Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombRSS

Stanley Kubrick directs this 1964 black comedy film/satire, which is based loosely on Peter George's thriller novel "Red Alert". The plot follows a psychotic Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The U.S. President, his advisers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a RAF officer all try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.