Crimson Tide

Crimson Tide

Danger runs deep.

Directed by Tony Scott

Produced by Hollywood Pictures, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films

1995116 min7.2 / 10

A tense, morally complex submarine thriller about the clash between military authority and conscience in the shadow of nuclear annihilation.

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.

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