Threads

Name: Threads
Director: Mick Jackson
Released: 1984-09-23

1984 television film directed by Mick Jackson

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Released: September 23, 1984
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Director: Mick Jackson
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1.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/04/10/worst-case-scenario/Retrieved 2018-01-02
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Screenwriter: Barry Hines
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1.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/04/10/worst-case-scenario/Retrieved 2018-01-02
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Producer: Mick Jackson
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1.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/04/10/worst-case-scenario/Retrieved 2018-01-02
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Cast: Karen Meagher
, Reece Dinsdale
, Rita May
, Phil Rose
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1.Stated in Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
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Runtime: 112 min
Genre: disaster film
, drama fiction
, post-apocalyptic film
Country of origin: United Kingdom

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Threads is a 1984 apocalyptic anti-war drama television film directed and produced by Mick Jackson and written by Barry Hines. A dramatic account of the potential medical, economic, social, and environmental consequences of a nuclear war in Britain, it follows two families in Sheffield as a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union erupts into war and a general nuclear exchange between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

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Director of photography: Andrew Dunn
Narrative location: Yorkshire
Sheffield
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1.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/04/10/worst-case-scenario/Retrieved 2018-01-02
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Main subject: Cold War
nuclear warfare
Title: Threads
Network: BBC Two
Color: color
Review score: 7.9/10(May 16, 2026) review score by: IMDb · number of reviews/ratings: 28,000 global user rating
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100%(January 16, 2026) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 15 critic review
92/100(January 16, 2026) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 5 critic review
8.9/10(October 7, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Threads”Retrieved 2021-10-07
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Aspect ratio (W:H): 4:3
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Different from: Threads
Started: September 23, 1984
Set in period: 20th century
Cold War
Website: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Threads title: Threads (Film) - TV Tropes · language: English

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