“Das Boot” is about to set sail after principal photography wrapped on the $32.8 million TV epic. Filming in Malta brought a 105-day shoot to an end, and the German, French, and English-language ...

Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic "Das Boot" propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films "In the Line of Fire," "Air Force One" ...

Hulu has picked up U.S. rights to 'Das Boot,' the series sequel to Wolfgang Petersen's Oscar-nominated anti-war classic from 1981. By Scott Roxborough Hulu has picked up U.S. rights to Das Boot, the ...

Actor Jürgen Prochnow as Commander in Das Boot, wearing a blue jacket and captain's hat and leaning against a rail, with a tomato in the background. Image by Nimesh Niyomal War is brutal, exhausting, ...

He made it big in Hollywood, but he’s best remembered for a harrowing, Oscar-nominated German film set inside a U-boat in World War II. By A.J. Goldmann Wolfgang Petersen, one of a handful of foreign ...

When Bavaria Fiction executive producer Moritz Polter looks out at the company’s backlot from his office window, he can see the original sets built for “Das Boot,” the classic 1981 movie set in the ...

The 1981 film Das Boot became an unlikely hit because Wolfgang Petersen did a great job showing how claustrophobic life in a submarine, especially when it’s constantly under threat, can be. About ten ...