List your most favorite PTO Submarine Movies
 

I am always fascinated with the Pacific War especially the PTO Sub Warfare and enjoy watching the Pacific Sub Movies very much.

Here is my list of my most favorite three:

1. Run Silent Run Deep

2. Torpedo Run

3. Hellcats of the Navy

While not my favorite, I posted on two threads a WWII Sub movie that was fairly good made in 1963.

Never saw it posted on SubSim since I've been a member.

I like Destination Tokyo, but at the subsim meet all of us gathered around and watched it picking out every flaw and oddity.
a good time was had by all :yeah:

Run Silent Run Deep made an excellent movie, but I preferred the book

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This link list every sub movie ever made in case you missed one

http://submarinemovies.com/movies-A-C.html

You can watch most of them here, use stagevu whenever possible, no ads. One that I haven't found online yet, but I copied it with my VCR long ago, some of the best footage of WW1 ships and planes you will see and you see what a real S-boat looks like inside and out. MGM purschased a few DD's for the movie that were headed to the scrapyard...get a chance see it.

http://www.moviesonlineathome.com/index.php?

Another list



Pre-World War II

• Mare Nostrum 1926 — directed by Rex Ingram
• Submarine 1928 — directed by Frank Capra
• Men Without Women 1930 — a fictional USS S-13
• Morgenrot 1933
• Hell Below 1933 — USS AL-14
• The Hunley 1999 — CSS Hunley

[edit] World War II

• Alfa Tau! 1942 — history of the Italian submarine Enrico Toti
• Crash Dive 1943 — a fictional USS Corsair
• Destination Tokyo 1943 — a fictional USS Copperfin
• The Silver Fleet 1943 British film about a Dutch submarine builder forced to work for the Nazis
• We Dive at Dawn 1943
• Morning Departure 1950 — US title Operation Disaster
• Operation Pacific 1951 — a fictional USS Thunderfish
• Submarine Command 1951
• Torpedo Alley 1953
• Submarine Attack 1954
• Above Us the Waves 1955 — Royal Navy midget submarines v. Tirpitz
• Hellcats of the Navy 1957 — a fictional USS Starfish
• The Enemy Below 1957
• Run Silent, Run Deep 1958 — a fictional World War II USS Nerka (which loosely shares plot elements and the villain destroyer captain Bungo Pete with Edward L. Beach's novel, but not much of the plot).
• Submarine Seahawk 1958
• Torpedo Run 1958
• Battle of the Coral Sea 1959 — USS Dragonfish
• Operation Petticoat 1959 (comedy), remade in 1977 — a fictional USS Sea Tiger
• Orzeł 1959 — the dramatic tale of ORP Orzeł and the Orzeł incident
• Up Periscope 1959
• Mystery Submarine (1963)
• Submarine X-1 1969 — X class submarines
• Murphy's War 1971
• 1941 1979 (comedy) — Imperial Japanese Navy submarine terrorizes California
• Das Boot 1981 —U-96
• U-571 2000 — a fictional U-571
• Below 2002 — a fictional USS Tiger Shark (horror)
• In Enemy Hands 2004 — a fictional USS Swordfish and U-429; European title U-Boat

[edit] Cold War

• Hell and High Water 1954 — a World War II surplus Japanese submarine
• On the Beach 1959, 2000 — a fictional USS Sawfish
• The Atomic Submarine 1959 — a fictional USS Tiger Shark
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1961 — a fictional USOS Seaview (science fiction/fantasy)
• The Bedford Incident 1965
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming 1966 — a fictional Soviet submarine Спрут (comedy)
• Ice Station Zebra 1968 — a fictional USS Tigerfish (SS-509) (In the novel: USS Dolphin)
• Assault on the Wayne, 1971 fictional missile submarine USS Wayne (also named in The Spy Who Loved Me)
• The Spy Who Loved Me — 1977 American, British and Soviet submarines
• Gray Lady Down 1978 — a fictional USS Neptune
• The Fifth Missile 1986 — a fictional USS Montana
• Full Fathom Five 1990 — a fictional USS Aspen versus the "Alpha Victor Three class submarine CCCP Kirov"
• The Hunt for Red October 1990 — a fictional Red October (Красный Октябрь), a fictional V.K. Konovalov (В. К. Коновалов), USS Dallas (SSN-700), DSRV-1 Mystic
• Going Under 1990
• Silent Service 1995 — JMSDF Seabat(Japan's first nuclear powered submarine) (anime)
• Hostile Waters 1997 — K-219
• K-19: The Widowmaker 2002 — K-19

