Throughout the film's runtime, Petersen makes us live alongside this crew. Simply put, Das Boot is the submarine war movie. What Is 'Das Boot' About and How Many Versions Are There?

From the fantastic to the action-packed, Petersen, who died Friday at age 81, left a legacy of eminently bingeable movies. Here are several to watch now.

A war film based on a true story hailed as 'an absolute masterpiece' is available to stream for free. Das Boot first hit screens back in 1981 and has previously been regarded as one of the ...

While many submarine films were covered, the consensus among them all is that writer-director Wolfgang Peterson's 1981 film "Das Boot" is the most accurate submarine movie ever made.

Wolfgang Petersen, German writer-director behind the submarine masterpiece 'Das Boot' as well as 'In the Line of Fire,' 'Air Force One' and 'The Perfect Storm,' has died.