[Hang in there past the live footage / crappy David Bowie song intro which lasts 3'30", skip it or turn off the sound; you'll be rewarded.] A 1986 film based on the Raymond Briggs graphic novel of the same name. "When The Wind Blows" follows Jim and Hilda, a sweet elderly couple, as they try to prepare their home in the countryside for a coming nuclear war that they can only dimly comprehend. They reminisce nostalgically about the excitement and romance of the last war and urge their son in downtown London to build himself a fallout shelter. Eventually England is hit and the couple are initially okay but fail to understand the dangers of radiation poisoning and do not realize that help is unlikely to appear from the blackened landscape. Very sad but leavened with doses of sweetness and even humor; a profoundly moving film.