My Moms brother served on a U- Boat . She said he came home on leave in ‘42 , and said things were rough , and don’t expect him to survive . Was lost with all hands in February of ‘43 .

This was a very good movie. I really enjoyed it. I watched it again with my dad who served in the Navy during Vietnam and he was literally sitting on the edge of his couch seat the entire movie. I don't think I have ever seen him so caught up in a movie before.

I remember someone, a veteran RCN commander saying that they were happy to destroy an enemy vessel, but could never celebrate the killing of men.

A brilliant movie. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.

I don't give a fig about accuracy or not, THAT is one exciting piece of film. Excellent.

Grey Wolf is like some of the people you encounter in online games. Likes to talk shit but gets stomped on in the end.

Just watched this last night....loved it. I loved that it was nonstop suspense/action/maritime warfare. Gives a glimpse of what these men went through and how they were always on edge while escorting ships.

Pity they could not capture the Greywolf’s crew. Want to see the guy who did the wolf sound over the radio

03:06 Bofors 40mm best moment... I love that weapon!!! And of course the worst nightmare for the U-boats: the PBY Catalina!!!

Tom Hanks did an amazing job with this movie. I absolutely love it. Very realistic in its showing of what escorts had to deal with and very tense both during action and quiet scenes

3:16 these shots of Greyhound firing full broadside really gives you an idea of why they're called destroyers.

Such a badass moment when they dodge those two close call torpedoes and then charge the Greywolf with guns blazing. You can almost feel the Greyhounds rage.

The CGI effects are outstanding. Especially when compared with Masters of the Air.

2:55 Captain's really pissed at this part. Turning the ship to hit the sub broadside is like him saying "Drop everything on that motherfvcker!!!"

My family's from Liverpool, and I spent the first seven or eight years with my grandparents in the 1970's. My nan, who was in her late teens/early 20's during the war, lost three brothers in the North Atlantic. Her eldest brother, Thomas, was her favourite - he was the oldest of 12 kids, she was the baby of the family, and he was the first lieutenant on a destroyer that went down in 1944. The othrer two brothers, Bill and Jack were in the merchant marine and she didn't know much about how they went. You didn't have much chance in the North Atlantic. This destroyer seems to be pretty well specced. In fact many had an open bridge and compass platform. God knows what that was like somewhere between the Hebrides and Newfoundland in January.

Grey Wolf was taunting him too. He never answered to give his position away. Greyhound was formidable and did a great job. Sadly no one had thought about aircraft flying off modified ship in the middle of Atlantic to get the u boats in the black pit. An area where no planes could reach back then. Nowadays even Ryanair could reach

"We’ll ram that U-boat if we have to!" 😍

*muffled torpedobeats playing in the distance*^^

What a brilliant movie ...they didn't have much accuracy in those days but we had the firepower.

I rented that movie a half dozen times then they stopped doing it. Finally, I just bought it on DVD.

looks like a movie worth watching

This was an amazing movie to watch. Especially as a Submariner.

This movie helped me through the depression of 2021

Down and dirty combat in the north Atlantic. The loser ends up in that cold ocean. Scary. My dad was a kid in WWII - there were 3 merchant seamen from his town. Two were killed on the Murmansk Run.

Best surface ship perspective warfare movie ever. How does Hanks keep getting winners?

I saw the movie the other day, its a great film well worth watching!

Never hear the helm order Meet Her used before. Meet Her is when the ship is in a turn and you want to slow the rate of the turn but not stop it. Like in a situation like this, steering by seaman's eye. When you get the heading you want you yell Steady, the helmsman will look and reply "Steady course ___" and stop the turn.

This movie is a masterpiece.

I'm glad they were able to capture the whale sounds the u-boats made when they surfaced. 100% realistic

Apart from the german cringefest over the intercom this movie kicked ass

That seems to be a stunning film. I must see it.

Simplesmente é incrível as atuações de Tom Hanks, ELE consegue nos transformar pra dentro da história, voltamos no tempo com uma atuação fantástica de veracidade aos fatos da história 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

filmed on - (wikipedia not me) USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Admiral Kidd was the first US flag officer to die during World War II and the first American admiral ever to be killed in action.[3] A National Historic Landmark, she is now a museum ship, berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is the only surviving US destroyer still in her World War II configuration. She is one of four remaining Fletcher-Class Destroyer ships in the world. Greyhound was fictional but based on as far as know genuine experince on board a fletcher class ..... great movie .. as is das boot if you get a chance -- high res editors cut -- zimmer soundtrack etc

Shades of “The Enemy Below”.

This is a great action movie!

