Title

Year

Length

Plot Outline

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1916)

1916

1 hr 45 min

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker.

Assault on a Queen

1966

1 hr 46 min

Deep sea diver Mark Brittain is hired to find a sunken treasure ship in the Bahamas but discovers a disabled German submarine instead. The people who employed Mark decide to restore the sub and use it to hold up the Queen Mary by threatening to torpedo the ship

Battle of the Coral Sea

1959

1 hr 20 min

This movie is the prequel to the 1976 movie Midway. On May 8, 1942, the Allies won the first major battle of the Pacific War.

Crash Dive (1943)

1943

1 hr 46 min

Leading a reckless crew on the war's most daring mission! Battling death in a depth-bombed submarine! Blasting Nazis on a bold Commando raid! Finding love in precious, stolen moments!

Destination Tokyo 

1943 

2 hr 15 min 

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.

Fer-de-Lance 

1974 

1 hr 40 min 

An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes 

Full Fathom Five 

1990 

1 hr 22 min 

Adapted from the bestselling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment when the Soviet nuclear sub KIROV is stolen and the weapons are aimed at the United States. 

Hell and High Water 

1954 

1 hr 39 min 

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer (Widmark) to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. 

Hell Below 

1933 

1 hr 45 min 

On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. 

Hellcats Of The Navy 

1957 

1 hr 22 min 

US Navy submarines bravely try to penetrate the heavily-mined entrance to the Sea of Japan, in order to sink enemy shipping which is carrying coal, food and iron from China to the Japanese homeland. 

Men Without Women 

1930 

1 hr 17 min 

Aboard the U.S. submarine S13 in the China seas, Chief Torpedoman Burke goes about his duties. In actuality, he is Quartermaine, the infamous former commander of the British ship Royal Scot, which was sunk by Germans with a Field Marshal aboard 

Mystery Submarine (1950) 

1950 

1 hr 18 min 

Posing as an ex-German medical officer, a U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer sets out to rescue a kidnapped scientist 

Out of the Depths 

1945 

1 hr 01 min 

An American submarine commanded by Captain Faversham (Jim Bannon) is under orders to proceed to Korea via the Sea of Japan. 

Run Silent Run Deep 

1958 

1 hr 33 min 

Run silent, run deep is a term that accurately describes the mission of the submarine in this tense World War II drama. Commander Richardson (Clark Gable) is the only survivor when his sub is hit by a notorious Japanese destroyer dubbed Bongo Pete in the Bongo Straits of Japan. 

Submarine 

1928 

1 hr 33 min 

This early movie from the acclaimed director Frank Capra tells the story of two navy friends who fall in love with the same girl. The break up of their friendship over this girl is only saved by a sinking submarine. When the diver of the two saves the other from dying on the submarine they finish their argument and ditch the girl. 

Submarine Alert

1943

1 hr 25 min

Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the Government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed to see if the Nazis recruit them to complete work on the prototype radio.  (Alas, there is no actual submarine footage in this tale.)

Submarine Attack 

1954 

1 hr 26 min 

During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore. 

Submarine Base 

1943 

1 hr 05 min 

A fishing trader's curiosity becomes the catalyst for action and adventure in the rough seas. A remote island serves as a disguise for an enemy submarine base that was supposed to be kept top secret until our fishing arrives and blows the cover right out of the water. 

Submarine Command 

1951 

1 hr 27 min 

Set during the Korean War, the psychological conflicts of submarine Captain White (William Holden) outweigh his sea battles as he deals with his role in the death of two shipmates. 

Submarine D-1 

1937 

1 hr 38 min 

This adventure-drama depicts the lives of the men who mans our nation's submarines. 

Submarine Patrol 

1938 

1 hr 35 min 

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.  (Alas, there is no actual submarine footage in this tale.) 

Submarine Raider 

1942 

1 hr 04 min 

A Girl On A Sub Plays Desperate Hide-And-Seek With The Japs... To Save PEARL HARBOR! 

Submarine Seahawk 

1958 

1 hr 23 min 

For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. 

Submarine X-1 

1968 

1 hr 29 min 

After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs. 

Submerged (2001) 

2001 

1 hr 35 min 

A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine. 

The Abyss 

1989 

1 hr 26 min 

A civilian diving team are enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. 

The Atomic Submarine 

1959 

1 hr 12 min 

Ships mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate. 

The Enemy Below 

1957 

1 hr 38 min 

During World War II, an American destroyer meets a German U-Boat. Both captains are good ones, and the engagement lasts for a considerable time 

The Flying Missle (aka The Flying Fish) 

1950 

1 hr 31 min 

Fictional account of the role played by a somewhat impetuous US Naval commander in developing the first means of launching missiles from submarines.  Starring Glenn Ford.  A great (almost) factual accounting of our USS Cusk SS-348's efforts with the first submarine missile launchings.

Torpedo Alley 

1953 

1 hr 24 min 

Carrier pilot Lieutenant Bob Bingham (Mark Stevens) is rescued at sea by a submarine after he freezes at the controls and crashes 

Torpedo Run 

1958 

1 hr 36 min 

The commander of an American submarine during World War II sets out to destroy the Japanese Aircraft carrier which launched the attack on Pearl Harbour. His wife and child have been captured by the Japanese and they are using them and other prisoners of war as human shields for the carrier. 

Two-Man Submarine 

1944 

1 hr 02 min 

Robert B. Williams is a scientist on an unnamed South Pacific island making penicillin out of jungle mold. Before long an unidentified plane flies over the island and a figure parachutes out and a man washes ashore and is accepted as a crewman from a torpedoed American ship. Later, Williams is murdered and a two-man Japanese submarine (with five or six Germans on board plus the two Japanese crewmen) is lurking offshore... 

Up Periscope 

1959 

1 hr 52 min 

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes. 

We Dive at Dawn 

1943 

1 hr 38 min 

The crew of HMS submarine Sea Tiger are recalled for a special mission: sink the new German battleship Brandenburg. En route, they learn that their target has entered the heavily defended Baltic; rather than fail, they follow it. Tension builds as they approach their target.