Movies
TV Shows
People
06/08/1985 War, Drama, Science Fiction 1h 57m
76
User score

The closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war.

Overview

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

  1. Mick Jackson

    Director

  2. Barry Hines

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Karen Meagher

    Ruth Beckett

  2. Reece Dinsdale

    Jimmy Kemp

  3. David Brierly

    Mr. Kemp

  4. Rita May

    Mrs. Kemp

  5. Nicholas Lane

    Michael Kemp

  6. Jane Hazlegrove

    Alison Kemp

  7. Henry Moxon

    Mr Beckett

  8. June Broughton

    Mrs Beckett

  9. Sylvia Stoker

    Granny Beckett

  10. View more

Full Cast & Crew

Reviews

A review by znapper
Written by znapper on 2017-02-20
This film was, for many, a turning-point regarding nuclear weapons, the cold war and nuclear-politics.

Set in a 1984 UK industrial-suburbia, as the cold war gets hot, we follow regular people in their daily lives and how they prepare for the coming apocalypse.

Barry Hines and Mick Jackson explains and shows us how the world is interconnected and woven together, each strand in this web is dependent on the others and when the threads start to break, the webbing that hold society together, unravel and we are quickly left with hardship and irreparable loss.

There is no help from the outsi...read the rest
Read All Reviews

Recommendations

  1. Panic in Year Zero!63%
  2. Blindness65%
  3. The Quiet Earth66%
  4. 191779%
  5. Escape from Sobibor72%
  6. The Eagle Has Landed66%
  7. The Handmaid's Tale60%
  8. Man Down60%
  9. The Omega Man61%
  10. Fail Safe78%
  11. Awake58%
  12. The World Will Tremble74%
  13. The Survivalist61%
  14. Hotel Rwanda77%
  15. Into the Forest58%
  16. The Man Who Fell to Earth64%
  17. Watchmen: Chapter II73%
  18. The Last Full Measure72%
  19. Braveheart79%
  20. '7168%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$420,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords