I 1942 sejler U-96 ud på Nordatlantens jagtmarker, hvor den tyske flådes ulvekoppel angriber de allierede konvojer, der holder Storbritannien i live. I månedsvis lever besætningen som sild i en tønde, mens de venter på byttet. Da det går løs, bliver de selv de jagede, og dybvandsbomberne driver u-båden længere og længere ned i dybet. Kaptajnen: Jürgen Prochnow. Løjtnant Werner: Herbert Grönemeyer. Maskinmester: Klaus Wennemann. Manuskript og instruktion: Wolfgang Petersen efter Lothar Günther-Buchheims selvbiografiske roman.
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
Robert Mitchum er kommandør på en amerikansk destroyer, som under Anden Verdenskrig leger et dødsensfarligt spil med en tysk u-båd, der er under Curd Jürgens' kommando. Den tidligere musicalstjerne Dick Powell, som en overgang også lagde vejen forbi detektivrollen, har instrueret denne veloplagte krigsfilm, som foruden barsk realisme rummer en vis humanisme og menneskelig hensynsfuldhed.
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Germany in 1941. War in Europe for two years. The Nazis at the height of their power. Since the beginning of the war, there has been a frontline in the west where the traces of horrible fights disappear on the spot:The Battle of the Atlantic. England, traditionally the leading naval power worldwide was to be cut off from all supplies by a blockade while the balance of power is not in favor of the German Kriegsmarine. Their commander-in-chief complains that "the war was five years early." That a victory seems achievable at the beginning is the result of a weapon that was only known in Germany at the height of perfection and drill: submarines.
A view from Canada of the North Atlantic convoy route during the Battle of the Atlantic, presented in the framework of the turnaround of a single convoy at Halifax, Nova Scotia.