Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Through a series of military and political accidents, a pair of psychotic senior military officers -- U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chiefs of Staff General "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott) -- hatch an ingenious, foolproof, and irrevocable plan to unleash a wing of B-52 bombers and their nuclear payloads on strategic targets inside Russia. And when the brains behind the scheme, Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist with bizarre ideas about man's future, accidentally activates the bombing mission, the President of the United States (Peter Sellers) is unable to stop it. Although he knows the secret code to stop the mission, the Royal Air Force's Group Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers) isn't much help since he's come under attack at a U.S. Air Force base by a group of U.S. paratroopers who've been accidentally activated, too. So, despite all efforts to recall him, Major T. J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) personally sees his bombing mission to its fateful conclusion, even as the Russian Ambassador (Peter Bull) is summoned to the White House in hopes of averting a crisis and preventing the activation of the "Doomsday" machine. But the inevitable comes to pass as the efforts of the Pentagon brass and all the politicians in Moscow and Washington cannot undo the cascading series of cataclysmic events
Streaming Options
Release Information:
Technical Specifications
Supplements
- Excerpts from a 1965 audio interview with Stanley Kubrick, conducted by Jeremy Bernstein
- New interview with film scholar Mick Broderick
- 2000 Featurette The Art of Stanley Kubrick
- Interviews with cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton and camera operator Kevin Pike
- 2000 Featurette Inside Dr. Strangelove
- New interview with David George, son of Peter George, on whose novel Red Alert the film is based
- 2006 documentary No Fighting in the Warroom
- Best Sellers, a 2006 Featurette about the career of actor Peter Sellers
- New interview with Kubrick scholar Rodney Hill
- Interviews from 1963 with Peter Sellers and actor George C. Scott
- Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Peter Sellers from NBC
- Trailer
- Exhibitor's trailer