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* The whole thing is a contest of wits with plenty of scope for a [[Guile Hero]].
* There is gobs and gobs of [[Technology Porn]].
* Both sides are to some degree blindfolded and depend on hearing each other making for an interesting combat situation.
* The stakes are all or nothing. If a sub survives an engagement likely everyone aboard will while if it is sunk it will be so far underwater that everyone will die.
* [[History of Naval Warfare|Historical settings]] like the [[Cold War]] or [[World War II]] lend plausibility to the story; with all the secrecy back then, an adventure that took place hidden under the ocean seems like it really could have happened.
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* ''[[The Enemy Below]]'', which was [[Recycled in Space]] as the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Balance of Terror".
* ''[[Enigma]]''
* ''[[Below]]'' by David Twohy of (him of Riddick fame) plays the "bringing worst in humans" part for all the scares it can get out of it.
* ''We Dive at Dawn''- British film made during [[World War Two]], involving a British sub of the P-class being sent to the Baltic to sink a new German battleship. Despite being a propaganda film, it's still pretty good.
* ''[[Operation Petticoat]]'' - a comedy about evacuating nurses from the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to Australia in December 1941.
* ''[[Destination Tokyo]]'' - a drama made during the war that incorporates a few real events from several different subs during the war.
* ''Run Silent, Run Deep''
* ''[[Submarine Command]]''
* ''Up Periscope''
* ''[[Morning Departure]]'' - actually set just post WWII, but plays much more like a WWII story than a Cold War one.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The 1999 [[Made for TV]] movie ''The Hunley'' is centered around the experimental Confederate submarine ''Hunley'', which had thus far claimed the lives of two of its crews while being tested. A new crew is put together, and they must find a way to use their submarine against the Union Navy blockade of Charleston. {{spoiler|The sub sinks, and takes its third crew with it, but not before destroying a Union warship by [[Ramming Always Works|lancing it]] with a large explosive device.}}
* The episode "Why We Fight" from season five of ''[[Angel]]'' is a WWII flashback where Angel is sent by the U.S. government to help bring in a captured U-boat.
* ''[[The Unit]]'' has an episode involving a rather trippy dream and the women of the series getting action-y in said dream, plus a South Korean submarine.
* And of course, a submarine is the best place for a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-dkBf-T9I certain kind of sandwich].
* ''[[JAG]]'' featured several episodes taking place on submarines, with plots ranging from espionage to fish-out-of-water stories to the occasional bit of [[Hot Sub-On-Sub Action]].
* ''[[SeaQuest DSV|Sea Quest DSV]]''
* A flashforward from an episode of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.
* The ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S1 E14 Balance of Terror|Balance of Terror]]" is a sub duel [[Recycled in Space]] fought between Kirk and a [[Worthy Opponent]] Romulan Captain.
* The ''[[Andromeda]]'' episode "D minus 0" is also a sub story [[Recycled in Space]].
* ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]''
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