Wolfgang Petersen Trailers
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Wolfgang Petersen was a German-born screenwriter, producer and film director who spent most of his career in the United States. In the 1960s he began working directing plays at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. After becoming interested in theater in Berlin and Hamburg, Petersen attended the Berlin Film and Television Academy (1966-70). His first productions were for German state television, and it was during his work on the popular crime series Crime Scene that he met actor Jürgen Prochnow, who would later appear in his iconic film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), cult film Enemy Mine (1985), Shattered (1991), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), Poseidon (2006) and Four Against the Bank (2016), his latest film.
Most Popular Wolfgang Petersen Trailers
Total trailers found: 42
13 May 2004
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy.
22 June 1975
Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company’s clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing.
03 May 2006
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
17 September 1981
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
10 January 2021
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II.
29 June 2000
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic.
25 July 1997
When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
17 December 1999
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children.
06 April 1984
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story.
23 February 2013
Documentary about Hollywood.
26 March 1996
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
10 March 1995
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate.
10 June 1967
The story centers on the Roman merchant Piacchi, who raises the foundling Nicolo after the death of his son and bequeaths all his possessions to the young man.
08 July 1993
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas.
12 December 1985
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world.
04 June 1999
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder.
30 October 1997
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
11 October 1991
Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again.
23 May 2002
Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
05 October 1976
When Hans wakes up one morning, he realizes that he is longer than his bed, his feet sticking out over the edge of the bed.
24 August 2023
The international success of the film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen made U-96 one of the most famous submarines in cinematic history.
26 December 1973
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager.
25 December 2016
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.
01 January 1967
One man interacts with an invisible orchestra, another one is stuck in a bin.
07 November 1967
Experimental fiction film about young people taking on different creative tasks.
02 December 1977
Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
26 October 1974
Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a clash between a local gang of drug smugglers and the police.
15 April 1973
Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning.
23 December 1965
Directorial debut of Wolfgang Petersen
01 January 2003
The Agency receives word that Fidel Castro will be assassinated when he visits America and the CIA has 48 hours to stop the assassination.
22 April 1974
Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer.
10 October 1978
A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program.
01 March 1969
A staging of a young man's liberation from his bourgeois confinement using only music and sounds.
22 April 2011
Author Gundolf S. Freyermuth goes Back to the Boat with director Wolfgang Petersen, star Jürgen Prochnow, and others to discuss the production of 'Das Boot'.
05 April 1971
A young woman takes the train to Berlin. She wants to kill her friend Wolf, a theater actor. When the woman meets him, he tells her about his weird wife.
17 February 2017
A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."
20 September 1981
Comprehensive classic piece that looks at the process of creating the movie, told with a strong, well-constructed narrative that plays almost as a movie itself, a detailed retelling of how the movie was made and the dedication to authenticity that's evident right down to the finest little details on the ship.
01 January 1977
A fictionalized version of a military training fight.
07 December 1976
One evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he gets the idea of robbing a bank.
