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The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. The film postulates a fictional war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The film is divided into two main segments. The first section of the film is a dramatization of a sneak attack by Soviet Union nuclear weapons against the United States.The premise of the attack is based on Soviet nuclear submarines approaching the United States West Coast and launching a barrage of missiles at ICBM silos and B-52 bomber bases, and other Soviet forces manage to destroy a ...
The Manhattan Project (1986) – though not about a nuclear war, this was seen as a cautionary tale. Matinee (1993 film) – this film takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis and dramatizes the lives of Americans about to meet their impending doom. Miracle Mile (1988) – a film about two lovers in Los Angeles leading up to a nuclear war
“The Day After” brought discussion of nuclear war and the potential for disarmament to millions of people who viewed it, and became the rare film that “actually became historical text rather ...
On Nov. 20, 1983, ABC aired the two-hour television movie The Day After, which depicts an escalating conflict between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that crosses the point of no return when both ...
Title Russian title Director Cast Genre Notes 1980: Air Crew: Экипаж: Alexander Mitta: Georgiy Zhzhonov, Leonid Filatov, Aleksandra Yakovleva, Yekaterina Vasilyeva: Disaster film ...
The film is set in the 1980s, when Soviet Naval Aviation Tu-16 pilots risk death to help stop an American submarine whose defective reactor threatens a nuclear meltdown. The Soviet Navy conducts military exercises in the Atlantic Ocean. Exercises of the US Navy are held in the same area. The main element of the American exercises is training ...
A list of films produced in the Soviet Union between 1980 and 1991: List of Soviet films of 1980; List of Soviet films of 1981; List of Soviet films of 1982; List of Soviet films of 1983; List of Soviet films of 1984; List of Soviet films of 1985; List of Soviet films of 1986; List of Soviet films of 1987; List of Soviet films of 1988; List of ...