Widely regarded as the finest submarine film ever made, the 1981 German-language entry follows the titular German U-boat's ...

A war film dubbed ‘claustrophobic’ and ‘thrilling’ is available to stream now via Amazon Prime Video. Das Boot, released in ...

Sweaty-palmed action set pieces may have made Petersen’s reputation, but his follow-up to “Das Boot” — and his first English-language feature — was a rare foray into family-friendly ...

Filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen earned two Oscar nominations as the writer-director of the 1981 film “Das Boot,” set on a German U-boat during World War II.

Set a year after the events of Petersen’s film, 2018’s Das boot takes place during the Autumn of 1942, setting the scene in occupied France and following brand new characters and a new story ...

Wolfgang Petersen, one of a handful of foreign directors to make it big in Hollywood, whose harrowing 1981 war film, “Das Boot,” was nominated for six Academy Awards and became one of Germany ...

Wolfgang Petersen, blockbuster director, dies at 81 00:29. Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic "Das Boot" propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career ...

Das Boot was released in multiple versions, starting with the 149-minute original theatrical pic. The BBC aired a three-part, 300-minute miniseries in the mid-1980s, and a 1997 director’s cut ...

Departed Wolfgang Petersen, ‘In The Line Of Fire’, 'Das Boot' and ‘Air Force One’ director, dead at 81 The Oscar-nominated filmmaker died due to pancreatic cancer on Friday at his home in ...

Wolfgang Petersen, the Oscar-nominated director of films like “Das Boot” and “Air Force One,” died on August 12, his spokesperson, Michelle Bega from Rogers & Cowan/PMK, told CNN. He was 81.