Not bad. In my 20 years at sea, throwing the ship around like that was usually during meal times, AKA "Officer if the watch manoeuvres". :-)

Ótimo filme e ótima interpretação de Tom Hanks. Adrenalina pura.

No way the sonar operator could hear a torpedo under those conditions.

Wicked. That crew is badass.

This WWII high-seas drama is a milestone in Tom Hanks’s career. His bravura performance, central to nearly every scene in the film, would on its own make him worthy of acknowledgment for living up to the highest standards of his profession. And then we find out Hanks co-wrote the screenplay! This to my mind is an even more extraordinary achievement than his performance as an actor. Hanks is too young to have known first-hand the existential, downright primordial day-to-day life of mariners on both sides of Great Britain’s fight to survive being over-run by Nazi forces. It’s been kept quiet, but in Britain many were eager to seek some kind of agreement with the Nazis, an attitude Churchill (and Roosevelt) found to be even more despicable than what the Germans were up to. At this point of the war, the scales were finally being tipped away from the u-boats and in favor of the Allies, who had come to understand that merchant ships were much safer crossing the dreaded North Atlantic in convoys, protected by fighting ships that could keep the submarine wolf packs at bay. The u-boats’ greatest advantage, stealth, was in that year being undone by technology - radar detection of vessels on the surface, and Asdic, a form of radar that detected vessels that were submerged. The once invincible “wolf packs” of a half dozen or more submarines, trolling above the waterline like regular boats, could in one night sink a dozen or more merchant ships, condemning every civilian sailor in them to a terrible death in the icy waters of the North Atlantic, knowing they would never be buried in their homeland. With all this in mind, you might want to be aware Hanks’s character was commanding the most fearsome type of destroyer, the Fletcher class, the Germans had ever faced. A Fletcher-class destroyer was fast, and loaded with killing power thanks to its lethal combination of torpedos and 5” guns, either of which weapons system was capable of sinking a u-boat on its own. At this pivotal moment in the battle for the North Atlantic, most of the Germans were stuck in the early-generation subs that were around at the onset of war in 1939. They were completely outclassed and out-gunned by the Allied warships assigned to protect the merchant ships carrying the necessities of daily life - food, clothing, and so on - the Great Britain so desperately needed to withstand the onslaught of the Nazis. And so the depiction of the convoy’s vulnerability to submarine attack in this film was somewhat disingenuous. I understand the requirement for artistic license in conveying to a comfortably seated audience the terrors of war. But when Hanks introduces the u-boat commander’s boorish insults by radio to the Allies listening in, he crosses the line. Anyone who watched Das Boot understands how equally desperate were the u-boat sailors to survive what was to be the deadliest battlefield of the war. The radio’d taunts directed at Hanks’s character by the murderous u-boat commander descend to the level of ad hominem demonizing of serving German submariners. This characterization was below the belt - an unwholesomely gratuitous validation of what the u-boat crews were about to endure at the hands of their”victims.” The reality was, none of them wanted to be there, but were forced by circumstances to do battle with an enemy they had never seen. Yes, the Nazi regime was a pagan death cult doomed to failure, but the non-political members of the German armed forces were obligated to serve at the pleasure of the Nazi elite ruling class, and it was highly unlikely at that point of the war they would be taunting their enemy, relentlessly searching for them in far faster and deadlier vessels. So yes, the film was deeply unfair to the Germans, who with the exception of the SS were duty-bound to follow their country’s battle for survival. Add to this unfair depiction of the enemy to validate the hell the good guys were about to unleash on them, and what we are faced with is the characterization of an adversary so innately evil as to be almost comical. Somebody should have been cautioning Mr. Hanks that his film’s integrity was on the line, but that someone was seemingly not at hand. Other self-serving elements in the screenplay include the portrayal of a “green” commander, who in real life would have been 30 years younger than Hanks. And on top of that, his portrayal of a novice commander encountering the north Atlantic killing zone for the first time, was so unrealistically successful - killing the crews of veteran u-boat sailors - it leaves a foul taste in the mouth even of those who are aware how existentially mandatory it was to defeat the Nazis. There was no need to pile on the allegations that the Allies’ foes were scoundrels who delighted in murdering their adversaries. What we have then, is a fundamentally flawed motion picture that for all its hyper-realism cops out in the end by depicting the whole adventure as a struggle between good and evil. In the broader, historical sense it no doubt was, but played out in the context of cruel u-boat murderers of civilians against God-fearing neophytes who somehow get almost everything right in their first sortie, this movie is asking too much of me to suspend my disbelief and cheer Tom on. And so while I acknowledge my enjoyment of the non-stop intensity of the screenplay, and Hanks’s committed performance, this ultimately unsavory depiction of the conflict left me disappointed rather than satisfied. I could only conclude that the dehumanizing hell that is war brings out the worst in us all.

