(dramatic music)
(ocean waves lapping)
SOMEWHERE IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN MAY 12TH, 1918
(suspenseful dramatic music)
The torpedoes are ready. Orders, sir?
There it is. It's ready for firing.
To battle stations!
Battle stations!
(dramatic music)
(propellers whirring)
Man: Battle stations.
- Captain! - Yes, my boy?
Happy hunting.
Good job, Hans.
(propellers whirring)
(dramatic music)
The wave will pass.
Remember your training, it will serve you well.
Alarm!
Prepare torpedoes one and two for firing!
- Captain?! - Fire at will!
Flood one and two!
Fire at will!
(missile whooshing)
45 seconds for impact.
(suspenseful music)
Sir, what is going on?
The ship is coming directly towards us.
Ram us?
(speaking German)
All power towards the engines, hurry.
- (tense music) - (ship creaking)
(alarm blaring)
Sir, we must try for the surface.
Yes.
Hurry up.
Get off the boat.
Abandon ship.
Lieutenant: Abandon ship!
Abandon ship.
- (dramatic music) - (ship creaking)
(alarm blaring)
Sir.
You'll make a good captain one day, Kessler.
(alarm continues blaring)
It's my duty.
(alarm continues blaring)
(dramatic music)
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US NAVY ATLANTIC FLEET COMMAND NORFOLK, VIRGINIA APRIL 27TH, 1945
(typewriter keys clacking)
Sir, Operation Sea Wolf.
The Germans are preparing a missile-armed submarine attack
against the United States coast.
V-1 rockets attached to Type Nine submarines?
Looks like it, sir.
Who's this?
Haskell: Senior Commander Heinrich Kessler,
13th Flotilla, Iron Cross winner, wounded in the Great War.
U-Boat ace since the beginning.
Pegged to command his wolf pack.
This is a very dangerous man.
All right, keep me informed of any updates.
Haskell: Yes, sir.
(telephone ringing)
(Kessler coughing)
TRONDHEIM, NORWAY
(Kessler sniffs)
(Kessler retching)
(sirens blaring distantly)
...however, we have now completed an armament,
as the world has not seen before. I have...
(Kessler coughing)
(man speaking German on radio)
...after he rejected that...
(toilet flushing)
...I have equipped Germany in these five years.
I have spent billions on it,
the German nation has to know that now. I have...
(bullets clanking)
(man speaking German on radio)
We have created the best air
and tank defense in the world.
Through tireless work, day and night.
I approached all the seemingly impossible problems
with the firm will...
(radio clicks off)
It's propaganda.
You Germans and propaganda.
I must go.
If it's all propaganda, why must you go?
Duty.
Oh, what is duty, leaving everything you love behind?
(tense dramatic music)
(engines rumbling)
MILITARY NAVY COMMAND POST NORWAY
(dramatic music)
Man: I keep them there to remember.
Once, this room was filled with friends.
But now, we are all that is left.
How are you, my friend?
- Good? - Good.
Good.
Commander.
Heil Hitler.
Even at the end, we are soldiers.
Gentlemen, I need a moment alone with this man.
Please.
We have much to discuss, not a lot of time.
Follow me.
Yes, sir.
What are my orders, Commander?
Why am I here?
Straight to the point.
It is no secret, the U-boats have been performing poorly.
The British and the Americans
have made it a priority to hunt us down.
The Fuhrer has not been pleased.
The Fuhrer needed more boats,
ask to bring in the others.
Let me show you something.
You see this?
It's the American coast.
New York City, the heart of the American war effort.
Operation Sea Wolf.
We tried these operations, we have failed.
V-1 rocket, Hitler's wonder weapon.
We shall equip these rockets to our U-boats
and attack the American coast.
Our fleets will strike fear into the heart of the enemy.
You will lead the pack.
At the beginning of the war,
our pack ruled the waves, steel, blood, fire, fear.
These were our thoughts.
Now we have our dreams of one of our person,
victory is out of our grasp.
