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

Stanley Kubrick strikes just the right manic, irreverent tone in this delightfully dark Cold War satire, where the world comes to an end thanks to a mad US general’s paranoia about women and Commies. Peter Sellers pulls off an acting hat trick for the ages as a jittery British colonel, the US President and the Kissinger-like title character. This comic masterpiece was one of the seminal counterculture works of the 1960s—and more than fifty years later, it is as relevant as ever.