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The Abyss 

1989 

1 hr 26 min 

A civilian diving team are enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. 

 

The Atomic Submarine 

1959 

1 hr 12 min 

Ships mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate. 

 

The Bedford Incident 

1965 

1 hr 42 min 

Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. 

 

The Devil and the Deep 

1932 

1 hr 18 min 

Sturm is in charge of a submarine, and believes his wife, Pauline, to be having affairs with other men. He drives her out of the house, and she then spends the night on the desert with Semper. Sturm deliberately causes a collision, which causes the sub to sink. However, Semper rescues everyone, but leaves Sturm to perish with the submarine. 

 

The Enemy Below 

1957 

1 hr 38 min 

During World War II, an American destroyer meets a German U-Boat. Both captains are good ones, and the engagement lasts for a considerable time 

 

The Fifth Missile 

1986 

2 hr 30 min 

The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. 

 

The Flying Missile (aka The Flying Fish) 

1950 

1 hr 31 min 

Fictional account of the role played by a somewhat impetuous US Naval commander in developing the first means of launching missiles from submarines. 

 

The Frogmen 

1951 

1 hr 36 min 

In this World War II drama a strict navy commander is assigned to replace the popular senior officer of a group of underwater demolition divers-better known as frogmen. 

 

The Hunley 

1999 

2 hr 00 min 

CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864 

 

The Hunt For Red October 

1990 

2 hr 14 min 

In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect, or to start a war? 

 

The Inside Man 

1984 

2 hr 30 min 

Suspicions are on alert when the disappearance of a high-tech laser device used in nuclear submarines is discovered. The situation escalates between two superpowers in neutral Sweden, and an investigator (Dennis Hopper) is hired to find the laser and the culprit. Based on an actual terrifying event... 

 

The Land That Time Forgot 

1975 

1 hr 30 min 

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals 

 

The Last U-Boat 

1990 

1 hr 39 min 

Near the end of the war a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to japan carring plutonium needed for a japanies A-Bomb. 

 

The Life Aquatic 

2004 

1 hr 58 min 

With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son using a WWII converted submarine. 

 

The Mysterious Island 

1929 

1 hr 35 min 

On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia 

 

The Phantom Submarine 

1941 

1 hr 10 min 

This Korean thriller takes place aboard the Phantom, a Sierra-class nuclear submarine. Sent on a peaceful mission to monitor Japanese subs, the crew is taken by surprise when the submarine's commander takes over the ship with the intention of attacking Japan. 

 

The Rescue 

1988 

1 hr 27 min 

A team of Navy Seals are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the "wrong" hands. 

 

The Rift 

1990 

1 hr 19 min 

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I". 

 

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! 

1966 

2 hr 06 min 

Without hostile intent, a Soviet sub runs aground off New England. Men are sent for a boat, but many villagers go into a tizzy, risking bloodshed. 

 

The Silent Service (animated) 

1995 

1 hr 40 min 

The U.S. and Japan are pitted against a nuclear submarine of their own creation when the seagoing vessel's crew members declare independence from their respective homelands. 

 

The Spy In Black 

1939 

1 hr 17 min 

When a German U-Boat captain is sent on a spying mission to the North of Scotland during World War One, he finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress. 

 

The Spy Who Loved Me 

1977 

2 hr 05 min 

The British discover that someone has perfected a way of tracking submerged submarines and is offering the technology to the highest bidder. 

 

The Valiant 

1962 

1 hr 20 min 

Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission 

 

Torpedo Alley 

1953 

1 hr 24 min 

Carrier pilot Lieutenant Bob Bingham (Mark Stevens) is rescued at sea by a submarine after he freezes at the controls and crashes 

 

Torpedo Run 

1958 

1 hr 36 min 

The commander of an American submarine during World War II sets out to destroy the Japanese Aircraft carrier which launched the attack on Pearl Harbour. His wife and child have been captured by the Japanese and they are using them and other prisoners of war as human shields for the carrier. 

 

Trapped in a Submarine 

1931 

1 hr 03 min 

Inspired by the real-life Poseidon submarine disaster. A British sub, chugging its way through Chinese waters, is broadsided by a cargo boat and water fills the doomed vessel. 

 

Two-Man Submarine 

1944 

1 hr 02 min 

Robert B. Williams is a scientist on an unnamed South Pacific island making penicillin out of jungle mold. Before long an unidentified plane flies over the island and a figure parachutes out and a man washes ashore and is accepted as a crewman from a torpedoed American ship. Later, Williams is murdered and a two-man Japanese submarine (with five or six Germans on board plus the two Japanese crewmen) is lurking offshore... 

 

U-571 

2000 

1 hr 56 min 

A German submarine is boarded by disguised American submariners trying to capture their Enigma cipher machine 

 

U-Boat Prisoner 

1944 

1 hr 06 min 

An American sailor is taken prisoner by a Nazi submarine. 

 

Undersea Kingdom 

1936 

3 hr 46 min 

Professor Norton has determined that earthquakes disturbing the nation are emanating from the undersea kingdom of Atlantis. Accompanied by young naval officer Crash Corrigan, he takes off to investigate in a rocket-powered submarine. 

 

Up Periscope 

1959 

1 hr 52 min 

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes. 

 

USS Poseidon - Phantom Below 

2005 

1 hr 35 min 

In the cold dark waters of north korea a u.S.S navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - its attacked & nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the executive officer & the engingeering officer. 

 

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 

1961 

1 hr 45 min 

Admiral Nelson takes a brand new atomic submarine through its paces. When the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, the admiral must find a way to beat the heat or watch the world go up in smoke. 

 

We Dive at Dawn 

1943 

1 hr 38 min 

The crew of HMS submarine Sea Tiger are recalled for a special mission: sink the new German battleship Brandenburg. En route, they learn that their target has entered the heavily defended Baltic; rather than fail, they follow it. Tension builds as they approach their target. 

 

Western Approaches 

1944 

1 hr 23 min 

A factual film depicting the hazards faced by the merchant seamen, during the Second World War, who risked their lives to bring in vital supplies to Britain.