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- Gino Orlandini
- Das Boot (1981) George Orwell wrote in 1946, "The word Fascism has now no meaning except insofar as it signifies 'something not desirable.'" It's a rejoinder to linguistic laziness that divides the world into two types: Nazis, and everybody else.
- The Enemy Below (1957) "The Enemy Below" (1957) depicts a gripping back-and-forth naval battle in the South Atlantic during WWII between a U.S. destroyer and a German U-boat.
- The Abyss (1989) "The Abyss" is mostly an underwater habitat movie, similar to Barry Levinson's "Sphere." But James Cameron's far superior 1989 sci-fi thriller features submarines with windows, and that allows for the best underwater chase ever put to film.
- The Hunt for Red October (1990) Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels have been made into exactly two classic films: "Patriot Games" in 1992 and "The Hunt for Red October" in 1990.
Operation Seawolf: Directed by Steven Luke. With Hiram A. Murray, Andrew Stecker, Apostolos Gliarmis, Dolph Lundgren. In the last days of World War II, Germany, desperate for a last chance to defeat the Allies, gathers its last remaining U-Boats for one last mission: to attack the continental United States.
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- Steven Luke
- 2023-05-26
- The 355
- The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Munich: The Edge of War
- Moonfall
- Dog
- The Contractor
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Elvis
- The Woman King
- Mission: Impossible 7
Jan. 7, in theaters "The 355" is an origin story for a group of international female spies who come together to prevent world destruction by a rogue computer program and root out some rot in the security services of the world's largest democracy. They're named after Agent 355, an anonymous female spy who worked for Gen. George Washington during the...
Jan. 14, Apple TV+ Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star as Lord and Lady Macbeth in Joel Coen's movie version of Shakespeare's play. Coen has trimmed a huge chunk from the stage play to focus on the action. The movie was shot on stages and features a very stylized black-and-white color palette. Even though it had a limited run in theaters a...
Netflix, Jan. 21 Based on the bestselling novel by Robert Harris, "Munich: The Edge of War" is set at the notorious 1938 conference between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hiter. George MacKay ("1917") plays British diplomat Hugh Legat, whose best friend at Oxford is now junior German diplomat Paul von Hartmann (Jannis Niewöhner). Legat had a falling...
Feb. 4, in theaters "Midway" and "Independence Day" director Roland Emmerich brings his special effects-driven style to a tale of an aging NASA astronaut (Patrick Wilson) forced out of retirement by a scientist (Halle Berry) and a conspiracy theorist (John Bradley) to prevent the moon from crashing into Earth and destroying the planet. Apparently, ...
Feb. 18, in theaters Can a high-strung military dog and a high-strung Army Ranger(Channing Tatum) use a cross country trip to a military funeral to sort out their issues and find peace? "Dog" presents itself as a comedy, but there's no way there won't be some heart-tugging drama late in the third act. Tatum co-directed this movie with his longtime ...
April 1, in theaters After James Harper (Chris Pine) is kicked out of Special Forces, he joins a private military contracting company along with his best friend (Ben Foster). They head overseas on a covert mission commanded by a fellow veteran (Kiefer Sutherland). There's not yet a trailer or even many details about this movie, so all we've got so ...
May 27, in theaters It's a fact that we've written more words about "Top Gun: Maverick" than we have any other movie in the history of Military.com. So many false starts when it came to making the movie in the first place, so many rumors during production and what seem like a hundred changes of release date. We do have some proof that the movie act...
June 24, in theaters Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann ("Moulin Rouge!," "The Great Gatsby") had to delay his long-awaited movie about Elvis Presley in March 2020 after co-star Tom Hanks tested positive for COVIDand the movie became one of the first shut down during the pandemic. Austin Butler, star of the upcoming "Band of Brothers" sequel "Master...
Sept. 16, in theaters Viola Davis ("The Suicide Squad") plays Nanisca, general of an all-female military unit in the Kingdom of Dahomey, in a based-on-a-true-story movie about one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries. John Boyega ("Star Wars") and Lashana Lynch ("No Time to Die") also star in this movie directed by G...
Sept. 30, in theaters Every time "Top Gun: Maverick" gets delayed, it takes over a release date previously occupied by this movie from Tom Cruise's other big movie series. We have no details about the plot or the final title, but the good news is that this movie and the next sequel "Mission: Impossible 8" are directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who ...
- Gaurav Krishnan
- Das Boot (1981) All the prior entries on this list are incomparable to the monumental masterpiece that is Wolfgang Petersen's magnum opus, Das Boot. This 210-minute odyssey follows the crew of a German U-boat in WWII hunting down allied ships until they become the hunted and must find a way to survive the horrors of deep-sea warfare.
- The Hunt For Red October (1990) One of the ultimate Cold War films is a tour de force with impeccable performances by Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. Set in the last years of the conflict, The Hunt for Red October is an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s best-selling novel about a Soviet captain (Connery) taking a technologically advanced Soviet submarine to the American coast.
- Greyhound (2020) Directed by Aaron Schneider and starring Tom Hanks, 2020’s Greyhound tells the story of the ship, the USS Keeling, dubbed ‘Greyhound’, which is the commanding vessel of a convoy code named HX-25 comprising 37 Allied ships that have to cross the Atlantic to reach Liverpool, England and offer support to the Allies in WWII.
- The Enemy Below (1957) The Enemy Below trades what had been made of submarines films up to the moment, for a battle of wits between an American and German commanding officers in a naval battle between a destroyer escort and a submarine.
The 15 Best Submarine Movies Ranked. Submarines are inherently cinematic settings for thriller plots: the moody red bridge lighting, the surfaces are all dripping and reflective. Most of all, the submarine is a claustrophobic trap that ensures heightened tensions when things inevitably go wrong.
Apr 2, 2022 · The 15 Best Submarine Movies Ranked. Submarines are inherently cinematic settings for thriller plots: the moody red bridge lighting, the surfaces are all dripping and reflective. Most of all, the submarine is a claustrophobic trap that ensures heightened tensions when things inevitably go wrong.
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Dec 16, 2022 · The 20 best films of 2022. BBC Culture film critics Nicholas Barber and Caryn James pick their highlights of the year, including Top Gun: Maverick, Spielberg's latest and Everything...