The Fuhrer has spared no expense for this operation.
No expense.
Commandant Valentine: None.
A pack needs wolves.
Let me show you some wolves.
Man: Attention.
Your wolves.
These are not wolves but boys.
Young boys.
Were you and I much different from them?
When the war started,
I spent nine months with my men before going into action.
They have had the finest training Germany has to offer.
Do they know what the risks are?
They know the risks.
They are ready to die for country and Fuhrer.
These are not Kriegsmarine.
Then teach them Kriegsmarine.
(feet stomping rhythmically)
(soldiers singing in German)
I will do it.
(Kessler coughing)
Commandant Valentine: Operation Sea Wolf.
You will leave with three ships.
Seven more will join you when you are out to sea.
(yawns) 10 boats.
You will be the spear point for more to follow.
And I'll see our targets?
Allied shipping lanes, north of New York.
The missile attack?
New York City.
Departure?
The crews await your word.
I believe I'd first,
I like to meet my officers and see the boat.
I would expect nothing less.
(approaching footsteps)
The officers of U-546.
You, Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Erich Reinhart, sir.
Acting captain of U-546.
Captain?
Reinhart was in line to be captain,
but under your leadership he was glad to step aside.
Isn't that right, Lieutenant?
I'm looking forward to serving under your command.
The boat?
Lieutenant Lutz.
- Kessler: Operational? - Engines are ready, sir.
Lieutenant Handel Speer, sir.
The crew is in high morale, sir.
Good, good.
Good. Let's go inspect my boat and get some food.
(typewriter keys clacking)
Sea Wolf.
Let the Commander know I need to see him now.
Yes, sir.
Commander?
Come in.
Operation Sea Wolf is a go.
Race: Confirmed?
Haskell: Just came over the wires, confirmed by Enigma.
War room.
- We got our work to do. - Yes, sir.
In unprecedented demonstrations of millions
the entire German nation has united today
to work, to their values,
their moral ethos
and to their national solidarity.
This evening, across national,
and denominational differences,
the whole German nation comes together,
to finally...
(radio clicks off)
(tense music)
(ship horn blares)
Man: Morning, sir.
Well, Heinrich.
The time has come.
The ghosts stay here in port.
It's now just you, the crew, and the mission.
Are you prepared?
If the crew is half as good as the boats, I'm confident
under the circumstances.
There it is then.
I leave you to your second home, the sea and the ship.
Good luck, my friend.
(dramatic music)
Good luck to you.
(dramatic music)
(waves crashing)
Attention.
(dramatic music)
At ease.
I know you do not know me.
I do not know you.
The men of the sea are a special brotherhood,
a bond forged out of the ocean.
A U-boat's crew is life, the blood.
Our worth will be measured to surface of the sea.
I know each one of you will do your duty.
I will not disappoint you.
Do not disappoint me.
All hands to stations.
You heard the Captain.
All hands to stations.
Take her out, engine six knots, starboard 108 degrees.
Yes Captain, Lutz.
Ollie, engine six knots, starboard 108 degrees.
- (dramatic music) - (propellers whirring)
(waves splashing)
Captain, the boat is sailing at six knots.
Diesels are running smoothly, batteries charged.
Good. Take her down to periscope depth.
Want her under the surface.
Yes, Captain.
Periscope depth.
Man: Periscope depth.
(dramatic music)
Haskell: Intelligence has indicated the U-boat pack
has left their pens at Trondheim
and are making for open ocean.
They'll drop down into the Northern fishing lanes.
They'll hide in and out of them.
They will be using snorkels, it's hard to track.
Yeah, they'll be going slow.
Give us a chance to get into position and intercept.
The 10th fleet is ready with escort carriers and destroyers.
Okay, contact Commander Emmetts.
Split his forces, half goes north, half south.
I don't wanna take any chances.
Nothing better than a wolf hunt.
No, sir.
(submarine creaking)
(dramatic music)
THE UNITED STATES 10TH FLEET CAPTAIN SAMUEL L. GRAVELY JR. THE USS PC-1264
Port four degrees, right full rudder.
