There are submarine movies, and then there’s Das Boot. Director Wolfgang Petersen’s look at a German U-boat crew on a hair-raisingly tense mission to sink Allied shipping in the Atlantic is ...

Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 “Das Boot” (“The Boat”), now stunningly restored, was one of the most shattering war movies of its decade: one of the few that combined real visceral thrills ...

Sky Deutschland and Bavaria Film have greenlit a TV version of “Das Boot,” the hit 1981 movie about a German U-boat in World War II.

Classic German drama Das Boot - the unrelentingly claustrophobic epic from Wolfgang Petersen - is to get a follow-up in the form of a television miniseries. If you haven't watched the film since ...

Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Is Dead at 81 He made it big in Hollywood, but he’s best remembered for a harrowing, Oscar-nominated German film set inside a U-boat in World War II.