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

The hot-line suspense comedy.

Release: 1964 Runtime: 1h 35min Rating: PG Language: English

Comedy War

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.

Status: Released
Original language: EN
Production countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Hawk Films, Columbia Pictures

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Director

Stanley Kubrick

Main crew

Gilbert Taylor — Director of Photography
Anthony Harvey — Editor
Laurie Johnson — Original Music Composer
Victor Lyndon — Producer
Stanley Kubrick — Producer
Peter George — Screenplay
Terry Southern — Screenplay
Stanley Kubrick — Screenplay

Cast

Peter Sellers , George C. Scott , Sterling Hayden , Keenan Wynn , Slim Pickens , Peter Bull , James Earl Jones , Tracy Reed

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Themes and genres

Comedy War usa president general cold war strategic air command dark comedy nuclear missile satire black and white cynical war room bomber pilot nuclear weapons ex-nazi anti war doomsday device absurdism satirical hilarious audacious farcical sardonic everyone dies

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Updated on 18/10/2026.