- Keep her steady. - Aye aye, sir.
Port four degrees, right turn rudder.
Captain, orders from Emmetts.
Yes, sir?
Thank you, sir.
Starboard, right runner, 10 knots.
Changing course.
Operation Teardrop is a go.
They're really going to let us hunt subs?
Oh, we are in the hunt.
Yes, sir.
- Helmsman? - Aye aye, sir.
(dramatic music)
Don't be like that, you wimp.
- Do you guys have anything for me? - No, shut up.
What I'd give for a good beer right now.
Are you ready for battle, my fellow soldiers?
- Yes. - We will defeat them.
I have a bag of potatoes here.
And I also have chocolate.
- No, no. - Great.
(dramatic music)
- All right? - Yes, well done.
Yes.
Apologies, Captain.
I haven't had a chance to finish cleaning out
my personal belongings.
Hitler youth.
His blood, his honor. It was my brother's.
He was killed in Normandy by Americans.
I'm sorry to hear that, Lieutenant.
Now, I understand I'm taking your command
of this boat away.
You are my second in command,
you must obey all my orders without question.
Is that clear?
Yes, Captain.
On this boat, we all have a duty to perform.
Under my command, what matters is the defeat of the enemy,
the lives of the crew, and the safety of this boat.
Understood?
Yes, sir.
Good.
Now what's your report?
U-894 is falling behind.
Why is he falling behind?
Engine trouble.
Radio U-578, let him know.
Yes, sir.
Keep her sturdy and on course.
We have to make up for any time we might lose.
Yes, Captain.
(military music playing on radio)
(man snoring)
- Man: Sleeping little boy? - Sleeping.
(speaking German)
(intense music)
(water running)
(intense music)
Do you plan on using that?
What?
I hope not on me.
Don't tempt me.
I never got my knife.
My family couldn't afford it.
Didn't have enough money.
How is our new Captain?
Settled into my quarters.
The whole crew is on your side.
Men like Kessler,
their time has passed.
Get the diesels up and running.
Send reports every 20 minutes.
Captain's orders.
- Heil Hitler. - Heil Hitler.
Heil Hitler.
Helmsman.
Right rudder, 20 degrees.
Maintaining current course.
Sir, we have sonar contact.
- Ships on the surface? - I think so, sir.
What is it?
Contact with the enemy.
Do you have the boats confirmed?
Reinhart, check.
Reinhart: Yes, sir.
Should I get the captain?
Not yet.
Reinhart, report!
Reinhart: Sir, multiple ships coming in fast.
(suspenseful music)
(waves lapping)
(sonar beeping)
The other U-boats were reporting the same.
I have visual contact.
- Convoy? - Yes.
Man: U-578 is asking to engage.
What should we tell them?
This could be our first kill.
We can't give that order.
We need the captain.
Give the order to engage.
Yes, sir.
Now get the Captain.
Yes, sir.
(dramatic music)
Why have the diesels stopped?
Captain, enemy contact, convoy merchant vessels,
U-578 has started to engage.
Who gave that order?
Man: Torpedoes in the water!
Captain, torpedoes in the water.
Up periscope, move.
Man: Up periscope!
(torpedoes whirring)
(sonar beeping)
(torpedo exploding)
It's a hit.
(men cheering)
(sonar beeping)
(explosion rumbling)
Another hit. Another hit.
(men cheering and laughing)
Ready the torpedoes.
I will call off the ranges. Battle stations.
Battle stations!
Man: Battle stations, battle stations,
battle stations!
(dramatic music)
(torpedo whooshing)
(explosion rumbling)
Sir, a convoy was just hit. Looks like U-Boats.
- Where? - Grid section 473.
That's our pack. Launch all the birds from Greely.
I want all available forces on that spot.
- I'll inform the 10th. - I need all eyes out there.
- Yes, sir. - Go.
(dramatic music)
(waves crashing)
(plane engine roaring)
The snorkel is giving us trouble.
