Aside from the more recent "In the Heart of the Sea", we haven't seen many films about classical naval warfare today. It's absolutely relentless in its commitment to authenticity and the crew of sailors we follow boasts great camaraderie and likeability. Operation Petticoat, featuring a pink submarine. Ice Station Zebra, cold war submarine movie, they dive under the polar ice cap to beat the Russians, in retrieving data from a downed satellite. But I have it on blu-ray now and have watched it several times. It was an awesome movie, trouble in the reactor room. Got totally crushed by the pandemics closure of theaters and released on Apple+. Of all the movies to depict naval warfare, Master and Commander could be considered the best. K19 The Widowmaker, starring Harrison Ford as captain of a very unsafe soviet nuclear submarine. That's the film's greatest strength not only are the battle scenes a thrill to watch, but the lives of the sailors at sea brilliantly conveyed through a collection of great performances and standout production design. Through of series of unconventional tactics and clever thinking, Aubrey and his men are able to outwit and defeat their French opponents time and time again. While the central protagonist may be fictional, the action that unfolds comes closer to the real thing than any other film in its sub-genre. We follow British Captain Jack Aubrey (played by Russel Crowe) and the crew of the HMS Surprise as they're ordered to track down and eliminate the French privateer Archeron off the coasts of South America. Less than a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were leveled by American nuclear bombs, Japanese filmmakers made this monster movie about a giant prehistoric dinosaur who’d been hibernating deep in the Pacific Ocean, only to be awakened by atomic-bomb tests, whereupon he stomped his way into Tokyo and destroyed it.
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