Produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, this dark satire on Cold War relations paints a searing portrait of a world accidentally plunged into nuclear warfare. Intermingling sex, love, and war in unexpected ways (for example, its characters' names often suggest "strange loves" of various types), Dr. Strangelove (1964) is a rich, provocative film that stands up well to repeat viewings.

Dr. Strangelove tells the story of an insane Air Force general named Jack D. Ripper who orders a bomber wing to drop a nuclear bomb on the Soviet Union. Ripper, who favors rainwater as a drink mixer, believes the Soviets are poisoning "our precious bodily fluids," an allusion to an actual Cold War belief that the fluoridation of America's water supply was a Communist plot...