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#7,935 All-time worldwide

#17 1964 releases

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Name: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Genre: Comedy, War
Released: 1964-01-29
Duration: 95 min

1964 · 95 min · Hawk Films

Comedy War

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $9.5M

Budget $1.8M

Gross minus budget $7.7M

ROI 5.28x

Domestic gross

$3.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$5.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.1M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #7,935 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1964 releases #17 Release-year chart position of 49 titles Ranked against movies released in 1964. Primary genre #3,133 Comedy of 4,945 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) earned a reported $9.5M worldwide against a reported $1.8M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $7.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 5.28x. In this database it currently ranks #7,935 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #17 among 1964 releases.

Worldwide gross: $9,500,000
Budget: $1,800,000
Gross minus budget: $7,700,000
ROI: 5.28x

Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

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Production details

Release date: Jan 29, 1964
Production: Hawk Films, Columbia Pictures
Countries: GB, US

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Studio / production companyHawk Films Release year chart1964 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartWar

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1964, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, War title from Hawk Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.5M, reported production budget is $1.8M, gross-minus-budget is $7.7M, ROI is 5.28x. For comparison, it currently sits #7,935 all-time in the current chart set and #17 among 1964 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.

Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.