

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The hot-line suspense comedy.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $9.5M
- Language
- English
- usa president
- general
- cold war
- strategic air command
- dark comedy
- nuclear missile
- satire
- black and white
- cynical
- war room
- bomber pilot
- nuclear weapons
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG29 Jan 1964
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG29 Jan 1964
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG12 Jun 1964
- PhysicalPG1 Apr 1985
BrazilBR
- Theatrical10IMDB20 Jul 1964
- Physical1013 Mar 2006
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival(4K)18 Apr 2024
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)15+Projekt 10015 Jan 2001
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical152 Apr 1964
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1622 May 1964
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP10 Apr 1964
- PhysicalVHS1 Dec 1992
- PhysicalDVD11 Aug 1999
- Digital / OTTVOD10 Jun 2009
- PhysicalBlu-Ray10 Jun 2009
- TheatricalRe-release26 Jun 2019
- Digital / OTT12Prime Video15 Mar 2021
- Physical4K UHD7 Jul 2021
French GuianaGF
- Theatrical24 Apr 1964
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1610 Apr 1964
GreeceGR
- Theatrical22 May 1964
- Digital / OTT20 Jul 2017
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was released on 29 January 1964.
Audience reviews
5- C9/10
CRCulver
9/8/2018
Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film <i>Dr. Strangelove</i> is a hilarious film about the nuclear annihilation of the human race. Its plot combines three strands that lead inevitably to this doomsday. In the first, an Air Force base commander (Sterling Hayden) goes insane and launches the go-code for his B52s to drop the bomb on their targets in Russia, while a British captain on an officer exchange program (Peter Seller…
- B8/10
barrymost
11/13/2019
A U.S. bomber plane is heading for Russia. Communications are unavailable. The Commie Russians have built a doomsday device. And, according to crazy, (wheelchair-bound?), ex-Nazi scientist, Dr. Strangelove, nuclear destruction is upon us all! Thanks to this eccentric comedy, I now have considerable respect for the talent of Peter Sellers. How he pulled off three totally different roles so convincingly is just be…
- F10/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
12/19/2022
**Sex and war in an extremely sarcastic and intelligent film.** This film is one of the best of director Stanley Kubrick's career, and is also one of the most iconic and acidic satire that cinema has ever seen. Inspired by a tense novel that was published in the same period, and by the political and military events that were taking place at the time, the film shoots in all directions to give us the most absurd and…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/1/2024
Just as "Seven Days in May" was hitting our screens, Stanley Kubrick used a superbly over-the-top effort from Sterling Hayden to depict a rogue general who has decided to use all the checks and balances in place to defend the United States to his own mischievous advantage and launch a pre-emptive bombing campaign on those pesky "Ruskies". It's only his perfectly moustachioed British executive officer "Mandrake" (Pete…
- M9/10
Mland62
7/19/2026
Stanley Kubrick's, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the best satire of all time. The film is over 60 years old and has aged perfectly, every joke, both the layered and the brilliantly stupid, land today just as well as they did in '64. This film is Kubrick at his best, the film doesn't feel cold and detached like some of his other work, if anything this film feels deeply…
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