What's your favorite submarine movie?

[red dog 1]

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21 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Das Boot
	8 (38%)
	Crimson Tide
	1 (5%)
	Run Silent, Run Deep
	1 (5%)
	Ice Station Zebra
	1 (5%)
	The Abyss
	0 (0%)
	K-19 The Widowmaker
	1 (5%)
	Yellow Submarine
	1 (5%)
	The Hunt for Red October
	4 (19%)
	Operation Petticoat
	1 (5%)
	The Enemy Below
	3 (14%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[dhill926]

1. Das Boot by a landslide...

also had a great score...

[yuiyoshida]

4. Hunt for Red October has some great music too!!

[dhill926]

19. indeed it does...

fantastic score....

[longship]

2. "The Enemy Below" and its Star Trek reboot, "Balance of Terror"

The latter introduced us all to Romulans and Mark Lenard as the Romulan commander. Of course, he played Spock's father for years.

[Chasstev365]

3. Yellow Submarine :)

[ailsagirl]

5. That's what I was gonna say!

HAPPY FRIDAY

[robertpaulsen]

6. Hey! My choice too!

[SeattleVet]

17. Needs to be added as an option!

(It has my vote.)

[red dog 1]

20. It's up there now as option # 7

(I had to remove U-571, which I think is a very good sub movie)

[SeattleVet]

21. Thanks!

[Warpy]

7. Murder on the Atlantic

It's about the sinking of the Lusitania and features both sides to explore the why and wherefore. It's an excellent film and available over on YouTube, which is where I found it. It also discusses what happened to the captains of both ships.

Other documentaries exploring the rapid sinking of the ship are there. The most recent has done scale testing and computer modeling and has come to the conclusion that the second explosion was an overheated boiler that cracked when cold water hit it, not the small consignment of arms or a second torpedo.

ETA

[red dog 1]

12. It sounds like a good one.

It was a made for TV movie (1998)

[Warpy]

13. It's from the UK and the date is 2007 in various places it's on YouTube

Whatever its provenance, it's an excellent film that goes beyond the sinking of a ship by a u-boat into questions about modern warfare, government and coverups, and how quickly heroes can deteriorate into scoundrels and vice versa.

There is as much thought as action, which is why I recommend it so highly.

[red dog 1]

16. You're right....IMBD lists it as a TV movie from 1998, which is where I got that from

"Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea" (also known as "Lusitania: Murder on the Atlantic&quot
It's apparently an English-German Docu-drama done by documentary-filmmaker Christopher Spencer (commissioned by BBC-1)

(I think the entire movie is available to watch for free on You Tube)

Good pick!

[cwydro]

49. Thanks for this post.

Will check it out.

[Motley13]

8. Run Silent, Run Deep

[brewens]

9. Das Boot hands down. I'd like to see a real good effort at US Navy submarine movie

made like Das Boot. There would be no shortage of sub careers and harrowing missions to portray. But you just know they wouldn't be able to help ruining it by going over the top.

Like the dogfights in Red Tails. I couldn't even finish watching it. If you really know WWII air combat, one scene in there is ridiculous. This German ace can make this wicked maneuver that basically flips his 109 around. Supposedly, one of the Red Tail Mustang pilots figures out how to do it to defeat him, if I remember right. Actually, I don't think I even saw that. I could just tell that was going to be what would happen later.

Mustang's weren't that kind of fighter plane. 109's were smaller and more limber. A Mustang pilot wouldn't get in a tight turning dogfight with one of those guys. Same with how our guys fought the Japanese Zero in the Pacific. You used "zoom and boom" tactics. They had speed, durability and power over the Zero, with almost all of our fighter models. You made sure you had an altitude advantage and used that to dive on them, blow into them and fire, and hope for hits and climb or dive away.

[red dog 1]

18. I'm currently reading a book by Stephen E. Ambrose called "Wild Blue"..

..about "the men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany"

The author mentions the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of African-American fighter pilots who flew P-51 Mustangs in the 332nd Fighter Group.

The Mustangs (P-51s) flew above the B-17 & B 24 bombers, protecting them from the German fighters.

George McGovern was a B-24 pilot who is mentioned quite often in "Wild Blue"
He had much praise for the Tuskegee Airmen, and in the book, he and other B-24 pilots met some of the P-51 pilots, and thanked them & bought them drinks.


BTW, I just found a great read about the Tuskegee Airmen called:
"The Tuskegee Airmen: First Group of African-American Fighter Pilots in WW 2"
http://acepilots.com/usaaf_tusk.html

(I may soon do an OP based on the Tuskegee Airmen)

[brewens]

23. Nice! The Tuskegee Airmen did a wonderful job. Just some of the combat scenes were not very

accurate in Red tails.

