The Day After – Online Film Screening and Discussion Event

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9:00 AM, Saturday, August 6, 2022 PST
Location: Online Event - Pacific Standard Time (click for map)

Mt Baker Meaningful Movies is pleased to support this World BEYOND War event. Join us on Saturday August 6 at 9AM Pacific time. (Yes, this is an early morning event for those of us in Washington State!)

The Day After is an American post-apocalyptic film that first aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC television network. A record-setting 100 million people watched it in the US – and 200 million on Russian TV during its initial broadcast.

The film postulates a fictional war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact countries over Germany that rapidly escalates into a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. The action focuses on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, and of several family farms near nuclear missile silos.

Then-US President Ronald Reagan watched the film more than a month before its screening on Columbus Day, October 10, 1983. He wrote in his diary that the film was “very effective and left me greatly depressed”, and that it changed his mind on the prevailing policy on a “nuclear war”. Maybe this film can still change hearts and minds! Join us to find out!

Agenda for the event

World BEYOND War Executive Director David Swanson has agreed to help moderate.

We will have a short welcome on Zoom at 9 am Pacific Time (12 pm EDT), and then watch the movie from 9:20am to 11:30 PDT (12:10 pm to 2:30 pm EDT), followed by presentations and a question-and-answer period with our experts, Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US and Dr. Gordon Edwards of CCNR.

Special Guests: Vicki Elson of NuclearBan.US; and Dr. Gordon Edwards of Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility.

Sponsors: World BEYOND War

Release Year: 1983

Running Time: 127 minutes

Director: Nicholas Meyer

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