Joes Shop  | 01 Jul 2015 2:32 p.m. PST |
Looking for recommendations for Submarine Movies to add to my DVD Collection. I have the following: Above Us The Waves. Das Boot (Directors Cut). The Enemy Below. We Dive At Dawn.
Thanks!
Regards, J. P. Kelly |
| Winston Smith | 01 Jul 2015 2:38 p.m. PST |
Run Silent, Run Deep
Written by a veteran submariner. The movie is based on his book. |
| RedLion281 | 01 Jul 2015 2:43 p.m. PST |
What?! No U-571 starring John Bon Jovi? |
| inverugie | 01 Jul 2015 2:45 p.m. PST |
There can only be one 'Das Boot (Director's Cut)'; but I also have fond memories of 'Run Silent, Run Deep' and 'Above Us the Waves'. |
| nnascati | 01 Jul 2015 2:51 p.m. PST |
Up Periscope – With James Garner from 1959. Pretty good as I recall. |
| Joes Shop | 01 Jul 2015 2:58 p.m. PST |
I have the book (Run Silent, Run Deep); forgot all about the movie with Gable and Lancaster! |
| Winston Smith | 01 Jul 2015 3:09 p.m. PST |
The Winds of War and War and Remembrance is a rather decent sweeping family saga from the 70s.
Bryon had a submarine career when he wasn't gallivanting about Europe rescuing his rather dense love interest from the Nazis. |
| Chris Palmer | 01 Jul 2015 3:13 p.m. PST |
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 01 Jul 2015 3:16 p.m. PST |
"The Hunt for Red October" starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin "Crimson Tide" starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington "Down Periscope" starring Kelsey Grammer |
| John Treadaway | 01 Jul 2015 3:34 p.m. PST |
Crimson Tide is one of my all time favourite films. Hackman and Washington have never been better and the scenes with them both in are brilliant. Directed by the late Tony Scott. John T |
| skippy0001 | 01 Jul 2015 3:39 p.m. PST |
I always like 'Down Periscope', they should re-write it for Star Trek. |
| Gone Fishing | 01 Jul 2015 3:49 p.m. PST |
There's always Operation Petticoat! |
| jpattern2 | 01 Jul 2015 4:03 p.m. PST |
And don't forget the only submarine movie I know of with the word "submarine" in the title:
Yellow Submarine |
| Mako11 | 01 Jul 2015 4:28 p.m. PST |
The Bedford Incident (Cold War goodness). |
| Major Mike | 01 Jul 2015 4:55 p.m. PST |
Come Hell or High Water, recovered u-boat used to make a heist on an ocean liner. |
| BrianW | 01 Jul 2015 5:09 p.m. PST |
I think the movie Major Mike is talking about is "Assault On A Queen," about robbing the Queen Mary. Saw the movie and read the book. Good as a kid, but don't know how well the movie would hold up now.
BWW |
| Great War Ace | 01 Jul 2015 5:09 p.m. PST |
Operation Pacific (1951) with John Wayne may not be a great submarine movie but it is a pretty good movie, and I liked the submarine parts too…. |
| Sundance | 01 Jul 2015 5:30 p.m. PST |
Everything I had to offer have been written already except for Operation Petticoat. |
| Bunkermeister | 01 Jul 2015 5:34 p.m. PST |
Crash Dive
Das Boot
Destination Tokyo
The Enemy Below
The Hunt for Red October
Ice Station Zebra
Operation Petticoat
Run Silent, Run Deep
Submarine X-1
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Das Boot is by far the best of the lot. Each of the others offers something interesting and unique in their own way. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog |
| dBerczerk | 01 Jul 2015 5:58 p.m. PST |
Don't forget, "The Land That Time Forgot" (1975). World War One U-Boat. link |
 Nashville | 01 Jul 2015 6:13 p.m. PST |
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| Wackmole9 | 01 Jul 2015 6:48 p.m. PST |
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| kallman | 01 Jul 2015 7:33 p.m. PST |
Run Silent Run Deep is top of my list followed by
Das Boot and what is not to like about Hunt for Red October? |
 Saber6  | 01 Jul 2015 9:03 p.m. PST |
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| Bozkashi Jones | 02 Jul 2015 1:46 a.m. PST |
"The Key"(1958) – about rescue tugs in the Western Approaches – good action sequence with a U-boat on the surface Best is still Das Boot though |
| Joes Shop | 02 Jul 2015 3:45 a.m. PST |
Great – Thanks to all who responded! |
| Coelacanth | 02 Jul 2015 4:46 a.m. PST |
Hell and High Water, mentioned above, is a Cold War submarine drama with Richard Widmark. Ron P.S. Another list here: link |
| vtsaogames | 02 Jul 2015 5:45 a.m. PST |
Running hot, straight and normal sir. -Run Silent, Run Deep |
| jim 39 | 02 Jul 2015 6:35 a.m. PST |
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| Marc33594 | 02 Jul 2015 7:30 a.m. PST |
Well not too much submarine action but there always is
"On the Beach" |
| DeRuyter | 02 Jul 2015 9:51 a.m. PST |
Das Boot by far – but it must be the proper German language version. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 02 Jul 2015 10:11 a.m. PST |
You all missed the best one!
The Atomic Submarine
link |
| tuscaloosa | 02 Jul 2015 5:12 p.m. PST |
"Black Sea" with Jude Law doesn't even get a mention? Ok, it had a couple, or a half dozen, major plot flaws, but it was still pretty cool. |
| ptdockyard | 03 Jul 2015 9:37 a.m. PST |
"Crash Dive" with the USS Marlin (As the USS Corsair) taking on German raiders and a base in Norway. |
| Mute Bystander | 03 Jul 2015 7:29 p.m. PST |
Destination Tokyo. Edit: I am prone to stick with WW2 movies for submarines: link |
| lapatrie88 | 05 Jul 2015 5:25 a.m. PST |
K-19 about a reactor failure on a Russian sub |
| Joes Shop | 05 Jul 2015 10:46 a.m. PST |
Well, thanks to the recommendations here I picked up a new copy of Run Silent Run Deep at my local grocery store for $3.99 USD! Regards, J. P. Kelly |
| Bertie | 12 Jul 2015 10:02 a.m. PST |
Another one worth checking out is "Phantom" (2013) a fictionalised and hypothesized version of the loss of K 129 using a sort of one silo Zulu instead of a three silo Golf. It stars Ed Harris as a sub-commander facing his own demons and one of the many Foxtrot subs that can be found in odd places around the world. Cheers,
Bertie |
| Florida Tory | 14 Jul 2015 1:35 p.m. PST |
"Balance of Terror" is a classic. link Rick |
| Bertie | 15 Jul 2015 10:26 a.m. PST |
"Hostile Waters" is interesting, it is not a movie but a BBC/HBO made for TV release, but if Star Trek's homage to the Enemy Below can be included, (and very rightly so Rick, both were great leadership training,)I suppose it makes the grade. It is based on the sinking of the K 219 and its alleged collision with the USS Augusta. For Wing Nuts like me it includes the fun sight of Martin Sheen playing out of his usual character as the US sub commander who wants to take no chances and blow the Soviet sub out of the water. Cheers,
Bertie |
