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This Memorial Day, stream these five great war movies, from a recent Oscar-winner about the Holocaust to a classic comedy about nuclear warfare.

I cannot sit back and allow the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids. -- General Jack D. Ripper in Dr Strangelove Most people would agree that in any modern, wealthy, multicultural, free, non-colonized, democratic society, people have the right to know what is going on in their community. In fact,

'Oppenheimer' tells the story of a man. Filmmakers across decades have told the story of the fear he wrought.

The elements of the Right buying into or indulging in the Swift/Kelce/NFL/Biden conspiracy theories should get a grip. They need to act more like the neighbors Americans wish they had rather than the tinfoil-hat ones we’d rather avoid. 

**This story contains spoilers.** “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” debuted in theaters 60 years ago this January.  Stanley Kubrick’s totemic examination of the intersection between Cold War paranoia, the absurdity of bureaucracy and the male ego remains a powerful cocktail of dark comedy and existential terror.  Loosely...

Stanley Kubrick's feature is such a sidesplitting laugh riot that the radioactive level of fear and trembling in the atmosphere may have dissipated.

Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of nuclear black comedy, 'Dr. Strangelove,' premiered 60 years ago Monday. It feels as fresh and horrifying today as it did then.

It cemented its place in film history by challenging American Cold War fears and humorously questioning the chain of command.

Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of nuclear black comedy, 'Dr. Strangelove,' premiered 60 years ago Monday. It feels as fresh and horrifying today as it did then.

Released 60 years ago this week, Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” still resonates today, writes Noah Berlatsky. Although the film’s Cold War origins have long elapsed, the violence and incompetence of US governance and culture persists in international conflict, fights for presidential power and environmental catastrophes.