The Day After (1983 Full, Original - 1:75:1 Aspect Ratio)
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The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. It was seen by more than 100 million people during its initial broadcast[1] is currently the highest-rated television film in history.[2]
The film postulates a fictional war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, the action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated near nuclear missile silos.
The cast includes JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, Jason Robards, and John Lithgow. The film was written by Edward Hume, produced by Robert Papazian, and directed by Nicholas Meyer.
Let's just hope we can all meet here again in 10 years from now and still appreciate this movie.
try 10 days
Agreed. Although the way our "leaders" are acting I doubt it.
Maybe every nuclear power should watch this movie. It made an impression on Ronald Reagan
fucking a bro.
I pray that you're right. I also highly recommend you watch Threads.
I saw this in 1983 when it aired on TV and I was unnerved by it. What an impact it made on me. Here it is, 2024, 41 years later, and I am more unnerved by it because of the current times we live in. I pray that this will never, ever happen. The world leaders of every country should watch this movie and think hard about their actions and threats.
I served 81-85(army) 63b and was stationed in Baumholder W.Germany 83-85, I wish i knew then what i know now !
The "cold war" was one big PSYOP and money--game, not much has changed ! #ClownWorld 🤡💩🤡💩🤡
The British made a very similar movie not long after called “Threads,” and it was way darker. America would be deviated by a nuclear war, but some parts of the country would survive more than others. However, given how small England is, just a single nuke could destroy and contaminate a large part of the country. If every nuke-worthy target in England was hit, nowhere would be safe.
Naah, the movie "Threads" is much better. This film doesnt accurately depict the short or long term damage of a full-scale nucoeal war. For a really unnerving film find "Threads" by Barry Hines.
It will happen. Book of Revelation. For our (humanity's) struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against evil, spiritual forces in the heavens. Ephesians 6:12 Another translation:
Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against UNSEEN principalities, against UNSEEN authorities, against the UNSEEN universal lords of this darkness, against UNSEEN spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.
@@brianbatie6650 Threads is so brutal.
I never expected to get this many views on this. But glad you are all viewing this important movie.
Good job!
Thanks for posting.
Thank you and God bless.
History is starting to rhyme. People of a certain age are having nightmare nostalgia, and telling our kids to watch some of these movies so they can understand why we're worried. The kids who's idea of a disaster is a dead cell phone or someone having a difference of opinion with them. Gen X, we grew up knowing that once the birds leave the silo, they have 10 minutes before they're seen on radar coming over the pole. Five to ten minutes later the retaliatory strike will be ordered. And before the first warhead hits, the war would be over, we'd just be waiting for them mushrooms.
@tenchraven
I saw this in '83 at age 32. Today 11/23/24 it's even more relevant. I wouldn't want to be a survivor. This movie needs to be shown in schools, maybe just 7-12th grades. Kids know nothing of the gravity of current events. God bless anyone who reads this.✝️
Already saw the movie back in the 80's ...
Who's in here in October 2024 and witness what can happen if "things" don't stop escalating nowadays?
In a Worldwide Nuclear War... Happy for those who die instantly... Because, for those who survive, only sadness comes!!!
Remember back when this movie came out everyone viewed Reagan and the GOP as the War Hawks who are gonna lead us to a nuclear disaster? 40 Years later the peace and love party are advocating for US boots on the ground in Eastern Europe and the use of nuclear weapons to defend some land ruled by oligarchs and corrupt politicians in order to defeat the Russians, who pose ZERO threat to the United States!!!!
Yah Biden and the warmongers are pushing into Russia now.
NOPE GOOD TIMES WILL RISE FROM THE ASHES !!! HOPEFULLY ALL THE ZIONIST WILL BE OBLITERATED!!
I feel there is little hope for the human race while enept people elect enept governments
It is always a threat....that is exactly why need strong, tough and respected negotiators in charge. I feel much safer since about the first of November.....if we can make it until January without the loonies trying to start a nuclear war.
I have heard of this movie many times, but have yet to watch until today...
Thank you for having this made available for everyone at no cost except time!
The time is definitely worth this film.
Here we are in 2024 and the only thing that's changed is that the billionaires of the world have more bunkers than ever before, so are more willing to go to war cos THEY will be safe while WE wont....
If is good and extremely tense. Have you seen Threads or By Dawn’s Early Light?
This movie scared the living shit out of me when I was a kid. Made Freddy Kruger, Jason, and Mike Myers look like sweethearts. People who didn't live that time have no idea how real of a prospect this was in the 1980's. For a 12 year-old kid living back then this kept me up at night.
I watched this on a school night when it came out. I was 12 years old. Same thoughts here also
Same. I had nightmares for ages after
Try watching this movies British equivalent Threads.
Makes this film look like an episode of The Brady Bunch
That's probably because it was (and still is) possible. While there is no such thing as demons, ghosts, etc., nuclear weapons are very real. Not only are they very real, but there are thousands of them pointed at us.
There has been 2 movies in my life(I'm 45 years old) that I cried about...this movie and United 93... Those of you Gen X people out there, explain to your kids about the drills of going outside the classroom and backs against the wall(in the NYC School System in youth). Glad that cold war is over.
Now this is how it's done. original aspect ratio, no cuts, good audio. Uploaders take note. Two thumbs up.
Great jewel of a movie.
It has been cut.
@@j.summey604 This is the original runtime as far as I know.
There was a politically incorrect erotic moment where the guy shooting the farmer had slavegirls. The moment when the wife and daughter hear the gunshot and turn around is when you realize they are about to join the other slavegirls and also be raped. But at least the other girls and guys will be fed and sheltered for a little while.
I hope you didn't press the like button twice :/
I was 11years old when this aired and I never forgot it. Now at 52 it is just as impactful
Me too! ❤
me too!
Same age, we lived through it only to have to go through it again at 52
That was my Senior year in high school. I remember when it aired. There was a parental warning before it came on. I was so scared, I was literally shaking not knowing how the nuclear war was gonna be depicted. Knowing how close of a reality this is, still is so unnerving.
Same for me, turning 53 in a few weeks
I was not quite a teenager when this movie came out, and I can tell you it scared the hell out of me and all of my friends. Not a scared of the dark kind of scared, a deep down serious fear that was haunting. I can only imagine what kids growing up in the late 50's and early 60's felt like.
Back in the late 50s and early 60s was probably the most dangerous time in history where nukes are concerned. Because the leaders of that era were actually poised to use them if a conflict ever did arise.
I was seven years old, and spent the Cuban Missile Crisis in the bomb shelter of a NATO Air Force Base. Spangdahlem. The base had F-4 Phantoms, loaded with nukes, on the runway, engines running. The were hot-fueled when they ran low. All the adults around me were absolutely, and utterly terrified.
Kids in the 50s and 60s weren't quite so worried. We were told we would be fine as long as we ducked and covered. Nuclear war was treated like fires and earthquakes.
My dad was a physicist and worked at a government lab. So I went to grade school about a mile and a half from one of the top bullseyes in the country. We had nuke drills. The kids would all have to get under their desks and get into the fetal position with our hands on the back of our neck. And then the teacher drew the curtains. The curtains! As if that would save us from a 10 megaton blast less than 2 miles away. Even at the age of 11, I could see how absurd that was. It struck me like in the roadrunner cartoons when the Coyote would whip out a tiny umbrella when a giant boulder was about to land on his head. But anyway the narrative most children of the baby boom were fed was that nuclear war would be bad, but that life would go on pretty much as it had been in the aftermath. The true horror was withheld from the general public. Interestingly enough, it was television movies that led the way in depicting the horrors more openly.
That is because it has now been in the back of every person's mind for more than 60 years, and it was really brought to the forefront 60 years ago this fall with the Cuban missile crisis. That was only a couple months before I was born and I can only imagine the world I would have been born into had the bomb dropped then. I don't know if I would have even been born at all. So this movie is on my mind. I was 20 when it was first aired on TV. In a few weeks I will be 60. And here we are as close to the brink as we were when I was born.
