Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 “Das Boot” (“The Boat”), now stunningly restored, was one of the most shattering war movies of its decade: one of the few that combined real visceral thrills with an honestly ...

The German composer combined jazz and classical orchestral music with early synth sounds and composed the theme for Germany's ...

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 ...

The 1981 film Das Boot became an unlikely hit because Wolfgang Petersen did a great job showing how claustrophobic life in a submarine, especially when it’s constantly under threat, can be. About ten ...