A timeless masterpiece that addressed the growing anxieties of nuclear warfare with biting irreverence. Set at the height of the Cold War, Dr. Strangelove tells the story of a deranged American general, convinced of a communist conspiracy to conquer the world through the contamination of the water supply. Acting unilaterally and with no legitimate provocation, he launches a rogue mission to dispatch his B-52 bombers—armed with atomic bombs—to strike the Soviet Union. In this darkly savage, unashamedly grotesque comedy, Peter Sellers delivers a masterful performance playing three distinct characters: a bumbling democratic president, a stiff-lipped British officer, and the absurd Dr. Strangelove, a former Nazi scientist with a penchant for disaster. In 1989, the Library of Congress added Stanley Kubrick’s influential satire to the National Film Registry, deeming it “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant”. In 2000, the American Film Institute ranked it as the third greatest American comedy of all time.