Film

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

  • Comedy, War
  • 95 min
  • PG

The hot-line suspense comedy.

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.

ComedyWarusa presidentgeneralcold warstrategic air commanddark comedynuclear missilesatireblack and whitecynicalwar roombomber pilotnuclear weapons

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