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Submarine films have their own particular semantics and syntax, creating a film genre concerned specifically with submarine warfare.A distinctive element in this genre is the soundtrack, which attempts to bring home the emotional and dramatic nature of conflict under the sea.
Dolphins is an IMAX documentary produced in 2000. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. [1] Directed by Greg MacGillivray, [2] with Chris Palmer serving as executive producer, this feature follows a few scientists studying dolphins (chiefly Kathleen Dudzinski, Dean Bernal, and Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez, as well as Louis Herman and Bernd Wursig) as ...
USS Dolphin (AGSS-555) was a United States Navy diesel-electric deep-diving research and development submarine. She was commissioned in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007. Her 38-year career was the longest in history for a US Navy submarine to that point. She was the Navy's last operational conventionally powered submarine. [2]
Dolphin was the penultimate design in the V-boat series. With a length of 319 ft (97 m) and a displacement only a little more than half that of the previous three large cruiser submarines (1,718 long tons (1,746 t) surfaced, 2,240 long tons (2,276 t) submerged), Dolphin was clearly an attempt to strike a medium between those latter submarines and earlier S-class submarines, which were little ...
USS Delaware – frigate, The Captain from Connecticut by C. S. Forester, 1941; Demeter – Russian schooner in Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897; USS Dolphin – submarine in Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean, 1963; USS Dragonfish – U.S. Navy submarine in both Raise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler, 1976, and To Kill the Potemkin by Mark Joseph ...
In August 1943, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Tiger Shark patrols the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Receiving orders to pick up survivors spotted adrift by a British PBY Catalina patrol plane, the submarine rescues three survivors – British nurse Claire Paige, and two men, one of them wounded – from British hospital ship Fort James, sunk two days earlier; one survivor blames a German U ...
In America, it aired on Showtime on 28 May 2000 and in Australia it aired on Channel 7. [2] The film is a remake of a 1959 film, which was also based on the 1957 novel by Nevil Shute, but updates the setting of the story to the film's then-future of 2006, starting with placing the crew on a fictional Los Angeles-class submarine, USS Charleston ...
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 11 The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave: MGM Home Entertainment / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Peter MacDonald (director); Bob Einstein, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, Don Lake (screenplay); Bob Einstein, Dan Hedaya, Gia Carides, Don Lake, Steve Van Wormer, Ray Charles, Michael Buffer, Evander Holyfield, John Elway, Jim Doughan, Billy ...