@@donsudia2674 My parents, who are in their 80's now, tell me stories about the Cuban Missile Crisis. They were engaged to be married but my dad, who still had a commitment to the Navy, got an urgent message to report to his nearest recruiting office so the engagement was postponed. Thankfully, war was averted once he arrived at the office. When the announcer said that Cuba was removing Russia's missiles, and everyone could go home, the guys at the station were ecstatic. My parents were married a few months later.
It is very difficult for people who did not live through "The Cold War," to appreciate that this movie was extremely possible.
It is MORE likely today with hypersonic weapons, submarine launched cruise missiles, crumbling Russian warning systems prone to see attacks that are not attacks, NATO encroachment on Russia so that a missile launched from Ukraine gives Moscow minutes to decide if the approaching blip is an air liner or a cruise missile. Our media is doing a massive disservice in not telling people the truth.
The rationing was tough, but the music was good
and still is
I was eight when I saw this on TV. I had friends who's parents were preppers and it seemed inevitable. It still does actually but just with different players.
@@audiogus2651 I wasnt aware preppers existed then. The "survivors" would be the unlucky ones. The movie doesnt even remotely do justice to the effects of radiation. Most of the post Japan A-bomb pictures have been suppressed so that most have not seen the effects on people. Skin would fall off, most people would be blind. Dust clouds would block the sun for years. There would be no crops or animals to eat. There would be radiation rain. People unlucky enough to live would be killing themselves as quickly as possible.
I think this movie needs to be re-aired by every major network * NOW * so America can be reminded. 2 generations later - people forget.
Thank you, Steven Brown. You are saying consisely what I wanted to express in my comment of today.
I don't think anyone forgot, the people who lived through the 80's remember. It's the generations who didn't that don't get it.
Make Putin watch it too!
warum Amerika? es gibt nur eine Person der damit droht und der heisst Putin und ist Russe!! Zerstört gerade die Ukraine! (nach Syrien)
Was thinking the same thing
I was a kid when i saw this back in the 80s when Dad played this and I just stumbled upon it again and saw it again, gave me goose bumps...even remembered how the mushroom cloud looked..scary...God bless all
God bless all those recently-installed Chinese ads.
I'm a 74 year old disabled combat wounded veteran that spent two years in conventional war zones as an active combatant, which was horrific enough.And I can assure you that in any exchanges of thermonuclear weapons,that those who remain alive in its aftermath,will envy the dead.Period.
Carpe Diem if you don’t mind me asking, where were you wounded? Im really interested in the wars, more Vietnam, American revolution & world war one and two than anything else. The history of war is incredibly intresting to me and i’d love to hear more if you’d like to share!
@@soop266 WIA in Vietnam while serving with B/1/503 173rd Abn. Bde. I was in Nam from Aug.'66 to Mar.'68. Prior to Vietnam I served in the Dominican Republic,as part of "Operation Power Pack" with A/1/325 82nd Abn. Div. six months,for a total of two years as an active combatant.
@@luv2fly352 thank you Sir!
Carpe Diem
I dont mean any harm to the questions i ask, sir, and by all means if you don’t feel like answering the questions feel free to just dodge the questions completely, being insensitive is not my motive! Im just curious (:
1. Where did you stay? Like did you stay in trenches like the previous wars or were you, like in ‘forrest gump’ which had the vietnam war in it, sleeping outside?
2. How frequent were battles? I heard most of war was waiting but i assumed they were talking about world war one & two.
3. did your platoon plan the battles and was it sometimes impulsive?
4. What was the relationship with the you and the soldiers in the war?
5. Howd you get food and what happend if you ran out of bullets & grenades (if the troops carried any)
Sorry for bombarding you with questions, sir! Like i said, i have an Interest in the wars (my favorite movies are saving private ryan, forrest gump and 1917 which had started my interest in the war!) thank you for answering!
@@soop266 Just ask me one or perhaps two general questions at a time.The only thing I never discuss are the gory details.You may ask me what you wish.
Anyone old enough to remember, who lived through this time period, will appreciate just how volatile it was.
nothings changed
Putin is building the new USSR and Trump is gonna start a war with him
@@F5Storm1 Well, this didn't age well.
@@F5Storm1 Wait I thought Trump was colluding "with" Putin?... It can't work both ways.
It is much more volatile today, when the US are leaving treaty after treaty and acts much more aggressive than it did during the Cold War, putting military forces at the borders of Russia and China, things that would have started WW3 if it had happened during the Cold war days. There was a sense of a US bloc of nations and a Soviet bloc of nations. Back then there was after all a mutual respect and a mutual understanding between two super powers who had made the mutually assured destruction almost an institution. And back then the US still used diplomacy unlike from the 1990´s up til our day. So unfortunately we are much more in harms way in todays world of lawlessness and unilateral actions, than we have ever been before.
Probably one of the most prolific messages of any movie that I had seen in my lifetime, I remember watching this because I went into basic training in the Army in 1983 and this movie always stayed on my mind.
Great actors too!! Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, Bibi Besch, Jason Robards, Jobeth Williams.
I said the same thing, Mahoney......🤣😂 @ 31:16
The missle launch sequence is excellent. You can hear all the alerts and all the warnings but somehow you can suspend belief anything major is going down… but then the missles launch and the finality hits you. You know have 30 minutes or so to live. Gripping scene!
That'll put your priorities in order real fast.
The launch sequence is almost more striking than the attack scene itself because you know it's the point of no return. The other striking thing about this movie is the people who never knew they lived near a missile silo finding out once the keys are turned.
It's not 30 mts anymore. The new SARMAT flies at over Mach 10.
Thanks!
This isn't much of a deal as most of them did anyway in space@@Mundo-bn2ho
That finale scene with Jason Robards and the other man embracing is so devastating. That was the scene that always stuck out in my mind. Still, today, a very powerful movie.
Karl Lieck I held it together the whole movie... But that final scene made me cry
you mean the guys the soldiers shot at? probably looters.
its alright if you can't. its a very powerful movie, one that we must learn from, no one can blame you for being unable to see it, but yeah, most likely those were looters, just a sign of civil disorder and such. if theirs one thing i learned in school, is we must be better than this, and ensure the future for our children and so on.
The part where the farmer was trying to get the people off his land only to get shot and killed always freaked me out. How easily it is for humanity to disintegrate when there are no more rules.
That was one hell of an ending. Incredibly unimaginably sad.
I was 13 when this came out. One part that scared me was when the mother was casually making her bed when the missiles went off. She couldn't, wouldn't accept that it was actually happening. He had to literally drag her downstairs. I can imagine feeling like that. Denial, it helps.....for a little while only. That part stuck with me.
Or the pregnant woman at the end giving birth, bringing her child into... a radioactive wasteland.
@@BattlestarDamocles The look on all the other women’s faces as she delivers. They’re glad it’s not them but they all know it could have been. My first child was born in 1990 and we still could feel a nuclear threat.
nukes are 100% fake. You have nothing to worry about. But seeing the state of the world today, I wish they were real
were about the same age, that part is etched in my brain to this day ever since i saw it
@@2pikeman Same here. I was 11 when this came out. Saw it on TV, it scared the fuck out of me.
Thank you for posting this movie. As timely as ever, sadly.
I was one of the millions who took this in when it aired. I was 21 and in university. If I recall correctly,it was dumped on by several critics----at least the ones I read. It was dismissed as another disaster film. Seeing it again about nine years back, I was struck by the grimness of it but also its honesty. It doesn't come off as melodramatic. It has a lot more depth than a lot of people think. It holds up well.
It is just so well done.
Same here
I think people were in denial. I mean Yes it's a movie. But SADLY it could happen. I think the people that dismissed it were afraid of the Truth
You might be right.
OMG, I have been looking for this movie for 10 years. Whoever posted this. THANK YOU!
I also agree with you, I have been trying to find this movie for awhile now. My dad took me and my sister to see this movie. I can't tell you how long ago 😂
It says upstairs, honey: Hollywood Land. magthenetherlands.com
I have it on DVD
@@normanwaterman2017 I on blue ray
The movie does a great job of slowly escalating the tension. It’s more realistic than other disaster movies.
