Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick · 1964
Ken Adam's circular War Room has a big round table lit from above by a ring of lights, and a wall of big maps. Nothing like it exists in the real world, but it feels completely official. It is designed as a stage, and Kubrick shoots it as one. The room is a theater where world leaders act out their absurd politics.
Where to see it: The first War Room establishing shot. You see the circular table under the ring of overhead lights.