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Set before World War I
- The Hunley (1999) - CSS Hunley attacks a U.S. Navy ship
Made before World War II
- The Secret of the Submarine (1915) - US action-adventure silent serial directed by George L. Sargent depicting prevention of US submarine from falling into enemy hands
- A Submarine Pirate (1915) - WATCH BY CLICKING HERE - 25 MINUTES - US heist-comedy-short directed by Charles Avery and Syd Chaplin, depicting waiter attempting to foil sea-heist of gold-filled cargo vessel by submarine[5]
- Civilization (1916) - WATCH BY CLICKING HERE - 90 MINUTES - US allegorical-drama directed by Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, Raymond B. West, et al. depicting pacifist German Count's construction of submarine with order to sink ocean liner Lusitania presumably also carrying enemy munitions; a.k.a. La cruz de la humanidad, a.k.a. Civilizacao.
- The Little American (1917) - US action-drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Joseph Levering, depicting ship of young Americans returning to ancestral French home torpedoed by a German U-boat and witness to German brutality while imprisoned; a.k.a. A Pequena Americana, a.k.a. La petite americaine
- On the Jump (1918) - US comedy directed by Raoul Walsh, depicting US reporter who joins Liberty Loan campaign before he must rescue his girlfriend and stolen secret fuel formula from German agent rendezvousing with a German U-boat
- Patriotism (1918) - US mystery-drama directed by Raymond B. West, depicting search in Scotland for German agent sending vital information to German U-boat fleet off the Scottish coast
- Behind the Door (1919) - US action-drama directed by Irvin Willat, depicting German-American naval officer who takes revenge against the German U-boat commander who brutalized his wife after sinking his ship; a.k.a. Detras de la puerta[6]
- The False Faces (1919) - US espionage-drama directed by Irvin Willat, depicting a thief who becomes a reluctant US agent and infiltrates German U-boat to deliver vital enemy information; a.k.a. The Lone Wolf
- The Isle of Conquest (1919) - US adventure-drama directed by Irvin Willat, based on Arthur Hornblow novel, about a man and woman marooned on a deserted isle after their ship is sunk by a German U-boat[7]
- Mare Nostrum (1926) - directed by Rex Ingram[8]
- Submarine (1928) - directed by Frank Capra[9]
- Men Without Women (1930) - fictional USS S-13
- The Sea Ghost (1931) - a.k.a. U-67
- A Woman of Experience (1931)[10]
- Morgenrot (1933)[11]
- Hell Below (1933) - USS AL-14[12]
- Dark Journey (1937) - WATCH BY CLICKING HERE - 75 MINUTES - UK adventure-thriller directed by Victor Saville
- Submarine D-1 (1937)[13]
- Chetvyortyy periskop (1939) - the Soviet film
- The Spy in Black (1939) - a.k.a. U-Boat 29[14]
- Thunder Afloat (1939)[15]
Made during World War II
- Three Little Sew and Sews (1939) - US comedy short directed by Del Lord, depicting the Three Stooges as sailors working in a ships' tailor shop tricked into stealing a submarine by Nazi spies
- 49th Parallel (1941) - a U-boat is sunk in Hudson's Bay, leaving the surviving crewmen stranded in northern Canada
- U-Boote westwarts (U-Boat, Course West!) (1941) - German war film promoting Kriegsmarine and Unterseeboot service
- Crash Dive (1943) - fictional USS Corsair[16]
- Podvodnaya lodka T-9 (1943) - the Soviet movie
- Destination Tokyo (1943) - fictional USS Copperfin[17]
- Gung Ho (1943) - fictional account of the Makin Island raid[18]
- The Silver Fleet (1943) - British drama directed by Vernon Sewell and Gordon Wellesley, depicting a Dutch submarine builder forced to work for the Nazis[19]
- Submarine Alert (1943) - US thriller directed by Frank McDonald, depicting a former gangster supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes in South America[20]
- Submarine Base (1943) - WATCH BY CLICKING HERE - 65 MINUTES - US drama directed by Albert H. Kelley, depicting Nazi spies using a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Imperial Japanese Navy submarine[21]
- We Dive at Dawn (1943) - UK action-drama directed by Anthony Asquith, depicting fictional submarine HMS Sea Tiger on a mission to sink fictional German battleship Brandenburg
