My father who served on diesel boats in the USN 1946-49 said this film is the only one that shows what life was like on a sub. Dirty, smelly, cramped, oily, and noisy.

@egongross8885

3 жыл бұрын

And I see a documentary how the serie/ movie was made. Very interesting.

@johannmckraken9399

2 жыл бұрын

My father served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as a torpedo man on SS 213 Greenling and SS 218 Albacore. He passed away before this movie was made but I’m sure he would have enjoyed it. He rarely spoke of his wartime experiences, only about the friendships and good times. Only once did I get him to open up about attacking a Japanese merchant ship and subsequent depth charging from an escort. It was clear he tried not to think of the killing, to him they were just ships to sink. I think that’s how a lot of them felt. Kept you from loosing your humanity.

@richardg1426

2 жыл бұрын

I could never serve on one ! I need my space.

@johntechwriter

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but an engineer I know visited in Europe a u-boat restored to fighting trim and told me it was the most beautifully built machine he’d ever encountered.

@khaen.ellingsen790

2 жыл бұрын

@@johannmckraken9399 As Sven Hazel said: "War is a disease!"

Outstanding movie. Saw it when it was released theatrically. You can feel the claustrophobia building among the soldiers in their confined surroundings. And RIP to the director, Mr. Wolfgang Peterson: he passed away at age 81 a few days ago

@loadeddice4696

Жыл бұрын

He also directed Air Force One, he loved a movie about an enclosed space

@its_jjk

Жыл бұрын

@@loadeddice4696 and Troy

@leroyhovatter7051

Жыл бұрын

There Not soldiers

@Sandwich13455

10 ай бұрын

He kicks the guy in the head when climbing the U-boat ladder to the surface 😅 well worth the rewatch !!

@twistedyogert

26 күн бұрын

​@@leroyhovatter7051Submariners

"They must of seen our periscope" captain says, not knowing the British had radar/sonar. Captain makes these references thru the whole movie. Brilliant German film.

@sapphiresomeday

2 жыл бұрын

Err, you do know that the pinging sound in the movie is ASDIC/SONAR so the captain probably did know? RADAR uses radiowaves ASDIC /SONAR sound waves. They are very different. The political Nazi does mention centimetric radar after the attack by the plane later but apparently no one in the Kreigsmarine had bothered to tell the captain about centimetric RADAR. Another error in the movie and the original book.

@Solesz

2 жыл бұрын

They knew that the ASDIC system existed

@stueyguerreiro

Жыл бұрын

The Captain knew they had sonar (his 1st Watch Officer refers to the ping) but the Germans didn’t know the Allies had surface radar until later on in the war (this is set in 1941). That’s why the Captain thinks it’s strange the British could’ve spotted the periscope (“hard to believe in this weather”). If you notice the destroyer is heading right towards them, referencing the forward facing radar. This movie is full of brilliantly subtle and accurate historical references.

@nocalsteve

Жыл бұрын

You’ll notice how the director has the lights come back on right after he says it. Literally meaning about how the Captain was “in the dark” not knowing about the radar.

@mattogrosso900

Жыл бұрын

​@@nocalsteve Good point. Or Director wanted to tell us through Kaleun's (Captain) verbalized thoughts that he was understanding the suicidal Nature of their mission.😢

My dad and his two brothers were all submariners during the war,and he said this was the closest thing he had ever seen to actually being depth charged

I don’t think such a movie could ever be duplicated. A masterpiece of cinematography.

@MajSolo

2 ай бұрын

I do not think sane writers or directors dare to duplicate it. they have to come up with something new.

The best u-boat movie ever... A masterpiece.

@neliz8

2 жыл бұрын

Very impressive movie and one of the best war movies of all time imo.

@richardg1426

2 жыл бұрын

A dirty place with little room and no place to be alone ! !

@thisismagacountry1318

2 жыл бұрын

The Hunt for Red October was better.

@Franz_Donnermann

2 жыл бұрын

@@thisismagacountry1318 in your dreams

@humbertoflores2545

2 жыл бұрын

This film is the Best Submarine movie ever..!

When the destroyer suddenly appears from behind that wave; that is one of the highlights of the movie. Imagine yourself in the captain's shoes, seeing this boat about to crush that periscope.

@guinness77100

3 жыл бұрын

I saw this movie on the big screen. When I saw that destroyer pop-out, I nearly had a brown shorts alert.

@pspublic13

3 жыл бұрын

@@guinness77100 That must have been a fantastic experience. The sounds of the explosions with theater speakers....me want this.

@kubanskiloewe

3 жыл бұрын

its like spotting out of a sherman and a Tiger 88gun walks out of a house :-)

@GaryCameron

3 жыл бұрын

What was wrong with the guy on hydrophones when that happened? They should have heard the destroyer approaching. And I'm surprised after periscope up the protocol wouldn't be for an immediate 360 degree pan to orient yourself and look for danger.

