My father was in U.S. submarines during World War II. After seeing Das Boot he told me that even though it was about a different navy and even a different ocean, he felt he was back aboard his old boat.
I live near Groton CT. where they build subs. At one time they had a WW2 US sub there that you could walk through. Pretty much the same as the German U Boats.
German U-Boats are very different in philosophy and design to American submarines. I know these comments are meant to mean well but they are hardly the same. From WW1 to WW2 u-boats were vessels that could cruise on the surface and submerge for short periods of time at slower speeds until the nuclear age when submarines became more hydrodynamic in design and spend most of their time submerged.
@@christopherfidler3019This wasn’t possible. The best US boats of WW2 could go 8-9 knots for one hour only submerged and 2 knots for 48 hrs. How can such a “ submarine” stay submerged constantly, it just isn’t possible. There is a reason the type 21 electro was revolutionary for it’s time. This is not to say the IS boats weren’t great boats they were but they weren’t true submariners, such a vessel didn’t exist in ww2.
Zulu Foxx If you have amazon prime, you can watch a mini series on it. It’s titled “how to command a nuclear submarine”, 6 episodes (I believe) and each one is around 30-45 minutes
Das Boot, especially the 5 hour long version, is not only the best submarine movie ever made, it's one of the best war movies ever made, and basically just a cinematic masterpiece.
@@CL-bq9ul Yup. It ran as a 5 part TV miniseries in some parts of Europe. The "complete, uncut" version was released on DVD back in the early 2000's. This version can only be found on the German Blu-ray editions, these days.
With all due respect and I saw Das boat I would still say that Crimson Tide gives it to give a serious run for his money in terms of action action is what you’re looking for the Crimson Tide is the best film ever made if you’re looking at life or the submarine well then DOS boat is a definite winner because if you wanna know what life is like on a run on a German U-boat during World War II that pretty much does a dead Nelson
+Brad Evans And don't forget the obligatory scene where the sub takes damage, a compartment starts to flood, and a watertight door has to be closed, dooming all the injured men in that compartment.
+george phillips I did not know they had a 5 hour miniseries?is it as intense as the movie version?I have the movie with the subtitles that is the best one imo.I will have to look for the miniseries. Can it be found here on YT?Cheers
Rob Hernandez Netflix has it. Im not sure though if Das Boot is available on non-german Netflix. Sadly, it was nowhere else to be found, thats why Im so glad I can borrow a friends Netflix-Account right now for watching Das Boot.
I loved run silent run deep and the enemy below because I saw them on the big screen when they were out. sometimes mom would drop us off at the RKO palace and we'd watch two movies or sometimes three. it reminds me I saw one of my all-time favorites that way. "Lawrence of Arabia" which I think is a movie the totally holds up today. + But I was stunned when I saw das boot in a theater that does almost all foreign films. I saw it in German with English subtitles and that is the way I recommend it. If you haven't already seen it don't watch the English language version of it. the background soundtrack in the original version is incredible and essential storytelling. They totally wrecked it in the overdubbed version. it's cool that we all seem to think das boot is clearly the greatest submarine movie ever made and one of the greatest war movies ever made. The greatest war movies do not glorify war. (i just made an edit that added: "do not". Can't believe I didn't notice when I wrote it. Great war movies do not glorify war. "Platoon" "Saving Private Ryan", "SCHINDLER'S LIST", "Life is Beautiful", and this movie are among the few movies that do NOT glorify war)
Run Silent, Run Deep my Dad once said it was the reason he joined the Navy. He made it into the submarine force and served for thirty years. He passed in February, gone but never forget. R.I.P Frederick M Holmes Jr.
There's a scene where they show the bunk curtains and a hanging gold pocket watch behind some talking sailors and they are moving slightly. Nice touch. There's always movement on a ship that's underway, u-boats as well.
Das Boot is not only the best submarinemovie ever made, it's also the best warmovie ever made. Pure genius. Everything is top notch. And no, Saving Private Ryan doesn't stand a chance.
Not the best War movie. It has stiff opposition from Letters from Iwo Jima, or Tora! Tora! Tora! For two. I'd also throw John Mills' Dunkirk into the mix if we're looking for more accurate pics. The Cruel Sea also comes at the top end.
Of course that’s just your opinion. But you might want to check out Sam Peckinpah the “ cross of iron” 1977. It’s set in the German retreat from the Taman peninsula 1943 by the Wehrmacht 17th Army to the Kuban Bridgehead.
This is TRUE unless and until one's reluctance to stand eventually EMBROILS one IN a war. THEN..........since you're IN one due to trying to be a nice GAF about it all and avoid it, thus convincing the aggressor you ARE a GAF (hold that word up to a mirror if you're confused), you'd best win it.
Well I like that I don't need subs for Das Boot. Most subs are often off to a good amount by the way. I remember watching U-571 while I was in an exchange program on Malta. I had a hard time to keep back the laughs when the German crew of that U-Boot was shown talking in german and the subtilte was so far of from what was really being said. I can't tell for Das Boot though since I never watched it with subs (I'm not even sure, if the Version I own offers subtitles).
Das Boot is an amazing movie in every respect.I remember when I saw it with my father. He was a WW2 veteran (a gunner on a B-17 bombe in the South Pacific.) and never talked about his war experience. He cried in the car on our way home. It was only then that he opened up about his time in the war. Also, I had Jewish friends who objected to it. They said it glorified the Nazis and they were quite vocal about their opinions. They then saw the movie. They apologized for what they said. Das Boot is a story about the horrors of war and about our instinct to survive.
@@wyattpeterson6286 In the movie there is a broadcast speech by Goering and the captain calls him a fat slob. He also has no love for his number 1 who was a Hitler youth leader.
One of the reviews of "Das Boot" when it first came out said (quoting from memory long ago) "...to show the futility of war by showing its effects on the individual is nothing new, but "Das Boot" does a very good job..." And I always thought the most tragic figure was the chief engineer, seeing all his training, knowledge, and skills used for a purpose like that.
Something most don't realize was that Dus Boot was the first time the chest mounted steady cam was used in a movie. It is how they shot all the running through the boat footage.
Das Boot is da shit! Ive wathed it (german version) about 15 times or so and Ive read the book at least 5 times. The movie is very true to the book wich I recommend.
All movies are crap with dubs, subtitles all the way I don't understand why people like translations at all. Works on cartoons because they are voice overs already but not on movies.
_I don't understand why people like translations at all_ - Well, just watch an Italian Western, a Japanese Anime or _Das Boot_ in original language without dubs or subtitles if you understand neither Italian nor Japanese nor German. ;-) Of course, the English version of _Das Boot_ sounds quite funny to me, but since my mother tongue is German instead of English, it's not my concern. You can never say, original is always good, translations are always crap. I guess it rather depends on what you are used to. And on the skills of the translators, the dubbing actors or the subtitle engineers.
HeavyMetalPanzerBua That's why I wrote subtitles all the way. I don't understand german, but imagine watching Downfall with Hitler speaking French. Better with subs. Anime is a cartoon so it doesn't need subs, dubbing is fine.
After I had watched this video a couple of days ago, I rented Das Boot (directors cut German language English subtitles) and instantly fell in love with it. Best submarine movie hands down. Rent it and make a long night watching it (4hours) it's worth it!
Before you watch the long version, watch the shorter one first a couple of times. I caught the long version once and kept saying, "I don't remember this!" a lot. The pissing on the cars at the beginning, the airplane attack, the time on the supply ship in Vego... Enjoy!
I pretty much agree with this ranking, but I have one comment regarding Das Boot. The movie tells the story of a group of 50 men (more like kids), a bunch of young German sailors trying to serve their country, they weren't Nazis. The movie clearly distances itself from Hitler's regime from the start (otherwise I doubt they would've allowed this movie to be released in Germany at all during the 80s). If you paid attention to the dialogs, you'd know that the captain (who is the only one making political statements in the movie) criticizes the Nazi regime, Hitler, Göring, his Nazi sympathizer oberleutnant from Mexico, etc., during the whole movie. Das Boot tells us how people like Hitler and other important figures of his regime played with the lives of young German men and good experienced officers like the captain, by sending them on suicide missions without even knowing how dangerous/nasty/claustrophobic it was to sail in a uboat.
Bartosz Paduch People kill people all the time for different reasons. It's easy to be quick to blame when you lack perspective. Watch "Das Boot" and you might just get some of that. :)
TheNattvarelsen I wrote about my perspective and I've watched "Das Boot" several times and I like that movie. I'm just against re-writing history to avoid responsibility - also through such a good telling stories movies like "Das Boot". Yes - people kill people all the times for different reason but some of them has right - some of them are wrong. Don't try to relativize something that is obvious and established..
