Naval Movies

Also I think Master & Command hasn´t been mentioned yet 😉

Very good movie, and another movie along those same lines is Horatio Hornblower starring Gregory Peck, and if you like fictionary tales Pirates of the Carribean, starring Johnny Depp. 😉

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http://www.submarinesailor.com/History/Trivia/MovieBoats.htm
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=submarine;s=all
http://www.rontini.com/video.htm

Also I think Master & Command hasn´t been mentioned yet 😉

Don’t forget Wings of Eagles, starring John Wayne as legendary avaitor, turned movie director Frank ” Spig ” Wead, and Task Force starring Gary Cooper, both movies show the early days of U.S. naval avaition. 🙂

Glimpse of Hell, with James Caan. Movie sucks, but has pretty cool shots of Iowa BBS, since that is what it is about. Was made for A&E, I think, but I found it in the $5 bin at Wally World.

Also,the Cockleshell heroes & Navy SEALS with Charlie Sheen.Behind Enemy lines,from 2001 was good.

Let’s see. “Tora,tora,tora” about the battle of midway.I think it’s got Henry Fonda. And TOPGUN,obviously.
In black & white,”The frogmen” with Richard Widmark.It’s about the former Underwater Demolition Teams.”Run silent,run deep” with Clark Gable & Burt Lancaster is very good.

There is also “In Harms Way” with John Wayne about a WW-2 cruiser in the Pacific. It was filmed on the heavy cruiser USS St Paul (so the ship board background is ‘authentic’) even though the ship was supposed to be a older Washington Treaty CA.
It was filmed in B & W to give it a ‘wartime’ appearance.

I have trouble in naval movies where the ships don’t match the story. Several of the Pearl Harbor attack movies were filmed on location, but it was distracting to see 20th ships where 1940 era vessels should be. I guess this comes from 12 years in the US canoe club.

Almost forgot about “In Harms Way” truely a classic John Wayne War Movie! Some really good shots of 6″ Guns in action…….. 😀

There is also “In Harms Way” with John Wayne about a WW-2 cruiser in the Pacific. It was filmed on the heavy cruiser USS St Paul (so the ship board background is ‘authentic’) even though the ship was supposed to be a older Washington Treaty CA.
It was filmed in B & W to give it a ‘wartime’ appearance.

I have trouble in naval movies where the ships don’t match the story. Several of the Pearl Harbor attack movies were filmed on location, but it was distracting to see 20th ships where 1940 era vessels should be. I guess this comes from 12 years in the US canoe club.

What was that old Hollywood movie with Robert Mitchum. He was a Destroyer Escort Commander chasing a German U-boat. A true classic…………………something like “The Enemy Down Below”? I remember they made a reference to it at the beginning of Cremson Tide. On the bus one of the Officers makes a seamen do “push-ups”. Because he answer the wrong actor who played the German U-Boat Commander! 😮

Didno’t the russians or someone recently make a film about murmansk convoy PQ17?

The navy DVD I have： das boot(director’s cut), tora,tora,tora; Pearl Harbor (2 disc box set); u-571, Hunt for Red October ; Crimson tide; Hostile Waters, Down Periscope; K19: The Widow Maker; The final countdown; Grey lady Down; Blue (Korean movie); America’s War (documentary) Navy Seal (documentary) . There is a Russian movie based on “kurisk”, but I have not found it yet.

If you want to watch Das Boot, be sure and rent the directors cut video, it leaves in alot more stuff that was in the book and that regular audiences dont have the patience to watch. Thats the big problem with naval movies and especially classic sub movies like Up Persicope and Run Silent Run Deep is they dont make the combat scenes realistic as most movie audiences wouldnt understand it. Be sure and read the book Das Boot, the depth charge attacks are absolutely riviting. The way the hydrophone man calls out coordinates and the captain reponds with ship maneuvering commands, you can really picture everything in your head exactly as it went on.

I have to agree completly with vikraal.

U-571 seemed like Hoolywood needing a US version of Das Boot which just came out realy horrible.

I though U-571 was the worst sub movie ever made. It was a complete joke. K-19 was so so, neither comes close to Das boot.

How are things in Moscow Yuri?

I thought U-571 was a decent naval flick even if it was historically innacurate. Another one which dwelves into the mystic world of submarines was K19: The Widow Maker. It was scary to know what happened in the early years of the Russian submarine nuclear program and the adversities the crews faced.

The Doctor Who story “The Sea Devils”… 🙂

‘The Cruel Sea’ the adaptation of the book (can’t remember the author) is an excellent film, about a WW2 Royal Navy Flower class Corvette, and then a Black Swan class Sloop

The Abyss had some good naval scenes in it, the loss of the SSBN was very well done.