity to the events we saw in this movie.

@Graviak Год назад

Maybe the U.S.A. in Ukraine and the U.S.A. threatening China over Taiwan is very disturbing. C what i did there Flat Cap Cafe Racer. You better go out on the street and show who ever is in charge at your place, that you are not part of this bullshit of making peace through war. Then we will have a chance to drink a beer together one day. Greetings from Germany.

@sNovaka Год назад

Well, Americans destroyed half a planet, maybe it's time for you to recall the threat and sober up. Your endless war policy has nothing to do with "democracy" which you so willingly spreading around since ww2. I think you, as a former missile launch officer, could easily comprehend the seriousness of the situation. Brandon is certainly not the right one to decide about the future of 360 million Americans. We are facing no winner war.

@cplcabs Год назад

The Russians and Chinese are not the problem, it is the US that is the problem thinking it needs to involve itself in these issues and other issues it has no business doing.

@zhoubaidinh403 Год назад

Truth be told, it is Washington's policy to force China to pull a Putin on Taiwan...

@EL20078 Год назад

"A real cigarette"!!! [By Dawns early light quote]

@stag6161 Год назад

This movie really shows you how easy it is to completely make up a story and have it look like news

@cf6965 Год назад

Fox News !

@cplcabs Год назад

yes. I recall hearing about a radio program called War of the Worlds which easily fooled a lot of people into thinking there was an alien invasion. Some people even shot at a water tower thinking it was an alien tripod. I wonder how many people this fooled.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 месяцев назад

@@cplcabs The networks ran a super that stated 'this is a film'.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 11 месяцев назад

No, the film shows how easy it is for fallible leaders to destroy the planet.

@marcosramos4596 11 месяцев назад

This is The Best Comment ever!

@captainyossarian388 Год назад

It's a great presentation how just a few missteps and misunderstandings on the international stage can lead us down the road to oblivion.

@josephtobin3347 Год назад

Yeah, like with Sleepy Joe and narcissistic Putin. We should all be building fallout shelters and storing food and water. It’s going to happen.

@mtuers Год назад

I think the career politicians on both sides would be willing to step back from a situation like this. The problem are the handful of highly intelligent yet psychopathic nihilist insiders on both sides who welcome nuclear war as part of some ultimate Luciferian sacrifice of humanity to rid the world of the "weakness" that our modern civilization has bred.

@mrobillard7553 Год назад

A movie was made of a real close call between Russia & US in 1985. The movie is named "Man Who Saved the World" 1995. Good movie, about a great person, man, to save the world and how he did it. True story.

@Praise___YaH Год назад

@galahadthreepwood Год назад

@@elessartelcontar9415 You sound like someone who believes what he reads in the MSM. Here's a clue - when they all agree - they're lying. Recent examples - Covid-1984 is a threat to everyone Safe and effective Russia's invasion was unprovoked

@RCrosbyLyles 20 дней назад

Fascinating on so many levels. Scott Glenn was great in this. And the cameos were strangely riveting.

@therexbellator 11 месяцев назад

Haven't seen this movie in ages. I remember catching this on HBO back in the day. It evokes a feeling of Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' broadcast, it's almost a little too real at times. If one were flipping channels back then one might not realize they were watching a fictional broadcast (until they realized they were on HBO).

@link122771 2 месяца назад

That’s EXACTLY what happened to 13 year old me! Terrified

@rebeccasmith2865 Год назад

I watched the movie The Day After when it first came out. It has always haunted me. I watched the movie Threads. It too was very haunting,especially in the way it had totally transformed the lives of the people. Both movies were very soboring,sobering, it showed me just how fragile life is,and that we should never take anything for granted.,especially our freedoms,and those we love. This movie is well written as well.

@eggreedgious5194 11 месяцев назад

Threads carved my heart out (especially the final scene), and Dr. Strangelove made me lol. Go figure.

@arnoldim100 10 месяцев назад

Never our fault !

@serendpity3478 10 месяцев назад

@@arnoldim100 You spelt "free dumb" wrong. Js.

@arnoldim100 10 месяцев назад

@@serendpity3478 ?...

@comfeefort 9 месяцев назад

Try TESTAMENT, 1983. Very depressing

@joangordoneieio Год назад

Never saw this, but I was 10 years old growing up in South Florida during the Cuban Missile crisis. My dad, a builder, did a brisk business in Bomb shelters. Our town had Air Raid drills. I still remember taking shelter behind my BFF's sofa. Terrifying times. . We were less then 200 miles from Cuba.