Bartosz Paduch I see your point and it wasn't my intention to try to blur anything. The point remains however: that this movie is counted as one of the most realistic views of the war ever presented. If you want the good old black & White WW2 stories, then let me recommend "Band of Brothers" or "Pacific". The political and social turmoil around the Nazi party's rise to power is still a remarkable study in itself. These subjects, I mean, are neither obvious nor established.
Dre Zee The Nazis did murder jews, sovjet p.o.w:s, socialists etc. on an industrial scale. That's not really compareable with the internment of the US-Japanese population. Losers ofthen write history as well. This movie is an example of that. :)
Dre Zee Like I said, imprisonment and genocide is really not compareable. Even if the treatment of the US-japanese population is debatable. The mass-murders in war-zones and genocide in deathcamps made by the germans is very well documented, by german historians in particullar. (Armenia has a population of 3 million. Alot less before the first world war. I don't see how that supposed genocide could have been possible. )
Das Boot, the first destroyer depth charging attack is a bit too hollywood. that amount of depth charges that close to the submarine would have damaged them beyond repair, at least maimed or killed half the crew.
@@joefish6091 this movie is the closest to the real thing on submarine. Most veterans agree, as far as the movie concerned, you won’t get any more realistic than this. Just like the Omaha beach in saving private Ryan
@@Packet37 I agree with Das Boot, but Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan also was over the top, but i get it. They wanted to include as much destruction in as little time as a quarter hour. In reality though, the beach was much longer, the fire much more inaccurate and from 4400 allied deaths only 2500 were American, whereas no Canadians, British, Australian or NZs were shown. A common misconception of the beach was, that it was short enough to simply sprint or jog your way through to the defensive lines, but pictures from the higgins boats show that you would tire out maybe a 10th on the way, that's how long it was. Looks like you'd be walking at least a mile on sand.
@@tompilkington7379 No there was a major issue that was totally unrealistic in the movie SPR. The sniper was left handed and using a 1903 Springfield bolt action rifle. That simply would never have happened.
Well... I was never go that far. Whilst it isn't impossible, they could make a movie that beats it. Sure it has not been made yet... But always is a long time.
Absolutely, "Das Boot" is number one! But the sailors in the U-Boats were mostly (unlike the surface navy) NOT active Nazis. Kreigsmarine (sp?) for the most part conducted the war in warlike, not brutish, fashion, and Doenitz wasn't even executed after Nuremburg, but released after serving a prison term (I think it was 20 years, but don't quote me.) He even ascended to Reichfuhrer after Hitler.
Think Doenitz got only 10 years at Nuremburg one of the lighter sentences, Hitler only promoted him to Reichsfuhrer to slap all the Nazi party members that led the Wehrmacht because he saw them as the people that betrayed him and Doenitz wasn't a registered Nazi party member, if I remember right.
Doenitz got 10 years at Nuremberg, along with Raeder. The German navy wasn't persecuted as vindictively as the Army. Part of the reason was that Doenitz's lawyer was able successfully to argue the "tu quoque" ("You did it too") defense. He actually contacted American Admiral Chester Nimitz and got a statement attesting that the German and American policies and tactics had been very much the same.
You are right about that in some points. If Stalin would have been not no ruthless to his own people (soldieres were shot, if they are not "brave" enough in the eyes of the political officers - means, that they are not running freely into MG-42 fire), Russia would have been defeated 1941/42. After the war he installed a total control in russia and eastern Europe and ruled with an iron fist. But hey - Hitler and Stalin were both monsters. I am from germany and I don´t want to live (out of my perspective) in a europe under Nazi Leadership.
I was all upset when The Hunt For Red October was #2 until they announced Das Boot as #1 and I slapped my damn forehead for forgetting about it. Good list, U-571 and Yellow Submarine....not so much.
+DesiDude297 - That was my thought. And Voyage to the bottom of the sea? I don't think so.I'd have replaced them with Ice station Zebra and Operation Pettocoat.
+David Majors Yea.. i would consider ice station Zebra a submarine movie... well a lot of it is not on a submarin, but most is. And its a little diffrent from a lot other submarine movies with all the same kind of sceens.
+Jesse Bains Down Periscope was a funny movie, but, Yellow Submarine is a Classic!. :-)and what Submarine movie has a better Hit Single?, Hit Soundtrack Album?, and the Beatles!. :-D
“Das Boot” is definitely one of the greatest submarine movies ever made, and I agree that it’s placed at #1. “The Hunt For Red October”, “Run Silent, Run Deep”, and “Crimson Tide” are also great movies to watch in that sub genre. But there’s one particular submarine movie that shouldn’t be forgotten on this list, and it’s “Gray Lady Down”. It’s mainly a disaster film that involves a rescue attempt of a crashed submarine at an abyss, and Charlton Heston played the sub’s captain. In my opinion, it’s quite good. It didn’t top all the submarine movies, but it has some nerve racking pace that brings a lot of suspense with a sinking feeling.
Funny you should mention Gray Lady Down. I was on the boat that took Charlton Heston to sea so he could learn how to be a submarine skipper for the movie. I remember that day. He was not as engaging as his producer was. Up until that time he was my hero from Ben Hur. Still a good man though.
Das Boot is not only the best submarine movie. Its one of the best war movies and one of the best movies overall I saw so far in my life. I was a kid when I saw it the first time (on 3 separate parts). I wont go into spoilers and no one should. There are some scenes that I will never forget. A very competent movie and the cast is perfect.
Das Boot was the first movie I rented in the videoclub as a child. Me and my sister stayed up all night because of it and I remember all the grown-ups fell asleep and we thought wtf how are they bored with this awesome movie? I don't think me and my sister blinked once during the movie.
Das Boot is one of the best movies i have ever seen. But i hate the fact you say nazis about kriegsmarine. they didnt have a lot of nazis in german navy id say only 15% of them were nazis
mobucks555 Yes, but party affiliation was not stressed in the Navy. Raeder made it a point to try to keep politics subdued. This was especially so as compared to the army.
ScipioAfricanusI From what I have read (and I have not gone too deep on the subject) the kriegsmarine were fanatic Nazi's. Not all, but most. They truelly believed in what they were doing for the Reich. It would make sense considering they fed B.S. the whole time they were at sea.
Pyry Puustinen It's like saying that the Red Army was full of extreme Communists, however there would have been more than 15%, 1 million men were enlisted in the SS at the height of their power
lee farnsworth first of all ofcourse they truelly believed in what they were doing just like the wermacht's soldiers, luftwaffe's pilots, they fought for the germany and their nation, do you really believe that those man in submarines knew what was happening on the land, even if they were party members, the hell even germans on the land didn't know it, nazis as submarine commanders were on the sea, in the battles, those high ranked nazis knew, but their inferior did not.
I'm russian and my grandfather was a sabmariner in the end of ww2. He watched all submurine movies untill 1999 when he died. So his opinion Das boot was the best film ever been. His Explanations were so long and professionally technically
Brian, as a NavET of 12 years I can agree with you and say that most Submariners I know will agree as well. Crimson Tide and Red October both suck and can be cringe worthy in some spots.
Just part of it. They cracked the 3-rotor army and airforce version of the enigma. While that was good and important groundwork the navy version had 4 rotors. It was uncrackable by a human beeing. Thats why they used the first real computer to do it.
That's the weird film I always randomly remember scenes, tell anyone and no matter their age, country or bloody which planet they where born in. Everyone knows it and everyone likes it.
I think this commaraderie was very well demonstrated with the Kursk - submariners from the US, UK, Norway cared more about those poor guys stuck down there than their own government who just let them die
Yes, and don't forget the Poles. They actually cracked the code BEFORE the Brits at Bletchley. They passed on their knowledge to Alan Turing and information on how to build the mechanism to simulate the Enigma, leading to the computer. Many Poles also flew Hurricanes and Spits in the Battle of Britain, many not even speaking English nor being able to read the instruments completely, but nonetheless downing German warplanes. But both these historical facts are often overlooked.
@Koba Yes, with Russia to the east and Germany to the west Poland was in no enviable position at the time. Listing the war crimes both sides commited there would be a really time consuming endeavour. Not that the same wasn't true for other countries between Germany and Russia as well (And Finnland I guess, though that one mainly suffered from Russia, not really from Germany).
How true! “ Master Sight to the Bridge”....I remember the first time I heard Juergen issue that order in the film like it was yesterday. The book was fantastic, the film it’s equal!
It all depends on the type of movie you want to see. Hunt for Red October has modern realism and is a very good adaptation of the best submarine book. It is not of the wartime genre, however. Das Boot is wonderful, but it does not fill the space that Hunt For Red October does...a peacetime tale that highlights grand strategy and modern technology and geopolitics.
