My personal top 5 submarine movies

[toni007]

Your list is bad DAS BOOT is Best submarine movie ever
and it should be for all of you here because in SIlent Hunter you control U boat like in movie..and even better.movie is original made by germans themself

[USS Drum]

I know this thread is kind of old but I just decided to post this.

5.Crash Dive, Well you may scream in my face about it but I found it kinda good. It was also filmed on the Marlin which did operate out of New London.

4.The Hunt for Red October, The thing I didn't like about it was the defecting Russian since there was no case in the war where a Russian submariner defected.

3.Crimson Tide, It is quite a good one and also very intense.

2.Run Silent Run Deep, I liked this one A LOT because it had a good plot and it showed them operating the TDC.

1. Das Boot, Yeah it is number 1 because of a lot of stuff for one it didn't portray Germans as Nazi fanatics like Saving Private Ryan it portrayed them is actual PEOPLE 2.It showed what it was like on a WWII U-boat. And anyones who's wondering well that scene where a crewman falls off the Turm is Authentic he did fall off it and it was kept in the movie.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by USS Drum

I know this thread is kind of old but I just decided to post this.

A month-and-a-half is hardly old.

5.Crash Dive, Well you may scream in my face about it but I found it kinda good. It was also filmed on the Marlin which did operate out of New London.

I won't scream in your face. Did you read my thread?
I also won't quibble with your choices, as everything is personal. I will ask a couple of questions though.

1. You argue with Hunt For Red October because no Russian submariner defected, but you don't make the same case against Crimson Tide when no incident like that happened either? That confuses me. But don't worry, I'm easily confused.

2. And anyones who's wondering well that scene where a crewman falls off the Turm is Authentic he did fall off it and it was kept in the movie.

You say that like it's news. Is there anyone who loves that movie who didn't know that?

Here's a real question: Have you seen the 5-hour 'Uncut' version? Far better than any other.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by USS Drum

4.The Hunt for Red October, The thing I didn't like about it was the defecting Russian since there was no case in the war where a Russian submariner defected.

Well it was based on two incidents that did happen, one was the defection of a Soviet tug crew and the other was the (believed) attempted defection of the crew of a Soviet Frigate. The Soviet Frigate mutiny was really an attempted coup.

While no Soviet submarine officer has defected a North Korea officer named Lee Kwang Soo did in 1996, the rest of his crew were killed or escaped back to North Korea.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

1. You argue with Hunt For Red October because no Russian submariner defected, but you don't make the same case against Crimson Tide when no incident like that happened either? That confuses me. But don't worry, I'm easily confused.

Crimson Tide could be said to be loosely based on the B-59 incident of 27 October 1962.

[Sailor Steve]

How loosely?

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

How loosely?

"I'm not going to sleep tonight" loosely.

Captain goes loony thinking his submarine is under attack and WWIII has begun then almost fires his nuclear torpedo at the carrier USS Randolf before his XO Captain Vasili Arkhipov talks him down and convinces him to surface and regain contact with Moscow.

Captain Vasili Arkhipov was also the IRL XO of the K-19, his actions during Operation Anadyr inspired the (fictional) actions of the character based on him in K-19: The Widdowmaker.

[USS Drum]

Here's what wiki says:

Originally Posted by Wiki

Cuban Missile Crisis

On October 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of eleven United States Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph trapped a nuclear-armed Soviet Foxtrot class submarine B-59 near Cuba and started dropping practice depth charges, explosives intended to force the submarine to come to the surface for identification. The captain of the submarine, Valentin Grigorievitch Savitsky, believing that a war might already have started, wanted to launch a nuclear-tipped torpedo, despite the Soviets being informed that practice depth charges were being used.[3]
Three officers on board the submarine — Savitsky, the Political Officer Ivan Semonovich Maslennikov, and the second in command Arkhipov — were authorized to launch the torpedo if agreeing unanimously in favor of doing so. An argument broke out among the three, in which only Arkhipov was against the launch,[4] eventually persuading Savitsky to surface the submarine and await orders from Moscow. The nuclear warfare which presumably would have ensued was thus averted.[5] Arkhipov's actions served, in part, as the inspiration for the American film Crimson Tide.

Both of these accounts are widely at variance with that in Peter Huchthausen's book October Fury.

According to Huchthausen (who was a CIC Talker on USS Blandy (DD 943) with the Essex CVBG at the time), the most tense period was when Captain 2nd Rank Savitsky requested bread and cigarettes from USS Cony (DDE 508) acting as close escort after B-59 surfaced. A bosun on Cony fired a line gun over to B-59, something that was outside of the Soviet sailor's experience and was initially mistaken for a hostile shot. The Russian's used a bolo to heave lines.

Later a Navy P2V Neptune dropped some "incendiary devices" on B-59 while she was sailing in tandem with Cony and the former maneuvered to place the American destroyer escort in the arcs of her forward torpedoes but Cony apologized to B-59 by searchlight and sent a snot-gram to the Neptune squadron commander. He quotes one member of Cony's bridge watch as commenting this incident was "pretty exciting".

There was apperently tension between Savitsky and Arkhipov after B-59 was detected and the Americans were dropping hand grenades to get the Soviet boat to surface but if Huchthausen's account is accurate (and his primary sources are far more extensive than the wiki article), there was never a real threat of B-59 shooting first even though nuclear release had been delegated to her commanding officer before they left base as part of the operation order.

Captain 1st Rank Arkhipov was not B-59's captain, he was chief of staff of the Red Banner Northern Fleet's 69th Submarine Brigade, the submarine component of Operation Anadyr. The Brigade Commander, Captain 1st Rank Agafonov traveled in B-4.

I have no idea which is the authoritative account of these events, the the wiki certainly has greater drama but Huchthausen's more prosaic version of events rings truer to me.

[bill clarke]

I'd like to chime in here,

Ice Station Zebra


The Bedford Incident,



And

Operation Petticoat



Almost forgot :

Hell and High Water

[Tarnsman]

OK here goes

5. Hunt for Red October
- Cracking good yarn. Lots of moving pieces but I will never forgive the shot of the Panther crashing on deck 40 years after it took off.

4. Run Silent Run Deep
- Great drama, made you feel as if you were part of a real crew, cut the WWII schmaltz way down especially for a 50s movie.

3. Enemy Below
- Maybe not as good a film as RSRD looking back on it. But It sucks me in everytime I see it, and Ive seen it at least 15 times now.

2. K-19 The Widowmaker
- Very good movie. Not to be missed.

1. Das Boot
- Saw it orginally in the theater when it came out. Still the most intense war movie ever made. Rivet counter nirvana, will probably never be topped in the sub film genre.

[Cybermat47]

Here's my list:
1. Das Boot

2. The Hunt for Red October

3. The Enemy Below

4. U-571

5.umm... The Spy Who Loved Me?

[WAR JUNKIE]

Im looking for a submarine movie that has captions in the beginning of it that are roughly like this:


If you though the Cuban missle crisis has brought us yards within a nuclear war then this brough us inches....

could somebody please help me find it?

[Red October1984]

I can't help you. I haven't seen a movie like that. Sorry....

Here's my updated list.

1. Run Silent Run Deep

2. The Enemy Below

3. Das Boot (In German with English Subtitles only!)

4. Crash Dive

5. Operation Pacific