It'd be better if we get to the surface.
Damaged?
Hard to tell unless we get to the surface.
Call the engine room.
(phone buzzing)
- Yeah? - The electric motor's charging?
Man: Not sufficiently.
The diesels?
Might be best to do a surface check.
Right.
What's going on?
Batteries are not fully charging.
We need to go to the surface and check the snorkel.
Take it to the surface.
Radio?
Inform the other boats we are surfacing
for a maintenance check.
Yes, sir.
Rouse the deck crew!
Take us to the surface.
Yes, sir.
(dramatic music)
(snoring lightly)
(glass rattles)
(dramatic music)
(water crashing)
Where's the Captain?
Passed out again.
Keep her steady.
I don't need anybody going overboard.
We have an issue.
- What is it? - See for yourself.
What is going on?
Get the machine guns from the weapons rack.
Weapons!
Survivors?
It's not clear.
We can't take on survivors.
Ready the deck guns,
we can't take any chances.
Won't the Captain notice?
He will think he gave the order.
Right.
(gun firing)
Is that a deck gun?
- Yes, sir. - Who are they shooting at?
We spotted lifeboats.
I thought it best to leave no survivors.
I did not give that order.
Can't the survivors give away our location?
Idiot. We could be spotted.
Sir, who could see us out here?
Aircraft.
- (gun firing) - Get the men below. Now, go.
(plane engines roaring)
All hands to battle stations.
Prepare the ship to dive.
Inform the other submarines of evasive action.
Engine room, 95% to both engines.
Now.
(plane engines roaring)
There!
Quickly.
(plane engines roaring)
They're coming!
What is going on?
We're under air attack.
(gun firing)
Fire at will!
(gun firing)
Get up, we don't have much time.
(gun firing)
Speer.
Speer!
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Pull the ballast. We need to dive, now.
Prepare to dive. Close the ballast.
They are coming in for the another attack.
Kessler: Where's the others?
They are dead.
Sir, we can...
You put the life of this crew and this boat in danger.
Lieutenant Lutz, confine Lieutenant Reinhart
to the mess quarters under guard.
- Sir. - You must decide whose orders you follow.
Dive. Dive!
(alarm blaring)
(dramatic music)
(propellers whooshing)
(dramatic music)
Sir, Navy planes have engaged the sub.
- What's the location? - Grid section 9-47-4.
Get the fleet to make for grid section 1455.
- This could be our break. Go ahead. - Yes, sir.
(dramatic music)
Left full rudder.
- Left full rudder. - Yes, sir.
Sir, U-578 has made sonar contact
with ships on the surface.
Kessler: Up periscope.
- Yes, sir. - Up periscope.
(dramatic music)
Periscope depth, sir.
(sonar beeping)
Take it down to 50 meters.
Sir?
American destroyers, carriers.
50 meters, sir.
(tense music)
Ollie.
- Up five, down 10. - Yes, sir.
Now hear this, this is the Captain.
We made surface contact with enemy ships.
We'll (indistinct) the ships head on.
We're underneath them.
Close enough for the sonar not to pick up.
With any luck,
we'll pass unnoticed.
Keep on the present course.
Yes, sir.
We should be under the boats, in the clear, seven minutes.
Seven minutes?
Set.
(tense music)
- (sonar beeping) - Sir.
Something on sonar.
Have the jersey bear 20 degrees port.
Aye, sir.
Wait for my orders and then proceed to drop depth charges.
Port 15 degrees, half speed.
Right standard rudder.
Sailor: Aye aye, sir.
(sonar beeping)
(tense music)
Four minutes.
There you go, sir.
Thank you.
Sir, contact bearing two niner five port side.
- Go for jersey. - Yes, sir.
- Drop depth charges. - Aye, sir.
Two minutes.
(submarine creaking)
(dramatic music)
(bombs exploding)
Come on, come on.
Launch hedgehogs!
(explosives blasting)
(dramatic music)
(bombs exploding)
Sir?
Oil slick on the water.