@kubanskiloewe

3 жыл бұрын

@@GaryCameron Hydrophone can only hear several degrees, perhaps he lost it when destroyer turned sharp or boat goes up or down too. That´s really possible.

The thing about this movie is 10-15 minutes in you forget that this is a Nazi U-Boat, and it becomes a bunch of men in an impossible terrifying situation.

@stevenwiederholt7000

3 жыл бұрын

@Jan-Ola Ellingsen Ya Know everyone keeps saying that...we hate war. Yet I can't find a 10 year period where one group of people is (with great enthusiasm) killing, enslaving another group of people. Often (to paraphrase Victor Davis Hanson) stupid reasons. It gives no great to say either 1. We (Humans) are not as bright as we think we are 2. We really do like war. Not sure which it is.

@stevenwiederholt7000

3 жыл бұрын

@Jan-Ola Ellingsen I would also point out, there are people out there that the Only thing they understand is I have a big stick, and if you don't play nice I'll hit you with it....HARD. Its sad but true.

@johnhorse5551

3 жыл бұрын

Kriegsmarine weren't Nazis just Navy

@landrat5217

3 жыл бұрын

A "nazi" u-boat and an imperialist destroyer in support of bolsheviks. And in the end winners write history.

@lukum55

3 жыл бұрын

Not nazi U-boat, German U-boat. Nazis were a political party, German is a nationality. I doubt the submarine was a member of the political party, instead it was in service of the country. Nobody says "Republican submarine" or "Labour party submarine" when talking of American and British submarines do they?

Der Film hätte mehrere Oskars verdient

Best movie ever that captures the spirit and soul of men in war. I can remember the 1st time I watched this 40 years ago. Never wanted so much for them German lads to get home safe. And I am British

@twentyrothmans7308

Жыл бұрын

Good point, Dave. You forget that they're the enemy.

@charlessedlacek5754

Жыл бұрын

No wonder Britain needed help. They killed a lot of british sailors, you twit.

I served on the Oklahoma City (SSN 723) in the early 90s, we used to watch this movie once a month on a Friday night underway while on a Med run. Great movie never get tired of it..

Fun Fact: they got an actual U-boat captain from the Second World War to be a technical consultant in the making of the sets, lighting, and... well... everything that really makes this film tick, it's very accurate, and as a result... very telling for how hard it was for the poor souls who had to fight this terrible war, particularly THIS the OH SO UNDERRATED Battle Of The Atlantic.

@Unna1969

2 жыл бұрын

Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock was the name of the captain. He and the author of the novel Das Boot (Lothar Günther Buchheim) had sailed together in WW2.

@paolobollo4450

2 жыл бұрын

Actually there is a big unaccuracy in the movie: they launch a torpedo to a 6 hours burning tanker when they have the deck gun, but other than that it's perfect

@garikdez

2 жыл бұрын

@KZread Veterinarian if I'm not mistaken, three out of four sailors who served on German submarines never returned home.

@juliushan510

Жыл бұрын

Its quite hard to find a U-boat captain who survived.

@dilloncrowe1018

Жыл бұрын

@@juliushan510 well, maybe now... but back in the 80s, it wouldn't have been that bad.

These Seamen had genuine balls of steel! God I can't imagine the terror aboard a U Boat pursued by one or more Destroyers! Especially in the last year or so of the War!

@matty6848

3 жыл бұрын

I know. It doesn’t bear worth thinking about!

@michellearmstrong7903

3 жыл бұрын

What about the terror they inflicted on merchant seamen,?

@rickyribs8032

3 жыл бұрын

@@michellearmstrong7903 They were like Allied service people ordinary men and women caught up in circumstances beyond their control and doing their duty.The American submarine force had the highest losses of 15% on the allied side German U boat crews suffered 75% losses . Lives thrown away

@michellearmstrong7903

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickyribs8032 they are still bastards

@safe-keeper1042

2 жыл бұрын

It's one of the most memorable moments of the film for me, and I suppose one of the reasons is the captain deciding to turn the tables and attack the destroyer.

This was one of the best war films I’ve ever seen.

@alanlane3670

2 жыл бұрын

I like to think that it is an anti-war film....

@neliz8

2 жыл бұрын

It is.

@user-wf7rt2it9w

2 жыл бұрын

Stalingrad (1993)

@scottlewisparsons9551

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-wf7rt2it9w yes, also an excellent film.

@thisismagacountry1318

2 жыл бұрын

The Longest Day (1962) Saving Private Ryan Midway (2019)

I am so stressed just watching this. I can’t imagine being a submariner in WWII, especially a German U boat crew. They had a 75% casualty rate, which is insane!!!

@anonydun82fgoog35

2 жыл бұрын

yep and the thing about submarines is - with very few exceptions, when a boat went down it went down with all hands.

