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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.
Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
Future War 198X: 1982 Anime movie produced by Toei Animation about World War III breaking out in the 1980s that triggers a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. 2019, After the Fall of New York: 1983 Special Bulletin: 1983 Testament [3] 1983 The Day After [3] [1] 1983 WarGames [3] 1983 The Terminator franchise [3] [1] 1984, 1991 ...
An estimated 100 million people watched Nicholas Meyer's apocalyptic TV movie when it premiered in 1983. How 'The Day After' terrified Americans 40 years ago: 'Nuclear war on a good day' Skip to ...
While many futuristic movies from the 1980s depicted scenarios that have not come to pass 40 years later, many offered surprisingly accurate glimpses into the future. Here’s our list of movies ...
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
"other post-holocaust films of the long 1950s were even more indirect in their representation of nuclear war and its aftermath: graphic on-screen depictions of the actual effects of nuclear war were rare until the mid-1980s, when a spate of such films appeared, including The Day After (1983), Testament (1983), and Threads (1984)." [20]
Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on October 14, 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf.