U-571

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#1

In the battle front of espionage and code cracking of World War II, there remains but one task on the Allied agenda: the capture of a German “Enigma” machine which will allow the Allied naval forces to locate and track submerged German U-Boat submarines. When one such German vessel breaks down after a battle with British forces, a secret mission is dispatched to take over the U-Boat by commando American forces and retrieve an Enigma machine intact. The raid goes well, at first, yet following the destruction of the American mothership and the arrival of reenforcement German ships, the Americans trapped on the U-Boat must use their training and wits to pilot U-571 in order to save their lives.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141926/plotsummary (Source)

Pretty good movie, but somewhat historically inaccurate. Did you like it?

#2

You missed the option of Utter tripe. Which of course is what this movie is, so I couldnt vote.

#3

Movie is good battle of axis and allied submarines .

#4

Only the story is TOTAL FICTION.

#5

I liked the movie but later found out that the enigma machine was first captured by the British.

#6

The whole thing is full of holes, at one point they are in mid Atlantic and are attacked by an ME-109 - who makes these kind of basic errors! We have been through this before on a previous thread, with Braveheart, The patriot and many other drivel movies which have little or no historic accuracy.

Edited for atrocious spelling