@@mandoreforger6999 Das Boot is more realistic it is just the BEST, simple as that!! The movie had the perfect cast also.....There will never be another CLASSIC like Das Boot.. They were real Wolfpack
As far as I'm concerned, Das Boot is the best action film ever! We saw this film in a multiplex. It was on two screens and we were in the small theater. At the end everyone dashed for the outside to relieve our claustrphobia! Perfect movie making. The Director's Cut is even better and I felt claustropbobic -- even in my living room.
Submarine movies are among my favorite... before seeing the WatchMojo list here are my favorites, curious to see how they compare. #1- Das Boot(The Boat) #2- The Hunt for Red October #3- Crimson Tide #4- The Enemy Below #5- Run Silent, Run Deep #6- K-19 #7- Gray Lady Down #8- Operation Petticoat #9- The Abyss #10-Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Clearly you are not a Submariner. Crimson Tide is considered by those of us that are Qualified Submariners as one of the worst submarine movies of all time.
I love Das Boot. The reason why? There is no Hollywood "every german is a nazi" bullshit, intense ending, great actors, and it`s based on the memories of Lothar Guenther Buchheim. But I also like U-571,a typical Hollywood movie. Great action movie. ;-)
You are full of shit. Not in anyway many were nazi. Some western german cities never supported hitler but they were drafted into service of course. Uninformed and totally clueless person again opening his mouth about some things he knows nothing about. To him world is just simple place.
U-571 was made years later and totally ripped off camera and scene sets from Das Boot. Plus the the author (and eye witness) of Das Boot, Lothar Buchheim, refused to allow Hollywood to cast the film with Americans involved because the story takes place pre Pearl Harbor. Hollywood gave up and eventually it was brilliantly made in German studios. U-571 was the lame attempt 20 years later to cover the genre.....and oh yeah, write the US in place of the Brits for the story.
"You will never find yourself rooting so hard for the Nazis." I totally agree. When I watched Das Boot for the first time, I was riveted to the screen for the full 3 and a half hour length.
The statement by the narrator that "You'll never root so hard for the Nazis" at the end of the clip on Das Boot is not really accurate. To a man, the Germans in Admiral Karl Doenitz's navy were apolitical and not members of the Nazi party. They were, however, fiercely loyal to the Fatherland, Germany, and its proud, industrious people. The narrator should have said, "You'll never root so hard for the Germans." Sailors in any man's navy are just that, sailors doing their jobs they were trained to do.
Jason Gant That they were apolitical is romantic rubbish. In fact, most German submarine crews were extremely young and heavily indoctrinated. Das Boot influenced popular culture into believing German submariners were apolitical and that's not true at all.
"To a man, the Germans in Admiral Karl Doenitz's navy were apolitical" This is so far wrong as to be ridiculous. Dönitz was a committed Nazi supporter, and he was extremely influential in the indoctrination of officers in the Kreigsmarine with Nazi ideology. The U-Boat service was notorious for its high proportion of crew and, especially, officers who were committed Nazis. Dönitz was an anti-Semitic and expected officers to share his ideology. Of course, there were exceptions, but the idea that this lot were universally, or even substantively apolitical in the sense of not supporting Nazi ideology is way wide of the mark.
Completely wrong The writer of the original boot Das Boot was a former PK (propaganda kompany) journalist in the German Armed Forces who wrote it using material gathered from several war patrols he made out of the French Atlantic ports and it is a portmanteau of those voyages. All branches of the German Armed Forces contained political officers on behalf of the NasDap in order to make sure that the members were properely indoctrinated and understood National Socialist aims and thus were receptive to the orders given down by the Fuhrer through first Raeder and then Dönitz which they obeyed even in some case's when they ran contrary to what was the established "law of the sea." The reason for the book by Lothar-Günther Buchheim was to help rehabilitate the image of the Unterseeboot and the crews who sailed in them, the best way to do that was to deny the reality that many Kapitans who commanded in them were National Socialists and to turn them into apoltical figures who even despised the Nazi's. That was a trick employed by Eric Remarque in his work All Quiet On The Western Front who divorced his characters from the fervent Nationalism that had permeated Wilhelmine Germany at the start of World War I by making them more concerned with survival than politics during the fighting.
As a former Reactor Operator, I initially qualified S8G (Trident) and served on a fast attack boat. I can't believe that Ice Station Zebra didn't make this list. It has incredibly accurate representation of under ice submarine operations. And I crossed into the Arctic Circle more times than I can count and I made a polar run as well. Also, at least honorable mentions, Destination Tokyo, Torpedo Run, and The Hunley. Although The Hunley was a made for TV movie, it portrays the first true combat submarine during the US Civil War. It torpedoed and sank the USS Housatonic in Charleston bay in 1864. I'm not really sure how a psychedelic cartoon like Yellow Submarine makes this list. And finally, Crimson Tide? Are you kidding me? That would be my #1 WORST submarine movie of all time!!! It may have action and be entertaining to anyone who doesn't know anything about subs or submarine operations. But to anyone who does, there are so many things horribly wrong or flat misrepresented in Crimson Tide that it should offend anyone who actually served in the Silent Service!! I know it offended me the first time I saw it in the theater and I wanted to walk out but my wife convinced me to stay to the end. Although it had an intriguing and plausible strategic premise, the rest of the movie was just AWFUL!
One of the greatest joys of being German is being able to watch "das boot" in German without subtitles. There's just subtleties to many languages, but German especially I think that will inevitably lost in translation. Das boot is probably my favourite movie of all time.
@@benheideveld4617 Interestingly this was intended by the director. They handpicked many (at that time) unknown actors with as many German dialects as possible to show that in war it doesn't matter where you are from, the only thing that matters Is that you're fighting for your country.
i am german and i can tell you the untertitle is many time complete different from what they say, and what is the most sad, all the jokes, all the funny talks in this movie, in the english translation loose that everytink.
Get the box set.. the movie is to edited. And I showed it to an old gent who was on the subs in the second world war.. he cried.. it's the only film that comes close to what it's like
Das Boot hands down not only the best sub movie but the best war film. Watch the director's extended version. In a dark room, sound turned up. Long but so worth it.
And what makes you think I’m either sarcastic or bluffing. I DO like them and Still enjoy Watching them. Not my problem if you don’t; and don’t think saying you’re part of the silent service means you know what films to criticize.
@@dinomonzon7493 You can enjoy what you want. Just don't think that those movies are an accurate picture of submarine duty. I take a critical eye to every movie I watch. My brother-in-law is a firefighter. If we're watching something that involve the fire department, I'll ask him about its accuracy. He usually sighs and grabs another beer!
I'm surprised Down Periscope didn't get an honorable mention. Such a great comedy movie. It's one of my father's favorites and he's a former submariner. Along with The Hunt for Red October.
I agree! I mean, c'mon, only one little scene at the very end? I grew up with submariners and this was always there favorite along with--like you said--hunt for red October. It's actually pretty darn accurate too! I'm kinda disappointed.
Das Boot should be number one. I am old enough to remember meeting WWII submarine sailors who had actual experienced depth charge attacks and they tell me flat out, no question, that that movie showed the reality like none other.
I agree mostly with this the rankings. Especially the #1. Das Boot is by far the best sub movie ever made and probably one of the best movie's ever made!
The Director's Cut of "Das Boot" (at a whopping 4hrs 53min runtime) is the Must See version. After watching that you get the feeling you were actually on the sub, experiencing everything the crew did. This is due in large part to director Wolfgang Petersen's attention to detail, like keeping the cast deliberately inside dyeing filming so they would look as pale as a real u-boat crew. This is THE ultimate submarine movie.
Crimson Tide is definitely deserving to be on the list. It’s masterclass of acting and the casting is perfect. There’s a podcast called 90s Roulette that talks at length about it in one of their episodes and it’s super funny and interesting. There really aren’t any clear cut good guys and bad guys in the movie
Das Boot is really really good. Goes up there together with Der Untergang and Das Leben der Anderen of being great German-movies. Plus you can always choose if you gonna watch the movie or the 4 hours mini-series.
Jurgen Procnow should have received at least a Nomination ,if not a downright Academy Award. His performance was sheer brilliance. In the end I was there right beside him watching his Vessel, which endured so much. Going . . going. . gone.
+Dakers11 Agreed: a powerful performance, especially when you watch the actual TV broadcast and not the heavily-edited movie. When you follow the crew for over five hours you're really rooting them to get home safe at the end, and you know that that's all the Captain wants. And then...