This is an end-of-humanity movie.
But have you watched Threads?
threads'
@@babble909 this is better
@@babble909 And "Testament" by Lynne Littman.
WHO is watching this movie in 2025?
I am watching this film on Saturday 3rd January 2025 at 10.08am in Portsmouth England. I have seen this picture many many times. It has never been shown on television in the United Kingdom but I believe it should be. Threads was shown at the later part of last year on BBC 4 the first time since it was aired on BBC 1 in 1984.
My soul I prepare. If I had 30 minutes left I could only give a damn the aftermath and watch the world go to hell.
Putin is watching
I would not trust Mr Putin as far as I could throw him
Many videos I have seen even some Russian people want him out of power. If anybody was going to launch a nuke I think it be Mr Putin or Kim Jung Un of North Korea. Tony in Portsmouth England.
Watching after listening to military Emergency Action messages last night...they are often routine. Last night someone on that military shortwave channel said "oh no, no no," like something bad happened. That was a bit concerning.
This one and Threads should be aired again today. Even if they are tame by today standards they are a real reminder of the futility of a nuclear exchange no matter how small. NO ONE WINS IN A NUCLEAR WAR, NOBODY !
All the bastards in the cball think they will be saved from a nuclear war,thier full of s%+t we all DIE😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 just believe in God and trust in him❤❤❤❤❤
Yes they do. Democrats politicians...and cockroaches.
I appreciate what you wrote😊 NOBODY TRULLY WINS"!! we need Alot of prayers
I appreciate what you wrote😊 NOBODY TRULLY WINS"!! we need Alot of prayers
They’re not tame. They’re still scary. They were well written.
"Do you understand what's going on in this world?"
"Yeah, stupidity....it has a habit of getting it's way."
A truer statement has never been spoken, possibly more true now than ever.
It is the people we vote for, we have to stop listening to their promises and believing their lies.
Originally comes from Camus' book "The Plague". I read it this year and that line REALLY stood out.
In my city of nearly 1.5 million people we have mask enforcement and politicians and media screaming the 'sky is falling'. Currently our 6 major hospitals are only being used for covid1984 patients. We have total of 12 elderly people with covid1984 using the hospitals. Businesses gone bankrupt by the hundreds. People wear masks act like they are fighting in WW2. BLM protests seem to magically cure the virus until their protest is over.
Stupidity has gotten its way.
It ain’t stupidity it’s psychopaths and megalomaniacs
@@Chamindo7 Don't worry, it will all magically end on Novemember 4th.
I remember having supper at my Grandmother's house when this movie came on- we were speechless and horrified because it seemed so real at the time- the 80s were a very scary time. I remember having nuclear missile attack drills at school and even at church.
Duck and cover! Under your desks kids! I remember those in the 70’s. We stopped doing them here in Canada when I was 6 or 7 but I still remember them. In high school it was all conversations about East and West Germany, Chernobyl and the wall coming down.
@@nursemarn I remember that I could not let my mind linger on it for too long back then. It was terrifying and depressing. We were so fortunate that something catastrophic did not occur in the 80s. We came close on 09/25/1983.
@@brentcrabtree9334 Hi there. I know right? I used to have the occasional nightmare about a nuke attack and I’m Canadian! We don’t have nukes but all our allies do. I also grew up in Ottawa so we would have been toasted for sure.
I was in kindergarten in 1980, and we all had to tour our school's fallout shelter, which was in the sub basement near the boilers. Scared the crap out of us being down there!
@@toujouramour2008 It was a scary time back then- more so than what we realized.
As a German engineer and a meditator
I passed one and a half year in the swiss alps in deep meditation, so to neutralize the collective stress in the world atmosphere!
And we did good! Today it's different and new times have started! ❤❤❤❤
Dann musst du wohl nochmal ran, um Putin aus der Ukraine zu holen.
When I saw this movie at 8, I was scared out of my mind. And with what’s going on today, I’m right back in that place. I can’t deal…
I saw this when I was 6, and scared me too. It is surreal seeing why is happening in Ukraine. I have so much anxiety.
Same age as me, eh? 47.
Amazing that my parents let me see this and the movie Testament also when I was 8 or 9.
Clayton- lol your parents must be boomers, I’m younger than you by a bit and my boomer parents let me watch ANYTHING on tv, I swear I’m scarred for life still from so much of the shit I watched! Luckily I was only 1 when this movie came out or I’m sure I’d have been terrified by it lol. At 40, it still makes me nauseous. It’s like a weird time capsule to my childhood, all of the clothes and stuff, remind me of my happy childhood and beloved family members….and they’re placed in this horrific setting. It’s so disturbing. Especially when you consider that just today they’re threatening nuclear attacks on the west. I know I sure as fuck don’t want to die over Ukraine (which is Russian anyway ffs) lord how history oddly repeats, or echoes, itself.
I was very young as well….it scarred me for life. Probably should have not watched it. Some kids can’t handle certain things…That was me!
I've seen this before, but after following reports surrounding the Ukraine war and Nato's response, this movie hits on a-whole-nother level. "stupidity has a habit of getting it's way." that line is unfortunatley very true.
I went to see this movie when I was 14 .It was 1984, when this Great movie first came out, and at that time - during The never forgotten , peaceful , happy and magical " Eighties" it scared for many days after watching it. Watching it again now, forty years later...in the midst of this" Alerting War-some Climate" we are living these days , it wakes up the return of " panic attacks"!! Let's Pray that Things will never escalate to this point of " No Return insanity"! And as one of the main Characters in the film said ( The heroic doctor ) : " People are Crazy , but not " that " crazy"!! In God we trust! Peace !
Please God, 🙏 I’m really worried
You know I was just going to mention that line history repeats itself. Take a look at the CDC picture of the Corona virus looks like a world with mushroom clouds all over it. It's crazy to think that nuclear weapons still are a problem almost 50 years after this movie was made. We need to reduce these weapons down before we talk about climate change.
yes stupidity has a way.impressive line in the movie
my father was in the army
there was function in the army mess
those were the days of good old vcr and video player
I was a child that time
all was going fine
then some chap said there is a movie
I began seeing it
upto one hour ten minutes it was usual stiff
then the terrifying second half began
I was damn scared even though I wanted to see scared stiff I left the reaction room
of the army mess
Except me all other seemed to be actually enjoying this movie
but the day after I saw day after I used tobe scared when ever world war possibilities were discussed on TV or even the Nbomb was discussed
I would say even the bravest of brave should never watch this movie
But all leaders who are having n bomb with them should be compulsory made to watch day after 1983
I have the full movie with me
But I am afraid to upload it to TH-cam
Because this movie is so horrific and so real to today's war that I do not want any human being
to watch it ever
If you thought this was bad there's another movie called Aftermath on Tubi if you can handle it 😮💨.
A great time to watch this again. We've been at DEFCON 2.5 since March
How high up does the DEFCON go? To what number?
@@EphemeralProductionsit’s 1-5, with DEFCON 1 being you gat about a 1/2 hour to look for a bomb shelter.
@ so 1 is the highest emergency and 5 is the least?
@@EphemeralProductions yes
@@ml5955 geez Louise. :/
I was in grade school when my teacher mentioned to the class to watch this movie...I watched, and was terrorized for at least a month!!
This was a very good movie. Watched it for the 1st time right now. Still relevant today.
I miss the movies where they couldn't rely on special effects, the actors had to act, and the writers had to write dialogue and character stories.
In general in this movie there is well acting. magthenetherlands.com
Yes. Your second sentence rings so true!
@@kennethlee4894Thanks for the comment
The very end is heart wrenching as they try to comfort one another, knowing they are living on borrowed time.
@@thernly : It essentially means they’re waiting to die soon from extreme radiation poisoning. So it ends up “feeling” like every second that they are still alive when they should be dead, is time being given to them. And at any moment, it can be taken away.
@@thernly : Extreme radiation poisoning is almost always fatal. Some people die faster than others. Not to mention they could have already been dead if they had been too close to the explosion.
@@thernly : That’s just it. They repay it with their lives.