- We got 'em! - (sailors cheering)
The 10th is reporting contact and taking men in a sub.
- Just one? - For now.
It's a pack!
- There's more than one. - Right, sir.
Tell them to keep hunting. Go.
(dramatic music)
We are safe.
Sir, we've lost contact with U-578.
Nothing but static.
We continue. We have our orders.
Keep her steady, six knots.
We surface at nightfall.
Sailor: Yes, sir.
(tense music)
The captain needs small arms.
Two machine pistols.
I'm going to need to confirm.
Haskell: Sir.
The 10th has lost sonar contact.
They are sweeping the area, but so far, no new developments.
If there were more boats, they got away.
Race: Keep 'em sweeping back towards the coast.
Contact the Coast Guard and double their patrols.
Keep their eyes open.
Yes, sir.
Kessler: Sergeant.
Let them know we have to join the other U-boats.
Sergeant: Yes, sir.
Attack on the United States coast is imminent.
Yes, sir.
Sir.
We have a problem.
Kessler: What?
It's Lieutenant Reinhart.
(tense music)
(metal clanking)
Stay back.
(tense music)
Reinhart.
(tense music)
(door creaking)
Stay back!
Lieutenant, hand that pistol over.
We'll forget about this incident.
I got those men killed.
They are dead because of me.
I failed my ship.
I failed the crew, and I failed you.
Your failure, with thanks to my poor leadership.
Hand the pistol over.
I said stay back!
(door creaking)
During the Great War,
a new branch of service, U-boat, became available.
Many of my peers volunteered.
Few were chosen.
I was one of the few.
My first day at sea, a man was washed overboard.
I asked the captain to start a rescue operation, he refused.
On a U-boat, every man's decided his own fate.
Destiny takes control.
We cannot look back.
We must look forward.
My duty is to use every man on this ship to complete our mission.
That includes you, Reinhart.
(door creaking)
Do not let the mistakes of your past determine your future.
Your watch starts in five minutes. Go.
Yes, Captain.
(Kessler exhales)
(liquid sloshing)
(liquid splashing)
(bottle thuds)
(Kessler sobbing quietly)
- (sonar beeping) - (equipment hissing)
Lutz: We have contact.
We are close to the coast.
Lutz: Yes, sir.
Notify the engine room. Cut power to the diesels.
Yes, sir.
Where's Lieutenant Reinhart?
Lutz: He's on watch.
I'm going up top.
Lutz: Yes, sir.
(sonar beeping)
(waves lapping)
Cold night.
Yes, sir.
If we keep her on our starboard, she won't notice us.
How?
At night, the outline of our boat
will line up with her stern.
A blind spot?
Yes.
Make sure to keep her on our starboard.
Yes, sir.
Wonderful one.
Sir?
I was part of the wonderful youth when I was a boy.
I've heard of them, sir.
Good, carry on Lieutenant.
Yes, sir.
Word from the 10th fleet in the south.
They have just sunk three U-boats.
What about the north?
- Nothing yet, sir. - Nothing.
Don't like it.
One could sneak through.
Haskell: They'll be closing in. We will find them.
(tense music)
Lutz: Sir, engines are performing 100%.
We should be upon New York Harbor in a day.
Have we heard from the other U-boats?
No, sir.
How long would it take to ready us to launch the attack?
Should take five, six hours to load the missile on deck.
We don't have time to make mistakes.
We can't make mistakes, sir.
Crewman: Ships on the horizon, captain.
Merchant?
Crewman: They look like Navy ships.
Sir, I have multiple contacts on the sonar.
They're coming in fast.
Battle stations.
Battle stations!
Ships on our starboard and port.
American warships.
- Have they spotted us? - Not yet.
Could at any minute.
Load the torpedoes, the target is the merchant ship.
- We are going to attack? - Yes, Lieutenant, now go.
Yes, sir.
(metal creaking)
(door slams)
(tense music)
(phone buzzing)
Torpedoes await your command, sir.
Port 90 degrees.
