Dr. Strangelove + Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick captures global politics and the military machine in all their absurdity and capacity for destruction in this pair of extraordinary films.

DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) | PG

One of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded U.S. President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair-bound presidential adviser with a Nazi past.

PATHS OF GLORY (1957) | PG

Kirk Douglas stars as a World War I French colonel who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission. Haunting and exquisitely photographed, this powerful antiwar film is captured with the director's customary eye for detail, from its tense trench warfare sequences to its ravaging climax.