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" ...

He made it big in Hollywood, but he’s best remembered for a harrowing, Oscar-nominated German film set inside a U-boat in World War II. By A.J. Goldmann Wolfgang Petersen, one of a handful of foreign ...

Today, 80 years after the events and 40 years after the film, these images and testimonies shed an unexpected light on the reality of the fiction filmed by Petersen. The international success of the ...

Comprehensive classic piece that looks at the process of creating the movie told with a strong wellconstructed narrative that plays almost as a movie itself a detailed retelling of how the movie was ...

The ocean was in many ways his natural habitat, as borne out by “Poseidon,” his proficient 2006 remake of “The Poseidon Adventure,” and especially “Das Boot,” the 1981 submarine-set nail biter that ...

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, ...

Wolfgang Petersen, who rode his acclaimed German-language film “Das Boot” into a career directing Hollywood blockbusters such as “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One,” “The Perfect Storm” and “Troy,” ...

Wolfgang Petersen, the writer and director known for "Das Boot" and "Air Force One" died Friday at 81. According to a representative, Petersen died from pancreatic cancer at his Brentwood home in the ...