1941

War's shadow looms large in 1941, Stanley Kubrick's sardonic look at paranoia and xenophobia in pre-declaration America. Set in the hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, the film zeroes in on a hysterical populace, led by a zealous military officer, hunting a phantom Japanese submarine along the California coast. Through a lens of dark comedy, Kubrick critiques the moral and social decay that war incites, capturing a moment of national hysteria and misplaced fear.