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

A bloody-black date on the calendar, the scariest day of our lives. We will cope with anxiety and despair through absurdity.

The film was directed by Kubrick shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis as an anti-militarist satire on the arms race and the political struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The commander of a military airbase, General Ripper, sends a squadron of nuclear-armed bombers to attack the USSR.

The President of the United States tries to save the situation—gathering his advisors, including the wheelchair-bound former Nazi scientist Dr. Strangelove. And a silly, unpredictable children's game begins, in which the main characters are not presidents, not generals, and not even the Nazi doctor. But rather the evil hand of Strangelove, which does not obey its master, yet now determines the fate of humanity.

It ranks third on the list of the best comedies and 39th on the list of the best American films according to the American Film Institute.