Drama - Navy M - Z
The Man Without a Country
ABC (USA)
Director: Delbert Mann
Screenplay: Sidney Carroll
Source: Edward Everett Hale (story)
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges, Peter Strauss
78 minutes - 1973
Lt. Philip Nolan is banished from U.S. Made for TV
Les Maudits
Spéva Films (France)
Director: René Clément
Screenplay: René Clément ; Jacques Rémy
Source: Victor Alexandrov ; Jacques Companéez (story)
Other Titles: The Damned
Cast: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly
105 minutes - 1947
The Third Reich is living its last days, and a group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine that will take them to South America, where they hope to find refuge
Men of the Fighting Lady
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Director: Andrew Marton
Screenplay: Art Cohn
Source: James A. Michener ; Harry A. Burns (story)
Cast: Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Louis Calhern
79 minutes - 1954
A famous writer visits an aircraft carrier during the Korean war to learn more about it and the way it's run
Midway
Universal (USA)
Director: Jack Smight
Screenplay: Donald Sanford
Cast: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn
132 minutes - 1976
Leading up to battle
Midway
Lionsgate (USA)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Screenplay: Wes Tooke
Cast: Luke Evans, Patrick Wilson, Ed Skrein
138 minutes - 2019
The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it
Operation Disaster
J. Arthur Rank (UK)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Screenplay: William Fairchild
Source: Kenneth Woollard (play)
Other Titles: Morning Departure
Cast: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, Peter Hammond
102 minutes - 1950
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World
Universal (USA)
Director: Peter Weir
Screenplay: Peter Weir ; John Collee
Source: Patrick O'Brian (novels)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd
138 minutes - 2003
During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America
Mutiny on The Bounty
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Director: Frank Lloyd
Screenplay: Talbot Jennings ; Jules Furthman ; Carey Wilson
Source: Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (book)
Cast: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
132 minutes - 1935
Famous mutiny
Mutiny on The Bounty
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Director: Lewis Milestone
Screenplay: Charles Lederer
Source: Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall (book)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
178 minutes - 1962
Famous mutiny
Operation Pacific
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: George Waggner
Screenplay: George Waggner
Cast: John Wayne, Ward Bond, Patrica Neal
111 minutes - 1951
During WWII, a submarine's second in command inherits the problem of torpedoes that don't explode. When on shore, he is eager to win back his ex-wife
Pearl Harbor
Touchstone (USA)
Director: Michael Bay
Screenplay: Randall Wallace
Cast: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett
183 minutes - 2001
3 hours over Hawaii & 30 seconds over Tokyo
The Philadelphia Experiment
New World (USA)
Director: Stewart Raffill
Screenplay: Michael Janover ; William Gray
Source: Wallace C. Bennett ; Don Jakoby (story)
Cast: Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas
102 minutes - 1994
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors forty years into the future
PT-109
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Screenplay: Richard L. Breen
Source: Robert J. Donovan (book)
Cast: Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Ty Hardin
140 minutes - 1963
During WW2, Lieut. John F. Kennedy takes command of PT 109 to fight the Japanese in the Solomon Islands
Pursuit of the Graf Spee
J. Arthur Rank (UK)
Director: Michael Powell ; Emeric Pressburger
Screenplay: Michael Powell ; Emeric Pressburger
Other Titles: The Battle of the River Plate
Cast: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch
119 minutes - 1956
In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship
Run Silent, Run Deep
United Artists (USA)
Director: Robert Wise
Screenplay: John Gay
Source: Edward L. Beach (novel)
Cast: Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden
93 minutes - 1958
A U.S. sub commander, obsessed with sinking a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with his first officer and crew
Sailor of the King
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: Roy Boulting
Screenplay: Valentine Davies
Source: C. S. Forester (novel)
Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller
83 minutes - 1953
A Canadian prisoner on a battle damaged German raider, plans to delay the raider's at-sea repairs until a British naval task-force can destroy it
The Sand Pebbles
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: Robert Wise
Screenplay: Robert Anderson
Source: Richard McKenna (novel)
Cast: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenbourgh, Richard Crenna
182 minutes - 1966
In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
United Artists (USA)
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay: Lewis Gilbert
Source: John Harris (novel)
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Steel
91 minutes - 1954
Picking Up Donwed British Bomber Crew WWII
The Sea Wolves
Paramount (USA)
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Screenplay: Reginald Rose
Source: James Leasor (book: Boarding Party: The Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard
120 minutes - 1980
During World War II, the British must attack a German merchant ship, but it's safe in neutral Goa. As a result, they send civilians, The Calcutta Light Horse: former soldiers who are about sixty years old
The Silent Enemy
Universal (USA)
Director: William Fairchild
Screenplay: William Fairchild
Source: Marshall Pugh (novel)
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig
112 minutes - 1958
In the Mediterranean in 1941 the Italians start using underwater chariots to mine the undersides of allied ships
Sink the Bismark!
