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- On Nov. 20, 1983, ABC aired the two-hour television movie The Day After, which depicts an escalating conflict between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that crosses the point of no return when both countries fire nuclear missiles at each other.
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Nov 27, 2023 · These days, there's no shortage of disaster genre films such as 'The Day After Tomorrow' or 'Contagion,' which ended up being a little too real. Forty years ago this week, ABC Television aired a film that harnessed the very real fear about a possible nuclear attack amid the Cold War.
Oct 11, 2023 · Sure, they did emergency drills in schools and likely saw photos of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but it was a 1983 made-for-television movie starring Steve Guttenberg and John Lithgow that changed how...
Nov 17, 2023 · CNN — On November 20, 1983, a record audience estimated at more than 100 million Americans assembled in a very different TV era to watch a “What if?” movie about nuclear annihilation. That...
Nov 20, 2023 · The movie was The Day After, a made-for-TV film that depicted in unprecedented, gruelling detail the run-up to and then the aftermath of a global thermonuclear exchange between the US and the...
Nov 20, 2023 · In 1983, ABC’s The Day After produced a $7 million disaster film that imagined a nuclear attack on the U.S. and the dystopian aftermath of a crumbling society. For months leading up to the...
Nov 20, 2023 · The Day After | The disturbing nuclear war TV movie at 40. by Ryan Lambie | November 20, 2023. Share this Article: Directed by Nicholas Meyer, The Day After disturbed a generation of TV audiences in 1983. On the 40th anniversary of its first airing, we look back at its immediate and lasting impact.
Apr 8, 2022 · Premiering on ABC on Nov. 20 of that year, The Day After depicts an escalating conflict between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that crosses the point of no return when both countries fire...