The Submarine was customized for a Hollywood movie, but the producers and crews were unable to make a movie on this boat. They opened sections of this short original boat. After failing they sold the U-Boot Back to the german Bavaria Film Studios and the WDR TV Channel in Germany. The Germans repaired the U-Boot back to the original U-96 and made a produced a 5hours TV event. They made also a shorter version for international Cinema. Every actor learned low German / Low Saxon accent of german sailors. The actors were trained on short diesel-electric powered coastal submarines from the German Navy. The movie was also showed in german schools over decades and was showed for training of german sailors from the Bundesmarine/ Federal German Navy. One of of the most authentic war movies, that was ever made. The jokes by the sailors in Low Saxon are very authentic. Also all the attitudes and opinions are authentic , by the old sailors from World War I & II. Remembering the resistance of social democratic german sailors against war from 1918 in the naval bases Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. This was the end of World War I, the Kaiser and a new beginning democratic Germany between 1918- 1933. In 1933 the Nazis destroyed it it. The Tipirary Song showed that many brave german sailors were against the Nazis, and they only followed orders to defend their country. The director of this movie event was born and grew up in east-frisian habour Emden near by Wilhelmshaven
My father was in U.S. submarines during World War II. After seeing Das Boot he told me that even though it was about a different navy and even a different ocean, he felt he was back aboard his old boat.
I live near Groton CT. where they build subs. At one time they had a WW2 US sub there that you could walk through. Pretty much the same as the German U Boats.
@@StratBurst92 I live in Groton. I'm a retired Navy Senior Chief and I was a submariner.
German U-Boats are very different in philosophy and design to American submarines. I know these comments are meant to mean well but they are hardly the same. From WW1 to WW2 u-boats were vessels that could cruise on the surface and submerge for short periods of time at slower speeds until the nuclear age when submarines became more hydrodynamic in design and spend most of their time submerged.
@@christopherfidler3019This wasn’t possible. The best US boats of WW2 could go 8-9 knots for one hour only submerged and 2 knots for 48 hrs. How can such a “ submarine” stay submerged constantly, it just isn’t possible. There is a reason the type 21 electro was revolutionary for it’s time. This is not to say the IS boats weren’t great boats they were but they weren’t true submariners, such a vessel didn’t exist in ww2.
Best sub movie of all time
I served in the Royal Navy "submarine service", and consider Das Boot to be the most realistic Submarine action movie ever made.
Watch the ghazi attack movie this is unbelievable movie based in true events
Heard the "Perisher" qualification is unbelievably difficult...
Zulu Foxx If you have amazon prime, you can watch a mini series on it. It’s titled “how to command a nuclear submarine”, 6 episodes (I believe) and each one is around 30-45 minutes
I served aboard 5 USN subs and totally agree with you. The acting was superbly done.
@@rajraut6641 i watched it poor graphics...
I was a submariner and I can say that Das Boot does capture what life is like on a submarine better than anything Hollywood has produced!
That's cause Hollywood wants to think you guys were on a boat with the same amount of space as a Cruise Ship.
I'm a Boat sailor, too, and I agree. 1 Nuc and 1 Diesel.
Yeah this film isnt American Propaganda
Can I show it to my high school German language class?
I hope your time as a submariner was a lot more peaceful than Das Boot depicted. Brilliant movie.
Das Boot, especially the 5 hour long version, is not only the best submarine movie ever made, it's one of the best war movies ever made, and basically just a cinematic masterpiece.
There’s a 5 hour version?
@@CL-bq9ul Yup. It ran as a 5 part TV miniseries in some parts of Europe. The "complete, uncut" version was released on DVD back in the early 2000's. This version can only be found on the German Blu-ray editions, these days.
Yes sir.
I agree 100%
With all due respect and I saw Das boat I would still say that Crimson Tide gives it to give a serious run for his money in terms of action action is what you’re looking for the Crimson Tide is the best film ever made if you’re looking at life or the submarine well then DOS boat is a definite winner because if you wanna know what life is like on a run on a German U-boat during World War II that pretty much does a dead Nelson
Submarine movie rule #4: There must be a scene where the submarine is taken down to a depth not tested before. At least one pipe must burst.
+Brad Evans To be a really good one, it also has to have 30 seconds of the crew silent and sweating, listening to the creak of the hull.
+Brad Evans
And a pin or a bolt must take out at least one light.
+Brad Evans And don't forget the obligatory scene where the sub takes damage, a compartment starts to flood, and a watertight door has to be closed, dooming all the injured men in that compartment.
+Brad Evans Don't leave out the mandatory giant octopus attack.
varanid9 Nope. Not really in most submarine movies. Kind of missed the mark there.
Das Boot, the best u-boat film ever. I agree.
100% there no match, best sub movie ever
The Enemy Below (1957) was the best imo.
A great movie, although the author of the novel didn’t agree with it; his version was more anti-nazi.
The old one
Actually, the best one is still undetected. It's hiding somewhere in the depths.
If you are going to watch Das Boot please watch the German version with English subtitles
+george phillips And dont watch the too compressed cinema version but pack some patience for the excellent 5hrs "mini series" tv adaption.
seelenwaechter Oh totally dude, its well worth it.
+george phillips I did not know they had a 5 hour miniseries?is it as intense as the movie version?I have the movie with the subtitles that is the best one imo.I will have to look for the miniseries. Can it be found here on YT?Cheers
i don't think its 5 hours, but it is pretty long
Rob Hernandez Netflix has it. Im not sure though if Das Boot is available on non-german Netflix. Sadly, it was nowhere else to be found, thats why Im so glad I can borrow a friends Netflix-Account right now for watching Das Boot.
Yes, Das Boot is the best. Awesome movie, a masterpiece.
If Das Boot wasn't #1 there would be a mutiny in the comments section.
came here to pick a fight, but Das Boot is number 1. So all good!
"Get back, Johan!" (Zuruck, Johan, zuruck)!
I loved run silent run deep and the enemy below because I saw them on the big screen when they were out. sometimes mom would drop us off at the RKO palace and we'd watch two movies or sometimes three. it reminds me I saw one of my all-time favorites that way. "Lawrence of Arabia" which I think is a movie the totally holds up today. +
But I was stunned when I saw das boot in a theater that does almost all foreign films. I saw it in German with English subtitles and that is the way I recommend it. If you haven't already seen it don't watch the English language version of it. the background soundtrack in the original version is incredible and essential storytelling. They totally wrecked it in the overdubbed version. it's cool that we all seem to think das boot is clearly the greatest submarine movie ever made and one of the greatest war movies ever made. The greatest war movies do not glorify war. (i just made an edit that added: "do not". Can't believe I didn't notice when I wrote it. Great war movies do not glorify war. "Platoon" "Saving Private Ryan", "SCHINDLER'S LIST", "Life is Beautiful", and this movie are among the few movies that do NOT glorify war)
You are dead right.
I actually forgot about Das Boot and was wondering why Hunt for the Red October was number two
Run Silent, Run Deep my Dad once said it was the reason he joined the Navy. He made it into the submarine force and served for thirty years. He passed in February, gone but never forget. R.I.P Frederick M Holmes Jr.
Thanks to your dad for his loyal service.
Thank you to your Dad for serving this great country. My Dad was Navy; machinist on aircraft carriers!
I joined because of 20,000 Leagues, so same genre
I am glad Das Boot was #1.
That and Hunt For Red October. Both are great.
There's a scene where they show the bunk curtains and a hanging gold pocket watch behind some talking sailors and they are moving slightly. Nice touch. There's always movement on a ship that's underway, u-boats as well.
Das Boot, - the Boat... hands down the best sub movie, possibly best war movie of all time
i watched it the other day, unreal movie. loved it, was the only time ive ever wanted the germans to succeed
Have you guys seen Hunter Killer?
@@KUKIFYN3ST_886 hahahaha, best joke I’ve heard all day
Das Boot is one of the best war movies of all time
+uconnjames Totally wrong! It is THE best war movie of all times
+uconnjames Bullshit! "Which Way to the Front?" is the finest war movie ever made.
+uconnjames It's no doubt the finest submarine warfare film ever made.
+uconnjames In my opinion it´s probably the best movie of all time period! :)
+Kenneth André Hansen It is the only movie I have seen that smells of diesel oil.
Das Boot is not only the best submarinemovie ever made, it's also the best warmovie ever made. Pure genius. Everything is top notch.
And no, Saving Private Ryan doesn't stand a chance.
+Harry Waltersson They both fall in the top ten list.
+Dirtlawyer64 Das Boot is Definatley in contention though. Another of my personal favorites is the 1993 STalingrad directed by Joseph Vilsmaier
Only the D-Day scene was good, the rest of the movie sucked and was just stupid.
Not the best War movie. It has stiff opposition from Letters from Iwo Jima, or Tora! Tora! Tora! For two. I'd also throw John Mills' Dunkirk into the mix if we're looking for more accurate pics. The Cruel Sea also comes at the top end.
