Watched the 1984 BBC film Threads, a realistic depiction of living through nuclear war

This is far from any of the usual end of the world melodramas. Unknown actors, no heroics. A science based walk through of what you could most likely expect, including the unrelenting Nuclear Winter.

What made it all the more powerful for me is the first half hour is just showing regular everday people going through their mundane lives. Doing the normal things we do every day. It's almost boring at this point. But when the bombs drop and we see what happens to them it drives the horror home even stronger. Because we can identify these people so easily as ourselves.
I think some of the nightmare images here will be etched on my brain forever.

Author and film historian Stephen Thrower:
" What even its critics had to admit was it told the truth in a totally unvarnished way about the actual genuine detail of the aftermath of a nuclear attack."