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, ...

It’s 1942 and the war is no longer going well for the German “wolf-packs”—U-boats, tasked with sinking Allied supply ships. They’re vulnerable targets now thanks to the cracking of the Enigma code, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

War fanatics have flocked to praise another film they have branded an "absolute masterpiece". Set during World War II, Das Boot follows the crew of the German submarine U-96 as they embark on a ...

The ocean was in many ways his natural habitat, as borne out by “Poseidon,” his proficient 2006 remake of “The Poseidon Adventure,” and especially “Das Boot,” the 1981 submarine-set nail biter that ...

The film was an international success when it appeared nearly 30 years ago. Now "Das Boot" is being relaunched as an eight-part series on pay TV network Sky, this time with strong roles for women. The ...

The miniseries will focus on the German perspective of events and include experiences the French Resistance and Allied forces had during the war. The 1981 film “Das Boot” is getting a sequel in the ...

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 ...

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 ...