For some reason this popped up on Youtube. For the young cats, this was a very popular miniseries in 1983 dealing with a Soviet nuclear attack upon the United States during the height of the Cold War

I was 12 years old living in Austin and it was scary as h@ll...

One of the best "made for TV" movies ever. They did a good job of making it very realistic, and very scary.

There was one other cold war movie that I remember on TV that started with Russians landing in Alaska and then trying to take down our early warning systems. Can't remember the name. That one was pretty good too.

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One of the best "made for TV" movies ever. They did a good job of making it very realistic, and very scary.

There was one other cold war movie that I remember on TV that started with Russians landing in Alaska and then trying to take down our early warning systems. Can't remember the name. That one was pretty good too.

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LOL I know EXACTLY what you are talking about.

I thought for months about how to be in those metal pipes and shoot at the Russkies as they took over the facility in the snow.

will try to find that one. was Powers Booth in that one?

I like the ink injections used to simulate the nuclear detonations.

The US government wouldn't let them use any video of actual nuclear detonations so that was the best available special effects at the time.

The one thing they do get right is the first strike is actually an EMP rather than low altitude detonations.

Looked it up. It was called WW3 and starred Brian Keith and Rock Hudson. It was a mini-series.

ChemEng I found it!

World War III with Rock Hudson

me and my friends would strategize how to hold out against the Russians back in 1982.

Freaking traumatized me. I was 9 when we watched that. I remember all the kids on the school bus the next morning being traumatized too because back then, we had like 3 channels and everyone watched that.

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Freaking traumatized me. I was 9 when we watched that. I remember all the kids on the school bus the next morning being traumatized too because back then, we had like 3 channels and everyone watched that.

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Even just watching it now after 40 years and I am a bit freaked out.

it was more than just a miniseries, I remember the magazines and the tv were all talking about it

and the leftists really believed that with Reagan in office there would be a nuclear war.

Full Movie

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One of the best "made for TV" movies ever. They did a good job of making it very realistic, and very scary.

There was one other cold war movie that I remember on TV that started with Russians landing in Alaska and then trying to take down our early warning systems. Can't remember the name. That one was pretty good too.

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Oh yeah, I was a student at Tech and watched this movie along libtard demonstration after demonstration demanding Reagan not put the Pershing II in Western Europe to counter the Soviet buildup in the late 70's under that idiot Carter.

The Pershing 2 was one of the first super accurate IRBM systems and it scared the hell out of the Soviets who had just a few years before invaded Afghanistan and went on a missile building bing while Carter continually wet himself.

Despite this movie and lots of other propaganda Reagan persisted.

Later it was found the Soviets had bankrolled many of the demonstrations and then as now the democrats were the fools. History vindicated Reagan's action and won the Cold war by the end of the decade.

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Scared the piss out of me as a kid.

Who else remembers this from the 80s:

pay phones with the sliding glass doors

phones where you push buttons

a guy smoking in a movie

women with boys haircuts

Huey helicopters

transistor radios

the Soviet Union

East and West Germany

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ChemEng94 said:

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One of the best "made for TV" movies ever. They did a good job of making it very realistic, and very scary.

There was one other cold war movie that I remember on TV that started with Russians landing in Alaska and then trying to take down our early warning systems. Can't remember the name. That one was pretty good too.

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LOL I know EXACTLY what you are talking about.

I thought for months about how to be in those metal pipes and shoot at the Russkies as they took over the facility in the snow.

will try to find that one. was Powers Booth in that one?

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The Powers Boothe one you are probably thinking of was By Dawn's Early Light, where he was a B-52 pilot.

I predict a blockbuster year for end of the world/nuclear war movies in 2024...if we're all still around then.

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Who else remembers this from the 80s:

pay phones with the sliding glass doors

phones where you push buttons

a guy smoking in a movie

women with boys haircuts

Huey helicopters

transistor radios

the Soviet Union

East and West Germany

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All that, and for me as a kid growing up overseas: swatches and Benetton lol!

I was 14 in Austin at the time. Scary and depressing *****

For me it was the "Amerika" miniseries during the 80s (ABC?), scared the F out of me as a kid.

Day After was good, but my favorite Cold War movie is still Dr. Strangelove. The character names themselves are gold.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is a War Room."

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Yeah that's a traumatizing movie too. It's the British version of The Day After.

Don't forget about the post-apocalyptic movie, Damnation Alley.

I saw all of those. What hit me the most? The TV series Jericho.

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I saw all of those. What hit me the most? The TV series Jericho.

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That was a good show. Too bad they cut it short.

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aggiehawg said:

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I saw all of those. What hit me the most? The TV series Jericho.

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That was a good show. Too bad they cut it short.

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Yeah, but the state of Texas was the savior in the end. Pulled on my heart strings at that.

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Who else remembers this from the 80s:

pay phones with the sliding glass doors

phones where you push buttons

a guy smoking in a movie

women with boys haircuts

Huey helicopters

transistor radios

the Soviet Union

East and West Germany

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Push button phones? Try a dial on the phone?

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I was 14 in Austin at the time. Scary and depressing *****

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wow! Where did you go to school?

I was in Northwest Hills and in 1983 going to Murchison Junior High.

I wonder if it is still there.

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I saw all of those. What hit me the most? The TV series Jericho.

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That was a good show. Too bad they cut it short.

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Yeah, but the state of Texas was the savior in the end. Pulled on my heart strings at that.

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Just watched some Jericho on one of the streaming services like a year ago!

fantastic first season.

then it got too much into "the CIA did it"

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Yeah that's a traumatizing movie too. It's the British version of The Day After.

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what year was it made?

wonder if it is ab le to be found today.

would be cool to see.

why does the film color from movies in the 70s and early 80s look so old now?

Red Dawn didn't look that old watching it in the last few years

that movie holds up amazingly as if it was made during the Trump Administration

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I saw all of those. What hit me the most? The TV series Jericho.

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That was a good show. Too bad they cut it short.

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Yeah, but the state of Texas was the savior in the end. Pulled on my heart strings at that.

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Just watched some Jericho on one of the streaming services like a year ago!

fantastic first season.

then it got too much into "the CIA did it"

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After the last few years, added to the credibility to me. CIA is active in the US. Hopefully they don't have mercs on the payroll here as in that TV series.

Read 'One Second After'.

Will scare the heck out of you.

I was a HS sophomore when that was aired on ABC. Mom wouldn't let me or my younger siblings watch it despite my protestations. Her reasoning was in part because it was set in Kansas City and Whiteman AFB…my mother grew up on a farm just north of Whiteman. When we visited family up there you could see the Minuteman silos next to the county roads.

What scared me the most was the fallout and radiation sickness afterwards.
If you survived the blast then this invisible killer remained.

Ray Milland's 1962 "Panic in Year Zero" was chilling.

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For some reason this popped up on Youtube. For the young cats, this was a very popular miniseries in 1983 dealing with a Soviet nuclear attack upon the United States during the height of the Cold War

I was 12 years old living in Austin and it was scary as h@ll...

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Was that the one where the people were at a college football game when the missiles were being launched around them?

Nevermind. I just watched the video and it was.