Threads

THREADS. . . . . .a shockingly realistic account of global nuclear war and it's horrific aftermath. It's a normal Thursday in Sheffield when East and West stumble into war and Britain is devastated by 200 megatons of nuclear explosive. . . This chilling film tells the story of a nuclear strike on Britain. Through the eyes of two Sheffield families we witness the immediate after effects of the attack-the shock, grief radiation sickness, hypothermia and starvation. In the months that follow, hideous injuries remain untreated, looters are shot on sight, food supplies run out and many die in the intense cold of the nuclear winter. Thirteen years on reveals a depopulated Britain where money has no value, crops fail through lack of pesticides, fuel and machinery, and a brutalized post war generation grows up stunted and mentally, physically and emotionally. The fragile fibers that hold society together-the threads-have been completely destroyed and there is no outside aid. © BBC Television Co-production with Western World Television and Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd.