Hiroshima Day: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb + Q&A

To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima. The film will be followed by a silence in memory of the victims of the bombing and a Q&A with Dr Kate Hudson, Yuki Johnson and Lesley Grahame. Stanley Kubrick originally intended a straight adaptation of Peter George’s novel Red Alert, a chilling thriller about a paranoid American general initiating a nuclear bombing mission over the USSR. But he saw the absurdity behind the retaliatory strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) and decided to film it as a comedy. In an acting tour de force, Sellers plays the British officer attempting to apprehend the psychotic general (Sterling Hayden), the US President trying to smooth things over with his Soviet opposite number, and the eccentric Dr Strangelove, a German émigré scientist with an autonomous Nazi arm and wild ideas about the post-apocalyptic world. Much of the action of Kubrick’s jet-black satirical masterpiece occurs within the cavernous War Room at the Pentagon, a space indelibly imagined by production designer Ken Adam. Though one of Kubrick’s early films, many of the topics raised still resonate with global issues of today, and the film is just as relevant a watch as it was on release 62 years ago. Doors open: 7.30pm Film starts: 8pmpolitical satire/black comedy/warPT2H5MPG2025-08-06

Peter Sellers

George C. Scott

Sterling Hayden

Keenan Wynn

Slim Pickens

Peter Bull

James Earl Jones

Tracy Reed

Jack Creley

Frank Berry

Robert O'Neil

Glen Beck

Roy Stephens

Shane Rimmer

Hal Galili

Paul Tamarin

Laurence Herder

Gordon Tanner

John McCarthy

Stanley Kubrick

Hiroshima Day: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb + Q&A"Hiroshima Day: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb + Q&A"

Hiroshima Day: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb + Q&A

Showtimes

August 6, 7:30 pm