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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
, 2h18Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joss Ackland, John Shrapnel, Donald Sumpter
In 1961, the Soviet Union launches its first ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the K-19. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov, aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin. Polenin, the original captain, and the crew have served together for some time but Vostrikov's appointment is alleged to have been aided by his wife's political connections. During his first inspection, Vostrikov discovers the submarine's reactor officer to be drunk and asleep on duty. Vostrikov sacks the officer and orders Polenin to request a replacement. The new reactor officer, Vadim Radtchenko, arrives direct from nuclear school having just been fresh from the naval academy, annoying Polenin who thinks Vostrikov was too punitive on the former reactor officer who was competent despite his momentary lapse of judgment. Also, during the preparation period for the sub's launch, the ship's medical officer is killed when struck by an oncoming truck, and is subsequently replaced by the command's foremost medical officer, an army officer who has graciously offered himself in the submarine's time of need, but also privately admits to Vostrikov that as an army officer he has never been out to sea and suffers from motion sickness. During the K-19's official launch, the bottle of champagne fails to break when it strikes the bow; the sailors nervously glance at each other due to this customary sign of bad luck.
Dawn (1933)
, 1h25Directed by Gustav Ucicky, Vernon Sewell
Origin German
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Rudolf Forster, Paul Westermeier, Camilla Spira, Gerhard Bienert, Friedrich Gnaß, Hans Leibelt
L'équipage d'un sous-marin allemand sous le commandement du capitaine-lieutenant Liers est de nouveau en mer pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Les hommes ont eu du mal à dire au revoir à leurs compagnes, mais le devoir les appelle. La mère de Liers a déjà perdu deux fils dans la guerre et redoute sa disparition.
We Dive at Dawn (1943)
, 1h38Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors John Mills, Eric Portman, Jack Watling, Reginald Purdell, Niall MacGinnis, Edwin Styles
Lieutenant Taylor (John Mills) and the rest of the crew of the submarine Sea Tiger are given a week's leave after an unsuccessful patrol. Hobson (Eric Portman) goes home to save his marriage, while a reluctant Corrigan (Niall MacGinnis) heads off to his wedding. Then the crew are called back to duty, much to Corrigan's relief, though he later has second thoughts. Sea Tiger is assigned the top secret mission of sinking Nazi Germany's new battleship, the Brandenburg, before she enters the Kiel Canal to begin sea trials in the Baltic Sea.
The Key (1958)
, 2h14Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Bernard Lee, Kieron Moore
American David Ross (William Holden), a former tugboat captain now in the Canadian army, is hastily commissioned in the Royal Navy and assigned to rotating command of W88, a double-crewed rescue tug then in dry dock due to battle damage. His predecessor was a suicide. The slow, poorly armed tugboats bring in "lame ducks," freighters crippled near England by German attacks. The main danger is from U-boats and aircraft.
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.
Mystery Submarine (1963)
, 1h32Directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Edward Judd, James Robertson Justice, Laurence Payne, Joachim Fuchsberger, Albert Lieven, Robert Flemyng
U153 is damaged during air attack in the Atlantic, and it’s crew abandon to escape Chlorine gas leakage due to broken battery cells. Her commanding officer is overcome by fumes before he can jettison the ship’s papers. Aware of the intelligence windfall that this represents, the submarine is taken by a British prize crew to be examined and inspected (in much the same manner that befell the real German U-boat later renamed HMS Graph ).
Hunter Killer (2018)
, 2h1Origin USA
Genres War, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films
Actors Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Zane Holtz, Caroline Goodall, Michael Nyqvist
Alors que Joe Glass, commandant du sous-marin américain USS Arkansas, est en mission de sauvetage dans la péninsule de Kola pour retrouver l'USS Tampa Bay porté disparu, le Président russe Nikolai Zakarine est fait prisonnier à la base navale de Poliarny suite à un coup d'État mené par l'Amiral Dmitri Durov, son propre Ministre de la Défense. Le Commandant Glass et son équipage vont devoir faire équipe avec une unité de Navy SEALs et se rendre en Russie afin de sauver le président russe et empêcher la Troisième Guerre mondiale....
U-571 (2000)
, 1h56Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, David Keith
German U-boat U-571 is immobilized by a British destroyer. The US Navy submarine S-33 has been modified to resemble a German U-boat to steal the Enigma coding device and sink the U-571.