Port 90 degrees, sir.
(water lapping)
Loose torpedo number one.
Fire at will!
Loose torpedo number two.
Lutz: Loose torpedo number two.
- Fire! - Fire!
(torpedo whooshing)
Ready tubes three and four.
- (watch ticking) - 1,000 meters.
800 meters,
400 meters,
300 meters.
- (torpedo whooshing) - (tense music)
200.
(torpedoes whooshing)
100 meters.
(ship creaking)
(watch ticking)
Impact, now.
(torpedo exploding)
Hit on one.
(laughing)
Hit on two.
(men cheering)
What are the Americans doing?
The ships are heading towards the merchant vessel.
On our starboard.
We can't let them spot us. Go.
American destroyer is still approaching.
We will hit her. Periscope depth.
Yes, sir. Periscope depth!
Crewmate: Periscope depth. Ollie, two degrees.
(propellers whirring)
Mark right, two knots. Full rudder.
Yes, sir.
Mark right two knots, full rudder.
Loose torpedo number three.
Lutz: Fire number three.
(torpedo whooshing)
Loose torpedo number four.
Lutz: Fire number four.
(guns firing)
(water splashing)
(submarine creaking)
(torpedo whooshing)
It should have hit by now.
We still have one more.
- (torpedo whooshing) - (tense music)
(torpedo exploding)
- Ah, hit on four! - Hit on four!
Take it down to 150 meters, four knots.
Now we run.
(explosions rumbling)
Any news from the 10th?
Haskell: A merchant vessel was in the vicinity when they arrived.
What else?
One of our destroyers, The Cole, was hit and sunk.
The 10th is conducting rescue operations.
Tomorrow morning, New York may wake up to German rockets.
I want you to move the entire southern force to the New York Harbor.
Can't take any chances.
Haskell, I want the U-boat found, no more mistakes.
Yes, sir.
- (upbeat music) - (men cheering)
(radio crackling)
Make sure this goes to command.
Yes, sir.
(Woman on radio) The attack did not take the Germans
by surprise since they had observed the preparations files
for a long time. Generalized Eisenhower's communique
today said that the Allied forces attacking
in the (indistinct)
established bridgeheads over the northern
and western canals.
(radio squawking)
The report from the Führer's headquarters is,
that our "Führer", Adolf Hitler -
in his command post at the Reich Chancellery -
has been fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism
and has been killed in action for Germany.
On the thirtieth...
(radio clicks off)
(clock ticking)
(footsteps approaching)
It is a message from Kessler.
He's almost upon New York.
Does he know?
If he doesn't, he will soon enough.
How did you choose a man like Kessler for this mission?
Kessler has lost everything.
What better for command than a man
that does not have anything to lose?
Heil Hitler.
Sir, we're here.
New York.
Lieutenant Lutz, you've done a fine job on this mission.
Fine job, indeed.
Thank you, sir.
(sonar beeping)
Should be quite a sight up there.
New York City.
Permission to proceed up top?
Permission granted.
(woman singing on radio)
Kessler: This warrants the occasion.
♪ 'Till the blue skies ride the dark cloud ♪
I've never seen such a thing.
♪ Far away ♪
Kessler: Hard to describe.
You have seen before?
The beginning of the war.
Did we ever have a chance to win?
No.
We follow our orders.
Hey Reinhart, hang on to this.
Yes, sir.
- (Man on radio) - Has been canceled
in order to bring you reports from overseas.
We have just heard the news here over our monitoring service
that Adolf Hitler is dead.
The announcement came in an official communique...
Let's get below.
The American radios...
For your eyes only.
Admiral Donitz, general orders to stand down.
Await further instructions.
- Does the crew know? - Lutz: Not yet.
Is it true?
- Hitler dead? - Must be true.
Propaganda.
American propaganda is not like our propaganda.
Reinhart: What do we do?
Have the men assemble the rocket.
But the Admiral, he said...
Kessler: Hold and await further instructions.
We may only get one chance. I want to be ready.
