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

Sinopse

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.

  • 7.6
  • 1984
  • Released
  • 1h 57m

Karen Meagher

Ruth Beckett

Reece Dinsdale

Jimmy Kemp

David Brierly

Mr. Kemp

Rita May

Mrs. Kemp

Nicholas Lane

Michael Kemp

Jane Hazlegrove

Alison Kemp

Henry Moxon

Mr Beckett

June Broughton

Mrs Beckett

Sylvia Stoker

Granny Beckett

Harry Beety

Clive Sutton

Ruth Holden

Marjorie Sutton

Ashley Barker

Bob

Michael O'Hagan

Chief Supt. Hirst

Phil Rose

Medical Officer

Steve Halliwell

Information Officer

Brian Grellis

Accommodation Officer

Peter Faulkner

Transport Officer

Anthony Collin

Food Officer

Michael Ely

Scientific Officer

Sharon Baylis

Manpower Officer

David Stutt

Works Officer

Phil Askham

Mr Stothard

Anna Seymour

Mrs Stothard

Fiona Rook

Carol Stothard

Christine Buckley

Woman in Supermarket

Joe Belcher

Shopkeeper

David Major

Boy in Supermarket

Maggie Ford

Peace Speaker

Mike Kay

Trade Unionist

Richard Albrecht

Officer at Food Depot

Ted Beyer

Policeman

Dean Williamson

Policeman

Joe Holmes

Mr Langley

Andy Fenn-Rodgers

Patrol Officer

Graham Hill

Soldier

Nigel Collins

Soldier

Jerry Ready

Looter

Dennis Conlon

Looter

Greta Dunn

Woman at Hospital

Nat Jackley

Old Man at Graveyard

John Livesey

Street Trader

Victoria O'Keefe

Jane

Lee Daley

Spike

Marcus Lund

Gaz

Lesley Judd

Newscaster

Colin Ward-Lewis

Newscaster

Paul Vaughan

Narrator (voice)

Ingrid P. Frehley

Woman with dead baby (uncredited)

Michael Shale

Man who has leg amputated (uncredited)

Anne Sellors

Woman who urinates herself (uncredited)

Lee Cambell

Dead Boy Under Gate (uncredited)

Jonathan Harston

Survivor on the Moors (uncredited)

Patrick Allen

Public Information Film Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Ed Bishop

US President (voice) (uncredited)
Status

Released

Original Language

en

Budget

$420,000.00

Keywords
  • #great britain
  • #northern england
  • #despair
  • #yorkshire
  • #nuclear holocaust
  • #disaster
  • #nuclear fallout
  • #radiation sickness
  • #disturbed
  • #aggressive
  • #grim
  • #nuclear winter
  • #sheffield, england
  • #societal collapse
  • #sinister

Reviews

Columbusbuck
@Columbusbuckover 7 years ago

Once again, I struggled to understand the British English. At least this time, I didn't really need to. Not a word needed to be spoken to convey the very real horror we might all be subjected to. Now, closer to that armageddon than ever before in our history. I just hope I die in the initial blast. The after is actually worse than the blast itself. God help us all.

Z
@znapperalmost 9 years ago

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 dep

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