@@thernly : Thank you for pointing out that typo. I’ll go ahead and change that.
It’s fake. You want some???
One of the few movies that genuinely have a claim to changing the course of history. Reagan watched it and then required all his chiefs of staff to watch it; Gorbachev also watched it then ordered it aired on Soviet state television.
really or are u taking a piss of us?
@@gulalatas9163 what?
@@crispylad6294 sorry,my english..I think correct one should be if he is telling the truth or taking a piss out of us?did I say it right this time?😁😁
Sorry. The MONEY, ONLY the Money crashed the Warsaw Pact. ONLY the money. And "we" (NATO) "won" the War.
Won??
And today the fucking NATO again provocates really dangerous and selveloving. Being the only good.
I recall that at the time this movie had a political agenda....it was aimed directly at Reagan...does anyone recall?
I felt so bad for the family at the Doc's house, they were just looking for decent shelter not knowing anyone would come back. Doc was angry, which you can understand since it was his place, his wife dead and he was going home to die. The stranger offered his last piece of food as something for compensation and in the end, still showed compassion and understood the Doc's pain. They were strangers, but still in this together.
The next time you have the desire to snap at a stranger or even someone you know, think about the situation but also realize, you don't know what they could have gone through just moments prior.
The interesting angle of this movie is NOT having scenes of a President making decisions and those details. It’s just a snapshot of a small town dealing with what limited information they have.
Exactly
This angle and snapshot is what makes The Day After such a great, popular and influential film. (And before anyone can comment, NOOOO, I don't care to hear anything about Threads!)
Scene of President making a decision would be Biden looking at an ice cream cone wondering if it could talk
@sgs1262 January 20th, 2025 cannot get here fast enough!
@@sgs1262Ok Stupid.
This movie, more than any other movie I saw when I was young, traumatized me deeply, but gave me more empathy, and woke me up to the larger world. When it aired, I was 14. By the time I had finished watching it that week back in 1983, I was much, much older.
Did you ever see THREADS? If you think " The Day after" traumatized you, I can't even begin to tell you what THREADS will do.
@Bob Loblaw Damn!
Me too
I saw it for the propaganda and rubbish that it was
Matthew Hoffman same !
This is a little masterpiece, really. I look this movie once in a while and every time I can appreciate the good actors, the perfect put in scene, the story and humanity in it. A pearl, a classic.
I was today years old when I first heard of this movie, I'm 73 yo & my adoptive family was from Lawrence and the KC area!! In 1983 we had no tv, so I had no clue this movie existed. Crazy!
I was 23 when this movie came out and all I can really say is my whole life I feared this. Although as a mother of 5 children I have tried to tell them not to put this fear in their heart. This kind of fear is damaging to your inner self. Don't let fear dominate your life.
That’s interesting
Wow...I remember this film. I was in high school at the time, and all of our teachers asked us to watch it as a homework assignment. The next day we had discussions in class about it...In math, we analysed it from a "numbers perspective" and it was a lesson in kilo-tons and casualty numbers...In my biology class, we discussed the effects of radiation on living tissue, and in drama class we talked about it from a human tragedy view and how the emotional impact affected us....Amazing to find this here on TH-cam.
The Los Alamos scientists called it "mega death" which prompted Robert Oppenheimer to not support the hydrogen bomb as proposed by Edward Teller. Oppenheimer then found himself out of a university job and the subject of a senate investigation. Power knows no limits.
Wow that's a great high school you went to. Very cool of them!
@@briank5740 Hermann Kahn coined the term Megadeath
Now thats how you make learning fun...👍
By the way, who done this to launch a nuclear missile bomb?
At the time I lived near Offutt AFB and the comfort I took from the film was being so close to ground zero I wouldn't have to go through the rest of the film...sad that this is closer to coming true in 2024 than when it was made...
And the thing is, as far as I know, most fallout shelters are gone now. In the 80's, I'd been told that the fallout shelters contained food, candles and other minimal supplies for people. Nowadays, that food (if any still exists) will be so old it won't be edible
Bellview, I had clients there. My office was based in Papillion.
I live very close to Fort Moore, GA. Hoping we won’t suffer if and when this happens for real.
I prefer not to be a survivor, if that's even possible with today's much more powerful nukes.
11/23/24
@denisefarmer366 I agree! In fact, I am going to go further and say there are other things I wouldn't want to survive either.
There is a book written by Robert McCammon in the 1980's called, Swan Song. The best book I've ever read. It is not only a book, it is a journey. Before, during and after a nuclear war. Excellent. 💞💞
That is my favorite book. Hands down. It's amazing to me that more people don't know about it. Even Stephen King read it. His review of it. A wild ride into terror. A grand and disturbing adventure. It's been a hot minute since I read it. Thank you for mentioning it. I'm going to open it up when I'm done watching this. 😊
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Read that book when it first came out. Still have it….
@lorilavender2209 I read it again, once a year!!!
I saw this film when I was 11 years of age and remember being horrified at the kind of world we live in. Every time there's a disagreement between Russia, it's neighbouring countries and the West, this movie (and Threads 1984) always springs to mind. This film is frightening today because it's still possible. I love my horror movies i.e. Halloween, Friday 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead, but this scares me more - nuclear weapons are very real. People who didn't live at that time, have no idea how real the prospect was of this happening back in the 1980s. Nuclear weapons was a big topic of discussion for the young and old back then. In the late 80's I did a school essay on this subject and got an A! I'm almost 50 years old, and still can't believe we created a weapon so destructive that could practically wipe out the human race. There would be NO WINNERS in a nuclear war.
In Poland we have seen that movie in the same time.I was 10 yrs old.Make peace not war
Born 87. Never learned of this till way later
I can't get over how eerily like the newscasts in this movie the real news sounds.
@@joshusmcbeth1376 They are starting to sound like current events...
This movie is incredibly frightening. You are absolutely correct: In a nuclear war we all lose. Putin has repeatedly made this threat to NATO. I hope he is bluffing, but any discussion about nuclear war is dangerous, It makes the “unthinkable” as “thinkable”. I fear as Putin becomes more and more frustrated about the opposition he has and continues to face in Ukraine, that the option of using nuclear weapons seems within the realm of possibility. Lord help us all if he goes down that road.
I remember when this first aired and we were glued to the tv the entire time and in all honesty it scared the shit out of me. We talked about it in school all week. To this day this movie still makes me worry.
I was in college at the time in NYC and we all rushed home the night that this aired as a major TV event. It affected everyone in the USA. A powerful and relevant film that barely scratches the surface of post nuclear horror, but it definitely made the point. Reagan was President and I think this movie may have saved us from Armageddon.
I watched this movie in Mexico when I was 5-6 years old. The theater was completely full, with people seated on the floor! I didn’t understand all the movie, of course, but I will never forget the faces of all the people, including my father and brother at the end of the movie. The concern. The fear. Now that I grew up, I see the reason. What a shocking movie.
Lo triste es que de hacerse realidad, la radiación nos freiria poco después, para empezar Tijuana sería destruida al estar cerca de una base naval estadounidense
I'd be interested to know when and where you watched this movie in a theater. This was an abc (american broadcast company) tv movie. It aired in a very select few European theaters well after it's initial airing in the US, and then went straight to video, laserdisc, and other formats. International airings and the later formats all had different runtimes with select scenes either being cut out or extended. I've never heard of it airing in a theater anywhere other than Europe, so I'd be interested to know what version of the film was aired in mexico, and when and where you viewed it since there is no record of it ever running in a cinema there. I'm the biggest film nerd lol, and given the air date and the subject matter, I'm very curious to know if other countries were airing this "underground" so to speak.
@@emilyp7511 I didn’t know there are several versions of ithis movie! LOL. The date must be 1984 or 1983, because in 1985 my family moved out from Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacán, a small town at that time. I’m pretty sure the theater’s name was “Cinema Aconcagua”.it doesn’t exist anymore. A fire destroyed it several years ago, I think. Keep in mind that in Mexico, especially in those days, the copyright... well... it was easy to ignore. Or maybe it was distributed legally, who knows. I shouldn’t be watching that movie. I was 5-6 years old. But again... in Mexico is piece of cake break the law sadly. The movie was in English, subtitled, I was just learning to read Spanish , and the theater so full, that I seated separately from my father. And again, the faces of the audience at the end of the movie... I’m 43 now, and I remember it like yesterday. What a movie. By the way I apologize for my terrible english.
