This is a list of movies released since the year 1960 that I know ( because I have watched them) or I believe ( ’cause I’ve read about them but not seen them…yet?) have shots of model ships in them. I will be adding to this list from time to time as my research progresses, so this page is always under construction. Please let me know of any I have might have missed, particularly from European films of which I know very little about and would like to know a great deal more.
The X marks a title I have not yet viewed.
| Sink the Bismarck | 1960 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mysterious Island | 1961 | Columbia | Ray Harryhausen | |
| The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | Columbia | ||
| Atlantis, the LostContinent | 1961 | MGM | A Arnold Gillespie | |
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | 1961 | Twentieth Century Fox | L B Abbott | |
| Seige of Syracuse | 1962 | Paramount | X | |
| Damn the Defiant (HMS Defiant US title) | 1962 | Columbia | ||
| Mutiny on the Bounty | 1962 | MGM | ||
| Atragon (Kaitei gunkan) | 1963 | TOHO (AIP) | Eiji Tsuburaya | |
| Carry on Jack | 1963 | Anglo Amalgamated | ||
| Captain Sinbad | 1963 | Tom Howard | ||
| Cleopatra | 1963 | Twentieth Century Fox | L B Abbott | |
| Jason and the Argonauts | 1963 | Columbia | Ray Harryhausen | |
| The Long Ships | 1964 | Columbia | ||
| In Harm's Way | 1965 | Paramount | ||
| The Bedford Incident | 1965 | Columbia | ||
| Around the World Under the sea | 1966 | MGM | Jim Danforth | |
| Batman | 1966 | Twentieth Century Fox | L B Abbot | |
| Doctor Dolittle | 1967 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| Submarine X-1 | 1968 | United Artists | ||
| The Lost Continent | 1968 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| Attack on the Iron Coast | 1968 | United Artists | ||
| Ice Station Zebra | 1968 | MGM | ||
| King Kong Escapes | 1968 | Universal | ||
| Nihonkai Daikasen (Battle for the sea of Japan) | 1969 | TOHO | Eiji Tsuburaya | |
| Krakatoa East of Java | 1969 | Cinerama | Eugene Lourie, Alex Weldon | |
| Captain Nemo and the Underwater City | 1969 | MGM | ||
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | 1970 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| The Light at the edge of the world | 1971 | National General pictures | ||
| Murphys War | 1971 | Paramount | ||
| The Poseidon Adventure | 1972 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | 1974 | Columbia | ||
| The People That Time Forgot | 1977 | American International Productions (AIP) | ||
| The Land That Time Forgot | 1975 | American International Productions (AIP) | ||
| Shout at the Devil | 1976 | American International Productions (AIP) | ||
| The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 | United Artists | ||
| The Deep (TV release) | 1977 | Columbia | ||
| Warlords of Atlantis | 1978 | Columbia | ||
| Gray Lady Down | 1978 | Universal | ||
| 1941 | 1979 | Universal, Columbia | ||
| North Sea Hijack | 1979 | Universal | ||
| Raise the Titanic | 1980 | ITC | John Richardson | |
| Das Boot | 1981 | Columbia | ||
| The Winds of War (TV) | 1983 | Paramount Television | ||
| The Bounty | 1984 | Orion Pictures | ||
| War and Remembrance (TV) | 1988 | Paramount Television | X | |
| Deepstar six | 1989 | Tristar | ||
| The Abyss | 1989 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| The Hunt for red October | 1990 | Paramount | ||
| Frankenstein | 1994 | Tristar | ||
| Crimson Tide | 1995 | Hoyt Yeatman | ||
| Cutthroat Island | 1995 | Martin Gutteridge | ||
| White Squall | 1996 | |||
| Titanic (1997) | 1997 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| Godzilla | 1998 | Columbia | ||
| Virus | 1999 | Universal | ||
| U-571 | 2000 | Universal | ||
| Enigma | 2001 | |||
| Below | 2002 | Peter Chiang | ||
| K-19 the Widowmaker | 2002 | Paramount | ||
| Master and Commander | 2003 | Twentieth Century Fox | Richard Taylor | |
| King Kong (2005) | 2005 | Universal | Richard Taylor |
I ‘m researching the Penguin Submarine from the 1966 Batman movie and discovered this great site.
I think Penguins Submarine is missing from your list ! Holy Underwater Error !
Regards
Henry Brown
You’re right, I totally forgot about that one, and I think its L B Abbot as the visual effects supervisor as well. The flipper propulsion is pretty impressive. I will add it to the list soon.