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No, not Dr. Strangelove, that's one of my favorites! But if you want a liberal one about nuclear war, try Failsafe or even The Bedford Incident. For the liberal fear of a military coup, try Seven Days in May.

Failsafe?

Failsafe was pretty a-political.

I agree with Gordian, Seven Days in May was a real Commie propaganda piece. Starring Burt Lancaster, who did an awful lot of films like that (and whose track record as a citizen and actor therefore is barely redeemed by his performance in Field of Dreams), particularly films written by the infamously blacklisted Communist screedmonger, Dalton Trumbo, Seven Days in May deliberately libels and vilifies American military officers as a group. Trumbo and other Communists, working from operational imperatives, attacked American military people with black propaganda repeatedly and absolutely vilely with films like this.

Another example of Trumbo excreta, which also featured not just Lancaster, in the lead role, but the blacklisted actor Will Geer as an "eeeeeevil" Texas oilman, was the dungheap called Executive Action, which lied about the assassination of John Kennedy. Robert Ryan was also in it, but I don't think he made such a career as Lancaster or Geer out of hate-America propaganda doglegs.

Worth a dishonorable mention in this parade of "I hate America and people who swear to serve her" motion-sickness-flicks is the recent emetic, The General's Daughter, which I believe justiciably blood-libeled the United States Military Academy and the United States Army. The execrable Togo West, as a Klintoon flack, would never have done anything about something that awful, but I would love to see President Bush's solicitor general go after the people who made it in civil court -- just drag them in there and break down their "political speech" defenses by showing that nothing of the kind they describe has ever happened, and that their saying it did arises out of a depraved intent to vilify and slander United States military institutions and personnel. They might win the case -- but I would by-God make them win it! Sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose: Lillian Hellman, the Stalinist playwright and agitator (very much in the mold of Trumbo), once sued authoress Mary McCarthy (The Group) for saying, on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, that Hellman, as a propaganda agitatrix, "lies when she uses words like 'and' and 'the'" (which about nailed it) and drove her into personal bankruptcy with a long discovery process -- then dropped the suit when McCarthy filed bankruptcy papers. Well, guess what? "Payback is a bitch."

The Bedford Incident ???

One of my favorites