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1. Down Periscope
Directed by David S. Ward
Producer: Fox Home Entertainment
Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean Stanton, Bruce Dern
2004, 92 min.

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Description: Kelsey Grammer sails from TV's "Frasier" to the big screen in this screwball comedy co-starring Lauren Holly and Rip Torn. Veteran skipper John Dodge (Grammer) will never be a textbook officer, but h ...

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2. Up Periscope
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Producer: Warner Home Video
James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr., Carleton Carpenter
2006, 112 min.

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3. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Special Edition)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Producer: Paramount
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Ishaq Bux, Anthony Chinn, John Rhys-Davies, Patrick Durkin
2008, 115 min.

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Description: Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-trapped gauntlet (complete with an over-sized rolling ...

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4. Hunt for Red October, The
Directed by John McTiernan
Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
2003, 134 min.

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5. Das Boot: The Director's Cut
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge
1997, 149 min.

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Description: The Story Das Boot is the story of a single mission of one U-boat and its crew. The film follows the U-96 from its departure from La Rochelle, France, through its patrols in the North Atlantic and ...

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6. Hunt for Red October, The
Directed by John McTiernan
Producer: Paramount
Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Sam Neill, Vlado Benden, Michael George Benko
2008, 135 min.
Description: Widescreen/Blu-Ray. PG rating. Hunt For Red October. A contemplative thriller by early 1990's standards, The Hunt For Red October was the first movie based on the successful Jack Ryan novels of Tom Cl ...

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7. Operation Petticoat
Directed by Blake Edwards
Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill
2001, 122 min.

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8. Merseyside at War

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9. In Harm's Way
Directed by Otto Preminger
Producer: Paramount
John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, Tom Tryon, Paula Prentiss
2001, 165 min.

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10. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Producer: 20th Century Fox
2006, 144 min.

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Description: "Tora! Tora! Tora!" is the Japanese signal to attack - and the movie meticulously recreates the attack on Pearl Harbor and the events leading up to it. Opening scenes contrast the American and Japanes ...

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11. Destination Tokyo
Directed by Delmer Daves
Producer: Warner Home Video
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark
2004, 135 min.

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Description: World War II submarine the U.S.S. Copperfin must complete a secret mission in Japanese waters. Film is as much about the relationship between the naval men as it is about their heroic mission. John Fo ...

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12. Battle 360 - Season 1 (History Channel)
Producer: A&E Home Video (New REleaset)
2008, 470 min.

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Description: For nearly a decade, the legendary World War II aircraft carrier USS Enterprise held a pivotal place on the turbulent seas of war, engaging in some of the fiercest multi-front battles ever witnessed i ...

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13. Enemy Below, The
Directed by Dick Powell
Producer: 20th Century Fox
Robert Mitchum, Curt Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel, Russell Collins
2004, 97 min.

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14. Fighting Lady, The
Directed by William Wyler
Producer: Good Times Video
2001, 62 min.

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15. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Special Edition)
Directed by Charles A. Nichols
Producer: Walt Disney Video
James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Ellenshaw, Elmo Williams, Vincent Di Fate
2003, 127 min.

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Description: Climb aboard the Nautilus ... and into a strange undersea world of spellbinding adventure! Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas, and Peter Lorre star as shipwrecked survivors taken captive by the mysterious Capta ...

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16. Run Silent, Run Deep
Directed by Robert Wise
Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden, Brad Dexter
1958, 93 min.

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17. Victory at Sea - The Legendary World War II Documentary (History Channel)
Directed by M. Clay Adams
Producer: A&E Home Video
2003, 690 min.

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Description: A 26-episode World War II documentary, Victory at Sea is one of the most important series in the history of television. Made in 1952, the show was a huge success, winning many major awards and even sp ...

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18. Crash Dive
Directed by Archie Mayo
Producer: 20th Century Fox
Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, Dame May Whitty.
2004, 105 min.

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Description: En route to submarine duty in Washington, naval officer Lt. Stewart (Tyrone Power) meets the enchanting Jean Hewitt (Anne Baxter). He begins a whirlwind courtship, unaware she is already engaged to t ...

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19. U-571
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi
2000, 116 min.

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Description: A US naval officer leads a search to recover an Enigma machine, which the Third Reich used to encrypt/decrypt its communications, from a German U-boat (U-571) during World War II. Read our review ...

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20. World War II in Color
Producer: Timeless Media Group
2007, 290 min.

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Description: When the war came to America in December of 1941, the film industry went to war along with the rest of the United States. These award-winning documentaries are the work of some of Hollywood's finest p ...

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21. Crimson Tide
Directed by Tony Scott
Producer: Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini
2008, 116 min.
Description: Superstars Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman face off in the intense action-thriller Crimson Tide, now on Blu-ray Disc. Viggo Mortensen and James Gandolfini also star as the full-throttle tension (Lo ...

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22. Enigma
Directed by Michael Apted
Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Jeremy Northam
2002, 119 min.

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Description: This movie is based on the book by Robert Harris and was adapted for the screen by Tom Stoppard. The plot focuses on the code-breaking efforts at Bletchley Park. The filmmakers, aiming for a high degr ...

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23. Above Us the Waves
Directed by Ralph Thomas
John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
1955, 92 min.

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24. U-571
Directed by Jonathan Mostow
Producer: Universal Studios
Jon Bon Jovi, Terrence "T.C." Carson, Tom Guiry, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann
2008, 60 min.
Description: A U.S. Navy Captain and his crew are just beginning to enjoy 48 hours of leave when they receive word to immediately return to duty. On a top-secret assignment, they must disguise themselves as Nazis ...

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25. Hitler's Lost Sub
2000, 120 min.
Description: This documentary combines two stories: German U-boat warfare in the two world wars, and the search for the identity of a U-boat found off the coast of New Jersey in 1991. Footage from wartime propaga ...

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26. Below
Directed by David Twohy
Producer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Gary Broadway, Max Casali, Nick Chinlund, Alexis Conran, Matthew Davis
2003, 105 min.

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Description: On what should be a routine rescue mission during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark picks up three survivors of a U-boat attack. But for the crew -- trapped together in the sub's narrow corr ...

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27. Fighting Seabees, The
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Producer: Republic Pictures
John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey
2000, 100 min.

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28. U-234: Hitler's Last U-Boat
Directed by Andreas Gutzeit
2001, 56 min.

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29. Forty-Ninth Parallel
Directed by Michael Powell
Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier, 107 min.

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Description: After a party leaves their U-boat to attempt to capture a Hudson Bay Trading Company post on the Canadian coast, their vessel is sunk with all hands by Canadian Coastal Command planes. The stranded pa ...

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30. Battle of the Atlantic
Producer: BBC
2002, 146 min.

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Description: Hitler's submarines, his "Grey Wolves," made their first appearance in 1939, and by 1942 had brought the Allies to the brink of defeat. Churchill would later admit, "The only thing that ever really fr ...

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