Later films depicting World War II
- The Damned (1947) - directed by Rene Clement
- Mystery Submarine (1950) - directed by Douglas Sirk, depicting a mission to destroy a U-boat off the coast of South America; a.k.a. Phantom Submarine[22]
- Operation Pacific (1951) - fictional USS Thunderfish[23]
- Submarine Command (1951) - US drama directed by John Farrow, depicting a US submarine commander forced to confront the consequences of sudden high-sea submersion while the crew remain outside the submarine[24]
- Ubot 39 (U-Boat 39) (1952) - Swedish drama directed by Hampe Faustman, depicting the crew of U-39
- Torpedo Alley (1953) - US drama directed by Lew Landers, depicting a US Navy pilot rescued at sea by submarine before applying for submarine duty; a.k.a. Down Periscope[25]
- Above Us the Waves (1955) - Royal Navy midget submarines vs. German battleship Tirpitz[3]
- U 47 - Kapitanleutnant Prien (1958) - somewhat factual combat career of Günther Prien
- La grande speranza (Submarine Attack) (1965) - Italian action-romance directed by Duilio Coletti, depicting an Italian submarine sinking Allied shipping during the Battle of the Atlantic; a.k.a. Torpedo Zone
- Hellcats of the Navy (1957) - fictional USS Starfish
- The Enemy Below (1957) - US action-drama directed by Dick Powell, depicting a duel between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat in South Atlantic
- Sea Wife (1957) - US action-drama directed by Bob McNaught and starring Richard Burton and Joan Collins, depicting a cargo ship dangerously jammed to excess capacity with evacuees fleeing the 1942 Japanese invasion and Battle of Singapore that is sunk by a Japanese Imperial Navy submarine; one scene depicts the submarine underwater while another scene shows the submarine on the surface
- Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) - fictional USS Nerka (which loosely shares plot elements and the villain destroyer captain, Bungo Pete, with Edward L. Beach's novel, but not much of the plot)[26]
- Submarine Seahawk (1958) - US action-drama directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet depicting a US submarine commander on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Imperial Japanese Navy fighting ships; a.k.a. Submarine X-2
- Torpedo Run (1958) - US drama directed by Joseph Pevney, depicting a US submarine commander confronted with destroying an Imperial Japanese Navy ship with Allied prisoners and civilians
- Battle of the Coral Sea (1959) - WATCH BY CLICKING HERE - 110 MINUTES - USS Dragonfish
- Operation Petticoat (1959) - US comedy directed by Blake Edwards, depicting fictional USS Sea Tiger; remade in 1977 TV series Operation Petticoat
- Orzeł (The Eagle) (1959) - Polish drama directed by Leonard Buczkowski, depicting ORP Orzeł and Orzeł incident
- Up Periscope (1959) - US drama directed by Gordon Douglas, depicting a US Navy frogman on mission aboard a submarine to be smuggled into Japanese-held island; a.k.a. Up Periscope!
- McHale's Navy (TV series), McHale and His Schweinhunds [Season 2, Episode 3] (1963) - US comedy episode directed by Sidney Lanfield, depicting a PT boat crew destroying a German U-boat rendezvousing with a Japanese patrol
- Mystery Submarine (1963) - UK action-drama directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards, depicting a British captured U-boat used for a mission
- Beta Som (Torpedo Bay) (1963) - Italian-French drama directed by Charles Frend and Bruno Vailati, depicting a British warship and Italian submarine operating in the Strait of Gibraltar and meeting in the neutral Rick's Cafe; a.k.a. Defi a Gibraltar
- Morituri (1965) - US drama directed by Bernhard Wicki, depicting German blackmailed by English to impersonate SS officer aboard ship; a.k.a. Saboteur: Code Name Morituri
- McHale's Navy (TV series), 36-24-73 [Season 4, Episode 23] (1966) - US comedy episode directed by Hollingsworth Morse, depicting a PT boat crew capturing a German U-boat
- Submarine X-1 (1969) - X class submarines
- Murphy's War (1971)
- Komandir schastlivoy 'Schuki' (1972), the Soviet movie.
