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

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/09/entertainment/the-day-after-abc-movie-cec/index.html

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galacticDust@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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.

JimmyChanga@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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?

then_three_more@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

When the wind blows

drdalek@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

This movie is still horrifying

Railing5132@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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

YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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

DrSleepless@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 2y

And Russia won the cold war by playing the long game