He said many people in the audiences thought child actors were playing the part of him and his two brothers in reenacted scenes from West Dayton in the early 1960s.
Broadcast on BBC2 in 1984, Threads dramatised the fallout from a nuclear attack on Sheffield with harrowing realism. We look back on a TV movie that scarred a generation of viewers for life.
From a new series at the MFA to the Newburyport Documentary Film Festival, WBUR film critic Erin Trahan rounds up a slate of events that brings arty cinema to local movie houses.