Sky Deutschland and Bavaria Film are teaming on a $28.5 million TV adaptation of the books Das Boot and Die Festung from Lothar-Günther Buchheim, which also provided the basis for Wolfgang Petersen’s ...

During the Autumn of 1942, in occupied France, U-612 is now ready for its maiden voyage, preparing to head into the increasingly brutal warfare with its young crewmen, including the new captain, Klaus ...

Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, Das Boot follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat captain (Jurgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew as ...

Das Boot first hit screens back in 1981 and has previously been regarded as one of the greatest war films ever made. The film is an adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's partly-autobiographical ...

It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so-called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy British shipping. With better escorts of the destroyer class, however, ...

Note: Contains spoilers for Das Boot season one. We weren't entirely convinced that a sequel to the '80s German mini-series Das Boot (it was released, cut down, as a movie in the UK) would work, but ...

Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker whose World War II submarine epic "Das Boot" propelled him into a blockbuster Hollywood career that included the films "In the Line of Fire," "Air Force One" ...

Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, 89, a German author and art collector best known for his autobiographical novel, “Das Boot,” died Thursday of heart failure, his museum and the office of the governor of ...

Legendary German saxophonist and composer Klaus Doldinger, renowned for his iconic soundtracks for 'Das Boot' and 'The ...