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

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

Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1964 • United Kingdom
Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded U.S. President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair-bound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is a subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.

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

    Directed by Stanley Kubrick • 1964 • United Kingdom
    Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

    Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays thr...

Extras

  • DR. STRANGELOVE Edition Intro

  • Stanley Kubrick on DR. STRANGELOVE

    These excerpts from physicist Jeremy Bernstein’s November 27, 1966, audio interview with Stanley Kubrick, illustrated with photographs, reveal the filmmaker’s thoughts about DR. STRANGELOVE, directing, and editing.

  • Mick Broderick on DR. STRANGELOVE

    Made in 2016, this piece features film scholar Mick Broderick (“Reconstructing ‘Strangelove’”) discussing Stanley Kubrick’s first efforts on DR. STRANGELOVE as sole producer.

  • The Art of Stanley Kubrick

    Featuring biographer John Baxter, critic Alexander Walker, cinematographer Gilbert Taylor, and others, this 2000 program chronicles Stanley Kubrick’s growth from still photographer to the film auteur responsible for DR. STRANGELOVE.

  • Joe Dunton and Kelvin Pike on DR. STRANGELOVE

    In this 2016 interview, cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton and camera operator Kelvin Pike detail the techniques behind the stunning visuals of DR. STRANGELOVE.

  • Inside DR. STRANGELOVE

    This 2000 documentary about the making of DR. STRANGELOVE features interviews with filmmaker James B. Harris, production designer Ken Adam, actor James Earl Jones, title designer Pablo Ferro, and filmmaker and writer Nile Southern, among others.

  • Richard Daniels on DR. STRANGELOVE

    In this interview, conducted in 2016, Richard Daniels, senior archivist at the Stanley Kubrick Archive and coeditor of the book “Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives,” discusses the archive and the portrait of the filmmaker that emerges from its DR. STRANGELOVE collection.

  • David George on DR. STRANGELOVE

    Created in 2016, this program features David George, the son of novelist Peter George, who wrote “Red Alert,” the book on which DR. STRANGELOVE is based. In it, David discusses Peter’s collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, as well as his discovery of a short story by his father that introd...

  • No Fighting in the War Room

    Made in 2004, this piece, featuring former secretary of defense Robert McNamara and journalist Bob Woodward, among others, looks into the nuclear paranoia that fueled the satire of DR. STRANGELOVE.

  • Best Sellers

    Through rarely seen home movies and interviews with critic Roger Ebert, actors Shirley MacLaine and Michael Palin, and others, this 2004 program celebrates the performing prowess of DR. STRANGELOVE star Peter Sellers.

  • Rodney Hill on DR. STRANGELOVE

    In this interview, made in 2016, film scholar Rodney Hill (contributor, “The Stanley Kubrick Archives”) delves into the archetypes present in DR. STRANGELOVE.

  • George C. Scott and Peter Sellers on DR. STRANGELOVE

    Filmed on the DR. STRANGELOVE set in 1963, these black-and-white interviews with actors George C. Scott and Peter Sellers were made by Columbia Pictures to promote the film.

  • DR. STRANGELOVE Exhibitor's Trailer