Of course that’s just your opinion. But you might want to check out Sam Peckinpah the “ cross of iron” 1977. It’s set in the German retreat from the Taman peninsula 1943 by the Wehrmacht 17th Army to the Kuban Bridgehead.
Das Boot is pretty intense and moving. No one wins, everybody loses: It´s the best moral a war movie can taught us.
Agreed. An excellent film PERIOD.
This is TRUE unless and until one's reluctance to stand eventually EMBROILS one IN a war. THEN..........since you're IN one due to trying to be a nice GAF about it all and avoid it, thus convincing the aggressor you ARE a GAF (hold that word up to a mirror if you're confused), you'd best win it.
The Germans lost.
"Give me a ping Vasily, one ping only please..."
"Make revolutions for 20 knots and engage the propellers."
Yellow submarine....are you f-ing kidding
Scratch Voyage to the bottom of the sea. Add Below, with Bruce Greenwood.
+Steve Frye Add, Black Sea
with Jude Law
I'm here to fix this comment from having replies only by its own author
And heres someone without a shred of imagination.
ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR FRIGGIN MIND ? WHAT A STUPID CHOICE !
Das Boot is better in German with subs on.
Normally I'm a fan of all things dubbed, but in this case you're absolutely right. Directors cut in German is the only way to go.
any film is better in the original language. It's part of the actor perfomance...
Well I like that I don't need subs for Das Boot. Most subs are often off to a good amount by the way. I remember watching U-571 while I was in an exchange program on Malta. I had a hard time to keep back the laughs when the German crew of that U-Boot was shown talking in german and the subtilte was so far of from what was really being said. I can't tell for Das Boot though since I never watched it with subs (I'm not even sure, if the Version I own offers subtitles).
It was aired as a 4 episode miniseries
Watch out for those wasserbombs.
Das Boot is an amazing movie in every respect.I remember when I saw it with my father. He was a WW2 veteran (a gunner on a B-17 bombe in the South Pacific.) and never talked about his war experience. He cried in the car on our way home. It was only then that he opened up about his time in the war. Also, I had Jewish friends who objected to it. They said it glorified the Nazis and they were quite vocal about their opinions. They then saw the movie. They apologized for what they said. Das Boot is a story about the horrors of war and about our instinct to survive.
I'm glad your Jewish friends changed their opinions , there would have been awfully wrong if they didn't had...
If I understand Das Boot correctly, it shows that not all Germans were Nazis, especially not in the kriegsmarine.
@@wyattpeterson6286 In the movie there is a broadcast speech by Goering and the captain calls him a fat slob. He also has no love for his number 1 who was a Hitler youth leader.
well, göring wasnt very popular to begin with, and he declined further and further with time...
One of the reviews of "Das Boot" when it first came out said (quoting from memory long ago) "...to show the futility of war by showing its effects on the individual is nothing new, but "Das Boot" does a very good job..."
And I always thought the most tragic figure was the chief engineer, seeing all his training, knowledge, and skills used for a purpose like that.
Something most don't realize was that Dus Boot was the first time the chest mounted steady cam was used in a movie. It is how they shot all the running through the boat footage.
Das boot is in a total different league than all the others.
Das Boot is da shit! Ive wathed it (german version) about 15 times or so and Ive read the book at least 5 times. The movie is very true to the book wich I recommend.
One of the best war movies ever made, one of the all time classic movies of any genre actually.
i'd like to ad it's defenetly an anti-war movie, but one of the best if not the best, yes.
Than all the others........combined.
Exactly, as in much else re. engineering ,classical music, rocket science et al !
how did yellow submarine make this list just is astounding
Pete M Because it’s a fun movie
Beatles are the most overrated band of all time.
Same reason it got made... drugs....
More realistic than U571
@@TheDaverobinson U571 should have given those American Submariners credit for writing 'Let it Be'!
the English-dub version of Das Boot is pretty shitty, just do original with subtitles
that's right I was about to say that my friend
ditto
All movies are crap with dubs, subtitles all the way I don't understand why people like translations at all. Works on cartoons because they are voice overs already but not on movies.
_I don't understand why people like translations at all_ - Well, just watch an Italian Western, a Japanese Anime or _Das Boot_ in original language without dubs or subtitles if you understand neither Italian nor Japanese nor German. ;-)
Of course, the English version of _Das Boot_ sounds quite funny to me, but since my mother tongue is German instead of English, it's not my concern.
You can never say, original is always good, translations are always crap. I guess it rather depends on what you are used to. And on the skills of the translators, the dubbing actors or the subtitle engineers.
HeavyMetalPanzerBua That's why I wrote subtitles all the way. I don't understand german, but imagine watching Downfall with Hitler speaking French. Better with subs. Anime is a cartoon so it doesn't need subs, dubbing is fine.
I liked "Down periscope" with Kelsey Grammer more then a lot of these. Top 2 is accurate though.
After I had watched this video a couple of days ago, I rented Das Boot (directors cut German language English subtitles) and instantly fell in love with it. Best submarine movie hands down. Rent it and make a long night watching it (4hours) it's worth it!
Before you watch the long version, watch the shorter one first a couple of times. I caught the long version once and kept saying, "I don't remember this!" a lot.
The pissing on the cars at the beginning, the airplane attack, the time on the supply ship in Vego...
Enjoy!
I pretty much agree with this ranking, but I have one comment regarding Das Boot.
The movie tells the story of a group of 50 men (more like kids), a bunch of young German sailors trying to serve their country, they weren't Nazis. The movie clearly distances itself from Hitler's regime from the start (otherwise I doubt they would've allowed this movie to be released in Germany at all during the 80s).
If you paid attention to the dialogs, you'd know that the captain (who is the only one making political statements in the movie) criticizes the Nazi regime, Hitler, Göring, his Nazi sympathizer oberleutnant from Mexico, etc., during the whole movie.
Das Boot tells us how people like Hitler and other important figures of his regime played with the lives of young German men and good experienced officers like the captain, by sending them on suicide missions without even knowing how dangerous/nasty/claustrophobic it was to sail in a uboat.
Bartosz Paduch People kill people all the time for different reasons. It's easy to be quick to blame when you lack perspective. Watch "Das Boot" and you might just get some of that. :)
TheNattvarelsen I wrote about my perspective and I've watched "Das Boot" several times and I like that movie. I'm just against re-writing history to avoid responsibility - also through such a good telling stories movies like "Das Boot". Yes - people kill people all the times for different reason but some of them has right - some of them are wrong. Don't try to relativize something that is obvious and established..
Bartosz Paduch I see your point and it wasn't my intention to try to blur anything. The point remains however: that this movie is counted as one of the most realistic views of the war ever presented. If you want the good old black & White WW2 stories, then let me recommend "Band of Brothers" or "Pacific". The political and social turmoil around the Nazi party's rise to power is still a remarkable study in itself. These subjects, I mean, are neither obvious nor established.
Dre Zee The Nazis did murder jews, sovjet p.o.w:s, socialists etc. on an industrial scale. That's not really compareable with the internment of the US-Japanese population. Losers ofthen write history as well. This movie is an example of that. :)
Dre Zee Like I said, imprisonment and genocide is really not compareable. Even if the treatment of the US-japanese population is debatable. The mass-murders in war-zones and genocide in deathcamps made by the germans is very well documented, by german historians in particullar. (Armenia has a population of 3 million. Alot less before the first world war. I don't see how that supposed genocide could have been possible. )
Sean Connery. The only actor who can have a Scottish accent as a Russian, AND get away with it. lol
XD
Well he's Sean Connery. Plus being a spy or double agent for a couple decades does tend to make some people go native :P
DAS boot is a better film;however the hunt for the red October is always enjoyable. I have seen it more times than das boot.
My mother said that Sean Connery was hot in Hunt For Red October. I thought I was gonna throw up...
HES NOT RUSSIAN IN THE MOVIE.....Hes Lithuanian.
Das Boot is with out a doubt the most realistic war movie ever filmed.
Das Boot, the first destroyer depth charging attack is a bit too hollywood.
that amount of depth charges that close to the submarine would have damaged them beyond repair, at least maimed or killed half the crew.
@@joefish6091 this movie is the closest to the real thing on submarine. Most veterans agree, as far as the movie concerned, you won’t get any more realistic than this.
Just like the Omaha beach in saving private Ryan
@@Packet37 I agree with Das Boot, but Omaha Beach in Saving Private Ryan also was over the top, but i get it. They wanted to include as much destruction in as little time as a quarter hour. In reality though, the beach was much longer, the fire much more inaccurate and from 4400 allied deaths only 2500 were American, whereas no Canadians, British, Australian or NZs were shown. A common misconception of the beach was, that it was short enough to simply sprint or jog your way through to the defensive lines, but pictures from the higgins boats show that you would tire out maybe a 10th on the way, that's how long it was. Looks like you'd be walking at least a mile on sand.
