
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The hot-line suspense comedy.
1964 • 95 min • Comedy · War
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.
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Top billed cast
Director: Stanley Kubrick • Crew: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

Peter Sellers
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove

George C. Scott
General 'Buck' Turgidson

Sterling Hayden
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper

Keenan Wynn
Colonel Bat Guano

Slim Pickens
Major "King" Kong

Peter Bull
Botschafter De Sadesky

James Earl Jones
Lt. Lothar Zogg

Tracy Reed
Miss Scott
- J
Jack Creley
Mr. Staines
- F
Frank Berry
Lt. Dietrich
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
freshStanley 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.…
freshJust 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 criticsA 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 criticsStanley Kubrick's 1964 film <i>Dr. 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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Details
- TMDB audience
- 8.1/10 (6,239)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1,800,000
- Box office
- $9,500,000
- IMDb
- tt0057012
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