Directed by Mick Jackson • 1984 • United Kingdom, Australia
Starring Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly

In September 1984, it was aired on the BBC and shocked tens of millions of UK viewers. Four months later, it was broadcast in America and became the most-watched basic-cable program in history. After four decades, it remains one of the most acclaimed and shattering made-for-television movies of all time. A vivid and haunting docudrama about the effects of a nuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield, England, THREADS portrays atomic apocalypse with a harrowing, unvarnished realism never seen before or since.