@GuinessOriginal Год назад

Bomb shelters 😂 Americans are so gullible

@gregoryhagen8801 Год назад

Me too. It was the only time the military went to DefCon.3. As for air raid alerts, they are worthless in the nuclear age. How far can you get in 15 minutes?

@johnwright7895 Год назад

Great film.Resonates to this day.

@papafrank7094 10 месяцев назад

This movie needs a 2023 update. More than enough realistic scenarios to use today.

@gordonallen9095 Год назад

Was in the USAF from 80-84 and served with a bomb wing in the Strategic Air Command. I remember the drills we practiced in the event of a Soviet "first strike." After the fall of the Soviet Union, Looking Glass stopped flying continuously around 1990. But it can be activated instantly in the case of a nuclear alert. I pray we never see those times again.

@jaybee9269 Год назад

That mission is carried out by E-6B Mercurys today.

@sharkfintech5893 Год назад

Also, Looking Glass is now under Navy auspices.

@grahamfisher5436 Год назад

the word Hypersonic is very worrying

@Ghoosier Год назад

We are in those times again

@rdelrosso1973 11 месяцев назад

Gordon: Thank you for your Service.

@msgfrmdaactionman3000 Год назад

I loved this film when I first saw it. I was in the Navy at the time so the ending was wild to watch. This film, The Right Stuff and Gargoyles are films I fondly remember with Scott Glenn.

@friendofcoal Год назад

Don't forget " TheKeep"... came out in 83, but I didn't see it until 84...

@macmedic892 Год назад

Scott Glenn was fabulous in The Hunt for Red October.

@dinahwhite3929 Год назад

@@macmedic892 im a big fan of the whole film sean connery was GREAT!

@MichaelBrodie68 Год назад

Wasn't this only 6 years before Hunt for Red October? This is great story telling on what you can see is a minimal budget. I missed this one at the time.

@blankpage555 Год назад

i love the right stuff. is glenn in this

@sparkfighter1 11 месяцев назад

I am 56 years old and I have never seen this movie. Truly remarkable!

@rdelrosso1973 11 месяцев назад

Well, I am 69 years old, and I just found out about this movie yesterday, July 9th, 2023!

@Switcharoo12 4 месяца назад

51, just now watching it: 01/22/24

@jflclc 4 месяца назад

I'm 56 and watching it 02/02/2024

@mylegalassistants 2 месяца назад

I'm 57 and had never heard of this movie until late last night. 2:37 am 3/22/2024

@angeliqueivanica975 2 месяца назад

I thought I knew the brilliant 80s movies, but I too have never seen this. Amazing.

@pgs1796 Месяц назад

The breathless correspondent's reports from onboard the US carrier is very much on point.

@theGentlemanCaller73 Год назад

The 1980s were a wild time!

@aquasnek5487 Год назад

Looking like 40 years it's gonna repeat...

@mrgray5576 Год назад

You ain't seen nothing yet

@theGentlemanCaller73 Год назад

@Joel 100% I was born and raised in LA. Left in 86. No desire to ever return.

@earth7551 Год назад

Much worse now

@raptorking5452 Год назад

2020's..."Hold my beer"

@TheRoamingPrepper Год назад

This was one of many great videos about this type of situation. I never saw this one when I was a kid but did see ‘the day after’.It’s been nearly a generation since this was a real possibility. I can only hope this keeps us mindful of just how slippery this slope is. Godspeed to you all

@eggreedgious5194 11 месяцев назад

Watch Threads. It'll kill you inside.

@Gustav_Kuriga 10 месяцев назад

@@eggreedgious5194 Eh. It's very specifically a British oriented movie to the British situation. I think you underestimate how much empty space there is in the US.

@andrewdavidson665 10 месяцев назад

@@Gustav_Kuriga You think that the effects of a nuclear winter are localised? Otherwise what on earth does the size of the US have to do with anything..?

@happyvult7853 6 месяцев назад

@@andrewdavidson665probably higher chance of survival but I mean like everyone would die eventually

@timwoods3171 3 месяца назад

If only Dorie had waited 12 more seconds for the arrival of that gray BMW!!

@jadams3427 16 часов назад

The acting in this is exceptionally good. It looks like real news, and is quite scary !

@paulhyde1834 Год назад

I saw 'On The Beach' (Neville Shute) when I was 11 years old and it scared the cr*p out of me and affected me for years! This is more frightening; so understated and realistic. Thank you!

@altha2008 Год назад

never heard of it will have to see if it is on Y-T

@paulhyde1834 Год назад

@@altha2008 Here's a link.... it's available on DVD; Well worth watching!! Pen.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel) Best wishes, Paul

@daveeyes Месяц назад

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda...

