Threads

The 1984 British climactic war drama TV film, Threads, is a dramatic account of the hidden medical, profitable, social, and environmental costs of a nuclear war in Britain. Following two families in Sheffield as a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union escalates into war and a full-scale nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

"Brilliant and shattering." (Daily Express). "The scariest portrayal of nuclear war ever brought to the screen." (The Guardian).

Source and credits: BBC.