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Screenplay: Edmund H. North
Source: C. S. Forester (novel)
Cast: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner
97 minutes - 1960
The World War II story of the British Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship
Submarine Command
Paramount (USA)
Director: John Farrow
Screenplay: Jonathan Latimer
Cast: William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, Don Taylor
87 minutes - 1951
Submarine commander is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub. He seeks redemption
Submarine D-1
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Screenplay: Frank Wead ; Warren Duff ; Lawrence Kimble
Source: Frank Wead (story)
Cast: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris
100 minutes - 1937
Recuitment film - USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. The USS Dolphin (D-1) and her crew depart from Connecticut to San Diego via the Panama Canal. They come into troubles
Submarine Patrol
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: John Ford
Screenplay: Rian James ; James Ware ; Jack Yellen
Source: Ray Millholland (book: Splinter Fleet of the Otranto Barrage)
Cast: Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston Foster
95 minutes - 1938
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew
Submarine Seahawk
American International (USA)
Director: Spencer G. Bennet
Screenplay: Lou Rusoff ; Orville H. Hampton
Cast: John Bentley, Brett Halsey, Wayne Heffley
83 minutes - 1958
For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships of which the Allies have lost track
Submarine X-1
United Artists (USA)
Director: William Graham
Screenplay: Donald Sanford ; Guy Elmes
Source: John C. Champion ; Edmund H. North (story)
Cast: James Caan, David Sumner, Norman Bowler
85 minutes - 1968
During World War II, the British Royal Navy used experimental midget submarines to raid German warships in Norway
The Sullivans
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Screenplay: Edward Doherty ; Mary C. McCall, jr. ; Jules Schermer
Other Titles: The Fighting Sullivans
Cast: Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
112 minutes - 1944
Death of 5 brothers in WWII
Task Force
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: Delmer Daves
Screenplay: Delmer Daves
Cast: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris
116 minutes - 1949
WWII Aircraft Carrier ops
They Were Expendible
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Director: John Ford
Screenplay: Frank Weadr
Source: William L. White (book)
Cast: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Carol Reed
135 minutes - 1945
The PT boat unit Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three defends the Philippines from Japanese invasion during World War II
Tora! Tora! Tora!
20th Century Fox (USA)
Director: Richard Fleischer ; Kinji Fukasaku ; Toshio Masuda
Screenplay: Larry Forrester ; Hideo Oguni ; Ryuzo Kikushima
Source: Gordon W. Prange ; Ladislas Farago (book)
Cast: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards
144 minutes - 1970
Pearl Harbor runup. A Japanese-American co-production
Torpedo Run
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Director: Joseph Pevney
Screenplay: Richard Sale ; William Wister Haines
Other Titles: Hell Below
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Dean Jones
98 minutes - 1948
A submarine commander is forced to blow up a Japanese ship with prisoners
U-571
Universal (USA)
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Screenplay: Jonathan Mostow ; Sam Montgomery ; David Ayer
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel
116 minutes - 2000
WWII mission to capture German enigma
Under Siege
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: Andrew Davis
Screenplay: J. F. Lawton
Cast: Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones
103 minutes - 1992
Navy Cook vs. Terrorists
Under Ten Flags
Dino de Laurentiis (Italy)
Director: Duilio Coletti
Screenplay: Vittoriano Petrilli ; Duilio Coletti ; Ulrich Mohr
Source: Bernhard Rogge (diaries)
Cast: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot
92 minutes - 1960
German raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender. Story told from German point of view
Up Periscope
Warner Bros (USA)
Director: Douglas Gordon
Screenplay: Richard H. Landau
Source: Robb White (novel)
Cast: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin
112 minutes - 1959
Navy Lieutenant from the underwater demolition team is sent to a Japanese island to photograph secret radio codes
We Dive at Dawn
Gainsborough (UK)
Director: Anthony Asquith
Screenplay: J. B. Williams ; Val Valentine
Cast: John Mills, Louis Bradfield, Ronald Millar
98 minutes - 1943
All leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home