Kubrick's satire is back on the big screen in May.
Coinciding with the BFI Southbank's Stanley Kubrick season, the director's 1964 satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has been restored in 4K and will return to UK cinemas from May 17th.
Screenings will be accompanied by Stanley Kubrick Considers The Bomb, a new short film produced and directed by Matt Wells which examines Kubrick's reaction to the turmoil of the Cold War.
Check out the re-release trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is a BAFTA Award-winning (Best Film 1965) and Oscar® nominated dark comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott) – trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future. The President is helpless to stop the bombers, as is Captain Mandrake (also played by Sellers), the only man who can stop them...