@@j.a.pelaez6435 de acuerdo. San Diego es en importancia la segunda base naval de Estados Unidos en el pacifico, así que...si. Es un blanco prioritario supongo. Y pues afectaría a todo el mundo de una u otra forma.
@@emilyp7511 I also watched that version in a Mexican theater. I lived in the US near the border. I watched the original broadcast, then the VHS version, then the Mexican theatrical release. It was officially theatrically released in all of Latin America. Widescreen, Dolby, the works. Movie posters, everything. The Spanish title was literal, "El Día Después" - the day after. I watched it with Spanish subtitles in a Mexican border town. It was also packed, as it was a popular film. Keep in mind that this movie was partially propaganda, so they really wanted it to be watched by as large an audience as possible. Since it was a widescreen projection, this was the best version for me. It had an official premiere and show times were advertised in the newspaper.
I begged and pleaded with AI (won't say which one) to slightly tweak the TH-cam algorithm to recommend this movie more in 2024.
I hope to God it listened.
Because this NEEDS 2 BILLION VIEWS IN 2024.
We have forgotten the hell we can summon on 30 minutes notice.
This was the movie that persuaded world leaders not to proceed with nuclear war as well as taught us all the consequences of such a conflict. In this respect, its one of the most important films ever made. You can see why.
For real, is that right?
Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD, played the biggest role in preventing a nuclear exchange.
😩 " TRUTH BE TOLD..... This movie didn't even faze world leaders about the horrific consequences of Nuclear Warfare. Why? Both sides already knew such massive exchanges aren't survivable and the fruitless result would in global annihilation well beyond any targeted regions. Unfortunately, today's post-Cold War era is even more unstable because more nations possess nuclear arsenals (ex: China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Etc.) . Also, numerous Terrorists factions are hellbent on acquiring or creating ' Weapons of Mass Destruction ' . In many respects, the latter scenario's even more terrifying because if successful there would be no advance warning. "
Its happening again russia usa ukraine
This is closed now than ever
The last scene with Jason Robards crying in the ruins with the old man tears me up always every time I watch this movie :( ! Epic movie!
Saw this as a kid with my mom and 2:03:21 when he's offering the onion is what I remember, came here just for that scene. Be safe and love each other.
Must of been how native Americans felt huh
@@pocketx2050 you think? Idk getting arms chopped off for not working hard enough is a bit rough, but thats what happened to my people. What did your people go through?
@@lexleon I always thought it was an orange haha. Earlier in the film, one of the female nurses gave him an orange and said to him "this may be the last orange you'll see for...for a while" which is what made this scene even more impactful for me. Now I realize that it was an onion.
To me, that last scene is a metaphor for the whole absurdity of nuclear war. A completely wrecked man telling another completely wrecked man to get out of his utter ruin of a house. Two men dying in the aftermath of that hostility.
I saw this movie when I was 13 because our school made us watch it.. I am now 46 and remember it like yesterday..
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I turned 45 last week, and still remember the skeletons vaporized scenes , was very disturbing
Omg yes!!
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If anything like this ever comes to pass,
We will all be dead within hours , those unlucky enough to service the attack.
Honestly, I don't see how anyone could survive this this
I live in the Houston, Tx area.. I do not want to survive this.. if it were ever to come to pass....
david glover yep Houston shreveport lake charles all targets your gunna glow in the dark
Some scenes from this masterpiece were cut. And not the least. Film seen in 1984 in France, to watch again or to discover in ENTIRETY! Gentlemen Censors, good evening.
What an actor Jason Robards was. So natural. Seemed like he just effortlessly stepped into any character he played.
It was guys like Jason robards that gave Hollywood the good reputation that had 50 years ago
Yes, great actor with a great voice. I loved him Long Day's Journey Into Night.
@@lh7254 I grew up on guys like him .
You could actually look up to and "actor" back then.
Check out Dan Duryea, John Wayne, Gable the Great ....
I could go on....
I sorta didn't think of it until just now, but that movie was on when I was a USAF Radar Operator in the 762nd Radar Squadron on Cape Cod.
We basically watched for incoming Bear Bombers with the Soviets' version of the cruise missal.
The Soviets had targeted 1100 aim points in the Boston area.
You can assume that other cities had a list of aim point too.
I wouldn't have known, NEED TO KNOW!!
THIS MOVIE should be mandatory viewing for ALL high school students in the United States. It's well written. Well acted. And scientifically sound. It seems that too many people no longer realize that nuclear war is a constant threat and that nuclear war would cause devastation that could not be fixed in a week, a month, a year, a decade, a lifetime, or even one hundred lifetimes. The living truly would envy the dead. And the death and suffering would be incomprehensible. Nothing would ever come close to being normal again. Nuclear war would destroy and ultimately end all human life on Earth. It would be humankind's absolute worst miskate of its tens of thousands of years of making mistakes. And so long as there are nuclear weapons, again, nuclear war is a constant threat.
I feel like we are living thru this now
Yeah give everyone unneeded anxiety
@@RenataG07 If that happens, fine. But most importantly, give everyone an education on the human race- ending nightmare that would be a nuclear war. The more people who know, the lower the chances of there ever being a nuclear war.
The special effects haven’t stood the test of time.
@@danieleyre8913 OBVIOUSLY, that's not the point! If a nuclear war broke out, DEAD is DEAD. One doesn't need state-of-the-art special effects to understand that!
This movie was terrifying to a young kid.....then you get older and realize, it more terrifying than any hell we can imagine!
Yes... we are in the middle of a pandemic, my friend, which is something horrible. But if a nuclear war happened, world war 3.... it would be way, waaaaaaaay worse. I should say, almost like hell on earth.
@Big Chungus I wish you were right, and 4-50 years ago you might have been, but this present president makes me think you are not anymore.
You mean the one who is creating the cold war with China?
@Big Chungus puh-leeze
@Big Chungus Peace treaties w/ whom? Receipts, please. I don't believe you until you provide videos & source citations for each country w/ whom Trump has signed a "peace treaty". Considering he pulled us OUT of the nuclear agreement that Reagan & Gorbachev forged that kept us safe for DECADES, and then asked, "What's the point in having nuclear weapons if you aren't going to use them?", I don't believe your claim. You are just parroting something that Trump must have said. He is always claiming that he is the best, is more successful, has the best people, has done more than any other President, and other bullshit & his supporters believe every word that comes out of his bragging, arrogant, narcissistic, lying mouth. YOU don't have a clue how many "peace treaties" "any other President in history" has signed!
I watched this with my sister in 1983, I was 13 years old. More frightening today than back then. As an adult you can more understand the impact. , GOD please don't let this ever happen. There are NO Winners!
Insane we are living this story 40 years after this movie... Month ago there was only covid and ordinary issues🤦♀
No worries, the globalists have a never ending list of population reducing scenarios.
Even living through a pandemic like covid was hard to believe would ever happen, and it did. Now, the threat of ww3 looms ever closer… What crazy times we are living in…
@@honeyb9118 You are the worst.
yeah, cause "covid" was ordinary
_Alas, Babylon_
A powerful, nightmarish vision of an event that could become a reality at any moment. An excellent lesson as to why filmmaking must exist, and why nuclear war must be avoided at all costs.
This needs to be played on TV & in high school currently! Based on the climate of the world that we are in today I think there’s a greater chance now then there was then 😔 people aren’t educated on this matter!!
Very true!! We are extremely close..
Unfortunately, I agree.
The Dooms Day clock is set at 2 minutes to midnight. That's not good.@@randymorgan8375
All educating them with do is put them into big fear like WE were back in the 80s. They can’t do anything more to change it than we could back then. Wars are up to the governments and the elite powers of the world. Civilians have no say
.....or just keep the Dems out of power.....ooops too late for that....
