Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick · 1964 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A US air force general, convinced of a communist plot against his bodily fluids, sends his bomber wing at the Soviet Union and seals the base behind them. In the War Room the president, his generals and a drunk Soviet premier on the telephone try to recall the planes and find out what Moscow has built to answer them. The end of the world as administrative farce.

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• modeled on ↑ Metropolis
  Fritz Lang · 1927 CE · Film

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