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the day after
The Day After is an American television film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. More than 100 million people, in nearly 39 million households, watched the program during its initial broadcast. With a 46 rating and a 62% share of the viewing audience during its initial broadcast, it was the seventh-highest-rated non-sports show up to that time and set a record as the highest-rated television film in history—a record it still held as recently as 2009.The film postulates a fictional war between the NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact countries that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action itself focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, and of several family farms near nuclear missile silos.The cast includes JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, Jason Robards, and John Lithgow. The film was written by Edward Hume, produced by Robert Papazian, and directed by Nicholas Meyer. It was released on DVD on May 18, 2004, by MGM.
Uniquely for a Western movie made during the Cold War, it was broadcast on the Soviet Union's state TV in 1987.
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Uniquely for a Western movie made during the Cold War, it was broadcast on the Soviet Union's state TV in 1987.
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The Day After (1983), what does it teach?
Inspired by, and not wishing to hijack said, the "Alas Babylon - what does it have to teach us" thread: for those that have watched The Day After (1983), what ideas did you have from said? Any specific preparations undertaken afterwards? Any work abandoned? Other observations? Enjoy! Oh...
