Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

The hot-line suspense comedy.

1964 • 95 min • Comedy · War

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Synopsis

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

Where to watch

Top billed cast

Director: Stanley Kubrick • Crew: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

Trailers & clips

Hello Dimitri?

This is the War Room!

Original Trailer

Armando Iannucci on a new stage version of Dr Strangelove, starring Steve Coogan | BFI Q&A

Dr. Strangelove (1964) - The Doomsday Machine

First 10 Minutes

Samuel L. Jackson on DR STRANGELOVE

Robert De Niro Announces DR. STRANGELOVE as the AFI Movie Club pick of the day

Critic reviews

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Stanley Kubrick's, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the best satire of all time. The film is over 60 years old and has aged perfectly, every joke, both the layered and the brilliantly stupid, land today just as well as they did in '64.…

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Just as "Seven Days in May" was hitting our screens, Stanley Kubrick used a superbly over-the-top effort from Sterling Hayden to depict a rogue general who has decided to use all the checks and balances in place to defend the United States to his own mischievous advantage and launch a pre-emptive bombing campaign on those pesky "Ruskies".…

fresh

**Sex and war in an extremely sarcastic and intelligent film.** This film is one of the best of director Stanley Kubrick's career, and is also one of the most iconic and acidic satire that cinema has ever seen.…

freshTop critics

A U.S. bomber plane is heading for Russia. Communications are unavailable. The Commie Russians have built a doomsday device. And, according to crazy, (wheelchair-bound?), ex-Nazi scientist, Dr. Strangelove, nuclear destruction is upon us all! Thanks to this eccentric comedy, I now have considerable respect for the talent of Peter Sellers.…

freshTop critics

Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film <i>Dr.&nbsp;Strangelove</i> is a hilarious film about the nuclear annihilation of the human race. Its plot combines three strands that lead inevitably to this doomsday.…

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