Submarine films were a cliché-ridden subgenre when Wolfgang Petersen's "Das Boot" surfaced in 1981 and shattered our conventional notions of what it's like to serve during wartime in a tin can beneath ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1981 German war drama Das Boot continues to make waves decades after its release, now officially ranked among the “best movies ...

Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 movie Das Boot was nominated for six Academy Awards and is considered one of the best movies to ever come out of Germany. That's a high bar for a TV adaptation to clear, but ...

Imagine being packed into a tiny cylinder, a submarine, that is cruising deep in the rough waters of the North Atlantic. Now ...

Jost Vacano, honored with a lifetime achievement award this year at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography fest, had his career breakthrough working with director Wolfgang Petersen on the 1981 hit film ...

When it comes to war films, there's one that absolutely deserves your attention. With the fall evenings drawing in, there's nothing quite like settling down for a great movie night. If you're ...

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 ...

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot 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 ...

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 ...

The 1981 German war drama Das Boot continues to make waves decades after its release, now officially ranked among the "best movies of all time." According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a ...