Great animation

Lookit. U-boat commanders did not engage destroyers. Because they're destroyers. To split the escort's protective efforts is the aim of wolfpack. Evasion is the prime reason for submersion. Hanks did drag for years anyways.

Great movie

Tom Hanks is an awesome actor...

I must have watched it 6 times. Absolutely love it

Brilliant film.

Is it a coincidence how Greyhound and Grey Wolf have names so similar to one another? I mean, both their names starts with "Grey" and the two animals Greyhound and wolf are both canine species.

Text book "Hammer and Anvil" attack. Firing torpedoes from two different directions. Tge furst dalvo firced the target to turn theur broad side to the second salvo. Very hard to avoid. Normally each salvo would have 2 or 3 torpedoes. This was done alot with air dropped torpedoes in the Pacific. Coordinating two subs against a destroyer would be much harder.

During World war 2, Destroyers were the kings of the oceans. The Aircraft Carriers were the Queens. No Fleet can survive without the cover of Destroyers.

He loves being a Captain

If Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt was alive in 1939 Hitler would have never dared to attack anyone after seeing any of their war movies...

The last surviving destroyer escort is in Albany NY, USS Slater

i think this is the first movie to get the 40mm bofors firing sync correct

I don't think any uboat commander will want to go head to head with a destroyer.

Ducking good movie

A PBY saves the day!!

Win by Attrition: A war of attrition is a military strategy in which one side tries to cause the other to lose so many soldiers and to have so much military equipment destroyed that the enemy forces are worn down until they collapse. To kill or be killed.

Отличный фильм!

Uboat: Alaaarrm! Alaaaaaarm!

I can imagine that anti sub aircraft saying thanks for marking the sub yanks . Hello Jerry goodbye Jerry

My father was US Merchant Marine then US Navy on a subchaser USS PC-1237. Torpedoed twice, once in the Caribbean and a second time in the Mediterranean. This gives some perspective on how miraculous his survival was...by the way, PC-1237 had FOUR torpedoes in its torpedo nets when it pulled into port (Malta, I believe). 🫡

Torpedo hits took some math and skill and luck back then now days they have there own self tracking sonar like the ship does once there armed and far enough from the sub they go PitBull like a air to air missile pretty much

In very few scenes the rough weather matches up with the interior shots.

nice

Which is why you always fire a spread of torpedoes.

can u just imagine being in war during those days and having to fight in a metal tube underwater.... and knowing that if shit goes down it essentially becomes a metal coffin for u. The impending doom of knowing your sub is getting damaged and will be filled with water very soon. No escape.. just darkness and water overcoming u....... no air........ no way to breathe......... OMG

Clip That Movies 41K subscribers Commander Ernie Krause: "WE'LL RAM THAT U-BOAT IF WE HAVE TO!!!"

Das Boot would go deep and go to silent running. Twisting and turning to avoid depth charges. The destroyer would keep them from surfacing. Underwater they were very slow. After a time the destroyer would have another ship continue the assault or it would speed off to rejoin the convoy.

Nobody can get Tom hanks!😊

fletcher class! hedgehog and the strategy coming out of the naval uk office helped defeat uboat once and for all

who's very hungry now😂

It’s infuriating that you can’t even allow the video to play without covering it up with previews long before it’s finished

Esse filme é top

"We ram that U-boat if we have to!!" that proven the capt had enough with the greywolf. Tom Hanks did amazing job in this movie

The movie's inaccuracies made it difficult to tolerate. I hope fans will read Real Books of WWII's silent service and learn more.

Wow

Wow.

The Catalina is the real Hero.

I believe I read that no other combat group in the Nazi military had a higher fatality rate than the U-boats IIRC they lost at least 80% of thier forces by wars end.

Wow. Unbelievable. So intense. I actually felt bad of those poor bastards in the U-boats. But they killed a lot of sailors in unarmed cargo ships. So…

consider how many men on both sides went out to sea and never came back. The numbers are scary.

Im so high rn and this blew my head. What an amazing scene

Death on the high seas.

