Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Stanley Kubrick's painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther) plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (The Killing's Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair-bound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a genuinely subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.

Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed, Jack Creley, Frank Berry, Glenn Beck, Shane Rimmer, Paul Tamarin, Laurence Herder, John McCarthy Jr., Hal Galili, John McCarthy, Robert O'Neil, Roy Stephens, Gordon Tanner

Director: Blair Breard, Kate Forte, Mitch Albom, Oprah Winfrey, Stanley Kubrick