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
, 2h28Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan, Alf Kjellin
A satellite reenters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule which parachutes to the Arctic, coordinates 85N 21W (approx 320 miles WNW of Nord, Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean ice pack). During an ice storm, a figure soon approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches from nearby.
Operation Pacific (1951)
, 1h51Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni
During World War II, an American submarine, the Thunderfish, under the command of Cmdr. John T. "Pop" Perry (Ward Bond), takes on a group of children and nuns to transport them to Pearl Harbor. including a newborn infant nicknamed "Butch". The sub sights a Japanese aircraft carrier and attacks, but its torpedoes fail to explode. Pursued by the carrier, the sub manages to escape.
The Hunley (1999)
, 2hOrigin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Armand Assante, Chris Bauer, Donald Sutherland, Alex Jennings, Gerry Becker, Michael Dolan
H. L. Hunley takes his ship, the H.L. Hunley, out in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor and it sinks with all hands. As the blockade still needs to be broken, Brig. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard has the ship raised and puts George E. Dixon in charge. He starts looking for a crew and after some difficulty, finally finds enough volunteers to man it. They practice cranking the propeller. The crew don’t all get along with each other. Dixon flashes back to the Battle of Shiloh, where a gold coin given to him by his wife (who was later killed in a steamboat explosion caused by a drifting mine), deflected a bullet and saved his life. They take the ship down and sit on the bottom to see how long they can stay down and almost get stuck. The Union navy is warned about the sub. The crew votes that if after an attack they are stuck on the bottom, they will open the valves, flooding the ship rather than suffocate. They go out to attack the U.S.S. Wabash, but the attack fails. Following the warning the ship has draped metal chain netting over the side. Also the rope which was attached to the ‘torpedo’ they were to release under the ship gets loose and becomes entangled in the propeller. It has to be cut loose while sailors on the Wabash shoot at the Hunley. Beauregard proposes putting the torpedo at the end of a long spar. The USS Housatonic is ordered to change its position in the harbor and always be ready to steam, meaning it can’t hang metal netting over the side. The second in command Lt. Alexander is ordered to Mobile, Alabama and a young soldier who had been volunteering to join the crew is allowed to do so. On February 17, 1864, the C.S.S. H. L. Hunley sails out and attacks the U.S.S. Housatonic. The torpedo is rammed into the side of the ship. It blows up and the Housatonic is the first ship ever sunk by a sub. A bullet from the ship breaks a window in the conning tower and wounds Dixon. The explosion opens the seams on the Hunley and it takes on water. It settles to the bottom and they can’t release the ballast or pump the ship. As agreed the crew opens the valves and the ship floods, killing the entire crew.
Above Us the Waves (1955)
, 1h39Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Theodore Bikel, Michael Medwin
The Royal Navy is concerned about constant attacks on convoys by German submarines and having to keep "half the fleet" watching for the German battleship Tirpitz. The Tirpitz is 60 miles from the sea inside a Norwegian fjord and attempts by the Royal Air Force to sink her have failed. Commander Fraser (Mills) is determined to prove that an attack by human torpedoes is practical, despite scepticism from the higher echelons that such an operation would be feasible.
Hell Below (1933)
, 1h41Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston, Madge Evans, Jimmy Durante, Eugene Pallette, Robert Young
When the commander of the United States Navy submarine AL-14 is wounded on its last cruise, Lieutenant Thomas Knowlton (Robert Montgomery), the second in command, hopes to be promoted and take his place. However, Lieutenant Commander T. J. Toler (Walter Huston) shows up and takes over.
Ghostboat (2006)
, 2h13Directed by Stuart Orme
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films, Ghost films, Political films
Actors David Jason, Ian Puleston-Davies, Tony Haygarth, Julian Wadham, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Jonathan Cullen
HMS Scorpion, a British submarine that had gone missing in the Baltic Sea during World War II, surfaces in the path of a Russian freighter in 1981. The vessel is returned to British custody. Naval Intelligence is interested in the case because it seems that, for the first time, a ship has returned from "the Devil's Triangle of the North". The submarine opens its own hatch to let the investigating team in, where they find the vessel in a state of perfect preservation, but find no sign of the crew.
Ghazi Shaheed (1996)
, 2hOrigin Pakistan
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Submarine films
Actors Ayesha Khan, Humayun Saeed Ansari, Zia Mohyeddin