Hoist the main sail, tighten those ropes, swab the decks and join Andy and Elton as they set sail to hunt those pesky French. During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America. We are NOT experts,...

This is a big one, and we’re not talking about the size of the October…. In November 1984, the Soviet Union’s best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war? We...

Andy and Elton head back underneath the waves to try and prevent a nuclear war. 1995’s Crimson Tide. On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger-happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so. We are NOT experts, veterans or master tacticians...

Andy and Elton sail off to intercept the Bismarck to see if they can put a few holes in it. The World War II story of the Royal Navy’s effort to defeat Nazi Germany’s most powerful warship. We are NOT experts, veterans or master tacticians of World War II but we do love a bloody...

Andy and Elton sit and wait for the Graf Spee to pop its head out. In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship. We are NOT experts, veterans or master tacticians of World War II but we do love a bloody good...

Andy and Elton sit down to review In Which We Serve, the 1942 wartime classic directed by Noël Coward and David Lean. This “story of a ship”, the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft. We are NOT experts, veterans or master tacticians of World...

Andy and Elton just into a steel tube sail to the North Atlantic, get crabs, sink and resurface in the epic Das Boot. A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II. We are NOT...

Upon the cold seas of the North Atlantic Ocean we go, as Andy and Elton cover Greyhound. (Howls!) Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack. We are NOT experts, veterans or master tacticians of...

Heading back to the skies over England as we tackle the classic Battle of Britain. In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K. We are NOT experts, veterans or...

Andy and Elton head back to the holiday camp known as Stalag Luft III for some R&R. Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.