The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a British science fiction drama film. It features Edward Judd, Leo McKern, Michael Goodliffe, Janet Munro, Bernard Braden, and Reginald Beckwith.
British news reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.