- Operation Petticoat (TV series) (1977-79) - comedy directed by Hollingsworth Morse, depicting fictional USS Sea Tiger; spinoff of 1959 film Operation Petticoat, producing 32 episodes
- 1941 (1979) - US comedy directed by Steven Spielberg, depicting an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine terrorizing the California coast
- Das Boot (1981) - U-96
- O vozvrashchenii zabyt (1985), the Soviet film, about S-131
- Slushat v otsekakh (1985), the Soviet TV-movie
- Sekretnyi farvater (1986-87), the Soviet mini-serial.
- War and Remembrance (TV miniseries) (1988)
- U-571 (2000) - fictional U-571[4]
- Below (2002) - fictional USS Tiger Shark (horror)
- In Enemy Hands (2004) - fictional USS Swordfish and U-42; a.k.a. U-Boat
- Ghostboat (2006) - mystery-thriller based on George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger novel, directed by Stuart Orme, depicting fictional HMS Scorpion lost during World War II and resurfacing near the end of the Cold War
- Manatsu no Orion (Battle under Orion) (2009) - Japanese action-drama directed by Tetsuo Shinohara, depicting an Imperial Japanese Navy submarine against a US destroyer near the end of the war; a.k.a. Manatsu no Orion, Last Operations Under the Orion
- The Sinking of the Laconia (2010) - British-German historical drama directed by Uwe Janson about the sinking of the former British ocean liner RMS Laconia by U-156, which then, with three other U-boats (including U-507) and an Italian submarine, attempted to rescue nearly 2,000 passengers
Korean War
- Submarine Command (1951) - fictional USS Tiger Shark
Cold War
- Morning Departure (1950) - British drama directed by Roy Ward Baker depicting the crew of a sunken British submarine trapped on the sea floor; a.k.a. Operation Disaster
- Hell and High Water (1954) - American action-adventure directed by Samuel Fuller, depicting a World War II surplus Japanese submarine battling a Chinese submarine
- On the Beach (1959) - fictional nuclear submarine USS Sawfish (SSN-623)
- The Atomic Submarine (1959) - fictional USS Tiger Shark
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) - adventure-science fiction film directed by Irwin Allen, depicting fictional SSRN Seaview; remade in the 1964 TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) (1964) - adventure-science fiction, directed by Jus Addiss depicting fictional SSRN Seaview; spinoff of 1961 film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- The Bedford Incident (1965)
- The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) - American comedy directed by Norman Jewison, depicting a fictional Soviet submarine off the coast of the US; a.k.a. The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
- Ice Station Zebra (1968) - fictional USS Tigerfish (SSN-509) (in novel: USS Dolphin)
- Mission Impossible (TV series), Submarine [Season 4, Episode 7] (1969) - American action-adventure episode directed by Paul Krasny, depicting former SS officer with plans to fund Neo-Nazis
- The Boatniks (1970) - comedy directed by Norman Tokar, depicting a salami in a submarine torpedo tube
- Assault on the Wayne (1971) - fictional missile submarine USS Wayne (also named in The Spy Who Loved Me)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - American, British and Soviet submarines
- Gray Lady Down (1978) - fictional USS Neptune
- Raise the Titanic (1980) - U.S. submarine confronts a Soviet warship and escorts the salvaged Titanic to port
- Virus (1980 film) (1980) - fictional HMS Nereid
- Firefox (1982) - U.S. submarine surfaces in a polar ice cap to act as a refueling station for a stolen advanced Russian jet fighter Firefox
- Buried on Sunday (1982) - a Soviet submarine is used to launch a missile attack on Canada's Wonderland
- Never Say Never Again (1983) - fictional U.S. submarine
- Sluchay v kvadrate '36-80' (1984) - the Soviet movie, about U.S. submarine
- The Fifth Missile (1986) - fictional USS Montana
- Krik delfina (1986) - the Soviet movie
- Russkies (1987) - the Soviet submarine
- Full Fathom Five (1990) - fictional USS Aspen versus Alpha Victor Three class submarine CCCP Kirov'
