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1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 1,037,022 | Gross: $248.16M

2. Das Boot (1981)

R | 149 min | Drama, War

A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 264,383 | Gross: $11.49M

3. Jungle Cruise (2021)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Based on Disneyland's theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall

Votes: 212,513 | Gross: $116.99M

4. Das Boot (2018– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, War

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in this WWII drama.

Stars: Franz Dinda, Tom Wlaschiha, Rick Okon, Rainer Bock

Votes: 9,910

5. Das Boot (1985)

TV-MA | 293 min | Drama, War

A World War II German U-Boat crew have a terrifying patrol mission in the early days of the war.

Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 33,426

6. I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian, William Henry

Votes: 228

7. Black Sea (2014)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a submarine rumored to be loaded with gold.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall

Votes: 40,884 | Gross: $1.17M

8. The Cruel Sea (1953)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, War

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 5,410

9. The Enemy Below (1957)

Approved | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During WWII an American destroyer discovers a German U-boat, and in the ensuing duel the American captain must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.

Director: Dick Powell | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel

Votes: 12,252

10. Operation Seawolf (2022)

Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, History

In the last days of World War II, Germany, desperate for a last chance to defeat the Allies, gathers its last remaining U-Boats for one last mission: to attack the continental United States.

Director: Steven Luke | Stars: Hiram A. Murray, Andrew Stecker, Apostolos Gliarmis, Dolph Lundgren

Votes: 889

11. U-Boat 29 (1939)

77 min | Thriller, War

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring

Votes: 2,459

12. Torpedo (2019)

102 min | Action, Adventure, History

Resistance fighters led by commander Stan must transport a stolen German submarine carrying uranium to America during WWII while evading German forces determined to sink the U-boat.

Director: Sven Huybrechts | Stars: Koen De Bouw, Thure Riefenstein, Ella-June Henrard, Joren Seldeslachts

Votes: 2,937

13. The Sinking of the Laconia (2010– )

Drama, History, War

Dramatisation of the true story of the sinking of the liner Laconia by a German U-boat in 1942 through the eyes of six survivors.

Stars: Andrew Buchan, Ken Duken, Lindsay Duncan, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 1,203

14. The Damned (1947)

Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

In the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine.

Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly, Fosco Giachetti

Votes: 1,135

15. Sealed Cargo (1951)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War

In 1943, an American fishing boat has a fateful encounter with a seriously damaged Danish schooner off of Canada's Atlantic coast.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Dana Andrews, Carla Balenda, Claude Rains, Philip Dorn

Votes: 978

16. Landfall (1949)

86 min | Drama, War

During WW2, an RAF pilot from coastal command is accused of sinking a British submarine that he mistook for a German one.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Margaret Barton

Votes: 241

17. Convoy (1940)

78 min | Drama, War

A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII.

Director: Pen Tennyson | Stars: Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell

Votes: 440

18. Nazi Agent (1942)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama

A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Conrad Veidt), one a loyal American, and the other, a Nazi official.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher, Dorothy Tree

Votes: 803

19. U47 - Kapitänleutnant Prien (1958)

91 min | Drama, War

In 1939 German U-boat captain Günther Prien receives orders to infiltrate the British Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sink British warships.

Director: Harald Reinl | Stars: Dieter Eppler, Sabine Sesselmann, Joachim Fuchsberger, Harald Juhnke

Votes: 211

20. They Came to Blow Up America (1943)

Passed | 73 min | Drama, War

An FBI agent infiltrates a Nazi sabotage school in Germany where men are trained for strategic destruction inside American borders.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: George Sanders, Anna Sten, Ward Bond, Dennis Hoey

Votes: 250

21. Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom (2021 TV Special)

47 min | Documentary, History, War

Based on Iain Ballantyne's book, and shedding new light on one of World War II's most epic sea battles, this documentary provides a thrilling countdown of the Bismarck's final 24 hours.

Director: David Gilbert | Stars: Yves Dias, Chris Parry, Jane Harrold, Iain Ballantyne

Votes: 28

22. Mare Nostrum (1926)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, War

The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Apollon Uni, Álex Nova, Kada-Abd-el-Kader, Hughie Mack

Votes: 414 | Gross: $0.62M

23. Mystery Submarine (1962)

92 min | Adventure, Drama, War

During WWII, the British Royal Navy uses a captured German submarine to trick the enemy and protect their supply convoy.

Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Edward Judd, James Robertson Justice, Laurence Payne, Joachim Fuchsberger

Votes: 74

24. Haie und kleine Fische (1957)

120 min | War, Drama

Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.

Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Hansjörg Felmy, Sabine Bethmann, Mady Rahl, Wolfgang Preiss

Votes: 201

25. Two Tickets to London (1943)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, War

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Alan Curtis, C. Aubrey Smith, Barry Fitzgerald

Votes: 53

26. Sin dejar rastros (1918)

Animation

The true incident of the German U-Boat which torpedoed an Argentine ship to make Argentina declare war on the Allies.

