Das Boot: parents' guide

Depth charges and bombs injure crewmen, with some bloody wounds. Sailors on a burning tanker leap into the sea and are left behind, and an air raid kills several characters, including major ones. A drunk officer fires a gun in a bar.

Mostly crude sailor talk in subtitles: s-words, bastards, asshole and at least one f-word, plus coarse references to brothels and body parts.

Crewmen drop their pants for a lice inspection, showing bare bottoms, and talk crudely about women, brothels and masturbation. A cabaret singer wears a skimpy dress and there is a drag act. No sex scenes.

The opening party shows officers getting very drunk; one collapses in his own vomit and another urinates on a car. Sailors drink beer to celebrate a sinking, and smoking is constant.

Long depth-charge attacks with leaks spraying, lights failing and men waiting silently to die. A crewman panics and has to be restrained, and the boat sits trapped on the ocean floor for hours as air runs low.