TV on the Big Screen returns to show you the BBC’s notorious post apocalyptic horror war movie Threads.

A dramatic and hyper-realistic account of a nuclear war and its effect on working-class northern England, specifically Sheffield. Centring on two families as a confrontation between the US and Russia erupts. As a nuclear event between NATO and the Warsaw Pact begins, the film depicts the medical, economic, social and environmental consequences of nuclear war in brutal detail

The first film of its kind to depict nuclear winter chillingly realistic in its depiction of the full horror of nuclear war. Broadcast on BBC2 in 1985 it won 4 BAFTA TV awards including Best Drama. Written by Barry Hines, screenwriter of Ken Loach’s classics Kes and The Price of Coal, it’s become known as a classic of British television, regarded as “a chilling hypothetical that achieves visceral horror with its matter-of-fact presentation of an apocalypse”

In our tradition of TV on the Big Screen (following our Doctor Who season, Ghostwatch and Hitchhiker’s Guide) there’ll be a Q&A afterwards so bring your questions!