Omaha Beach in SPR?
@@tompilkington7379 No there was a major issue that was totally unrealistic in the movie SPR. The sniper was left handed and using a 1903 Springfield bolt action rifle. That simply would never have happened.
Das Boot is and will always be no1
Glenn Johan no
Well... I was never go that far. Whilst it isn't impossible, they could make a movie that beats it. Sure it has not been made yet... But always is a long time.
The spy who loved me is number 2 . . . I'm leading a mutiny against this list !! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Glad to see Down Periscope at least got some love at the end. It deserves to be in the top 5.
Absolutely, "Das Boot" is number one! But the sailors in the U-Boats were mostly (unlike the surface navy) NOT active Nazis. Kreigsmarine (sp?) for the most part conducted the war in warlike, not brutish, fashion, and Doenitz wasn't even executed after Nuremburg, but released after serving a prison term (I think it was 20 years, but don't quote me.) He even ascended to Reichfuhrer after Hitler.
Think Doenitz got only 10 years at Nuremburg one of the lighter sentences, Hitler only promoted him to Reichsfuhrer to slap all the Nazi party members that led the Wehrmacht because he saw them as the people that betrayed him and Doenitz wasn't a registered Nazi party member, if I remember right.
Doenitz got 10 years at Nuremberg, along with Raeder. The German navy wasn't persecuted as vindictively as the Army. Part of the reason was that Doenitz's lawyer was able successfully to argue the "tu quoque" ("You did it too") defense. He actually contacted American Admiral Chester Nimitz and got a statement attesting that the German and American policies and tactics had been very much the same.
Stephen Green Stalin was even worse than Hitler on many occasions.
You are right about that in some points. If Stalin would have been not no ruthless to his own people (soldieres were shot, if they are not "brave" enough in the eyes of the political officers - means, that they are not running freely into MG-42 fire), Russia would have been defeated 1941/42. After the war he installed a total control in russia and eastern Europe and ruled with an iron fist. But hey - Hitler and Stalin were both monsters. I am from germany and I don´t want to live (out of my perspective) in a europe under Nazi Leadership.
Judge Dredd stupid imperialistic propaganda!
Das Boot - the end gets me every time😢
Ah, the ending wrecks me every time. U-96 deserved beter.
@@BeLikeGumby at least the "Kaleunt" sank several enemy ships and brought back all his men alive. Its like Nelson: he did his duty.
I was all upset when The Hunt For Red October was #2 until they announced Das Boot as #1 and I slapped my damn forehead for forgetting about it. Good list, U-571 and Yellow Submarine....not so much.
U 571 was a piece of shit.
U-571 was not so bad. Historically incorrect but this is Hollywood. The actors did get the way commands are given and repeated down very well.
It was shite
U-571 was a joke to all, except the British, to whom it was basically an insult.
I liked U-571
Really? Yellow Submarine!?
+DesiDude297 - That was my thought. And Voyage to the bottom of the sea? I don't think so.I'd have replaced them with Ice station Zebra and Operation Pettocoat.
+DesiDude297 Yellow Submarine, and no Down Periscope? Bad list is bad....
+David Majors Yea.. i would consider ice station Zebra a submarine movie... well a lot of it is not on a submarin, but most is. And its a little diffrent from a lot other submarine movies with all the same kind of sceens.
+Jesse Bains Down Periscope was a funny movie, but, Yellow Submarine is a Classic!. :-)and what Submarine movie has a better Hit Single?, Hit Soundtrack Album?, and the Beatles!. :-D
+David Majors Ice Station Zebra is so brilliant, most under rated movie ever. But I am biased.
Best ww2: Das Boot
Best modern / cold war: The Hunt for Red October
“Das Boot” is definitely one of the greatest submarine movies ever made, and I agree that it’s placed at #1. “The Hunt For Red October”, “Run Silent, Run Deep”, and “Crimson Tide” are also great movies to watch in that sub genre. But there’s one particular submarine movie that shouldn’t be forgotten on this list, and it’s “Gray Lady Down”. It’s mainly a disaster film that involves a rescue attempt of a crashed submarine at an abyss, and Charlton Heston played the sub’s captain. In my opinion, it’s quite good. It didn’t top all the submarine movies, but it has some nerve racking pace that brings a lot of suspense with a sinking feeling.
Funny you should mention Gray Lady Down. I was on the boat that took Charlton Heston to sea so he could learn how to be a submarine skipper for the movie. I remember that day. He was not as engaging as his producer was. Up until that time he was my hero from Ben Hur. Still a good man though.
might wanna check out 'the bedford incident' with richard widmark and sidney poitier.
Agreed. Good movie
Das Boot is not only the best submarine movie. Its one of the best war movies and one of the best movies overall I saw so far in my life. I was a kid when I saw it the first time (on 3 separate parts). I wont go into spoilers and no one should. There are some scenes that I will never forget. A very competent movie and the cast is perfect.
Plutot Crever The ending is so sad. It reminds me of Stalingrad 1993
Das Boot was the first movie I rented in the videoclub as a child. Me and my sister stayed up all night because of it and I remember all the grown-ups fell asleep and we thought wtf how are they bored with this awesome movie? I don't think me and my sister blinked once during the movie.
Kinnmuskelspanner.
Das Boot is one of the best movies i have ever seen. But i hate the fact you say nazis about kriegsmarine. they didnt have a lot of nazis in german navy id say only 15% of them were nazis
Pyry Puustinen
Some of the most successful U-Boat captains were Nazis. Gunther Prien, Wolfgang Luth, et al.
mobucks555 Yes, but party affiliation was not stressed in the Navy. Raeder made it a point to try to keep politics subdued. This was especially so as compared to the army.
ScipioAfricanusI From what I have read (and I have not gone too deep on the subject) the kriegsmarine were fanatic Nazi's. Not all, but most. They truelly believed in what they were doing for the Reich. It would make sense considering they fed B.S. the whole time they were at sea.
Pyry Puustinen It's like saying that the Red Army was full of extreme Communists, however there would have been more than 15%, 1 million men were enlisted in the SS at the height of their power
lee farnsworth first of all ofcourse they truelly believed in what they were doing just like the wermacht's soldiers, luftwaffe's pilots, they fought for the germany and their nation, do you really believe that those man in submarines knew what was happening on the land, even if they were party members, the hell even germans on the land didn't know it, nazis as submarine commanders were on the sea, in the battles, those high ranked nazis knew, but their inferior did not.
I'm russian and my grandfather was a sabmariner in the end of ww2. He watched all submurine movies untill 1999 when he died. So his opinion Das boot was the best film ever been. His Explanations were so long and professionally technically
When you watch Das Boot, you feel like your in the sub yourself
Das Boot, Crimson Tide and Red October are the best. U-571 is pure Hollywood "Murica, go go go".
TheGrenadier97 the hunt for red october is the best submarine movie waht I have ever watched
Have you seen Das Boot in German (with subtitles)?
Crimson Tide was terrible. As a submariner, the best one is down periscope. no joke
Brian, as a NavET of 12 years I can agree with you and say that most Submariners I know will agree as well. Crimson Tide and Red October both suck and can be cringe worthy in some spots.
U571 is based off how the British captured an enigma machine
Das Boot all the way!! Whenever I see it I have to go and play Silent Hunter III with German speech even though I dont understand it 100%.
@Andrew Black Yes. But SH III is unbeatable.
There is Das Boot and then..............all the rest!!!!!
The red October is one of my favorite movies
great movie and the Widow Maker
Me too 👍🏻
I'm glad you mentioned it was the British who cracked the enigma code, Americans accept too many hollywood films as fact.
yeah, but actually, it were Poles who broke it
Wanderer628 Not only cracked the code. But also captured it from the U-boat!
Just part of it. They cracked the 3-rotor army and airforce version of the enigma. While that was good and important groundwork the navy version had 4 rotors. It was uncrackable by a human beeing. Thats why they used the first real computer to do it.
Poles did it.
You are confusing what Hollywood wants you to think vs what Americans really know! Besides, without the Polish, the Brits would not have gotten far.
Gee thanks for mentioning Down Periscope, I love it.
"Somebody just dropped 45 cents".
"You sure?"
"Yeah. A quarter and two dimes."
Should have been in the top 5
That's the weird film I always randomly remember scenes, tell anyone and no matter their age, country or bloody which planet they where born in. Everyone knows it and everyone likes it.
das boot were not Nazis, just sailors doing their job. as a US sub mariner, i understand this.
I'd rather share a drink with a Russian bubblehead than an American target.