Director: Quirino Cristiani

Votes: 22

27. Thunder Afloat (1939)

Passed | 95 min | Romance, Drama, War

In a New England port town, Pop Thorson and Rocky Blake are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it for winning a lucrative contract of military supplies.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Virginia Grey, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 247

28. U-Boats: The Wolfpack (1987 Video)

30 min | Documentary, Short, War

This documentary looks at the Nazi submarine threat, their fleet known as the "Wolf Pack," and how it almost helped to defeat the Allies in World War II.

Star: Edward Mulhare

Votes: 11

29. Black Dragon of Manzanar (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The 1943 serial, G-Men vs. The Black Dragon (1943), which was original 15 episodes, re-edited into a feature film for television distribution.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Rod Cameron, Roland Got, Constance Worth, Nino Pipitone

Votes: 7

30. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 67 (1917)

Documentary, Short

Subjects include: The Submarine Mine-Layer (1917), "Modern Farming", "Women Patriots", and Picto Puzzles (1917).

Director: P.D. Hugon

31. The Submarine Mine-Layer (1917)

Animation, Short

Animated drawings demonstrate how specialized German submarines laid mines in the English Channel during World War I.

Director: Jacob Leventhal

32. Wolfpack (1991 Video Game)

Action, War

Play the commander in naval battles of WWII, either in a Nazi U-Boat or on a British convoy vessel.

33. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: Pamela's Voice/Lone Survivor/The Doll (1971)

TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Jonathan's nagging wife Pamela, whom he killed after years of being pushed around by her, haunts him. / In 1915, Allied ship finds a confused man in a lifeboat from the Titanic. / British Army Colonel Masters fights his niece's evil doll.

Directors: Richard Benedict, Rudi Dorn, Gene Levitt | Stars: Phyllis Diller, John Astin, John Colicos, Torin Thatcher

Votes: 502

34. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic - 1939-1944 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The submarine war emphasizing the North Atlantic. Tracks the development of the convoy system and German submarine strategy.

Director: Ted Childs | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Karl Dönitz, Otto Kretschmer, Robert Sherwood

Votes: 406

35. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: Campaign in the Balkans (2004)

105 min | Documentary, History, War

We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch

Votes: 11

36. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The Siege of Leningrad (2000)

Documentary, History, War

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.

Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Rolf Carls, Karl Dönitz, Joseph Goebbels

Votes: 6

37. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The War Against the U-Boats (2002)

Documentary, History, War

An in depth look at the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, the people who commanded the fighting, the national leaders, and the equipment used.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Martin Dunbar-Nasmith

Votes: 6

38. World War Weird (2017– )
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2017)

Documentary, History, War

Discover some of the more remarkable tales that came out of the world wars. Hear about a weird Japanese weapon and the U-boat activity that awakened something strange in the oceans.

Director: Pascal Hughes | Stars: Guy Walters, Mike Pavelec, Dominic Selwood, Andrew Gough

39. White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode: Under the Radar (2011)

TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Neal gets closer to finding out the truth about Kate's death.

Director: John T. Kretchmer | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason

Votes: 974

40. Das Boot (1985)
Episode: Part 1 (1985)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, War

The German U-Boat crew embarks on its mission at the beginning of World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 391

41. Das Boot (1985)
Episode: Part 2 (1985)

TV-MA | 102 min | Drama, War

The crew is trying to carry out its mission which has proven to be extremely difficult.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch

Votes: 369

42. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Secret Weapons of the Third Reich (1998)

TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary, History, War

The Third Reich built weapon systems that were far beyond anything the Allies had or could have imagined in World War II. From operational jet planes to guided missiles and smart bombs, ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Rupert Allason, Anthony Cave Brown, Walter Boyne

Votes: 15

43. Battle Plan Under Fire (2004– )
Episode: Blockade (2004)

Documentary, History, War

We explore how blockades have the ability to destroy or at least damage a country's ability to wage war.

Stars: Bruce Gudmundsson, Lloyd Clark, Eric Meyers, Karl Dönitz

44. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157

45. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: Lightning War (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Country after European country falls before the unstoppable German blitzkrieg.

Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Karl Dönitz

Votes: 344

46. Apocalypse, le crépuscule d'Hitler (2023)
Episode: Le grand choc (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Summer 1943: Hitler wants to turn the tide of the war. The brand-new armored vehicles he has been waiting for a long time are finally gathered at the Ukrainian border, in Kursk. They are ... See full summary »

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Ion Antonescu, Blondi

Votes: 9

47. WW1: The First Modern War (2014)
Episode: Under Water Killers (2014)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary

The Atlantic became a killing field as German submarines took on the might of the dominant British Navy. These stealthy, silent killers were able to sink 5,200 ships by war's end, nearly bringing Britain to its knees.

Director: Susan Werbe | Stars: Tom Bromhead, David Silbey

Votes: 13