Threads
By: by Barry Hines ; Severin Films ; a BBC TV production in association with Western-World Television, Inc. and the Nine Network (Australia) ; directed by Mick Jackson ; produced by Mick Jackson [and 3 others]
Contributors: Meagher, Karen, actor; Dinsdale, Reece, 1959- actor; May, Rita, actor; Brierly, David, actor; Vaughan, Paul, 1925-2014, narrator; Severin Films; British Broadcasting Corporation; Western World Television (Firm); Nine Network
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 117
Subjects: Drama; Social aspects; Environmental aspects; Civil defense; Radioactive fallout; Nuclear warfare
Description: 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 affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Notes: Originally broadcast on television by the BBC in 1984.

Full screen (1.33:1).

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 production designer Stephen Thrower ; US trailer ; re-release trailer.

Cinematography by Andrew Dunn and Paul Morris ; edited by Donna Bickerstaff and Jim Latham.

Reece Dinsdale, Karen Meagher, David Brierley, Rita May ; narrator, Paul Vaughan.

DVD, region 0, NTSC, full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Digital.

In English; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.