Dr. Strangelove

A thrilling (and gut-busting) examination of the height of Cold War tension, Kubrick’s 1964 comedy chronicles the story of a mentally unstable American general’s sudden order of a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Peter Sellers, in particularly magnetic form, portrays three characters in this equally funny and disturbing romp through one of America’s most tumultuous periods. From black comedy at the end of the world to characters named Buck Turgidson and Jack D. Ripper, there’s more than a little Pynchon DNA in Kubrick’s classic.