De familie Kemp en de familie Beckett wonen in Sheffield. Op een dag horen ze dat er een wereldoorlog kan ontstaan, en inderdaad vallen de nucleaire bommen al snel. De beide families proberen in het post-nucleaire tijdperk te overleven maar dat valt niet mee.
Nee, helaas is Threads nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Mick Jackson | Director |
| Writing | Barry Hines | Writer |
| Production | Mick Jackson | Producer |
| Editing | Jim Latham | Editor |
| Camera | Paul Morris | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sally Nieper | Costume Design |
| Camera | Andrew Dunn | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Donna Bickerstaff | Editor |
| Art | Christopher Robilliard | Production Design |
| Production | Peter Wolfes | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Graham Ross | Sound Recordist |
| Visual Effects | Peter Wragg | Visual Effects |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jan Nethercot | Makeup Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gilly Martin | Costume Supervisor |
| Production | John Purdie | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Peter Kersey | Special Effects |
| Crew | Dorothy Ford | Stunts |
| Production | Graham Massey | Executive Producer |
| Production | Matthew Kuipers | Production Manager |
| Production | Jacinta Peel | Production Manager |
| Art | Andy Coward | Graphic Designer |
| Sound | Fraser Barber | Boom Operator |
| Visual Effects | Graham Brown | Visual Effects |
| Camera | Dion M. Casey | Camera Trainee |
| Crew | Robert Jay Lifton | Scientific Consultant |
| Crew | Joseph Rotblat | Scientific Consultant |
| Crew | Carl Sagan | Scientific Consultant |