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 with an honestly ...

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, ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

The American moviegoing public has never been especially enthusiastic about foreign-language films, but every now and then, a subtitled movie does cross over from the arthouse to the mainstream. The ...

The 1981 film Das Boot became an unlikely hit because Wolfgang Petersen did a great job showing how claustrophobic life in a submarine, especially when it’s constantly under threat, can be. About ten ...

The ocean was in many ways his natural habitat, as borne out by “Poseidon,” his proficient 2006 remake of “The Poseidon Adventure,” and especially “Das Boot,” the 1981 submarine-set nail biter that ...