Rupert Murdoch’s German pay-TV platform Sky Deutschland and German production house Bavaria Film have greenlit a 25-million-euro ($28.3-million) TV version of “Das Boot,” the hit 1981 movie about a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1981, an unlikely German-language movie surfaced to break all the rules. Das Boot, following the day-to-day routines of a Second World War U-boat, was then the most expensive feature film to ...

Das Boot first hit screens back in 1981 and has previously been regarded as one of the greatest war films ever made. The film is an adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's partly-autobiographical ...

War fanatics have flocked to praise another film they have branded an "absolute masterpiece". Set during World War II, Das Boot follows the crew of the German submarine U-96 as they embark on a ...