| • Science | • People | • Locations | • Timeline |
As acknowledged by the filmmakers, the story of the film is entirely fictional. In fact, Enigma and the associated code books were first captured from U-110 by the British in May 1941, before the United States' entry into World War II. The British also captured material from U-559 in 1942.
The U.S. Navy did seize German Naval Enigma material in 1944 when they captured U-505 (their first capture of an enemy vessel at sea in 129 years).
Shortly after the release of this film, BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation BBC is primarily a national publicly-funded broadcaster based in the United Kingdom, which also has some international services. Some of the international services (such as BBC cable TV in America, Canada and elsewhere radio interviewed a former British naval officer, who had actually been involved in the recovery of code books from a German submarine on the point of sinking: he commented that the film had nothing to do with any historical facts, but was quite entertaining.
Tagline: Heroes are ordinary men who do extraordinary things in extraordinary times.
U-571For movie involving this submarine, see: U-571 (movie). Unterseeboot 571 (U-571 was a Type VIIC submarine of the Kriegsmarine. Her keel was laid down June 8, 1940 by Blohm + Voss of Hamburg. She was commissioned May 22, 1941 with Kapitanleutnant Helmut Mo was also the call sign of an actual German submarine, but that vessel was not involved in anything like the events depicted in the film.See also: Submarine filmSubmarine film is a subgenre of war film which takes place in a submarine below the surface of the ocean. Films of this subgenre typically focus on a small but determined crew of submariners battling against not only their enemies, but also the extreme pr, Enigma (movie)
2000 films World War II films