@revol148

2 жыл бұрын

....spare a thought for all the merchant shipping which they sank with most of the sailors dying of exposure and drowning due to a lack of any rescue options ! 72,000 dead and 3,659 ships sunk on the Allied side alone.....

@anonydun82fgoog35

2 жыл бұрын

@@revol148 on the bright side in the Pacific you could sink where the water was warmer and you wouldn't die so quick - until the sharks found you...

@Nordkampf

2 жыл бұрын

@@revol148 the axis had little reason to have merchant ships. Maybe rubber trade at the start of the war but apart from the I feel as of the allies had a massive amount of merchant ships coming from the American continent to the uk

@klarkmartinez1124

2 жыл бұрын

@@anonydun82fgoog35 as a man who's country is located in the pacific, I agree.

From the novel Sharks and Little Fish, by Wolfgang Ott, he stated that as the destroyer passed over the U- boat crew could here the depth charges hit the water, he stated that the crew would start to count, a depth charge sinks at 13 feet per second. "...It was like your head was on the block and you could hear the ax whistling down..."

I recently saw a new version of Das Boot on television but this OLDER version of the eighties is the best one ever !

@leonxrdd

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I want to see uboats and not some French and German girl have sex

@jamesshunt5123

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonxrdd The new series is pretty good. Not a masterpiece like the original film but it deals with many people's perspective. "and not some French and German girl have sex" You're walking on thin ice here. You sound a bit like one of those old bigots who are offended over anything remotely "modern day". "I want to see uboats" You can't make a modern day tv series just from a submarine. It would never work. Even the original Das Boot miniseries back in the 80's was never a smash hit in the ratings. Its realism of the boredom of life on WWII submarine turned away many viewers. So I'm not sure if you have the whole picture here.

@thisismagacountry1318

2 жыл бұрын

@@leonxrdd Two Girls, One Cup will change your mind about that.

@michaelmartin9022

7 күн бұрын

​​@@jamesshunt5123Got quite the crazed fanatic 'ere, 'ent we, lads? I like the "you couldn't make X in the modern day" too. Yeah, about all them things seeking a "modern audience"... Did you just wake up from a 12 year coma?

Great film. I knew a U-boat captain who had a restaurant in Manchester England in the late 70s. An ordinary chap who's objective in 1945 was to kill his clientele. He always joked that he opened a restaurant because wasn't very successful as a u boat captain...

@BrucknerMotet

2 жыл бұрын

If he were a German U-boat captain who survived the war, that would have been a mark of great success right there.

Fun fact: the destroyer appears out of nowhere because the British had radar to spot U Boats on the surface but the germans didnt know about it, thats why they are so suprised about being spotted.

@jasonstanley7326

11 ай бұрын

Was the destroyer already looking for u96 then? That makes sense. I always wondered how that destroyer happed right out of no where on them.

@jasonstanley7326

11 ай бұрын

And had his depth charges ready too

I remember watching this in my young days. The first time I saw that destroyer suddenly appear from behind the wave I gasped loudly and yelped "holy shit"!

Imagine living like this for 2 months... and that's if you're lucky enough to live that long

@roba1899

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@leminhhai6008

3 жыл бұрын

imagin a uboat sailor surviving after many patrol. He would scared the shit when u shout trolling "Alarmmmmm!" at his old age

@Lovecars1218

3 жыл бұрын

Wolf Dead the uncle of my dad, joined the U boot Waffe in 1940 and was able to survive a sinking of his boat twice (!!) and was both times rescued by a destroyer of the Kriegsmarine. After the war he never ever stepped into a bathtub again and had bad dreams nearly every night with waking up from someone screaming „ALARM“ in his dream.

@someoneunknown1385

3 жыл бұрын

@@leminhhai6008 he’d be like “FLUUUUTEEEEEEEN!!! ALLE MANN VORRAAAAUS LOS LOS LOOOOOS!!!”

@davebrayfb

3 жыл бұрын

@@roba1899 Different times ,, My grandfather spend from the start of WW1 in the trenches until the end of the war ... Went home at the end of it and that was that ...Got on with his life .

The greatest film ever made in my humble opinion.

@budspencerjr2574

6 жыл бұрын

agree

@blogfiles

5 жыл бұрын

Better than anything in the genre, including all Vietnam-related hollywood crap.

@cheeseandonions9558

3 жыл бұрын

it has problems, but the interior scenes are pure art

@Franz_Donnermann

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheeseandonions9558 are you kidding me little boy? Or i guess you think grey hound is better?... The best one ever is this Film... The really masterpiece.

@Franz_Donnermann

3 жыл бұрын

@@neues3691 alle ganzer Film ist super!!!

What I remember seeing this for the first time in a theater in the eighties -was they had a pretty good sound system cranked-up you could just about feel those depth charges! Definitely the gold standard in submarine movies

you can still visit the Set of the Submarine with all its Engines and blankets etc that you can see here. it is a Part of the "Bavaria Film Tour" from the Produktion Studios Bavaria Film in Munich

@wuloki

3 жыл бұрын

There's also U-995, a type VII/C (the same type as in the movie and the book). It's the only real type VII surviving and can be visited in Laboe/Kiel, Germany.

