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Dr Strangelove

January 2024

  • black and white film still of man sitting on the floor next to a wheelchair wearing a suit and sunglasses with a gun in the air

    Dr Strangelove at 60: is this still the greatest big-screen satire?

    Stanley Kubrick’s sharp and persuasive comedy about nuclear war remains a hilarious act of provocation

September 2023

  • ‘A tale for our time’ … (from left) Sean Foley, Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci are bringing Dr Strangelove to the stage.

    Steve Coogan to star in Armando Iannucci’s Dr Strangelove play

    Coogan will follow in Peter Sellers’ footsteps to play multiple roles in stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical war film

July 2023

  • A scene from Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in which dozens of politicians and generals sit around a large round table

    Armando Iannucci to adapt Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr Strangelove for stage

    The Thick of It creator will collaborate with actor Sean Foley on first authorised adaptation of director’s 1964 apocalyptic comedy

March 2023

  • James Bond fights Blofeld’s bodyguard Hans in the elaborate villain’s lair, in You Only Live Twice.

    Dormant volcanoes and working monorails: the grand designs of Ken Adam, master of the Bond-villain lair

    A new book celebrates the late production designer whose elaborate concepts for films from Bond to Dr Strangelove influenced the likes of Norman Foster – and it all started with a felt-tip

January 2022

  • Holidays in hell … The Humans (2021).

    Apocalypse nowadays: the new wave of films about the end of the world

    Armageddon once delivered megabuck thrills and horror, but now it’s become a component of satires, family drama and cartoon romps

October 2021

  • Peter Sellers as Dr Strangelove in the 1964 film

    The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya review – the life of John von Neumann

    An expert on everything from game theory to Byzantine history, the inspiration for Dr Strangelove was as brilliant as he was dangerous

May 2021

  • Martha Wash performs live on stage during Rewind Scotland 2018 at Scone Palace on July 21, 2018 in Perth, Scotland.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Dance Divas; Atomic: How Dr Strangelove Exploded Pop Culture; Decode

    A great week for music documentaries ranged from New York’s dance divas to pop in the nuclear era and a dazzling dissection of Dave’s debut album

May 2019

  • His finest hour … Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove.

    Dr Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb review – still a blast

    Age has not withered the queasy nightmare of Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear holocaust satire, starring Peter Sellers at the peak of his powers

April 2019

  • Crowning achievement … 2001: A Space Odyssey.

    Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition review – from erotic milk bars to haunted hotels

    Design Museum, London
    This astounding exhibition reveals the obsessive level of genius the great director showed, whether inventing the space age – or restaging the Vietnam war in a London gas works

May 2017

  • Clockwise from top left: They Live, Rosemary’s Baby, War Games and Idiocracy

    Film blog
    Tape me to your leaders: which films should our politicians watch?

    For his latest doc, Oliver Stone and Vladimir Putin watched Dr Strangelove and had a natter about the horrors of nuclear war. Could May, Merkel and co learn a few things from the big screen?

November 2016

  • Still from Dr Strangelove

    How would world be if women outnumbered men 10 to one?

    Debate at Manchester international festival will look at how a female-dominated society would tackle world problems

July 2016

  • Dr Strangelove

    Dr Strangelove: Peter Sellers in Stanley Kubrick's anti-war masterpiece – video

    A clip from Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cold war satire Dr Strangelove, featuring Peter Sellers as mild-mannered US president, Merkin Muffley, and the creepy ex-Nazi scientist, Strangelove

March 2016

  • James Bond: You Only Live Twice, 1967

    James Bond production designer Ken Adam – a career in pictures

    Ken Adam, who died on Thursday, built some of the most elaborate and impressive film sets ever seen, including Dr Strangelove’s war room and the villain’s lair for You Only Live Twice. Here are a selection of his greatest hits

January 2016

  • Kim Jong-un

    North Korea nuclear test: why did Kim Jong-un press the button now?

    Dictator’s motives are unclear but his latest exploit confirms his reputation as a dangerous maverick and international outlaw

July 2015

  • Top Cat

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs about trash

    Rubbish? Garbage? Litter? Landfill or recycled, tip out your music collections to find throwaway treasures that may refer to objects, talk, situations or feelings, says Peter Kimpton

July 2014

  • Pictures from the past
    Stanley Kubrick - a picture from the past

    Stanley Kubrick was born on 26 July 1928 in the Bronx, USA

April 2014

  • Men wearing military fatigues in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk

    Nato's action plan in Ukraine is right out of Dr Strangelove

    John Pilger

    John Pilger: From China to Ukraine, the US is pursuing its longstanding ambition to dominate the Eurasian landmass

May 2013

  • Iconic images from 1963, including Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King and Dusty Springfield

    1963: 50 years on
    1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval

    Introducing our look at the year that defined the modern era, Tariq Ali recalls the extraordinary collision of politics, culture and social upheaval that he witnessed as a student

October 2010

  • Dr Strangelove

    The 25 best comedy films of all time
    Dr Strangelove: No 6 best comedy film of all time

    Stanley Kubrick, 1964

February 2010

  • Dr Strangelove

    How the US took on Dr Strangelove and tried to make Americans love the bomb

    Recently unearthed film, made to counter fears after release of Peter Sellers movie, claimed US power was best war deterrent

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