Tips from Chip

U-571 is the final submarine movie I am going to recommend.  It is a WWII thriller about an attempt to steal the Germans’ Enigma coding mac...

In my last post I reviewed the 1966 adventure film Fantastic Voyage, which had a small submarine and crew being miniaturized and injected i...

How can you have a submarine movie when there is no body of water for the sub to travel in?  When the medium the sub navigates in is an act...

In my prior review of Crimson Tide (1995) – which you can read here – I wrote that it was closer to Run Silent, Run Deep than to other sub...

Crimson Tide was the first major submarine movie to be released after the huge success of The Hunt for Red October (1990).  You can read m...

When most people hear “submarine movie” they probably think of intense war films, edge of your seat tension, battle scenes, etc.  Not all f...

In the early 1950s when Walt Disney (the man, not the studio) saw some footage his photographers had shot of underwater scenes in anamorph...

While flipping through channels on the TV do you ever find yourself stopping to watch a movie that you’ve already seen, even if you own i...

The best way to start my Submarine Movies category is with by far the best submarine film ever made – Das Boot.   I consider it not only t...

“Who’s the U-boat commander?” – Service Manager, Risky Business Those who have seen the movie Risky Business (1983) will recognize that...

The movie The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (hereinafter known as TRAC 2 ) was released in the 1960s not too many years afte...

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was a big budget disaster flick written, directed, and produced by Irwin Allen.   Allen specialized in thes...

K-19: The Widowmaker is a submarine movie that is supposedly a true story.   In reality the filmmakers changed almost everything about it i...