Under The Sea Part 8: Das Boot
No submarine film series would be complete without Das Boot, the 3.5 hour German epic from 1981. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot explores life onboard a U-boat during the Second World […]
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Under The Sea Part 7: The Hunt For Red October
It’s 1984 and the Soviet Union’s flagship is on course for the USA. CIA agent Jack Ryan suspects a defection, but his superiors are unsure, leading to a tough decision […]
Under The Sea Part 6: The Bedford Incident
This 1965 cold war classic follows the ruthless captain (Richard Widmark) of the USS Bedford as it hunts down a Soviet submarine. Near the Greenland fjords, two outsiders join the […]
Under the Sea Part 5: Crimson Tide
Made in 1995, Crimson Tide is a Cold War film set in the post Cold War era. To re-establish the mutually assured destruction scenario of that era, the plot involves […]
Under The Sea Part 4: Below
Set during World War II, 2002’s Below takes place on board an American submarine ordered to find survivors from the wreckage of a British ship. They pick up some Brits representing both […]
Under the Sea Part 3: The Enemy Below
Set in World War Two, this is a stand off between a US war ship and a German submarine when they encounter each other somewhere in the Atlantic. What’s great […]
Under the Sea Part 2: James Bond
Submarines were all the rage during the Cold War. You don’t hear so much about them these days, I hope they’re doing alright. The franchise that so glamourously put the […]
Under the Sea Part 1: K-19: The Widowmaker
The identity of the mysterious buyer of the Bond submarine has finally been revealed as Tesla’s Elon Musk. To mark the occasion, (or to use it as a flimsy attempt […]
