Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

When Bavaria Fiction executive producer Moritz Polter looks out at the company’s backlot from his office window, he can see the original sets built for “Das Boot,” the classic 1981 movie set in the ...

The American moviegoing public has never been especially enthusiastic about foreign-language films, but every now and then, a subtitled movie does cross over from the arthouse to the mainstream. The ...

In 1981, worldwide hit ‘Das Boot’ was nominated for six Academy Awards. Now a sequel takes a fresh look at the Battle for the Atlantic. But what’s changed? There are submarine movies, and then there’s ...

For much of his Hollywood career, German filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen was a maestro of cascading water and pulverized metal. He could conjure disasters both natural and man-made, whether he was scaring ...

Rupert Murdoch’s German pay-TV platform Sky Deutschland and German production house Bavaria Film have greenlit a 25-million-euro ($28.3-million) TV version of “Das Boot,” the hit 1981 movie about a ...

Another hotly anticipated TV spinoff, this time a small-screen adaptation of Wolfgang Petersen’s celebrated 1981 film ‘Das Boot,’ fails to deliver. Entertainment Critic We live in an age of sequels, ...

Legendary German saxophonist and composer Klaus Doldinger, renowned for his iconic soundtracks for 'Das Boot' and 'The NeverEnding Story', has passed away at 89. His family confirmed his death on ...