One of my top 5 favorite movies. This one is better than the book. It should have won the Acadamy Award for Best Picture, Best Leading Man, Best Supporting Actors, Best Special Effects. Even though they were on the side of the Axis Powers, you had to have sympathy for these men who were given a tough job to do. The ending is especially tragic.

I remember the times when all my friends at school had been watching this movie in my childhood. It was such a tensed and facinating thing! Everybody was talking of it (long version!). And now already the same amount of years have passed like then since the end of the war. I can understand nowadays how close these war rememberings still were for those old survivors back then.

@raymondgriffiths9766

2 жыл бұрын

After all that they get back to Port only to be bomb to sht During an air raid

Whoever made this movie isn’t getting the credit they deserve, it’s epic

@iiiuuiii

3 жыл бұрын

Wolfgang Petersen! Also not forget the Camera Guy (Jost Vacano) who developed a special System, to make the nice running shoots from the back to the Front of the Boat

@christinesmith7625

3 жыл бұрын

you should see the 5 hour version it will blow you away i have it awsome !

@iiiuuiii

3 жыл бұрын

@@christinesmith7625 Yes you are total right, you can see far more Details in the Series Version!

@christinesmith7625

3 жыл бұрын

@Jonah Whale history !

@bahhumbug9824

2 жыл бұрын

@@iiiuuiii I just remember a lot more monotony but still worth the watch.

There are very few things more frightening to a sailor than being inside a can in the ocean taking depth charges any of which could sink your boat.

@khaen.ellingsen790

2 жыл бұрын

Yep - even in peacetime, it may be dangerous to operate in a submarine! More than one sub have sunk after 1945 due to accidents! For example the argentine sub ARA San Juan: The crew had no chance to survive - even if they were not at war......

@gozur7374

2 жыл бұрын

My uncle served on US subs during WWII. He said getting depth charged was the scariest thing you can imagine. All you can do is wait and pray the next one does not get you.

@drewder1789

2 жыл бұрын

@@khaen.ellingsen790 it feels like it’s almost a yearly occurrence that you hear about a sub being lost somewhere

Truly a classic in every sense of the word.

‘Destroyers’ were like ‘Tiger Tanks’, most were actually smaller, slower corvettes, like the unglamorous Hawker Hurricane they did the job.

@Fizzydog77

3 жыл бұрын

Hey when your main mission is to roll up to a much slower boat and drop off some bombs, small, light and agile is good enough

Jetzt wirds psychologisch meine Herren

@deanwinward7469

3 жыл бұрын

You can say that again

@roba1899

3 жыл бұрын

Sie koennen das mal wiederholen ..

@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM

3 жыл бұрын

Took the words, right outta me mouth.

@caolmgm

3 жыл бұрын

Sie ham recht

@panan7777

2 жыл бұрын

@@caolmgm Ham to the right? ;)))

The highest attrition rate of all German military branches. Life onboard an U-boat had a 75% casualty rate, the highest of all German forces during the war.

I love how there is like no noise inside that U boat.

@neilstewart36

3 жыл бұрын

The best u boat movie ever!!!

@forestforce2951

3 жыл бұрын

Because hydrophone also can heard human voice

@matthewnichols9735

3 жыл бұрын

Somebody farts your dead

@robdean704

3 жыл бұрын

Noise kills

5:17 still terrifying than most of horror movies.

another legend of a movie..looks and sounds real..bravo to the production/direction/acting...whaen this movie comes on people stop what they are doing..and watch...

My father was a submariner in the Royal Navy, an engine room operator, throughout thecwhole of ww2. They literally used to have to sh1t in the same room they ate their meals. From his description of their conditions this is the closest to a true portrayal of their lives. It is such a regrets that he passed away before this movie came out.

This movie is so badass.

Stuff Tom Hanks and Greyhound, this is how you make a movie about the Battle of the Atlantic!

@christinesmith7625

3 жыл бұрын

watch the 4 hour version awsome !

@kylestrainspotting1997

3 жыл бұрын

Even watching the trailer of Greyhound I was like fuck this Hollywood crap

@user-ym3po9gu4e

3 жыл бұрын

@@kylestrainspotting1997 I have watch it, I can confirm that the movie is better than Pearl harbor

@oceandark3044

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ym3po9gu4e I've also seen Greyhound, and can confirm it is theatrical, but is a fun watch. There's a scene in it that might well have been the other side of this particular encounter, only with the opposite outcome. It's great to see the factors both sides were dealing with in the Battle of the Atlantic.

@user-ym3po9gu4e

3 жыл бұрын

@@oceandark3044 someone should edit that movie with two different perspective. Greyhound side and greywolf side.. Greyhound movie with Das Boot..

