Sea Stories-Or Who's got the Best one?

stikpusher

To those already listed I’ll add a few more...

The Bounty

PT 109

Run Silent, Run Deep

The Bridges at Toko Ri (a personal favorite)

 

How in the heck could I not mention The Bridges at Toko Ri!! This is my all time favorite war movie period. 

To those already listed I’ll add a few more...

The Bounty

PT 109

Run Silent, Run Deep

The Bridges at Toko Ri (a personal favorite)

Also in Tora, Tora, Tora; The Akagi and Nagato were full scale, waterline replicas, built on the shore in Japan so that their bows stuck out over the water to make it look like they were afloat or at sea.

The Enemy Below

Assault on a Queen

Forgot this one with the Duke and Donna Reed: They Were Expendable

Total, Tora, Tora was long before CGI. Miniatures, full scale models, flyable replicas and real warbirds were used. The Val and Kate were based on BT-13s and we're pretty good, the Zeros were based on AT-6s and weren't as convincing,  but at that point there were no flyable Zeros. We have all three at WWII Weekend in Reading each year (except this year of course).

The Battle of Britain and 633 Squadron were also long before CGI.

Away All Boats

It was my father's war experience movie.   He was on an attack transport.  While Away All Boats was Pacific theatre & my fathers ship operated mostly in the Atlantic & Med theatres he was at Leyte & Iwo.  
I remember him taking me to go see the movie.  I borrowed the book from the library and have found copy for my own library    I haul it out every now & then to re_read it    It might just be time to do so again

The Bedford Incident

The Enemy Below

In Harm's Way

Captains Courageous

Das Boot

The Sand Pebbles

Master and Commander

Caine Mutiny

Crimson Tide

Red October

Das Boot

Not thinking about accuracy or authenticity, just what entertained me and I found enjoyable.

Hollywood seems to have had a long record of mashing storyline from books together.  "Horatio Hornblower" was done just like "Master and Commander" where they took the plots from multiple books and attempted to make a two hour movie.

Far as sea stories that kept me glued to the plot, I watched one a few years ago I found on YouTube called "To the Ends of the Earth" with Benedict Cumberbatch.  It was such a strange movie, with a story that seemed to go nowhere, about a voyage from England to Australia on an East Indianman, that was once a 2nd rate ship of the line, that I ended up watching the three part mini series all in one sitting.  The nautical feel and the acting was what made the movie really appealing to me. It was made the same time as "Master and Commander".