10 Best Political Movies Of All Time

3. Dr Strangelove

From one of the best comedy movies of the 21st Century to one of the best ever made. Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb is a cinematic beast of a film, not because it features the hardest men or strongest punch, but because there is nothing else quite like it.

The film shows the consequences of what would have happened if, during the cold war, the US and USSR had used nuclear weapons. More accurately, it depicts the hours before the first bomb drops and the US and USSR's governments attempt to stop it from happening.

Never has a film been more perfectly cast as this was. Featuring Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, and Dr Strangelove himself, George C. Scott playing General Buck Tergidson, a womanising and warmongering buffoon, and Sterling Hayden as Jack D. Ripper, the Brigadier General responsible for starting WW3.

It is as funny as it is absurd, Peter Sellers perfected each of the three very different roles he played and showcased his genius whilst doing so. George C. Scott's Turgidson provides the voice of the idiot, wanting to finish what Ripper has started, and Ripper is the paranoid moron who started the mess.

It is classic Stanley Kubrick with no shot or set-up being anything less than perfect. His direction is vivid and mesmerising and at no point is the idiocy of it all treated anything less than 100% seriousness, which is what makes the film so brilliant to begin with.