All of the members of my family survived Ww2. Except of one who, the favorite cousin of my grandmother - the son of the twin sister of her mother. He went down on board of a VIIc U-Boat in the North Atlantic. It was in January 1944 on day 10 of his first mission, 2 days before his 23 birthday. She told me this shortly before she died 93 years old - and how that picture of him drowning in the cold water now lying in a crushed steel coffin has haunted here her whole life.

@BrianAchterberg928

Жыл бұрын

May he Rest In Peace 😔

@rickysmyth

Жыл бұрын

Its not a bad death. Once the hull ruptures the pressure and weight of the ocean hits and crushes you faster than the human reaction time so you never would have knew you died. Or so it is thought. No one has survived to say and there is no camera footage or any kind of sensor information since they would also be destroyed

@TeamCarcaine

Жыл бұрын

@@rickysmyth not fully correct for a boat to sink it need to take on water …. So the tin can fills up with cold ocean water no lights as all electricity will be short cut by the water so going down in a slowly filling tin can isn’t to nice of a death . And because the hill fills up with water there is no pressure difference so the boat doesn’t get squished ..

@rickysmyth

Жыл бұрын

@@TeamCarcaine inside the sub is like a bubble of air. Water rushes in to fill the gap and you're instantly squashed. Water is heavier than air you see.

@greenfingernaildirt356

8 ай бұрын

was it by any chance U-757?

Proof that you don’t need cgi to do epic movies! (Also, thanks Nolan! 😁)

@mitch_the_-itch

3 жыл бұрын

If this isnt the most millennial thing that could be said I don't know what could be. We had plenty of proof before and after this movie was made, lol. Your generation is so dumb that even the tyrannical fascists have been empowered again.

@kohlshu8979

3 жыл бұрын

@@mitch_the_-itch Millennial bad, old good. You are all the same. This was an amazing movie but CGI will always be easier cheaper and in some cases better.

@mitch_the_-itch

3 жыл бұрын

@@kohlshu8979 Millennials are the dumbest most tyrannical generation in American History. When I was in first grade we made fun of the Govt taxing Air. Today first graders would put me into Prison for making a joke about the Govt taxing Air. Young people think that old people are stupid. Old people know that young people are stupid.

@jamesshunt5123

3 жыл бұрын

@@mitch_the_-itch Smart people are a minority. Always were. Old people are just the majority of people who were equally stupid in their youths but now have the harsh lesson of life learned, whereas the majority of the young generation who are yet to learn this same lesson. At core they're the same. The majority I mean. The smart ones listen to everybody and hence learn how to avoid mistakes in life. Take the internet for instance. Smart young people see it as a limitless library of free information. Dumb young people see it as a free-for-all circus of entertainment. Most old people are a lot more ignorant and indoctrinated than they themselves are aware of. Do you know where the word hippie comes from? In the 1960's the slightly older generation of beatniks lamented that what once was a relatively serious movement of artists and intellectuals who shunned the rather stiff norms of 50's and 60's America now had been reduced to a mere "fad movement of the masses" who adapted is as something "hip and fashionable". The beatniks therefore used the derogatory word "hippie" as somebody who merely adapted some parts of the beatnik lifestyle as "youthful, fashion statement" to distinguish themselves from them - especially since they were crudely bundled together with them by a lot of media. The bottom line is that the majority of all people are ignorant/stupid and this is why all young people are seen as stupid by the previous generation - who only have learned from experience and hard life but certainly not by being smart. For an excellent example of "learning hard lessons fast" see the effect of war on a young person's mind. Young people enter the war with the belief they're going to be "great heroes" or "die a noble death" or even "killing for a noble cause". After a nice dose of reality, who really pull the strings in war and how suckered they have been they suddenly wisen up. Smart, young people see through those grooming tactics by the government, military and big shots but are ridiculed by the young sheep as merely being "cowardly, weak or traitorous". This is one of the lessons in Das Boot. Notice how the young crew changed fundamentally from their experience. "Young people think that old people are stupid. Old people know that young people are stupid." Stupid people don't know how stupid and ignorant they are whether they're young or old. Reducing it all to a mere question of age is all the evidence you'll ever need. I've come across far too many old people still living in the Cold War who can't name the members of their own local municipal government, find two countries in the world on a map but think they know sh*t.

Einer der bester Szenen wenn nicht die beste Szene aus dem Film.

now i have to watch this movie completely again... did this dozens of times already LOL

@desinfector

3 жыл бұрын

@Jonah Whale U mean that new one? with this espionage plot? darn I was serving in a sub (non-nuke) during the nineties and found this '81 movie pretty realistic. but this new one really sux. U dont even "feel" the dirt they had to live in during a mission

0:45 the guy passig by gets a huge headkick xD

@richtigerfeger

4 жыл бұрын

this comment is so old you can't even click the number yet

@bojanivanisevic1072

4 жыл бұрын

@@richtigerfeger Was er sich wohl denkt wenn 8 Jahre lang niemand auf seinen Kommentar antwortet und dann innerhalb von 2 Tagen zwei Antworten kommen? ;)

@Victor-rq3mf

4 жыл бұрын

Ich glaub er wäre richtig verwirrt

@OrganicDolphin

3 жыл бұрын

@@richtigerfeger I was so confused why I couldn’t click it lmaooo

0:46 awesome improvisation !

