Editing War film (section)

=== Submarine ===
{{Main|Submarine films}}
[[File:Bavaria Filmstudio Das Boot 4.jpg|thumb|left|The cramped, equipment-filled setting of a [[submarine films|submarine film]], ''[[Das Boot]]'' (1981), recreated in the Bavaria film studio]]

[[Submarine films]] have their own particular meanings and conventions, concerned specifically with giving the effect of [[submarine warfare]]. A distinctive element in this subgenre is the [[soundtrack]], which attempts to bring home the emotional and dramatic nature of conflict under the sea. For example, in [[Wolfgang Petersen]]'s 1981 ''[[Das Boot]]'', the sound design works together with the hours-long film format to depict lengthy pursuit with [[depth charge]]s, the ping of [[sonar]], and threatening sounds such as of the [[propellor|propellers]] of enemy [[destroyer]]s and [[torpedo]]es.<ref name=Koldau>{{Cite journal |last1=Koldau |first1=Linda Maria |title=Sound effects as a genre-defining factor in submarine films|journal=MedieKultur |date=2010 |volume=26 |issue=48 |pages=18–30 |url=http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/viewFile/2117/2393|doi=10.7146/mediekultur.v26i48.2117|doi-access=free}}</ref> Classic films in the genre include ''[[The Enemy Below]]'' (1957)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Duel to the Death |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9501EFD91131E63ABC4E51DFB467838C649EDE |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |access-date=8 March 2015 |date=26 December 1957}}</ref> and ''[[Run Silent, Run Deep (1958 film)|Run Silent, Run Deep]]'' (1958), both based on novels by naval commanders. ''Run Silent, Run Deep'' is a movie full of tension, both with the enemy and between the contrasting personalities of the submarine Commander and his Lieutenant, played by [[Clark Gable]] and [[Burt Lancaster]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Crowther |first1=Bosley |title=Run Silent Run Deep (1958) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E01E7D6113FE43BBC4051DFB5668383649EDE |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=8 March 2015 |date=28 March 1958}}</ref>