U-571 (2000) directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes and Tom Guiry. In 1942, a World War II German submarine is boarded by United States Navy submariners, disguised as Germans, seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine. The film won an Academy Award for sound editing. However, the fictional plot attracted substantial criticism - in reality, it was British sailors from HMS Bulldog in May 1941 who first captured a naval Enigma machine (from U-110) in the North Atlantic, months before the United States had even entered the war. The anger over these inaccuracies reached the British Parliament, where Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed that the film was an "affront" to British sailors.
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