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Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Genre : WarDramaScience Fiction

Runtime : 117 mins

Release Date : 1984-09-23

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This film was, for many, a turning-point regarding nuclear weapons, the cold war and nuclear-politics. Set in a 1984 UK industrial-suburbia, as the cold war gets hot, we follow regular people in their daily lives and how they prepare for the coming apocalypse. Barry Hines and Mick Jackson exp...

Once again, I struggled to understand the British English. At least this time, I didn't really need to. Not a word needed to be spoken to convey the very real horror we might all be subjected to. Now, closer to that armageddon than ever before in our history. I just hope I die in the initial blast....

Cast

Karen Meagher

(Ruth Beckett)

Reece Dinsdale

(Jimmy Kemp)

David Brierly

(Mr. Kemp)

Rita May

(Mrs. Kemp)

Nicholas Lane

(Michael Kemp)

Jane Hazlegrove

(Alison Kemp)

Henry Moxon

(Mr Beckett)

June Broughton

(Mrs Beckett)

Sylvia Stoker

(Granny Beckett)

Harry Beety

(Clive Sutton)

Ruth Holden

(Marjorie Sutton)

Ashley Barker

(Bob)

Michael O'Hagan

(Chief Supt. Hirst)

Phil Rose

(Medical Officer)

Steve Halliwell

(Information Officer)

Brian Grellis

(Accommodation Officer)

Peter Faulkner

(Transport Officer)

Anthony Collin

(Food Officer)

Michael Ely

(Scientific Officer)

Sharon Baylis

(Manpower Officer)

David Stutt

(Works Officer)

Phil Askham

(Mr Stothard)

Anna Seymour

(Mrs Stothard)

Fiona Rook

(Carol Stothard)

Christine Buckley

(Woman in Supermarket)

Joe Belcher

(Shopkeeper)

David Major

(Boy in Supermarket)

Maggie Ford

(Peace Speaker)

Mike Kay

(Trade Unionist)

Richard Albrecht

(Officer at Food Depot)

Ted Beyer

(Policeman)

Dean Williamson

(Policeman)

Joe Holmes

(Mr Langley)

Andy Fenn-Rodgers

(Patrol Officer)

Graham Hill

(Soldier)

Nigel Collins

(Soldier)

Jerry Ready

(Looter)

Dennis Conlon

(Looter)

Greta Dunn

(Woman at Hospital)

Nat Jackley

(Old Man at Graveyard)

John Livesey

(Street Trader)

Victoria O'Keefe

(Jane)

Lee Daley

(Spike)

Marcus Lund

(Gaz)

Lesley Judd

(Newscaster)

Colin Ward-Lewis