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Film Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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Upon its release, Stanley Kubrick's boffo black comedy about Cold War politics, atomic annihilation, and American madmen Dr. Strangelove assured that "safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events." Sparking its hypothetical apocalypse is insane General Jack D. Ripper's impotence-informed attack on the Soviets for their strength-sapping fluoridation of American water. Kubrick depicts the accidental standoff as a scathing and sidesplitting cavalcade of doomsday dominoes, political pea-brains, machine-made mishaps, and unchecked psychosexual egos. The caricatures, from Peter Sellers' famous three-part incarnation to George C. Scott's bomb-them-back-to-the-Stone-Age hawk, crystallize the historical moment, as Kubrick penetrates both politics and sex with timeless ingenuity.

– Jason Jude Chan

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