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Interview: ‘The most horrific, sobering thing I’ve ever seen’: BBC nuclear apocalypse film Threads 40 years on (www.theguardian.com)

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Ahead of a timely re-airing of Mick Jackson’s famously bleak, rarely seen docudrama, its director recalls why he unleashed a mushroom cloud on Sheffield in 1984, while our writer explores the film’s lasting legacy

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[–] Person264@lemmings.world 7 points 2 months ago

I found it much better than the day after, probably because of the smaller scale of the story. The build up at the start of Threads is probably one of the most stress inducing things I've watched, it feels so real.