The Grey Wolves set in the black packaging is on my Wish List at Amazon, although there were no reviews of it when I first put it there - reviews seem to be pretty good at amazon.uk so maybe I'll bump it up a few notches.
#4 on that list is also part of another 3 dvd "Grey Wolves" set that spans the entire war, which I do have. It's got the typically dry narration/presentation of many of these docs, but IMO is less torpor-inducing than most I've seen and the period footage included is worth seeing. I rented this from Netflix first and still bought it so I obviously thought it was worth watching more than once (which I have done). Currently my second favorite production on this topic after "The Battle of the Atlantic."
Some of the other dvds on the list I have also rented, definitely the "Battlefield" and "War Files" ones - but none so far worth buying IMO, because I found them to be pretty indistinguishable from each other despite being ostensibly different productions. None of them showed or told me anything I didn't already know and hadn't already seen and they all had basically the same basic overview of the u-boat war which I know almost by heart at this point, lol.
Obviously there are quite a few docs out there about u-boats, the BoA, etc., but my advice would be to rent them if possible or try to find bits of them on YouTube before buying since IME a lot of them have turned out to be little more than carbon copies of each other in terms of presentation, information, and period footage/images used.
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