Das Boot

Erhalten Sie unten!!! But, seriously: how epic is this?

Das Boot is an awesome film because of it's incredibly epic "battle" (cat-n-mouse) scenes, but even more interesting because of its anti-war message and german production. While it does far from chronicle the atrocities of war commited by the German side, but it's message is still brilliantly clear: no war is a good war.

The entire presentation of the specific conflict being documented was carefully laid out to breed the inner-most, debilitating stress. The film was almost exclusively filmed inside the vessel, forcing the claustrophobic circumstance upon the viewer--no more than 5% of the film is "out-of-sub."

The film is a journey through the life of U-96, a german "unterseeboot" with extraordinary marks for tonnage sunk--aproximately 230,000 tons destroyed over the course of 11 patrols, having not lost a single crew member. Thus, it is a revealing decision of Wolfgang Petersen to choose this topic and present it in this manner for his film.