@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Год назад

"Don, you picked a hell of a time to stand on policy...and a hell of a week to quit huffing glue!"

@hondaxl250k0 7 месяцев назад

This movie and “ threads” are both seeming like a prediction or warning more every day.

@jdo1014 4 месяца назад

We watched Threads at school in the UK when it came out; scared the shit out of me. Must have been 12 or 13 years old.

@EricCox4848 4 месяца назад

I saw Threads in 2008 and it was scary to think that's what could happen if a nuclear war took place and a nuclear winter. Just the consequences of such a scenario would be one of the worst things imaginable. Worse than a horror movie. After seeing it again recently, those same scenes played out in my mind and I can still hear the sound of the air raid siren going off. Even years after there's no way anyone could survive and even if they did the damage would be too great. So much so the next generation would be worse off. The very end of the film was just one nightmare too many.

@ElliotWORLD 3 месяца назад

I think playing an news anchorman is fairly easy for those than can adopt that bearing and manner. That said, "Don Tobin" is pitch perfect and believable.

@glendarichardson5337 Год назад

It’s amazing, the scenarios in this movie is so similar to today. It worries me.

@Vic-mv8iz Год назад

We had a programme like this in England in t984 called Threads it was about war with Russia but ours was based around two families and news bulletins with nuclear bombs dropping on Sheffield and other British citys and what happened after quite terrifying

@marbleman52 Год назад

Vic 45....I think I remember watching that movie, or another nuclear war movie based in England. It showed how London, I think, prided itself on having a very good civil defense organization and thought it could take care of any emergency, but it was powerless against the after effects of nuclear war and how the people made the civil defense useless. It was very scary to watch how a 'civil' society quickly reverted to savagery when the food & clean water soon disappeared.

@anthonysmith778 Год назад

Will have to see if it's on RU-vid. This stuff is really a snapshot of how people felt in the day.

@nigelbranthwaite8471 Год назад

Threads was about events of two family's in Sheffield both before and after a nuclear missile strike on the United kingdom from the USSR (Federation of Russia).The othe Nuclear War flim was released in 1966 called War Game this based around Kent again both before and after a nuclear missile strike .

@williammann9477 Год назад

Threads was very disturbing...

@andrewdaley5480 Год назад

@@marbleman52 I've seen that also. 🇬🇧👍

@AnonYmous-ry2jn 2 месяца назад

One thing that works nicely on RU-vid with this simulated network news coverage, is that the youtube commercials are slightly less annoying because they mesh with the content, by appearing as commercials interrupting the news broadcast as they would if this were real. For example, towards the end as the Nimitz is exchanging nuclear bombs with a Russian sub, you might have a commercial interruption for an online educational program, a food delivery app, or a pet grooming service or something. The ads make it feel more authentic to what the broadcast news would be like, the war coverage would alternate with ads.

@reedmaxwell2709 Год назад

The ending frame, above all, is brilliant, perfect even. 1:25:22 “. . . If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

@bulletproofmum Год назад

It felt like a nod to Fail Safe. The screech of the lines melting. Haunting

@Emdee5632 Год назад

Can't remember this docudrama, but I've seen several others. Nice one (as far as you can speak of ''nice'' in this respect).

@alexmaclean1 Год назад

I've never seen this before, but it is not very often that I feel like I'M actually involved in the story, but in this case it feels real. Perhaps it only feels real because we are at a similar risk again now, but it was really well done.

@AbeTheSigma007 Год назад

Or a set up…

@grahamfisher5436 Год назад

RU-vid - world war 111 1998 makes this film look like an episode of Cheers May sense and sensibility lead and prevail

@Bob-pp1pv 4 дня назад

Wow, a real news broadcast, haven't seen that in a long time.

@paulgray2387 Год назад

I’ve watched this along with Threads. Both have left me with a very uneasy feeling and a fear that this might actually happen. The scenarios are very real and I can only hope that our leaders understand that the vast, vast majority of the world’s population would NOT want a nuclear war…☮️☮️☮️☮️

@arduinocoding 10 месяцев назад

Threads was…… different. The ending

@dankenstein9462 10 месяцев назад

Pfft threads makes this look like a kids cartoon in comparison

@jasonjaxxson 6 месяцев назад

IT WILL HAPPEN SOMEDAY...2024, 2025

@kotnapromke 5 месяцев назад

Подавляющее большинство населения не хочет капитализма. Но это не поменяет власть ни на дюйм в сторону от капитализма. Интересы богатого меньшинства превыше интересов бедного меньшинства.