What is everyone’s favorite most realistic submarine movie ever made?
Das Boot – 1981 German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a TV miniseries (1985), in several different home video versions of various running times, and in a director's cut version supervised by Petersen in 1997.the German version
The Wolf’s Call (Le Chant Du Loup) – is a 2019 French drama/thriller film directed and written by Antonin Baudry.[3] The film is about a submarine's sonar officer Chanteraide (François Civil), who must use his brilliant sense of hearing to track down a French ballistic missile submarine and end the threat of nuclear war.
Run Silent, Run Deep, - A 1958 American black-and-white war film from United Artists. The story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean.
Submarine D-1 – a 1937 Film Pre WWII. This film offers many insights into the U.S. Navy submarine force just prior to World War II. Use of the Momsen lung for emergency submarine rescues is featured as well as the training tank structures of New London, Connecticut submarine base
The Hell Below – 1933 movie WWI The film is set in the Adriatic Sea during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats
The Hunt For Red October- The story is set during the late Cold War era and involves a rogue Soviet naval captain who wishes to defect to the United States with his officers and the Soviet Navy's newest and most advanced nuclear missile submarine.
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What is everyone’s favorite most realistic submarine movie ever made?
Das Boot – 1981 German war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a TV miniseries (1985), in several different home video versions of various running times, and in a director's cut version supervised by Petersen in 1997.the German version
The Wolf’s Call (Le Chant Du Loup) – is a 2019 French drama/thriller film directed and written by Antonin Baudry.[3] The film is about a submarine's sonar officer Chanteraide (François Civil), who must use his brilliant sense of hearing to track down a French ballistic missile submarine and end the threat of nuclear war.
Run Silent, Run Deep, - A 1958 American black-and-white war film from United Artists. The story describes World War II submarine warfare in the Pacific Ocean.
Submarine D-1 – a 1937 Film Pre WWII. This film offers many insights into the U.S. Navy submarine force just prior to World War II. Use of the Momsen lung for emergency submarine rescues is featured as well as the training tank structures of New London, Connecticut submarine base
The Hell Below – 1933 movie WWI The film is set in the Adriatic Sea during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel Pigboats
The Hunt For Red October- The story is set during the late Cold War era and involves a rogue Soviet naval captain who wishes to defect to the United States with his officers and the Soviet Navy's newest and most advanced nuclear missile submarine.
Das Boot (especially the director's cut) and the Hunt for Red October are both masterpieces in my opinion. I personally also really enjoyed K-19 the widowmaker but it's been years since I've seen it. Run Silent Run Deep is also excellent as far as I can recall!
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"It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious"--George Washington
It kinda blows the others out of the water (with the exception of Das Boot).
Formerly "Admiral Jacky Fisher."
"It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious"--George Washington
The John Mills submarine films are up with the best. Although black and white like a lot of the best British war films, they are honest, realistic & quality.
Recently watched U-571 for the first time since it initially came out and what can I say but rubbish! Fantasy novel stuff, Avoid!
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You guys didn't like "Down Periscope?" On a serious note, I enjoyed most of the movies you mentioned above, even U-571 with all it's faults. Maybe because I have a personal memory that goes along with it. My wife and I saw U-571 in the theater when my oldest daughter was still in the womb. I could feel her inside of the Mrs. give a big jump every time the depth charges went off. A few weeks later, after Kirsten was born, some friends wanted to go see it, so we went again - just for the camaraderie, you know? So Kirsten went in with us and we were kind of worried about whether our newborn would bawl all the way through it, seeing how she'd seemed so scared of the depth charges the first time. No problem. She slept right through all of them. I guess she just needed to know they weren't some kind of "in-womb" detonation device. Have any of you all seen "The Command?" It was a recent film about the Kursk disaster. I enjoyed that, too. But I like most movies.
Operation Pacific-It has a part where they deal with the faulty torpedoes of WW2 & how they tested the exploders...they actually did raise them up with a crane & drop them on steel plates to simulate impact with ships. Some of it is Hollywood mush but not a bad movie overall. It also recreates the incident that won a Posthumous Medal of Honor for Commander Howard W. Gilmore I would give it a 7 to 8 overall.
I had forgotten about Operation Petticoat for comic relief....
One of my favorites!
Destination Tokyo. The sailor with appendicitis part came from an actual war patrol.
Action in the North Atlantic, with Humphrey Bogart is another good one. I actually love the WWII propaganda films. Where else would a Liberty ship sink two subs and shoot down a bunch of Nazi aircraft while still delivering the goods?
On the Beach is also one of my all time favorite Cold War films. Sort of a submarine movie.
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Seen Hunt for Red October many times. Absolutely great movie to meme or joke.
I have watched Run Silent, Run Deep twice. Was part of a 10 film dvd pack I got at the mall. Also really good.
We Dive at Dawn is an excellent historical fiction of a British Submarine crew life. Wish more war movies were like that. Being able to show the personalities of the crew instead of focusing on Big CGI explosions or action sequences.
Still haven't seen Das Boot. There must be DVD copies out there. As I am still on the hunt for Sink The Bismarck. And thank you for recommendations of titles I never heard. Will check them out.
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