Submarine film
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Submarine film is a subgenre of war film which takes place in a submarine below the surface of the ocean. Films of this subgenre typically focus on a small but determined crew of submariners battling against not only their enemies, but also the extreme pressure of being underwater (as their submarines typically descend past "hull crush depth", a depth which varies from movie to movie) and being in such close proximity to one another. This imbues films of the subgenre with a great deal of dramatic tension, which is added to by occasional but dramatic battle scenes in which the crew waits with bated breath while sonar pings, depth charges explode overhead, and bolts fly out of bulkheads in the submarine.
Despite the drama of the battle scenes in submarine films, however, the mainstay of the tension in these movies occurs away from battle, which sets this subgenre apart from its parent genre of war films. Usually there is some manner of controversy throughout the crew that sets them against one another, and proves much more dangerous than the depth charges and torpedoes of enemy crafts.
List of submarine movies
This is a list of movies in which a submarine plays a significant role in the storyline. Most of these submarines are entirely ficticious. Some of the ships are real, but their movies are based on ficticious events. Other movies are based on historical events.
- Above Us the Waves — Royal Navy midget submarines v. Tirpitz
- The Abyss — a fictional USS Montana
- The Atomic Submarine — a fictional USS Tiger Shark
- The Bedford Incident
- Behind the Door — U-98
- Below — a fictional USS Tiger Shark
- Crash Dive
- Crimson Tide — USS Alabama
- Das Boot — U-96
- Destination Tokyo — a fictional USS Copperfin
- Down Periscope — a fictional USS Stingray (SS-161)
- The Enemy Below
- The Fifth Missile — a fictional USS Montana
- Grey Lady Down — a fictional USS Neptune
- Hell Below
- Hellcats of the Navy — a fictional USS Starfish
- Hostile Waters — K-219
- The Hunley — CSS Hunley
- The Hunt for Red October — Красного Октября, USS Dallas (SSN-700)
- Ice Station Zebra — a fictional USS Dolphin
- K-19: The Widowmaker — K-19
- Men Without Women — a fictional USS S-13
- Morgenrot
- On The Beach — a fictional USS Swordfish
- Operation Pacific — a fictional USS Thunderfish
- Operation Petticoat — a fictional USS Sea Tiger
- Phantom Below
- Run Silent, Run Deep — a fictional USS Nerka
- Sub Down: Take the Dive
- Submarine, a 1928 movie by Frank Capra —
- Submarine Seahawk
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, a 1966 comedy —
- Torpedo Alley
- Torpedo Run
- U-571 — a fictional U-571
- Up Periscope
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — a fictional USOS Seaview
- We Dive at Dawn
- Yellow Submarine
See also the list of fictional ships.