I remember our local newspaper doing a write-up of this movie before it aired, warning people about how graphic it was, I was 15...
Who is watching this movie in 2020?
@Hue Mungus I am in agreement with you on that.
I've seen this movie several times, and several others similar in nature such as "Fail Safe". As a kid, I lived thru the very real scares during the 1950s and 1960s. For example, I remember the nuclear drills in grade school where we'd get under our desks and put our arms over our heads -- or get down and put our hands over our heads in the halls. After seeing how close we were a couple of times, like in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, it makes me almost physically ill to think that a policy like MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) could have been even considered by sane people. Who other than God know how close we really came in the time or times we DON'T know about! You can thank God that this did not happen (it was not part of His plan).
@@xfactor7581 They still did the get down and put our hands over our heads in the halls drills in NYC public schools when I went in the 2000's. They just called those drills shelter drills.
I was 22 years old when this movie aired on TV. My son was 2. It scared the hell out of me because at the time it was a scenario that was all too real. Not only that it could happen on purpose but also on accident like that movie War Games with Matthew Broderick.
August 19th, 2020
When I first watched this movie 30+ years ago, I screamed at the explosion and cried for hours. I was very young and felt that this was the way it would happen. I still feel this way.
Compare the zeroing out from the Kansas City Skyline to the scene in the Nutty Professor.
Two biggest kids on the block... sooner or later they're gonna fight.
How traumatic. I have reached mid 50's and this is my 1st viewing, Threads the other film, much closer to home, as yet unseen. I have had the chance to watch but declined because I know it's going to scare me for my family's future. Everyone's future.
As a teenager in the 80's i never forget this film....traumatizing.
Yeah, they really scared the shit out of us! But I talk to old folk who forgot this movie. Selective amnesia or whatever you wanna call it. It's all bullsh*it.
Jason Robards is fantastic in this, btw.😃
I hated the Russians after this movie in 1983 and I still do 2021....I hate the Russian government and its people who want to destroy us but not the peaceful Russians
We had threads i was 18 and protesting thatcher (spit)
I think we all were. I know I was.
I found a copy of the book version of this in a coffee shop in Glen Ellyn IL in 1996. TH-cam just randomly suggested it to me this week. Neat!
Yoooo.
Tau.
Young people who didn't live through the cold war can't fully appreciate how scary it was back then. I was 7 in 1983, and the prospect of a nuclear war with the USSR was terrifying
Exactly, only a hand full of today's generation, Generation Y (Millennials - born 1980 and later) the oldest ones that are age 33-37 remember the last years of the Cold War, some might have not remembered it. Ones a little later that are age 27-32 would not have remembered at all and ones after that never seen it and who didn't live through any of it never experienced the scare of it and the constant fear of a nuclear holocaust. All the ones who are under the age of 33 never experienced such scare and fear of it all if you break it all down. It sure gave me nightmares till the Cold War ended. I was 14 in late '83 when this was aired.
my son was born in 1983. I was stationed in Italy.
I remember those times. Yuri Andropov, a man very hostile to democratic countries as a whole and especially the United States, was General Secretary of the Communist party in the USSR. Ronald Reagan was President and had indicated he would not allow Soviet domination that Andropov seemed heavily in favor of. Margaret Thatcher was PM of Great Britain and solidly behind Reagan. In Canada we were no less apprehensive about the possibility of ICBMs hitting us because we are NATO and would have been hit as well.
davidpar2 no it wasn't
@@ScorpioBornIn69 1981-1996 is gen y
it's scary how possible this movie still is and how few people realize it.
Ukraine...
Its happening
I dont think most people in the US know what might happen?...i think we may need to prepare, and the fact i live in columbus ga, a military town with one of largest army bases in the US
@@loycellhenry2163 I would rather go with bomb. Then live in after math of nuclear exchange. But politicians would nicely protected in thier under ground bunkers.
Totally agree. People seem to have no idea anymore. I feel like we’re in a crisis now not too dissimilar from the one that led to the nuclear exchange in this film.
This movie was hard to watch and still is. It's bone chilling, heartbreaking and still relevant.
@Veronica A. If you think this is bad, try watching Threads. Kinda like the British version of this. Our old Government warnings are also available to see. Called Protect & Survive. They are the actual public announcements that would have been shown on TV if the UK ever came close to a nuclear attack. They were declassified a few years ago.
Audrey Flowers I just watched this for the first time. I am a survivor, just waiting for all this to play out, I don’t have a good feeling about how this will end but I am keeping myself safe so that I will be able to be of service to humanity when most needed. Please stay safe..
This film is Sesame Street compared to Threads or When the Wind Blows
@AudreyFlowers this movie made me cry when I saw it as a kid I told my parents I hope these things don't happen cause I like the world and don't want to see anything happen to it
Hey it's Cowboy from Full Metal Jacket!
Excellent movie. Thank you for posting.
We really did worry in the 80's about the possibility of Nuclear war , nobody seems worried now , and that in itself is scary.
VERY VERY true! Sad but true!
Would have been a lot more mushrooms in the ICBM FIELDS likely 1 MIRV per silo
President Truman died in 1972. This movie came out 11 years later. I wonder if there was anyone from his administration still alive when the movie aired and their thoughts knowing he was the only one to have ordered the use of "nuclear" weapons?
Tulsi Gabbard is worried. She lives in Hawaii, where people actually dealt with a false alarm of an incoming attack for 30 minutes. That was not long ago, but people have completely forgotten about it by now.
@@Uarehere Get ready for that Doomsday clock to get closer to midnight. The Biden Harris administration resent US troops into Syria.
They should show this today in TV. The chances to get this are higher than ever.
Things are certainly tense, but if you truly think we're "closer than ever," then you're too young to have lived through the Cuban missile crisis or the Cold War of the 70s and early 80s.
@@billdermody7982 Never ever felt this before. Cuba crisis maybe. During the 70s and 80s we never ever had such a high risk. Cold war was just cold. This is not cold anymore.
@@billdermody7982 I was a kid in the 80s I am certainly scared now...I hope our leaders are sensible enough to avoid this scenario. After a pandemic no one wants a nuclear holocaust to follow.
@@billdermody7982 I did grow up in the 1970s and 80s, I think that the situation may be closer today than anytime since the Cuban missile crisis. Although in the 1980s the impact of a full nuclear exchange was at its peak, the real probability of it happening was relatively low due to the clear understanding of "mutually assured destruction".
I have no particular personal insight into today's situation, but I'm stunned by Putin's rhetoric and threats, and the lack of checks and balances in the Russian political system. In the 1980s you still had a Politburo to make these decisions, today it's one man.
@@speedcanada1 I agree. I’m very nervous- I was too young for the Cuban missile crisis but definitely remember this movie and the fear of nuclear holocaust, and also remember the movie Testament
What pisses me off most about nuclear war is millions of people will die because 2 leaders decided to have a pissing contest. That's the grim reality of it.
Yes, bring back dueling. Let them fight it out by themselves. Makes sense.
Put the leaders in a boxing ring and let them have at it
@@mso4433 Or better yet, just vote them the fuck out in favor of people who can process reality like adults.
Meanwhile, while everyday folk get to fry as a consequence of their decisions, the bastards who pushed the button get to ride it out in a snug little bunker.
If there were any justice, the one who started a nuclear war would be the first to die in it.
Shane Everett same ol same ol, we don’t seem to learn from our mistakes, or get any smarter!
I was 12 when this came out. We've managed not to blow up the world since then. Nearly 2025 and we're still alive. Einstein said that he didn't know how WW3 would be fought but that WW4 would be fought with sticks and stones
This was incredibly well done. I've never seen the film before but it reminds me very much of the book "on the beach" just with more focus on the specific disaster consequences.
One of the most apt quotes: "Do you have an idea of what's going on in this world?"
"Yeah. Stupidity has a habit of getting its way."
The more things change, the more they never do.
And the end scene made me want to cry.
I was in 10th grade when this film aired. I remembered sitting down to watch it and feeling totally drained afterwards. We were so close to war in the late Summer/Early Fall of 1983. You could feel it. A friend at school and I talked about the movie and were convinced war was inevitable.