@chriseffpunkt4333

4 жыл бұрын

more like a blooper but ok

@guilty_mulburry5903

3 жыл бұрын

@@chriseffpunkt4333 nah he did that on purpose

@frogstuffer549

3 жыл бұрын

Probably happened all the time

@ashman187

3 жыл бұрын

kick to the head

@Ale-ci5cu

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashman187 headshot)

Can you imagine how shit scared those young lads must of been on those U boats with a destroyer overhead dropping those depth charges?!!

These were brave men. They knew they were fighting a uphill battle but they served their duty for their country.

My God is this movie magnificent ..

@b43xoit

3 жыл бұрын

What damage does the boat take in the bombing in the Strait of Gibraltar? Could the bombing damage prevent some subsystem from working for blowing tanks?

@roba1899

3 жыл бұрын

@@b43xoit I wish I knew but evidently the rudder is stuck DOWN so they cannot level out or come up. As for the blowing tanks, I cannot say why they cannot do this ..

@b43xoit

3 жыл бұрын

@@roba1899 Yeah, I think this is a weakness in the story.

Best submarine film that i have ever seen.

5:38 That face is truly priceless once you realize the kind of hell you're in!!! One of my favorite films.

One of the very few war movies to show the suffering and human side from the German perspective.

@ironseabeelost1140

3 жыл бұрын

Let them all suffer and be in hell.

@Gulliolm

3 жыл бұрын

@@ironseabeelost1140 oh wow, so much bullshit

@ironseabeelost1140

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gulliolm Repeat, "You're not exactly working with any amount of intelligence."

@Gulliolm

3 жыл бұрын

@@ironseabeelost1140 lol, thats cute

@jamesshunt5123

3 жыл бұрын

To OP. Nonsense. There's been plenty of war movies portraying the German perspective, but you're just counting the "famous Hollywood films". There are German films such as Stalingrad, Der Untergang, Germany Pale Mother, Sophie Sholl, Before the Fall, Generation War, Europa Europa, The Last Bridge, Die Brucke (nominated for an Oscar) and others. That's not mentioning the other European countries which often portray Germans in a more human light and therefore include their perspective. The Oscar nominated "Land of Mine" is a Danish film about German POW's forced to clear mines in Denmark. As for a rather (in)famous Hollywood production of the war from a German perspective see Sam Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron" which deals with the gruesome war on the Eastern Front from a German perspective. Btw the 1962 film "The Longest Day" (nominated for best picture) deals with Operation Overlord but portrays *both sides* . The Germans are portrayed as regular people with their own huge issues to face during the war and plan accordingly to the information they're receiving. It's a stark contrast to Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan where the Germans aren't portrayed as people at all but yelling beasts who all are ardent nazis. "The Longest Day" is portrayed as a chess game from both sides so it counts as a fair portrayal of the German side in the war. There was the rather bland "Valkyrie" some years back about the plot to assassinate Hitler inside some members of the German command. What you say is only true for those who only see the "latest Hollywood films". If you see a German film about the suffering in war see Stalingrad (1993).

I feel sorry for those watching this movie, that don't understand German. Too much lost in translation.

@corporalsilver6981

3 жыл бұрын

I don't speak a lick of German but I understand the language enough to the point that I can understand what certain words mean.

@glennpickard2239

3 жыл бұрын

It had to be done in German to make it so authentic. We have the subtitles anyway. This was one of the best ww2 films ever made

@corporalsilver6981

3 жыл бұрын

@@glennpickard2239 Agreed.

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

3 жыл бұрын

If they bought the movie they would have sub titles available.

@matty6848

3 жыл бұрын

Yes so I’ve heard. I’ve been told that by a few German speaking people.

Best film I've seen in 60 years. Lest we forget.

bester deutscher film ever

@kollegahsterin

4 жыл бұрын

Hast du schonmal die Penny Doku gesehen?

@Johnny-ue6hg

4 жыл бұрын

@@kollegahsterin Er sagte bester Film! Wir wissen alle das die penny markt Donku die beste Doku ist

@kollegahsterin

4 жыл бұрын

@@Johnny-ue6hg Doku in Filmlänge. Also kann man es auch Film nennen. Dass er es nie in die Kinos geschafft hat, sagt eher was über die Kinos aus als über die Qualität der Penny Doku.

