The Hunt For Red October (DVD 2000)

This is a movie that is based upon a book by Tom Clancy, and it's very well made and exciting. The director John McTiernan has probably made the best action drama with plot from the cold war ever made so far.
The best features of this film is the intensity of the drama, you stay inside the story and forget where you are almost throughout. Sean Connery is doing a tremendous acting job as the captain of the nuclear sub, and a collection of other well-known actors make this a very recommendable movie as well.
Alec Baldwin is playing the expert on warfare and conflict that we are supposed to identify with. He is the link on the western side that the defecting soviet sub-commander has to connect with to save the whole situation from ending in a catasrophe. The role he is playing is maybe a little too much, meaning it's very unrealistic and made for daydreamers, but that's the idea of it all isn't it?
I also think that the action scenes from below the surface are far out regarding any realism: how they manouvre the U-boats as if it's a horse in a westermovie. Remember it's pich black down there!
But that doesn't spoil the intention of the movie: to make an action thriller that catch your attention for over 2 hours. If you are interested in U-boatdramas from the cold war, this is the number one DVD to buy.