I remember it as well- I wasn't quiet as old as you but, I was old enough to understand and be scared. Remember the drills we used to have, we'd all pile under our desks and cover our heads? Ours was one long steady bell tone- if you heard that you knew it's either a drill or the bombs just dropped. Either way you were expected to do the same thing- get under your desk and put your books over your head. I think they were getting us into the correct posture to kiss our own ass good bye.
You weren’t the only ones. My friends and I had the same discussions. Brrr gives me the wileys going back to those memories
I remember at school in the UK (about 10 y/o) being told about "survival zones" and given a map of our city. Because we were close to the airport we were inside the "red zone" and so basically dead if a war were to start.
Wow, the censorship is strong on this website,
So, I said,
"Wow Milena, you were hNOPEot, I wish we all could look like that still,
Um, I mean, I was a fresNOPEhmen back then, I remember those times well"
That was the summer the Soviets shot down Korean flight 007. I was in the 10th grade, too.
This movie Aired on November 20, 1983. It almost didn't air at all.
On the Russian morning of 26 September 1983, World war 3 could have started, except for one man, Soviet Union Captain Stanislav Petrov.
Russia installed a missile defense warning system in 1983. on the morning of 26 september 1983 Captain Petrov was manning the early warning Defensive systems, the system was tracking dozens of incoming ICBMs from America. Captain Petrov's job was to alert Soviet Nuclear forces of the Incoming ICBMs, but Petrov didn't believe what the computer was telling him.
He didn't pick up the phone and make that call, if he had,nothing would be left. His sole responsibility was to call in the incoming ICBMs, That would have triggered the Soviet Unions full retaliatory response.
He monitored the computer and suddenly there were thousands upon thousands of missiles coming at the soviet union, still Captain Petrov didn't pick up the phone, his gut instinct was,something was wrong.
It turns out the thousands of ICBMs the computer was tracking were the beams of sunlight from the raising sun over the horizon. When the sun fully cleared the horizon all incoming ICBMs disappeared from the monitors.
26 September 1983 the world could have ended.
chris ohara That man is the closest thing to God in my eyes. Singlehandedly saved the human race.
chris ohara And look what is going around now. Damn you Petrov, you had only one job!
@chris ohara - "26 September 1983 the world could have ended."
Not the whole world. Just some of the biggest world powers. But I doubt South America, Australia, Southeast Asia, Africa etc would have all been eliminated. It's hard to imagine a world without the US or Russia, but the rest of the world would go on.
actually they would have been the population that is if we and soviets had exchanged sonme heavy haymakers all that we had would have extremely changed the atmosphere the wind would have circled radiation the metor that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million ago hit with the impact of 10000 icbms more then that wiould have gone off
ACtually, the fallout of an all-out nclear war would have ended life in the entire planet
I remember watching this movie in high school. It took quite a while to recover. Scared the crap out of me.
This movie is factually WRONG. We all know that when people panic buy they buy toilet paper.
Despite the tragedy of the drama, no one I repeat no one has picked up a single roll of toilet paper. Ironic and hilarious
Sanitizer!!!!!
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back then people had it together, 2020 forget it.
harvestcanada lmbo
2024 whos watching ?
I am.
I am and give it a little bit and we're going to be in this very same situation keeps going the way it is
No one
40 years later and we’ve learned nothing. 😢 I can’t believe I’ve never seen this film.
Now I am watching.
8 years old when this first aired and saw it. Growing up near a major navy base it instilled a fear in me that lingers to this day almost 40 years later.
I was 15 and I remember my teacher had us write letters to that president asking what he was going to do about preventing this from happening,and now should have everyone re-watch this again even our world leaders and then each person write them asking what they are going to do to stop this
And not just our only country leaders but each government leader of the world
Funnily enough, location and proximity to 1st strike targets is my ideal response, let me and mine wink out rather than suffer that. What a ridiculous way to impose your will. It will take an awful incident but with less collateral damage to wake/shake the world up enough to disarm nuclear capability. We would have to be faced with such an awful reality before the money men would ever consider life over profit/power. In my eyes any one profiting from the sale of nuclear arms should be offered to stop or face radiation dosing themselves.
Thank you for posting. I was a child during the cold war. I remember the Cuban missile crisis very well, although I didn't understand it all. I knew I could die along with everyone that I loved. I wish all of this war would just end. It has unnerved me just as much as it did back in the 80's. God bless this world.
I remember all that and the Iran controversy. Planes being High Jacked and Hostage taking. Gas shortage High inflation of the 70's
In 1983 I thought we're not that stupid
Now in 2020 I KNOW we are that stupid
Fuck man. I clicked like 👍 cuz I didn't want it to stay on 13.
DerHeimatlose --- we must stand united NOW- with shared interests to stop this from happening. Not just War but pestilence, poverty and slavery.
Thankfully Trump brought us peace. At least until January 20th if Biden ends up stealing it.
@Chon Connor They wouldn't believe it. They'd think we'd all gone mental.
no. Don't matter if its the 1980's or 2020's Its NOT GOING TO Happen. No1 is Gonna Fire All their Nukes an Make another nation and then another fire all their's in response an destroy the World. Yeah 2020 is pretty bad. But itll get better. The pandemic will end. People will get better an the Vaccine as they Will come and Keep coming will protect us from getting sick. The worst part of 2020 is some people were ignoring all the people getting sick an they didn't think it was that bad an they got sick an were spreading it to others. no1 is gonna fire Nukes. Not now. Not ever. and If countries who are run by governments and armies who are fascist evil racist terrorist supporting terrorism scum bags like north korea and/or iran do fire nukes, Well the WHOLE World will Crush the Bastards.
The launch scene is still surreal...you just kind of know at that point it's all overwith.
I remember this so well there was a lot of hype about it for quite a while and when they finally aired this i got to be honest with you it scared the crap out of me even watching it now it makes me very uneasy i want to thank you so much for putting this online and i just pray that none of us have to experience this thank you
I remember seeing this in college and what an impact it made on me. I also recall that no advertisers wanted to touch it so it was run without commercials.
I remember this was assigned by my history class to discuss in the next class. Dad watched it with us. It was always a possibility that a nuclear war could occur.
eeriest scene:
The President's speech on the radio sounds very much like the news programs today.
It takes less to scare ppl into submission today. Much less.
@@Gonken88 So true. So many are just sheep anymore.
@@Gonken88 'Bread and Circuses' as Hitler said. ie: Keep the masses entertained and give them something to lose and you can do what you please with them.
@@dabbbles I think even Caesar said that.
@@Gonken88 I wouldn't be surprised. There are a good few other broad similarities between their philosophies/activities. (eg, building infrastructure to provide work and creating a primitive welfare system.
OCTOBER 1962. Cuban missile crisis. I was in elementary school. It is chilling to think how CLOSE America came to the REAL THING.....
just america eh
That crisis is how Khrushchev finally fell from power. His people could not fathom how or why he was so willingly ready to destroy them, their country and the rest of us over some shitty little island in the Carribean. A piece of crap land that most Russians had never heard of or would ever see in their lifetime. The Russian is ready to die to defend his country, but not commit suicide for tobacco fields, sugar cane, and some rum. Wacko Khrushchev got the well-deserved boot out the Kremlin.
Yes I remember Cuba
and now North Korea.
There were seven other close calls that the American media covered up. One where the Russian early warning system sent out an alert of 5 incoming missiles, but it was later determined to be sunlight reflecting off of mountains. 26 Sept. 1983 (same year as movie) the computers at the Serpukhov -15 bunker outside Moscow , which housed the command centre of the Soviet Early Warning Satellite System twice reported 5 American ICBM's were heading for the Soviet Union. The duty officer Stanislav Petrov convinced his superiors that this must be a malfunction because the Americans would attack with more than 5 missiles. A massive counterattack was held off until radar confirmation. Because this one man did not automatically respond as his training dictated, we are alive today. One man literally saved the world. Did God put him there for that reason?
