4 real historical locations · Atlantic Ocean, France
Wolfgang Petersen's claustrophobic masterpiece follows the crew of a German U-boat on a brutal Atlantic patrol in 1941. Shot almost entirely inside the submarine, it captures the grinding monotony, terror, and mechanical failure that made submarine warfare the most psychologically punishing of any WWII theatre.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Atlantic Ocean, France.
German U-boat patrols in the North Atlantic. The hunter becomes the hunted — depth charges, cat-and-mouse with Allied destroyers.
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of WWII. Germany lost 783 of 1,154 U-boats and 30,000 of 40,000 U-boat crewmen — a 75% casualty rate, the highest of any military branch on any s...
View location →The U-boat base at La Rochelle — departure and the devastating Allied bombing of the harbour.
The La Rochelle U-boat pens were built with concrete roofs up to 7 metres thick — impervious to Allied bombing. The pens still stand today. La Rochelle remained a German garrison pocket even after D-Day, surrendering ...
View location →The most terrifying sequence — the U-boat attempts a submerged passage through the heavily-patrolled Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean.
The Strait of Gibraltar was one of the most dangerous passages for U-boats — only 14km wide at its narrowest, heavily patrolled by Allied aircraft and surface ships, with unpredictable currents. Only 9 of 62 U-boats t...
View location →The 2018 series centres on the German U-boat base at La Rochelle — submarines departing into the Battle of the Atlantic intercut with a French Resistance sub...
La Rochelle was a major Kriegsmarine U-boat base from 1940 to 1945. The massive reinforced concrete submarine pens, built with forced labour, sheltered up to 20 submarines and were impervious to Allied bombing. The ba...
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