If we work the men in shifts, we can assemble it faster.
I will see it is done.
This is our chance. We will be ready.
Yes, sir.
This is the captain, hear this.
We're at the gates of our enemy.
We will prepare to attack.
Oh, thanks.
Nights like these, we can all use a cup.
What is it?
Hitler is dead.
Just announced.
War is done.
- Sir? - Yeah?
Kessler.
What about him?
His file indicates he lost his family in the Dresden fire bombings.
All of them?
Haskell: Yes.
Got nothing to lose.
He doesn't care about Hitler. Put the 10th on high alert.
Sir.
(seagulls squawking)
(propellers whirring)
(mournful music)
I miss you.
(footsteps approaching)
Sir, she is ready.
See the fine work you've done, Lieutenant.
Attention!
Men, each one of you should be proud
to call yourself German.
You're all true Kriegsmarine.
Sir, we have contact at 8573.
- Merchant? - American Navy.
Sir, they found us.
Can we fire the rocket from here?
We need to get closer to the shore to fire the rocket.
We're still too far away.
Sir, your orders?
(tense music)
Crewman: Sir, we have contact.
- Is it her? - Yes, sir.
Sound general quarters.
(Men together) General quarters, general quarters.
(tense music)
Men.
Hitler is dead.
We have two options.
Surrender or fight.
We are with you, sir.
We fight.
(tense music)
Helmsman, take the boat 93 degrees,
six knots.
Yes, sir.
- Battle stations. - Battle stations!
Battle stations!
(tense music)
Haskell: Sir, they made contact.
They found her?
Latest reports had them closing in on her position.
Just a matter of time.
Checkmate. Checkmate!
(sonar beeping)
Sir, the signal's getting stronger.
It's getting closer?
Sir, it's coming straight at us.
(sonar beeping)
On this course, we are going straight into warships.
Prepare to dive.
Prepare to dive!
Keep on this course through the shallows.
Sir, on this course we will split them.
They cannot fire their depth charges so close to their own boats.
Increase speed, eight knots.
Yes, sir. Increase speed.
Crewmate: Increase speed, eight knots.
- You find her? - No.
It appears to be attacking.
What? How?
(tense music)
Captain, the U-boat's coming up alongside us, sir.
Get on the surface guns.
Yes, sir.
You heard him, get on the surface guns, let's go.
Captain, the guns aren't long enough.
Sir, she's going to get away.
I don't think so.
Sir, we are clear.
(men cheering)
Sir, there are more ships on the sonar.
(propellers whirring)
Captain, the rest of the 10th has arrived.
Right on cue.
How much closer?
We should be in range.
We take our chances on the surface.
Blow the ballast.
Lutz: Yes, sir. Blow the ballast!
Crewmate: Blow the ballast!
(water splashing)
Captain, the sub. It has surfaced.
What? Attacking?
Come see.
(intense music)
Is it attacking?
I think it's about to fire.
Fire what?
It's a rocket.
All due respect, sir, I wanna see my mom again after this war.
I'll get you home to your mother.
(plane engines roaring)
(intense music)
Sir.
General orders to all U-boats, cease operations.
Stand down, stand down.
We are too late.
Sir, the sub has surfaced.
The 10th is waiting for your orders.
What do you wanna do?
Blow it out of the water.
(intense music)
(guns firing)
(explosion rumbling)
(alarm blaring)
Sir. Sir, we have to abandon ship.
Get the men out.
Captain.
Come on, Captain.
Captain goes down with his ship.
It's my duty.
Now go. Go!
Thank you, sir.
- (alarm blaring) - (intense music)
(Kessler groans)
(ship creaking)
Kessler: A captain with a sense of honor
cannot separate his fate from that of his ship.
I can only prove by my own death
that the fighting services of Germany
were ready to die for the flag.
You're a young man, Reinhart,
have a long life ahead of you, make the most of it.
Like I told you once before,
don't let the mistakes of your past determine your future.
Captain H. Kessler, Kriegsmarine.
(intense music)