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Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 year ago

This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’ got made | CNN

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This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’ got made | CNN

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Blaze@reddthat.com to movies@lemm.eeEnglish · 1 year ago
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ABC’s 1983 TV film shocked more than 100 million Americans with its graphic depiction of nuclear fallout. Censors and political interference nearly got in its way.

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    I still find Threads to be the film with the most effective anti-nuclear messaging. That said, The Day After delivered on providing a grim view into what life may look like after a nuclear exchange.

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      Jesus fuck, I’d put Threads out my mind! There was a cartoon I recall too, old couple, tried to hide in their bath from a nuclear strike? Was that a thing?

      • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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        When the wind blows

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    This movie is still horrifying

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    This movie is seared into my formative years’ memory. Growing up under the threat of nuclear Armageddon has a way of affecting people.

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    I watched this as a kid, and was forever terrified by the possibility of nuclear war after that. Good movie.

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    And Russia won the cold war by playing the long game

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