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June 22, 2026… #movieoftheday is We Dive at Dawn (full movie) (1943).
“We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War . It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Frank Launder . It was produced by Edward Black . The film's sets were designed by Walter Murton .
“The film was crucial to establishing Mills as a star.” - more at Wikipedia
The British submarine HMS Sea Tiger is assigned to track down and destroy the German battleship Brandenburg on its way to the Baltic.
We Dive at Dawn is split into three distinct acts: the first, establishing the submarine crew's personalities and domestic situations; the second, a sober portrayal of the life these men spend under water; and the last, the action-packed raid on a Danish port.
We Dive at Dawn is one of several wartime tales of derring-do to benefit from the strain of documentary realism that infiltrated British commercial cinema at the outbreak of war. The output of the government's Crown Film Unit included dramatized documentaries that functioned as entertaining propaganda for servicemen such as firefighters - Fires Were Started (d. Humphrey Jennings, 1943) - and submariners - Close Quarters (d. Jack Lee, 1943). By accident or design, such films coincided with similar scenarios from the commercial studios - The Bells Go Down (d. Basil Dearden, 1943) and We Dive at Dawn .
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lENSirDi_w
#WeDiveAtDawn #tangled #Wikipedia #2026
“We Dive at Dawn is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War . It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Frank Launder . It was produced by Edward Black . The film's sets were designed by Walter Murton .
“The film was crucial to establishing Mills as a star.” - more at Wikipedia
The British submarine HMS Sea Tiger is assigned to track down and destroy the German battleship Brandenburg on its way to the Baltic.
We Dive at Dawn is split into three distinct acts: the first, establishing the submarine crew's personalities and domestic situations; the second, a sober portrayal of the life these men spend under water; and the last, the action-packed raid on a Danish port.
We Dive at Dawn is one of several wartime tales of derring-do to benefit from the strain of documentary realism that infiltrated British commercial cinema at the outbreak of war. The output of the government's Crown Film Unit included dramatized documentaries that functioned as entertaining propaganda for servicemen such as firefighters - Fires Were Started (d. Humphrey Jennings, 1943) - and submariners - Close Quarters (d. Jack Lee, 1943). By accident or design, such films coincided with similar scenarios from the commercial studios - The Bells Go Down (d. Basil Dearden, 1943) and We Dive at Dawn .
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lENSirDi_w
#WeDiveAtDawn #tangled #Wikipedia #2026
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