This TV movie from the 1980s helped change the course of the Cold War. Here’s how ‘The Day After’ got made | CNN

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• galacticDust@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still find Threads to be the film with the most effective anti-nuclear messaging. That said, The Day After delivered on providing a grim view into what life may look like after a nuclear exchange.

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  • JimmyChanga@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jesus fuck, I’d put Threads out my mind! There was a cartoon I recall too, old couple, tried to hide in their bath from a nuclear strike? Was that a thing?

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When the wind blows

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• drdalek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This movie is still horrifying

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• Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This movie is seared into my formative years’ memory. Growing up under the threat of nuclear Armageddon has a way of affecting people.

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• YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I watched this as a kid, and was forever terrified by the possibility of nuclear war after that. Good movie.

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• DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Russia won the cold war by playing the long game

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