It’s 1942 and the war is no longer going well for the German “wolf-packs”—U-boats, tasked with sinking Allied supply ships. They’re vulnerable targets now thanks to the cracking of the Enigma code, ...
This wasn’t a problem faced by Wolfgang Petersen when he made his original Das Boot movie in 1981, because the interior of a U-boat – U-96, to be specific – became the all-encompassing universe of his ...
Another hotly anticipated TV spinoff, this time a small-screen adaptation of Wolfgang Petersen’s celebrated 1981 film ‘Das Boot,’ fails to deliver. Entertainment Critic We live in an age of sequels, ...
In 1981, worldwide hit ‘Das Boot’ was nominated for six Academy Awards. Now a sequel takes a fresh look at the Battle for the Atlantic. But what’s changed? There are submarine movies, and then there’s ...
The eight-part Sky co-production arrives this summer on Hulu. We now exist in a time further away from Wolfgang Petersen’s “Das Boot” than that film was to the end of the global conflict it depicted.
The German composer combined jazz and classical orchestral music with early synth sounds and composed the theme for Germany's ...