Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Description / Introduction
- Character Development: Leadership
- Moral-Ethical Emphasis: Trustworthiness
- Subjects: U.S./1945 - 1991
- Ages 10+, Satire, No MPAA Rating, 1964, 93 minutes, Black and White
This movie takes place in the early 1960s during the Cold War. Jack Ripper is an insane U.S. Air Force General. Obsessed with fears of “the communist conspiracy,” General Ripper orders the B-52s under his command to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. He is the only person who has the code that will recall the bombers. Once the planes are on their way General Ripper seals off his base and refuses all communication, including telephone calls from the Air Force and from the President of the U.S. The movie is a satiric, black humored exploration of the...
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