@Johnny-ue6hg

4 жыл бұрын

@@kollegahsterin Das Boot ist der beste Kriegsfilm und penny markt ist der beste Film der heutigen Zeit

@normanroscher7545

3 жыл бұрын

Ever hoffentlich nicht, aber bisher wahrscheinlich schon.

2:23 just the sound of that horn alone, while the crewmen are patiently waiting to make their move.. scary

I've seen 'em all and this is by far the best! Great backstories, it holds you throughout the entire movie, just epic!

What a fantastic movie. I could watch this over and over.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

2 жыл бұрын

I have.... probably 50 or more times over 40 years...and the 6 hour miniseries version as well !!!

Bavaria Filmstadt apparently still conducts studio tours. I don't know what's featured there anymore, but long ago when I was a US soldier stationed in the DDR during the cold war era I was fortunate to take the tour. It was just a couple of years after the film release and included a memorable walk through of part of these very Das Boot interiors and an outdoor look at some reduced scale exterior models. Also in the tour at the time were sets and props from The Never Ending Story, Peter the Great, Cabaret, Moscow on the Hudson and more. Highly recommended that you look into this if it appeals to you!

@valkasolidor6727

3 жыл бұрын

@Stuart Ernst Ahrens Your attitude of hatred and resentment is presumptuous and unfortunate and I won't reply further. I've been aboard submarines sir, and incidentally my father was decorated for serving on a destroyer in WWII.

Und Grönemeyer dachte sich nur so: "U-Boot, ich bin in Dir, U-Boot, ich häng an Dir, oooh tauch auf, U-Boot"

@proletheus8639

4 жыл бұрын

Da konnte man zum Grönemeyer noch aufschauen. Heute... :(

The Cruel Sea and Das Boot back to back should be essential viewing.

One of the best war films of all time

Tell them that you are tired and depressed in your workplace

As a German myself, I can pretty much tell that even the losers never cease to appeal us of how war feels like an active burden that has the will to crush all of us. And it is quite well imaginable that fighting with a submarine is one of the most stressful and perilous jobs in the entire world. Once you go deep, there may be no going back. It is practically a suicide mission. No side is the best, but bravery and will to fight for the lives are remembered.

There are a lot of great war films. But this is definitely the best. Saw it when it came out. Speechless

@peterjonsson3807

2 жыл бұрын

Finally got to tour German sub in science museum in Chicago. Really made an inpression small as heck

This film is so good you can smell the inside of the boat!

The best Film ever made.

@rockyracoon3233

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely the best WW2 film×

Still surprised they made it out alive at periscope depth while getting depth charged

@jacknicholls9679

3 жыл бұрын

Many uboat men weren’t so lucky

@1ramyus

3 жыл бұрын

It's a movie. She wouldn't survive in real life

@sapphiresomeday

3 жыл бұрын

Its a movie, do not believe it. Watch The Cruel Sea. Centrimetric radar could detect a periscope. Its also very sporting of the Flower class corvette, probably not a destroyer, that they turned their ASDIC set off and they did not use their SQUID mortars either.

@davidwright7193

2 жыл бұрын

@@sapphiresomeday The film takes place from 10/41 to 12/41. Centimetric radar is just being introduced and is being added to ships as the come in for maintenance though it maybe how they were found in the first place. SQUID is still 2 years in the future. The destroyer was attempting to ram the sub with the depth charge attack being secondary and probably at the wrong depth. At that speed ASDIC would be masked by the destroyers own screws.

@ANWRocketMan

2 жыл бұрын

@@sapphiresomeday Entirely possible the equipment was dysfunctional or broke for some other reason. Technology of the time wasn't nearly as reliable as that of today. EDIT: @David Wright has an even better answer.

When my family went on vacation in Chicago a few years ago, my husband and son went to the U505 at the Museum of Science and Industry. The only person in that particular tour group who could read, write, or speak German, he translated information for others along with U-Boat history. When he got out of the exhibit, he was offered a tour guide position on the spot. Only trouble was the 3 hour commute daily each way. Still, good times for all. On a side note, I think they used the U505 as a mockup for the interior shots. I do know the exhibit was used for the movie U571, which illustrated the "cloak and dagger" side of the war trying to get the Enigma and related codes from the Germans.

@SuperEdge67

4 ай бұрын

Yeah U571 the American movie where the Americans captured the enigma machine, when in fact in reality it was the British that did.

It’s very sad how after all they had been through the sub is destroyed in the docks during a senseless ceremony

@rockyracoon3233

2 жыл бұрын

Sad and ironic. 😥

ALLLLARRRRRRRRRRRRRM!

One of my all time favourite movies. Looking forward to one day seeing the rare tv mini series of this, suppose that would be like an ultra long director’s cut version. Cool.

@CngDelta757

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve gotten the full mini series cut. Just adds a few scenes to add depth to the situation. Also an added scene that I wish made the director cut. It’s worth the investment but make sure your dvd/blu Ray can support multi country since you’ll be getting it from a euro source.

