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Thunder Afloat (1939)
, 1h35Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Douglass Dumbrille, Virginia Grey, John Qualen, Leon Ames
In a New England port town, Pop Thorson (Wallace Beery) and Rocky Blake (Chester Morris) are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it to keep Thorson from winning a lucrative contract to move barges of military supplies. Thorson is a widower who built his own tugboat and lives on it with his adult daughter Susan (Virginia Grey). She loves her father, but also likes Blake (who denies the sabotage) and does not want the two men to fight.
U-Boat, Course West! (1941)
, 48minutesGenres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Herbert Wilk, Heinz Engelmann, Joachim Brennecke, Wilhelm Borchert, Karl John, Clemens Hasse
The short film (48 minutes) opens aboard a U-boat as it returns from a mission. It then follows the crew onshore the day before they ship off for their next mission—meeting their family and sweethearts, spending a last night at a club, and so forth. Then they ship off, soon sighting and boarding a Dutch merchant ship, which they inspect for contraband. The boarding of the ship is shown being done professionally and in a non-confrontational manner. While they are aboard the Dutch ship, a Royal Navy ship spots them and tries to torpedo them, but the U-boat ends up sinking it.
Civilization (1916)
, 1h28Directed by Thomas H. Ince, Reginald Barker, Jay Hunt, Raymond B. West, Walter Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Howard C. Hickman, Enid Markey, George Fisher, Lola May, Herschel Mayall, Claire Du Brey
The film opens with the outbreak of a war in the previously peaceful kingdom of Wredpryd. Count Ferdinand is the inventor of a new submarine who is assigned to command the new ship in battle. The King of Wredpryd orders the Count to sink the "ProPatria" ("for my country"), a civilian ship that is believed to be carrying munitions as well as civilian passengers. In his mind's eye, the Count sees a vision of what would happen if he sent a torpedo crashing into the liner, and he recoils. He refuses to follow his orders, saying he is "obeying orders -- from a Higher Power." Realizing his crew will carry out the orders, the Count fights with the crew and blows up his submarine, sending it to the bottom of the sea.
The Spy in Black (1939)
, 1h22Directed by Michael Powell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, Sebastian Shaw, June Duprez, Athole Stewart
Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt), a World War I German U-boat commander, is ordered to lead a mission to attack the British Fleet at Scapa Flow. He sneaks ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact, Frau Tiel (Valerie Hobson). Tiel has taken over the identity of local schoolteacher, Anne Burnett (June Duprez), who had been kidnapped by German agents. Hardt finds himself attracted to her, but Tiel shows no interest. The Germans are aided by a disgraced Royal Navy officer, the former Commander Ashington (Sebastian Shaw) who, according to Tiel, has agreed to aid the Germans after losing his command due to drunkenness, and Tiel implies that she has slept with Ashington to obtain his cooperation.
Crash Dive (1943)
, 1h46Directed by Otto Brower, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, May Whitty, Harry Morgan
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Dana Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Anne Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
The Silver Fleet (1943)
, 1h28Directed by Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Frederick Burtwell, Kathleen Byron, Charles Victor
In the early years of World War II, the Nazis have overrun the Netherlands and have taken over the shipyard co-owned and run by Jaap van Leyden (Ralph Richardson). The yard was making submarines for the Dutch Navy. The German 'Protector' Von Schiffer (Esmond Knight) demands that they resume making submarines, but for the Nazis. By lowering food rations to starvation point, they induce some of the skilled workers to return to the yard.
The Flying Missile (1950)
, 1h31Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films
Actors Glenn Ford, Viveca Lindfors, Henry O'Neill, Kenneth Tobey, John Qualen, Carl Benton Reid
Decorated submarine commander Commander William Talbot's (Glenn Ford) boat the USS Bluefin (actually the USS Cusk) is on manoeuvers with the goal of simulating sinking the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41). The Midway is carrying some politicians to view the test firing of a JB-2 missile from its flight deck. Sighting the carrier, the Bluefin attempts a simulated torpedo attack but is detected and "sunk" by a depth charge attack from a destroyer.
