Some search for battle, others are born into it ...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their ...

Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic "Das Boot" propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films "In the Line of Fire," "Air Force One" ...

Anyone who thinks spending three-and-a-half hours trapped in a darkened room might be a tough call should be made to watch Das Boot - and count themselves lucky. Lucky on two counts as it happens: ...

Wolfgang Petersen's 1982 breakthrough film Das Boot was nominated for six Oscars He said his childhood in post-WWII Germany attracted him to glamorous dreams and clear clashes of good and evil He ...