Threads: 1984 BBC Docudrama About Nuclear War

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In 1984. the BBC produced a bizarre docudrama called Threads, playing out on the television screen the effects of a direct nuclear attack and resulting apocalypse on Thatcher's England. From Threads' Wikipedia entry:

The story focuses on two families from Sheffield, beginning two months before the attack. We watch their lifestyle and their reactions as fighting erupts and escalates, the UK places itself on a war footing, and strategic bombing commences. We then follow family members as they face, and sometimes die of, the medical, economic, social, and ecological consequences of a nuclear war. The film concludes thirteen years after, as civilization rebuilds to a stage like the early Industrial Era. Both the plot and the atmosphere of the film are extremely bleak.

I've long wanted to see this and now the entire series is up on Google Video. No better way to start of Thursday than a bleak reminder of the awful possibility of nuclear armageddon!