Threads / [written] by Barry Hines ; a BBC production in association with Western-World Television, Inc. and the Nine Network ; produced and directed by Mick Jackson.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Jackson, Mick, film director, film producer.
• Hines, Barry, 1939- screenwriter.
• Meagher, Karen, actor.
• Dinsdale, Reece, 1959- actor.
• May, Rita, actor.
• Brierly, David, actor.
• Vaughan, Paul, 1925-2014, narrator.
• Severin Films, distributor.
• British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
• Western World Television (Firm), production company.
• Nine Network, production company.
• Severin Films, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Nuclear warfare--Social aspects--Drama.
• Nuclear warfare--Environmental aspects--Drama.
• Nuclear warfare--Drama.
• Radioactive fallout--Drama.
• Civil defense--England--Drama.
• Civil defense.
• Radioactive fallout.
• Nuclear warfare.
• Nuclear warfare--Environmental aspects.
• Nuclear warfare--Social aspects.
• Sheffield (England)--Drama.
• England--Sheffield.
• England.

Genre:

• War films.
• Television programs for the hearing impaired.
• Made-for-TV movies.
• Disaster films.
• Drama.
• Documentary-style films.
• Fiction films.
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
• 4 3/4 in.
• stamping
• color

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles, California] : Severin Films, [2018]

Language Note:

In English; optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

• DVD; all regions; NTSC; 16:9 presentation; Dolby Digital2.0
• digital
• optical
• stereo
• Dolby Digital 2.0
• NTSC
• video file
• DVD video
• all regions

Summary:

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

Participant:

• Reece Dinsdale, David Brierley, Karen Meagher, Rita May, Nicholas Lane, Jane Hazlegrove, Henry Moxon, June Broughton.
• Narrator, Paul Vaughan.

Credits:

Directors of photography, Andrew Dunn, Paul Morris ; editors, Jim Latham, Donna Bickerstaff.

Notes:

• Title and credits from screen.
• Originally broadcast on television by the BBC in 1984.
• Full screen (1.33:1).
• Container incorrectly states availabilty of closed-captioned in English.captions; actually has English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
• Special features: audio commentary with director Mick Jackson, moderated by film writer Kier-La Janisse and Severin Films' David Gregory ; Audition for the apocalypse: interview with actress Karen Meagher ; Shooting the annihilation: interview with director of photography Andrew Dunn ; Destruction designer: interview with production designer Christopher Robilliard ; interview with film writer Stephen Thrower ; US trailer ; re-release trailer.

Contains:

Container of: Threads (Motion picture : 1984)

OCLC:

1022949942

Publisher Number:

• 663390002117
• SEV92117 Severin Films