Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, known simply and more commonly as Dr Strangelove, is a 1964 political satire black comedy movie directed, co-written, and produced by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers in three roles, including the title character. The film, which satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, is loosely based on the nuclear war novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern. The storyline of Dr Strangelove concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It separately follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force exchange officer as they attempt to prevent the crew of a B-52 (following orders from the general) from bombing the Soviet Union and starting a nuclear war. Dr Strangelove is often considered one of the best comedies ever made and one of the greatest movies of all time. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it twenty-sixth in its list of the best American movies. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr Strangelove as one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Dr Strangelove received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Sellers. Dr Strangelove was also nominated for seven BAFTA Film Awards, winning Best Film From Any Source, Best British Film, and Best Art Direction (Black and White), the film also won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Dr Strangelove Nuclear War Scenario | Documentary Movie Edit