But the closest and most frightening incident was the Norwegian Rocket Incident in 1995. A research rocket fired from Norway's Andoya Space Center to study the Aurora followed the same route that a US LGM Minuteman Missile fired from a silo in N. Dakota would follow. It became clear that the rocket was not headed for Moscow , but could still cause a Russia Wide Nuclear EMP. But when the rocket fell back to Earth near Spitsbergen 24 min after launch , the Russian alert was called off . But by this time, Russian Ballistic Missile Subs were ready to launch. This incident brought the world closer to Nuclear War than the Cuban Missile Crisis. Why? Because the Russian version of the briefcase containing the nuclear codes for launching the Nuclear Attack was opened (unlike the Cuban Crisis) and ready to be fired by Boris Yeltzen ( who was known to be a heavy drinker ). He was sober that day.
Either by intent or by mistake, the human race will commit suicide unless it grows out of it's current barbaric and mindless state of development. Our weapons and technology have exceeded our wisdom. It's just a matter of time.
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
- Albert Einstein
There is a book, i dont know how it is called in english but in german its called "Mein Weltbild" (routhly tranlated: my view on the World) and its made of Letters and Speaches of Einstein. I think that could be Interessting for you.
I agree
Albert Einstein knew how World War III would be fought but he didn't know. Otherwise he would not have said World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein was a plagiarist!
@@johnny10301968 think he meant after ww3 were all dead but mutants
I remember seeing this at the time. I was 12 years old; I am Australian but this was truly frightening & NOBODY wins a nuclear war. In the early 80s USA & Russia really were on the brink of starting a nuclear war. Scary times. 😢😢😢
This movie is still just as powerful in 2019. THIS is a real horror movie.
Chris F, it could almost be a docudrama, but I am glad it isn’t. There again, if it was a docudrama I wouldn’t be writing this as the internet and social media will have gone the way of humankind, EXTINCT. 👍
It could still happen
This movie scared the hell out of me during the cold war, it still horrifies me in 2019. "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds" old hindu scripture said my Dr. Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb.
Chris F, This movie is only softcore - just a drama for girlies. The real nuke war horror movie is Threads (1984).
If you want a movie about the cold war to really give you nightmares watch threads some of the scenes in that movie are just plain disturbing there's this one scene where a woman who just looked shocked with fear rocking a charred baby like it was still alive
I was 14 when this aired and it scared the crap of me then and it still scares me now 37 years later
You've never seen "Failsafe".
were 37 years closer to this happening to mankind were very close
Threads is just as horrific.
I was 7, and was equally as terrified.
It least REAGAN save our country from the Iron Curtain. I was 6 years old when that movie came out.
The scariest thing about a nuclear bomb is surviving it.
You right
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I grew up near missile silos. They were outside of town several miles. When I drove by them, I think of this movie.
@@ZenithAstrology Y TU MADRE
Really? There are some survivors from Nagasaki still alive who might doubt that.
One of the best films ever made. Great actors all around. Brilliant script. This film compelled President Reagan to dismiss the idea that a nuclear war is winnable. The President was given a private screening and the rest is history. We were very close to nuclear war then. Able Archer war exercise had us at the brink.
Nuclear explosions look like something that come from some hell-like parallel dimension. Just terrifying. It's even scarier to know that humans willingly created such things.
In truth the production company didn't know how to make a mushroom cloud before CGI. What you see is oil mixed with food coloring that was released with an eye dropper, in a fish tank.
@@Rozom they had a behind-the-scenes clip showing that process and it was amazing to see that creativity in a pre-CGI world. I do wish that they would go back and remaster this and update the explosions. Terminator 2 did a great job at showing a nuclear blast up close.
@@MasterJediDude I had no idea what nukes did until I saw Terminator 2 in the theater and it was an eye opener. It was horrifying.
The human condition
Real explosions would look worse than theones in this film. I saw the film taken from the Enola Gay leaving Hiroshima. Modern nuclear weapons are on average 17 times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. Then there are scalar weapons that can make fireballs or deep freeze colder than arctic like waste 500 miles across across in a split second.
This takes me back to a simpler time, when all we had to worry about was Thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union and gas rationing. I want my MTV!
don't know whether to laugh or cry at your joke
@@mslvc2011 Right? I don't need this kind of crazy at this stage of my life!
It sucks now but trust me this is worse
@@somedumbozzie1539 Afghanistan already had this...all this time!
Truth
When you think about it, all those guys who got vaporized are the LUCKY ones..
Revelation 9:6
That's why I see no point in safety precautions in the case of a nuclear exchange, better the flash of light signal the end of your suffering rather than the start of it
Bootlebat I agree. That's why I want to be at ground zero.
Exactly! I always said if it happens I want to be at ground zero!
@@melonmalone6307 Thanks! I was looking for that verse and chapter the other day!
Who is watching in 2025? ☺️
I am, and at 58 years old, I remember a little too vividly these years..and the ones before.
Shut up.
Shut up.
No one cares.
@@paulapril Whats wrong with you?
You all wonder what happened to my generation? Here is the skinny, I was 14 when I watched this on TV, I had just spent my whole life living with a U.S. Army Staff sergeant the just that year retired. I knew more about close encounters than any kid wanted to. This is why the 80's were pretty wild, a good portion of us didn't think we'd see the 90's.
I was 13 but you had FAR more experience that I did. Thanks for the comment-it gives me perspective.
not too mention this fear was on the backs of our minds on a regular basis. 20somethings and younger today dont even understand just how stable things have been. shockingly with the advent of the internet and social media, if it isnt someone they find popular they dont bother paying attention to the things going on around them.
i remember late 80's or early 90's seeing the first videos out of russia of bread lines. it was the first time as a kid i saw just how lucky i was to live where i did.
Those of us who were kids in the 80s can see this from a different perspective...You have to put it in perspective of being at the pinnacle of the cold war
This is why we were called the Doom Generation
I was 10 when the Bay of Pig’s Cuban crisis was on. I was so worried and told my mother I didn’t want to go to school. She kissed me fastened up my coat and told me. The world has been ending forever it won’t happen today off you go and enjoy your day. All the kids were upset and crying at school but I really believe my mum and told the class. If my mum said it won’t happen it won’t happen. Wow the innocence of kids
I watched this movie at age 13 when it originally aired. Our 8th grade social studies teacher assigned it and we talked about it the next day.
I JUST re-watched it now. Just about 40 years later (can't believe it's been that long).
I CANNOT believe the parallels between this movie and what's currently happening in the Ukraine. The writers, producers, and director must have been clairvoyants.
God help us so we don't follow the path this movie lays out.
Or .. put it in an opposite way: this is exaclty how we have been expecting things will play out. Let's just hope Putin is not crazy enough to stick to the script 😔
bombs are 400 times hiroshima russian have +6000 US have +5000 ...... enough to exticn
tion of human kind
I have come here for the same reason I was required to watch this in my school. How quickly our world has forgotten when I heard a leader say something to the effect of "ready my nuclear arsenal" I asked myself have we learned nothing?
god help us all if this happens in 2022.........i was 9 and i watched this movie. nightmares forever.
Yes, in this movie Russia is pissed at US buildup on their border (their border was East Germany back then). Today Putin is pissed at (what he perceives) as American and NATO buildup at his border. History repeats.
I think the point of this movie was to try to get people to understand that once the bombs start falling, EVERYone loses.
It seems like the old adage is true- there are no winners in a war, there are just different degrees of losing.
That holds true especially in a nuclear war, it seems.
@Maria Kelly oh really who is that
@@DaDitka Everybody loses in a nuclear war. Crops imposbile to grow for generations. All the medical issues which will affect all survivors. This is the end of civilization for some time. Humans are good at applying their brains to stuff, so if we want to end of life in this planet forever and ever, we are thorough.
Intentionally doesn't show who fires first or take political sides Just a warning to the world
Once our leaders stop talking and start ordering nuclear strikes it’s all over. All it takes is one missile launching to start a chain of events we can’t stop.
I had just joined the RAF when this film came out, we had just started NBC Training, remember thinking I would rather go in the blast than the aftermath 😬