Jeden z lepszych filmów o tematyce drugowojennej,świetne sceny batalistyczne,rola Toma Hanksa wokół której kręci sie film bardzo dobra, zresztą to aktor klasy mistrzowskiej.Natomiast zastanawia mnie jedno.W filmie pokazane torpedy parogazowe g7a i to z zapalnikiem uderzeniowym.Rzecz sie dzieje w 1942 r.Były już w użyciu torpedy elektryczne g7e z zapalnikiem magnetycznym,nie wytwarzajace charakterystycznego śladu.Czyżby filmowcy o tym nie wiedzieli?

The music was great... helped build the suspense and all that... but I can't help but wonder what it would be like with strictly just the sounds of battle.

If a torpedo is about to hit: Lean over to the side to get the best view of the possible explosion...

I still have not seen this yet. This is about true grit maritime with sight spotting and shooting. Just like the first US destroyer shooting at the mini sub at pearl December 1941. Skill beyond belief. Tom Hanks is a great actor. I just have not seen it yet because I have not paid. Stupid is as stupid does. lolol

Wish I could buy this movie. Its not even available on Amazon.

Great movie, however, something I still cannot figure out is, IF, Greywolf is such a 'veteran' U-boot captain, WHY fire only one torpedo at a time? To hit a destroyer or, even slower, corvette would require tremendous skill (hence, why u-boot captains were instructed not to engage escorts) and, "luck" with JUST one shot, especially head-on (Destroyer max speed 26 knots, torpedo 40). INSTEAD, since the Type VII and IX both had four tubes in the bow the ONLY way to do it would be to hit the escort amidships (from the side), which would require a PATTERN of, at least, three or, better, all four torpedoes. Now, a veteran u-boot captain would know speeds, angles and could 'guesstimate' sea conditions well enough to do thus (assuming both boats are headed bow to bow): 1. First torpedo is 'bait,' used to force (most escort captains) to steer away (port or starboard the u-boot captain would judge based on how 'true' the head-on-head line up is), like in this clip 2. Second torpedo is shot well ahead of the ANTICIPATED course of the escort after turning to avoid the 'bait' shot; then DEPENDING ON RANGE 3. Third torpedo is either shot within the angles of the first bait or second anticipate shot -- or -- shot ahead of the second (again, depending on range the '$64,000 question' is: "will the escort speed up after correcting course from the bait shot and head true?" OR "will it attempt to correct course again and turn to avoid the second and third shots?" Odds are certainly with the former because to keep correcting (especially in rough seas) is to a) slow down, and b) take too much time while the torpedo (at 40 knots) is bearing down 4. Fourth torpedo (if shot within, say 1,000 to 800 yards) will probably be the kill shot (again, depending on how well the u-boot captain can judge the seas and the target's course and speed) and, most likely, is shot not too far off (to the right of the third shot if the escort turns to its port, for instance) next to the third shot. And yes, a veteran u-boot captain would already have all four tubes opened and the 'fish' ready to go and, even at 8 knots (max submerged speed for a Type VII and IX) would be able to adjust in time for the pattern lay out. CRITICAL: All four torpedoes MUST be loosed as quickly together as possible (which, again, wouldn't take too long, even at the u-boot's max submerged speed of 8 knots) because it really is not adjusting too many degrees (depending, of course, on distance) even at 1,000 yards. All this being said: ALWAYS fire a PATTERN (ideally all four) of the torpedoes to hit an escort (destroyer 26 knots, corvette 16-18 knots) as close as possible. But, again, u-boots were there to kill transports NOT escorts. Firing a pattern of FOUR torpedoes on an escort would have been, in the long run, self-defeating for the mission goals -- UNLESS -- forced into the situation (which Greywolf and the second, unnamed u-boot were not). Final note: in this clip Greyhound is attacked (at almost right angles) by TWO u-boots (at first) and each fired, initially, ONE torpedo! Yeah ..... don't think so. At almost right angles, even in choppy seas and given the initial distance (2,000 yards), even three 'fish' from each u-boot ..... BOOM, Greyhound would've been down! Still, everything else in the movie is impressively accurate (which I would expect from an Hanks direction).

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Love those 40 MM guns

GreyWolf is just like a toxic gamer.

I would've gotten on my hands and knees and thank the Wright brothers.

I read the book. Sadly the movie did not provide much backstory on the Characters. Which left many questions

what does the cow say:moo what does the tom hanks say:fire as they bear

The war scenes were amazing. But the story was a bit off, I don’t imagine u boats targeting war boats, or purposely jeopardizing their location by giving off radio signals. Their torpedos alone were worth more than a sinking of a destroyer, or corvette

This movie looks like a video game. It’s a pity.

Why occlude the ending scene with the ads for your other videos? Can't you show the ending scene and then add the ads?

Silly, no u-boat would ever go against a destroyer like this.

This needed torpedobeats.