I think this commaraderie was very well demonstrated with the Kursk - submariners from the US, UK, Norway cared more about those poor guys stuck down there than their own government who just let them die
My brother in law, an ex Royal Naval submariner also understands this. So do I & I wasn't even in 'boats'.
40,000 young men volunteered for submarine service in the Kriegsmarine in WWII.
30,000 never returned.
The difference is who you’re fighting for and why.
Hunt for Red October is one of my all time favourite movies, I watch it maybe once a year and enjoy it every time
America did some courageous things in WW2 - the enigma was not one of them
The Brits captured the FIRST Enigma machine. However the Americans got one later on in 44.
Yes, and don't forget the Poles. They actually cracked the code BEFORE the Brits at Bletchley. They passed on their knowledge to Alan Turing and information on how to build the mechanism to simulate the Enigma, leading to the computer. Many Poles also flew Hurricanes and Spits in the Battle of Britain, many not even speaking English nor being able to read the instruments completely, but nonetheless downing German warplanes.
But both these historical facts are often overlooked.
meanwhile the sovient just massacred them.
@Koba
Yes, with Russia to the east and Germany to the west Poland was in no enviable position at the time.
Listing the war crimes both sides commited there would be a really time consuming endeavour.
Not that the same wasn't true for other countries between Germany and Russia as well (And Finnland I guess, though that one mainly suffered from Russia, not really from Germany).
Absolutely bang on.
Where's Down Periscope?
I agree
Down Periscope isn't on this list? . . . I guess I won't watch it. . .
XxDainBramagedxX Wait, wouldn't you wanna know why/which movies trumped it on the list? Sheesh... ;)
it's on netflix
In the dust bin where it belongs...or maybe you could find it in the Bungo Straits or the Laurentian Abyss, possibly the Marianas Trench
Was waiting for das boot and then you put on 1st place !!!
Das boot
"I have never heard such sweet music in my life"
Klaus Doldinger made the music
Search for "Tatort intro"
It's also made by him for a German crime series
Das Boot and K-19 almost transport the viewer into the submarine.
"Grey Lady Down" could have gotten an honorable mention. It's a bit slow, but technically accurate.
Das Boot is genuinely one of the best movies I've ever seen.
My opinion about U-571: I think someone puked over some paper sheets and then thougt "let's make a movie out of this!"
im actually watching Das Boot right now, but the german version
where you find it? online?
Missing "Destination Tokyo". Very good movie. Should be there instead of U-571
instead of yellow sub or 20.000 leagues
I don't know how it wasn't even an honorable mention.
Das Boot is so vastly better than any other submarine movie that's it's not even close. I can't imagine another sub movie ever beating it.
How true! “ Master Sight to the Bridge”....I remember the first time I heard Juergen issue that order in the film like it was yesterday. The book was fantastic, the film it’s equal!
I can now say thay the Belgian movie 'U-235'/'Torpedo' (2019) comes pretty close. Astonishing script...
It all depends on the type of movie you want to see. Hunt for Red October has modern realism and is a very good adaptation of the best submarine book. It is not of the wartime genre, however.
Das Boot is wonderful, but it does not fill the space that Hunt For Red October does...a peacetime tale that highlights grand strategy and modern technology and geopolitics.
@@mandoreforger6999 Das Boot is more realistic it is just the BEST, simple as that!! The movie had the perfect cast also.....There will never be another CLASSIC like Das Boot.. They were real Wolfpack
As far as I'm concerned, Das Boot is the best action film ever! We saw this film in a multiplex. It was on two screens and we were in the small theater. At the end everyone dashed for the outside to relieve our claustrphobia! Perfect movie making. The Director's Cut is even better and I felt claustropbobic -- even in my living room.
i look it many times. last time with a souround system in my room. volume at miximum. very captivating
K-19 is a really underrated movie. I honestly love it.
das boot was filmed inside a 1:1 uboat rebuild to catch the claustrophoic athmosphere
Submarine movies are among my favorite... before seeing the WatchMojo list here are my favorites, curious to see how they compare.
#1- Das Boot(The Boat)
#2- The Hunt for Red October
#3- Crimson Tide
#4- The Enemy Below
#5- Run Silent, Run Deep
#6- K-19
#7- Gray Lady Down
#8- Operation Petticoat
#9- The Abyss
#10-Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
GasCityGuy Looks like my list was pretty close though I can't put Yellow Submarine and any serious list of the submarine genre.
GasCityGuy Didn't The Abyss take place in some underwater research facility? Last time I watched it was years ago so correct me if I'm wrong here :)
Most of the Abyss was in an underwater lab. The opening scene of the submarine going down is the ultimate nightmare for us old navy guys.
+GasCityGuy I agree, The Abyss was a very nice movie, one of Cameron's best, I feel. However, I would not consider it a submarine movie.
Clearly you are not a Submariner. Crimson Tide is considered by those of us that are Qualified Submariners as one of the worst submarine movies of all time.
Update the list to replace 'Yellow Submarine" with "Hunter Killer"
dude that movie was bloody awful. I think Yellow Submarine was a more accurate portrayal of submarine warfare ;)
or with "Hostile Waters"
or The Wolf's Call
@@djyork8634 Seriously. I literally ran out of fingers and toes counting the inaccuracies before they even hit the halfway point.
@@brettbaxter7882 it started out bad and by the end to be fair I just watched it like a comedy it made things easier...
I love Das Boot. The reason why? There is no Hollywood "every german is a nazi" bullshit, intense ending, great actors, and it`s based on the memories of Lothar Guenther Buchheim. But I also like U-571,a typical Hollywood movie. Great action movie. ;-)
@Eric Smith You have absolutely no clue and are obviously a dumb moron.
In the movie itself the crew mocks the super loyal nazi and talk about how hitler is going to ruan germany again
You are full of shit. Not in anyway many were nazi. Some western german cities never supported hitler but they were drafted into service of course.
Uninformed and totally clueless person again opening his mouth about some things he knows nothing about. To him world is just simple place.
U-571 was made years later and totally ripped off camera and scene sets from Das Boot. Plus the the author (and eye witness) of Das Boot, Lothar Buchheim, refused to allow Hollywood to cast the film with Americans involved because the story takes place pre Pearl Harbor. Hollywood gave up and eventually it was brilliantly made in German studios. U-571 was the lame attempt 20 years later to cover the genre.....and oh yeah, write the US in place of the Brits for the story.
Why would you rate action movie with serious movie together?
The Bedford Incident (1965), worth a mention.
It is very tense! Excellent gritty film shot in black and white. Should be in top 5. Conspicuously absent from the list. Why?
ABSOLUTELY TRUE, beyond the fact that the Russian submarine is not seen in the whole movie. But it´s an amazing film, anyway.
@@karlharrelson1091 ...I have the same question...
Red October is an great movie.
"one ping only!"
Crimson Tide and Hunt for Red October are amongst my top 20 films of all time.
"Ice Station Zebra", "Destination Tokyo" ,"Operation Pacific"
"You will never find yourself rooting so hard for the Nazis." I totally agree. When I watched Das Boot for the first time, I was riveted to the screen for the full 3 and a half hour length.
Epic movie indeed
*****
Ok, I give you this one. I am still laughing....
They meant "rooting so hard for the German Navy". They were sailors under orders, and in that navy most were against the Nazi regime.
The Nazis? Those were the Kriegsmarines. Look up The Loconia Affair.
The statement by the narrator that "You'll never root so hard for the Nazis" at the end of the clip on Das Boot is not really accurate. To a man, the Germans in Admiral Karl Doenitz's navy were apolitical and not members of the Nazi party. They were, however, fiercely loyal to the Fatherland, Germany, and its proud, industrious people. The narrator should have said, "You'll never root so hard for the Germans." Sailors in any man's navy are just that, sailors doing their jobs they were trained to do.
Jason Gant That they were apolitical is romantic rubbish. In fact, most German submarine crews were extremely young and heavily indoctrinated. Das Boot influenced popular culture into believing German submariners were apolitical and that's not true at all.
Splitting hairs.
"To a man, the Germans in Admiral Karl Doenitz's navy were apolitical"
This is so far wrong as to be ridiculous. Dönitz was a committed Nazi supporter, and he was extremely influential in the indoctrination of officers in the Kreigsmarine with Nazi ideology. The U-Boat service was notorious for its high proportion of crew and, especially, officers who were committed Nazis. Dönitz was an anti-Semitic and expected officers to share his ideology. Of course, there were exceptions, but the idea that this lot were universally, or even substantively apolitical in the sense of not supporting Nazi ideology is way wide of the mark.
Jason Gant nein, nein, nein. The statement is accurate.