- The Rift (1990) - fictional Siren II searches for lost Siren I
- The Hunt for Red October (1990) - fictional Red October (Konovalov), fictional V.K. Konovalov, USS Dallas (SSN-700), DSRV-1 Mystic
- Silent Service (1995) - anime; JMSDF Seabat (Japan's first nuclear-powered submarine)
- Hostile Waters (1997) - K-219
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) - K-19
- Phantom (2013) - K-129, the plot has a basis in one theory about the events aboard the Soviet submarine's final voyage
Post-Cold War
- Crimson Tide (1995) - USS Alabama
- Down Periscope (1996) - comedy directed by David S. Ward, depicting fictional USS Stingray (SS-161)
- Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)
- On the Beach (2000) - fictional Los Angeles-class submarine USS Charleston (SSN-704)
- Danger Beneath the Sea (2001)
- 72 Meters (2004)
- Phantom Below (2005)
- Last Resort (2012-13) - TV series, fictional Ohio-class submarine, USS Colorado (SSBN-753)
- Black Sea (2014)
Other conflicts
- The Ghazi Attack (2017), first Indian underwater/war-at-sea film[27]
Future or fantastic past
- Le voyage a travers l'impossible (An Impossible Voyage) (1904) - French adventure-comedy silent short directed by Georges Melies, depicting Geographic Society members on an around-the-world journey using various modes of transport including a submarine; a.k.a. The Voyage Across the Impossible, a.k.a. The Impossible Voyage; predecessor to 1907 silent film 20000 lieues sous les mere
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1907, 1916, 1954, 1997, 1997) - Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (science fiction/fantasy)
- Ori okeanis saidumloeba (1957) - based on Grigoriy Adamov's novel, a.k.a. 'Tayna dvukh okeanov' (The Secret of Two Oceans)
- The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958) - based on Jules Verne's Facing the Flag, featuring HMS Sword
- The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) - comedy directed by Edward Bernds, depicting the Three Stooges assisting an inventor with a new military hybrid (tank, helicopter, submarine) vehicle to aid in defense of a Martian invasion
- Atragon (1963) - fictional Gotengo (science fiction/fantasy)
- Stingray (1964-1965) - adventures of the WASPs (the World Aquanaut Security Patrol) (Supermarionation)
- Fantastic Voyage (1966) - set in the near future, an experimental submarine with special medical team aboard are reduced to microscopic size and injected into body of a brain-damaged scientist possessing military secrets in an attempt to repair his injury
- Yellow Submarine (1968) (psychedelic animated fantasy)
- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) - Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (science fiction/fantasy)
- The Neptune Factor (1973) - undersea rescue (science fiction)
- The Land That Time Forgot (1975) - depicts a stranded World War I U-boat crew on uncharted South-Atlantic sub-continent of "Caprona"
- The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) - Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (science fiction/fantasy)
- Thundersub (1979) (anime)
- Virus (1980) Japanese-made post-apocalyptic thriller featuring an international cast aboard a British sub, trying to find a cure to a global pandemic.
- The Abyss (1989) - fictional USS Montana (science fiction/fantasy)
- Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1989) - Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (anime)
- seaQuest DSV (1993) - (science fiction/fantasy)
- Blue Submarine No. 6 (1998) - (anime)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) - Jules Verne's fictional Nautilus (fantasy)
- Submarine 707R (2004) (anime)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) - US adventure-comedy-drama directed by Wes Anderson
- Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005) (World War II, science fiction)
- Tide-Line Blue (2005) (anime)
- The Land That Time Forgot (2009) - action-sci-fi directed by C. Thomas Howell, depicting a stranded World War II U-boat crew in a time void on an island inside the Bermuda Triangle
- Arpeggio of Blue Steel (2013) (anime)
