As chosen by the winning team of the Tufnell Park Film Club Winter Film Quiz
An insane United States Air Force general orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union as the President of the United States and a War Room of advisers and Joint Chiefs of Staff frantiacally try to recall the bombers and prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
Sadly still-pertinent satirical black comedy directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and staring Peter Sellers (in multiple roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, and Slim Pickens.