Completely wrong The writer of the original boot Das Boot was a former PK (propaganda kompany) journalist in the German Armed Forces who wrote it using material gathered from several war patrols he made out of the French Atlantic ports and it is a portmanteau of those voyages. All branches of the German Armed Forces contained political officers on behalf of the NasDap in order to make sure that the members were properely indoctrinated and understood National Socialist aims and thus were receptive to the orders given down by the Fuhrer through first Raeder and then Dönitz which they obeyed even in some case's when they ran contrary to what was the established "law of the sea." The reason for the book by Lothar-Günther Buchheim was to help rehabilitate the image of the Unterseeboot and the crews who sailed in them, the best way to do that was to deny the reality that many Kapitans who commanded in them were National Socialists and to turn them into apoltical figures who even despised the Nazi's. That was a trick employed by Eric Remarque in his work All Quiet On The Western Front who divorced his characters from the fervent Nationalism that had permeated Wilhelmine Germany at the start of World War I by making them more concerned with survival than politics during the fighting.
Das Boot with English voices is like listening to classic music while people are fighting
What about the scores to.. lets say The lord of the rings movies, there you have just that! And thats just one with classic scores....
*clears throat* It's a long way to Tipperary! It's a long way to go!
Das boot isnt just a good movie but it has a great soundtrack aswell
+Kormákur Jónsson i had it as a ringtone for years. best move ever. 290min of awesomeness
As a former Reactor Operator, I initially qualified S8G (Trident) and served on a fast attack boat. I can't believe that Ice Station Zebra didn't make this list. It has incredibly accurate representation of under ice submarine operations. And I crossed into the Arctic Circle more times than I can count and I made a polar run as well. Also, at least honorable mentions, Destination Tokyo, Torpedo Run, and The Hunley. Although The Hunley was a made for TV movie, it portrays the first true combat submarine during the US Civil War. It torpedoed and sank the USS Housatonic in Charleston bay in 1864. I'm not really sure how a psychedelic cartoon like Yellow Submarine makes this list. And finally, Crimson Tide? Are you kidding me? That would be my #1 WORST submarine movie of all time!!! It may have action and be entertaining to anyone who doesn't know anything about subs or submarine operations. But to anyone who does, there are so many things horribly wrong or flat misrepresented in Crimson Tide that it should offend anyone who actually served in the Silent Service!! I know it offended me the first time I saw it in the theater and I wanted to walk out but my wife convinced me to stay to the end. Although it had an intriguing and plausible strategic premise, the rest of the movie was just AWFUL!
One of the greatest joys of being German is being able to watch "das boot" in German without subtitles. There's just subtleties to many languages, but German especially I think that will inevitably lost in translation. Das boot is probably my favourite movie of all time.
There are Dutch peeps who are near-native in German. “Na klar und in der Bilge Enten. Ne lütte Sorte...”
@@benheideveld4617 Interestingly this was intended by the director.
They handpicked many (at that time) unknown actors with as many German dialects as possible to show that in war it doesn't matter where you are from, the only thing that matters Is that you're fighting for your country.
i am german and i can tell you the untertitle is many time complete different from what they say, and what is the most sad, all the jokes, all the funny talks in this movie, in the english translation loose that everytink.
Obviously Das Boot is the no.1. One of the best movies I've seen in my entire life.
Das Boot is the best, but what is U-571 doing on the list?
It is making a shit.
Every "top list" needs its black sheep...
I agree. It's a travesty. Turning the most important history into a contrived, lying American action movie.
Get the box set.. the movie is to edited. And I showed it to an old gent who was on the subs in the second world war.. he cried.. it's the only film that comes close to what it's like
The British were pissed at the U571 movie because it was them who stole the cryptothingermajig😆
Das Boot hands down not only the best sub movie but the best war film. Watch the director's extended version. In a dark room, sound turned up. Long but so worth it.
Glad Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Crimson Tide & 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , & The Hunt for Red October made the list.
Thanks! 👍
I appreciate your sarcasm...
Fast Boat Sailor from '83-'88...
And what makes you think I’m either sarcastic or bluffing. I DO like them and Still enjoy Watching them. Not my problem if you don’t; and don’t think saying you’re part of the silent service means you know what films to criticize.
@@dinomonzon7493 You can enjoy what you want. Just don't think that those movies are an accurate picture of submarine duty.
I take a critical eye to every movie I watch. My brother-in-law is a firefighter. If we're watching something that involve the fire department, I'll ask him about its accuracy. He usually sighs and grabs another beer!
I'm surprised Down Periscope didn't get an honorable mention. Such a great comedy movie. It's one of my father's favorites and he's a former submariner. Along with The Hunt for Red October.
I agree! I mean, c'mon, only one little scene at the very end? I grew up with submariners and this was always there favorite along with--like you said--hunt for red October. It's actually pretty darn accurate too! I'm kinda disappointed.
Das Boot should be number one. I am old enough to remember meeting WWII submarine sailors who had actual experienced depth charge attacks and they tell me flat out, no question, that that movie showed the reality like none other.
+Spence True it is number one...
I agree mostly with this the rankings. Especially the #1. Das Boot is by far the best sub movie ever made and probably one of the best movie's ever made!
I did prayed for Down Periscope be listed (in a way or another) and glad it did 😂😂😂❤️😂😂
Das Boot # 1!!!! I couldn't agree with you more.
The Director's Cut of "Das Boot" (at a whopping 4hrs 53min runtime) is the Must See version. After watching that you get the feeling you were actually on the sub, experiencing everything the crew did. This is due in large part to director Wolfgang Petersen's attention to detail, like keeping the cast deliberately inside dyeing filming so they would look as pale as a real u-boat crew. This is THE ultimate submarine movie.
In the original German, not the insipid dubbed English soundtrack.
100% agree with your number one!!!!
Haven’t seen #1 but certainly will now, however I adored Crimson Tide as a teen, great movie 🍿
"Hostile Waters" with Rutger Haure, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow.... low budget, but deserves the time you spent on watching it.
Das Boot is without doubt the best submarine movie ever and one of the best films about WW2
Das Boot is the best, period!
The theme tune is legendary
best by a mile
Ya it is, I watched it in German Class
If you ever plan on making a movie but can't figure out how to make it really exiting, then just add a submarine.
Das Boot! Realistic Emotional Thriller! Wolfgang Peterson, EPIC!!
Very Good list...I'd respectfully suggest that "Torpedo Run" could possibly have been a good replacement for "Yellow Submarine" tho...
I cannot believe they included that turd Yellow Submarine.
MrBruinman86 A turd woa
Wtf? Ainchtu a fan of the Beetles?
I'm guessing you never watched it stoned.
Crimson Tide is definitely deserving to be on the list. It’s masterclass of acting and the casting is perfect. There’s a podcast called 90s Roulette that talks at length about it in one of their episodes and it’s super funny and interesting. There really aren’t any clear cut good guys and bad guys in the movie
Das Boot is really really good. Goes up there together with Der Untergang and Das Leben der Anderen of being great German-movies.
Plus you can always choose if you gonna watch the movie or the 4 hours mini-series.
Where was the Down Periscope honorable mention?
Fuck yea. Not much action, but it was the funniest on the list.
Kelsey Grammer was great as the captain too.
Jurgen Procnow should have received at least a Nomination ,if not a downright Academy Award. His performance was sheer brilliance. In the end I was there right beside him watching his Vessel, which endured so much. Going . . going. . gone.
+Dakers11
Agreed: a powerful performance, especially when you watch the actual TV broadcast and not the heavily-edited movie. When you follow the crew for over five hours you're really rooting them to get home safe at the end, and you know that that's all the Captain wants.
And then...
The Submarine was customized for a Hollywood movie, but the producers and crews were unable to make a movie on this boat. They opened sections of this short original boat. After failing they sold the U-Boot Back to the german Bavaria Film Studios and the WDR TV Channel in Germany. The Germans repaired the U-Boot back to the original U-96 and made a produced a 5hours TV event. They made also a shorter version for international Cinema. Every actor learned low German / Low Saxon accent of german sailors. The actors were trained on short diesel-electric powered coastal submarines from the German Navy. The movie was also showed in german schools over decades and was showed for training of german sailors from the Bundesmarine/ Federal German Navy. One of of the most authentic war movies, that was ever made. The jokes by the sailors in Low Saxon are very authentic. Also all the attitudes and opinions are authentic , by the old sailors from World War I & II. Remembering the resistance of social democratic german sailors against war from 1918 in the naval bases Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. This was the end of World War I, the Kaiser and a new beginning democratic Germany between 1918- 1933. In 1933 the Nazis destroyed it it. The Tipirary Song showed that many brave german sailors were against the Nazis, and they only followed orders to defend their country. The director of this movie event was born and grew up in east-frisian habour Emden near by Wilhelmshaven