Product Details

• Directors: David Hoffman
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Varied Directions
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1989
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005NSSE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,838 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Everyday, American submariners go down below the waves for months at a time on submarine patrols. Steel Boats – Iron Men is the only complete film where the US Navy allowed filmmakers to go down with them. The film presents a never before seen look inside a state of the art nuclear powered submarine on patrol. You will see things in this film that you have never seen before. Who are these men, who live confined in a steel tube deep in the ocean for months at a time, surrounded by a hostile environment, in constant danger? What do they do and why do they do it?

The film also looks at training, family life, background, etc. The viewer visits a "wet trainer" at Sub School to see what these submariners must endure before they ever climb inside one of these remarkable ships.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars superb in every way, February 17, 2003

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David Hoffman (Santa Cruz, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Submarines: Steel Boats - Iron Men [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am a Navy submariner's wife. This one hour program shows what it is REALLY like and shows the life on board without all the PR baloney. Lots of great stuff that I and my family and friends had never seen or heard about. A dramatic story also. It had me in tears. I am proud of my husband and others like him.

2.0 out of 5 stars Used Used Used, November 9, 2006

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Brent W. Febo "STSCS/SS" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Submarines: Steel Boats - Iron Men [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The VHS recieved was a pirated copy! Black and White case covers, nothing like the photo. The tape wasn't even rewound when I received it. Basically I received an illeagle copy of this product.

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Submarines, December 5, 2003

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John S. Reynolds "Till the wheels fall off" (Santa Barbara, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Submarines (DVD)

While this film looks and sounds very much like a documentary on Submarines, its merely a mediocre drama that deals with terrorists and a hijacked Russian nuclear Sub!! If this sounds like your bag then this film could be for you. I thought it to be an interesting Documentary but found I was wrong. It was just packaged to appear that way.