12 Best Movies About The End Of The World

We started this list how we're going to end it: With laughter. Mind you, this laughter is so highbrow by comparison to This Is The End that the brow is on the crown of your head like an ineffective combover. Directed by the masterful Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove ('or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' to give it its full title) is probably the greatest satire of all time. Loosely based on a thriller novel called Red Alert, Kubrick traded tension for laughs in the blackest of black comedies. Peter Sellers plays multiple roles, all to hilarious effect.

If you cannot contain your laughter watching Sellers as the titular Dr. Strangelove, you're in good company. It has entertained audiences for decades and even made his co-stars corpse in takes that made it into the movie. Made in 1964 with Cold War tensions high, the film is about a rogue American General who is attempting to drop hydrogen bombs on Russia in a surprise attack.

What he and the rest of the world don't know is that Russia has a 'doomsday device' that will automatically detonate buried bombs all over the world should they be the subject of a nuclear attack. The detonation of such a device would render the surface of Earth uninhabitable for 93 years.

Sadly, the threat of nuclear war is something that will never go away. Movies like Dr. Strangelove are important because they expose the absurdity of war. This is why it has aged so well. Important and really, really funny.