Wolfgang Petersen: A Legacy of Outsized Movies About Men in Tension With One Another . By Walter Chaw @ mangiotto. Published Aug. 18, 2022, 8:45 a.m. ET.

From the fantastic to the action-packed, Petersen, who died Friday at age 81, left a legacy of eminently bingeable movies. Here are several to watch now.

Petersen’s Old School Hollywood approach meets the material where it’s at here. Moreover, he wisely gets out of the movie’s way so audiences get what they paid to see: Harrison Ford punching ...

A war film dubbed ‘claustrophobic’ and ‘thrilling’ is available to stream now via Amazon Prime Video. Das Boot, released in ...

Wolfgang Petersen, one of a handful of foreign directors to make it big in Hollywood, whose harrowing 1981 war film, “Das Boot,” was nominated for six Academy Awards and became one of Germany ...

His final film was 2016’s “Four Against the Bank,” a German film that remade Petersen’s own 1976 German TV movie. Petersen was first married to German actor Ursula Sieg.

From the fantastic to the action-packed, Petersen, who died Friday at age 81, left a legacy of eminently bingeable movies. Here are several to watch now.

Wolfgang Petersen, German writer-director behind the submarine masterpiece 'Das Boot' as well as 'In the Line of Fire,' 'Air Force One' and 'The Perfect Storm,' has died.