Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is an American/British 1964 black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens. Loosely based on Peter George's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert (aka Two Hours to Doom), Dr. Strangelove satirizes the nuclear scare.

The story concerns a mentally unstable US Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, as well as the crew of one B-52 as they attempt to deliver their payload.

In 1989, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Additionally, it was listed as #3 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.

DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button. And General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) is just the man to do it. <br> <br> Convinced that the Russians have ...

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Robert O'Neil, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Laurence Herder, Paul Tamarin, Roy Stephens, Shane Rimmer, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed, Peter Sellers, Hal Galili, Jack Creley, George C. Scott, Gordon Tanner, Frank Berry, John McCarthy

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genre: Comedy

Release Date: January 29, 1964

MPAA Rating: PG

Screen Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern

DVD Release Date: November 2, 2004

Runtime: 1hr 33min

Studio: Columbia Pictures