People usually thin about the B-17 in the air war in Europe, but the B-24 was used in greater numbers.

My dad was a B-24 crewman but in the Pacific. The Navy Liberators were designated PB4Y's. Those were mostly long range reconnaissance. Dangerous duty flying long patrols alone over enemy territory. Many were lost with all hands, not unlike our subs.

VB-104 "The Buccaneers of Harry Sears" was my dad's squadron.

[Aristus]

33. The miniseries "War And Remembrance" had a number of extended sequences

taking place aboard an American attack sub in the Pacific in WWII.

It was extraordinarily well-researched and exciting.

Give it a look if you get a chance.

[Sanity Claws]

10. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!

Another great submarine film.

[red dog 1]

15. It received four Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture

and it won two Golden Globe awards - Best Motion Picture & Best Actor (Alan Arkin)

[jg10003]

32. One of my favorite movies, but doesn't count as a submarine film.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

11. BLACK SEA!!! n/m

[First Speaker]

14. It is impossible to make a bad submarine movie...

...there's just something about the subgenre that's impervious to boredom...

[d_r]

22. Hello Down There

[avebury]

24. For a flat out good laugh

Down Periscope with Kelsey Grammer.


From the list:

The Hunt for the Red October
Ice Station Zebra - for the suspence

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

25. also U-571

[red dog 1]

46. U-571 was one of the poll options, but I took it down to make room for Yellow Submarine

(At that point, it had 0 votes)

I liked it, and I've seen it many times.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

48. I like Crimson Tide also...

...and it's probably tied with U-571.

[Afromania]

26. Down Periscope

I won't even try to explain myself

[sakabatou]

35. I like it too

[Afromania]

43. ah!

high five for having similar bad taste in submarine movies.

[Laffy Kat]

27. So claustrophobic the only one I remember sitting through was,

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and I was quite young. Since then, no way.

[C_U_L8R]

28. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

If mini subs count....


And special TV props for Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea !!!!!!

[Xolodno]

29. Tough one.

For me, it would be Das Boot or K19. Both very gritty on the real side. Went with K19 since Das Boot is winning, if it was reversed, would have voted for Das Boot.

After those two;
Crimson Time
Hunt for Red October

...both great fiction drama movies.

[jberryhill]

30. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

The original Finding Nemo.

[jg10003]

31. Destination Tokyo - "The granddaddy of submarine films"

From the TCM website:

"Destination Tokyo (1944)
The granddaddy of submarine films like Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Das Boot (1981), and the recent U-571 (2000), director Delmer Daves' first effort as director was Warner Bros. Studio's crackerjack nail-biter, Destination Tokyo (1943)."

[Aristus]

34. Das Boot.

Nothing else even comes close.

I've got the Director's Cut on DVD. Feels as long as the war itself, but it's worth it...

[A HERETIC I AM]

36. Assault on a Queen

Frank Sinatra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_a_Queen

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060135/

[malthaussen]

37. Operation Petticoat stars Cary Grant.

That should be sufficient to answer the question.

-- Mal

[hunter]

38. Das Boot. In German.

It's a brutal anti-war film.

[Kaleva]

39. Das Boot in German with English subtitles

[miyazaki]

40. Fantastic Voyage.

[mnhtnbb]

41. My brother has a Hunt for Red October story.

He used to fly a lot for work--first class--and years ago he was on a flight from LA to Chicago. Sitting across
from him was James Earl Jones. One of my brother's kids was a huge Star Wars fan, so my brother wanted
to ask Mr. Jones for an autograph to bring home to this kid.

After he's thought about what to say and how to ask, he finally gets Mr. Jones attention (who is not happy to
be disturbed) and tells him he has a son who is a huge fan, would he mind signing an autograph? Mr. Jones,
not happily, says ok. What would you like it to say, May the Force be with you? No, says my brother. Have
it say, "I wasn't here. This didn't happen." Jones let out his huge, booming laugh and signed the autograph.

For fans of Hunt for Red October, the line was:

Admiral James Greer: Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I...

[showing him his identification]

Admiral James Greer: ... was never here

[gratuitous]

42. If I ran into James Earl Jones

AND I got up the nerve to speak to him, I'd compliment him on having one of the funniest lines in film history, in his motion picture debut: "Uh, it appears the self-destruct mechanism blew itself up."

[red dog 1]

47. Great story!

[Sancho]

44. The Russians are Coming!!!

[kairos12]

45. I loved that movie. Thanks.