@jamespeters2859

3 жыл бұрын

@@CngDelta757 Nice one bud, no worries on that, I live in Birmingham U.K.

This movie truly makes you feel like you are on the sub it’s self, doing the intense battles!

This movie is so intense and scary yet terribly tragic of an ending. No way you’ll ever see a movie this amazing again with this much intensity and fear and nail biting and nervous sweats and so much crazy emotion of these guy in a claustrophobic U-boat on a mission trying to survive.

Clássico! O melhor filme sobre a guerra no mar já feito.

@marcelocarrico7255

Жыл бұрын

Com certeza

great movie, quite slow paced but it really captures the monotany of life at sea

I remember watching this when it first came out instantly hooked brilliant

bro I'm just watchibg little clips and I'm thrilled

Being depth charged is the most frightening experience of WW2 in my opinion

@CorePathway

2 жыл бұрын

An hours-long artillery barrage is essentially the same thing

0:13 If your mechanic doesn't do that, find another mechanic.

@georgebuller1914

3 жыл бұрын

Many times I have used such a technique to diagnose a problem. Along with the MKI Human eyeball, the MKI Human ear-hole takes some beating...

@JugSouthgate

3 жыл бұрын

When your life depends on the diesel engines working, you take good care of them. Later in the film, Johann shouts at the engines "JUST KEEP RUNNING AND GET US HOME! THAT'S AN ORDER!"

One of the greatest anxiety inducing films ever!

The best u-boat war movie ever filmed.

Still one of the best movies ever. Why did someone feel the need to remake it?

i remember watching this when it was first shown as a series of 8 hrs total...utterly fantastic... the shortened down "film" was ok but missed out badly on the real feeling and intense portrayal that the series had

My Grandad was on the Merchant ships in WW2, but this shows us from their side of the war, scary as f..k!

I can only imagine feeling those shock waves from those charges that would shake the dub apart.

In later stages of the war the allies invented a radar tat could pick up U-boat periscopes popping out of the water. The U-boat captains were unaware of this.

@kingprone7846

3 жыл бұрын

yes indeed, in the book they keep talking about how this destroyer saw their periscope and I think they later on the way to gibraltar get attacked by a few planes at night too. The Kaleun says he heared rumours that the allies have a technology which lets them see at night and spot submarines with ease.

@karylhogan5758

3 жыл бұрын

It was 10 centermeter radar that could pick up a scope if sea not too ruff

@glennpickard2239

3 жыл бұрын

Plus "Huff duff" whereby they could pinpoint a sub` s position based on its radio transmissions

@karylhogan5758

3 жыл бұрын

@@glennpickard2239 yes. And many American lives saved as result. The u boat danger over. Hedghog debt charges done rest.

Ich liebe diesen Film

@tiborpurzsas2136

3 жыл бұрын

I love this film

Great movie! It’s one of my favorites! 👏👍

Awesome quality and one of the best anti war movies ever made.

Christ, just how many china does the crew have to smash when calling for an emergency dive.

I was taught to tattoo professionally by a man who looks exactly like the man in the beige sweater with the blonde hair lol.

@philipprichardt8057

3 жыл бұрын

That guy is actually a famous German musician, Herbert Grönemeyer.

The best sub movie ever.

très beau film .réalisme extraordinaire !!! une mention au ...chef mécano .

'You don't know what warfare is, if u haven't fought the Germans.''

I'm not exaggerating to say I must have watched this movie over 50 times, and a lot of them were the 5 hour mini series edition. An incredible production. (PS. NOT the utterly awful modern TV version !!!)

@chucknorris6640

2 жыл бұрын

Me two I am happy that I aren’t the only one

@borisborkovic8894

2 жыл бұрын

There is 5 hour version?

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

2 жыл бұрын

@@borisborkovic8894 It was produced as a TV miniseries in the 1980s. Add another two hours onto the "directors/ultimate/final/last ever cut" and you get the idea. It's available on torrents.

@borisborkovic8894

2 жыл бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 ok

Had "the boat" deserved an Oscar?

RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......

Destroyers are AWFULLY HARD on submarines

@daleburrell6273

3 жыл бұрын

@Jan-Ola Ellingsen...AND THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF SOPHISTICATED ANTI-SUBMARINE WEAPONS THESE DAYS, TOO-!!!

once my dad and some friends he worked with were sitting around talking about a submarine that just was launched and it was on tv. they were all american germans. dad said wouldn't it be interesting to go out on a sub. one said no way. "there are enough dead germans in submarines on the bottom of the ocean already, they sure don't need another one." :)

Wheres the captive dragon to make a scream everytime they surface 🤣

Saw this movie, the original 'Das Boot' with subtitles, when it first came out and it was great. I don't understand German, but after a while I stopped reading the subtitles and just understood them. The later English dubbed movie 'The Boat' was a mess, it just lost the feeling of the original. It was one service of the war that I would never have liked to serve in.