[edit] Post Cold War

• Crimson Tide 1995 — USS Alabama
• Down Periscope 1996 — a fictional USS Stingray (SS-161) (comedy)
• Sub Down: Take the Dive 1997
• Crash Dive 1997
• Crash Dive 2 Counter Measures 1998
• Phantom, the Submarine 1999 — Korea's fictional first nuclear submarine ROKS Yuryong (its name means "the Phantom"), former Russian Sierra-class submarine.
• Danger Beneath the Sea 2001
• Phantom Below 2005
• Depth Charge 2008

[edit] Future or Fantastic Past

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1907, 1916, 1954, 1997, Hallmark, 1997, Village Roadshow — Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (science fiction/fantasy)
• Atragon 1963 — the fictional Gotengo (anime)
• Yellow Submarine 1968 — (psychedelic fantasy)
• Captain Nemo and the Underwater City 1969 — Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (science fiction/fantasy)
• The Neptune Factor 1973 — undersea rescue (science fiction)
• The Return of Captain Nemo 1978 — Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (science fiction/fantasy)
• Thundersub 1979 — (anime)
• The Abyss 1989 — a fictional USS Montana (science fiction/fantasy)
• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water 1989 — Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (anime)
• seaQuest DSV 1993; — (science fiction/fantasy)
• Super Atragon 1995; — (anime)
• Blue Submarine No. 6 1998 — (anime)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 — Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (fantasy)
• Submarine 707R 2004 — (anime)
• Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean 2005 — (World War 2, Science Fiction)
• Tide-Line Blue 2005 — (anime)

OPERATION BIKINI isn't on any of the links. Made in mid 60's

B+W and a pretty good WWII Sub flick.

You should add it to the Wiki page.


Anyway, I watched Operation Pacific with John Wayne. As in most his movies a lot of real battle footage is used. In the movie they showed several rolling films through a sub scope of merchants being hit...the real stuff, not the fake stuff. I know about taking single camera shots, but not about rolling film from a scope...so.

What caught my attention is there appears to be real rolling film from a sub lens of a large TF, I assume JP, but who knows, but the taker is the following footage through the lens of a possible Kongo and positve Fuso BB.

Anyone have any thoughts or knowledge on this footage. It's show about 1.25 in the movie. Never heard of the sub that filmed this, unless it was transposed to look like it was coming through a sub lense and is actual surface filming.

not tecnically a subnmarine movie
 

The full length feature film Victory at Sea. There are some sub scenes, but the best is when a plane crash lands on a carrier, bursts into flames, and the pilot is rescued when a sailor climbs on the buring wing (we a talking about really on fire) and pulls the pilot to safety. Real life action.

Wish I could find more info on the real clips from Operation Pacific. Hard to believe a sub filmed a Fuso through the lens, but that wasn't fake. Had several running films through the scope lens of JP TF. I wonder if it was through a Jap scope or maybe they transposed the lens over some actual surface filming.

Mister Armistead

I checked the Duke's film

yeah, the scene in the scope is real fascinating

:DL

I'm sure you saw the one before that through a scope watching a large carrier TF, you could tell how real that was. Course, that could've been a US force, but let's assume it is a JP TF. Then you get the filming of the Kongo looking BB and the Fuso, obvious the film is real, hard to determine if the scope look was somewhat added, but I don't think so.

Never heard of a US sub doing rolling film of a JP TF, then the BB's, that was fairly close even with high magnification. What skipper would have a camera set up at a time like that.....

Sure most here have seen this site, but has most WW2 real film footage unedited

http://www.realmilitaryflix.com/public/department55.cfm

salute! Capt

you are really a devoted sea dog :salute:

Agreed, I just bought the whole series on 2 dvds. I had watched it years ago when the History Channel played it, but i found the DVDs in Wal-Marts 5 dollar bin and i couldn't pass it up.

I love VAS, great video's. You should check out the link I posted. Think most here have seen the unedited sub links there, but they add more real war footage about every week. I loved the real footage of the men invading Iwo, amazing, felt like I was taking the beach. If you looked hard you saw dead bodies everywhere.

The other real war links are great, even the Iraq and Afgan war, but some
graphic stuff.

yeah VAS

I recall the Full Fathom Five is the episode dealing with the US Pacific Sub Warfare