Submarine Base (1943)
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors John Litel, Alan Baxter, Eric Blore, Rafael Storm, Fifi D'Orsay, Iris Adrian
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
The Damned (1947)
, 1h40Directed by René Clément
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Marcel Dalio, Florence Marly, Henri Vidal, Fosco Giachetti, Paul Bernard, Michel Auclair
As Germany is in the throes of losing World War II, a number of wealthy Nazis and some French sympathizers head for South America in a German submarine leaving from Oslo. The film's narrator is a French doctor (Henri Vidal) who has been kidnapped to tend a sick woman, Hilde Garosi (Florence Marly), the wife of one man and the lover of another, both aboard. The doctor realizes he will be murdered at any point once the woman has recovered so he tries various stratagems to escape. All fail.
Morning Departure (1950)
, 1h42Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Submarine films, Films based on plays
Actors John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Kenneth More, Peter Hammond, Michael Brennan
The story is set after the end of the Second World War and concerns a British submarine, HMS Trojan, which is out on a routine exercise to test its new snorkel mast when it encounters a derelict floating magnetic mine left over from the war. The submarine dives, but sets off the mine. The mine blows the bows of the submarine off, and floods the after section through the displaced snorkel mast, instantly killing all 53 of the crew in the bows and stern section. The submarine settles to the bottom leaving twelve crew members alive amidships, who have been saved by the watertight doors which had been closed by order of the captain when he realised the imminent danger.
Sealed Cargo (1951)
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Dana Andrews, Claude Rains, Philip Dorn, Carla Balenda, Onslow Stevens, Skip Homeier
In 1943, at the height of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, Captain Pat Bannon, skipper of the fishing trawler Daniel Webster, unloads his catch in his home port of Gloucester, Massachusetts. He reluctantly agrees to transport Margaret McLean to Trabo, a small community in Newfoundland. Shorthanded, he hires Danish sailor Konrad, and the Daniel Webster sails for the Grand Banks fishing grounds. Once at sea, another Dane, Holger, reports that the radio has been sabotaged. As Bannon knows all of the crew well except for Konrad and fellow Dane Holger, he suspects one of them or even Margaret of being a German agent.
Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
, 1h22Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Ronald Reagan, Harry Lauter, Arthur Franz, Joe Turkel, Robert Arthur, Don Keefer
Commander Casey Abbott (Ronald Reagan), commander of the fictional submarine USS Starfish, is ordered to undertake a dangerous mission which sees him attempting to cut off the flow of supplies between China and Japan in the heavily mined waters off the Asiatic mainland. When a diver, who is Abbott's competitor for the affections of Nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair (Nancy Davis) back at home, gets into a dangerous situation, Abbott must struggle to keep his personal and professional lives separate in dealing with the crisis.
, 1h10Directed by Jerry Warren
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films
Actors John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Bob Carroll
Le professeur Millard Wyman (John Carradine) envoie un équipage de deux hommes, Paul Whitmore (Allen Windsor) et Craig Randall (Robert Clarke), et deux femmes Lauri Talbott (Sheila Noonan) et Dale Marshall (Phyllis Coates), jusqu'aux profondeurs de l'océan jamais avant exploré. Mais, il y a un problème technique lors du lancement. La cloche de plongée se détache du câble qui les relie à la surface et perd le contact avec la surface. La mission serait perdue.
Submarine Seahawk (1958)
, 1h23Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Bentley, Brett Halsey, Paul Maxwell, Nicky Blair, Edmund F. Cobb
Captain Turner (John Bentley) and his crew patrol the Pacific for enemy ships. An expert on Japanese naval ships, Turner is assigned to gather reconnaissance information. As his crew grows restless for battle, the captain must convince the men their mission will ultimately lead to defeating the enemy.
Submarine Attack (1954)
, 1h26Directed by Duilio Coletti
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Lois Maxwell, Renato Baldini, Oreste Biancoli, Duilio Coletti, Folco Lulli, Ennio De Concini
An Italian submarine captain conducts successful attacks on enemy merchant shipping in the eastern Atlantic Ocean during World War II, and then rescues the survivors of his victims, including a member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (and a dog). The captain's compulsion to save his victims culminates in his taking aboard 24 additional Danish merchant seamen; with no space down below, they are accommodated under the walkway outside the hull, at risk of drowning if the submarine is forced to submerge. He then sails the survivors hundreds of miles across the open ocean on the surface to put them ashore in the Azores.