Crimson Tide (film)

Crimson Tide is a 1995 American submarine film directed by Tony Scott, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. It takes place during a period of political turmoil in the Russian Federation, in which ultranationalists threaten to launch nuclear missiles at the United States and Japan. It focuses on a clash of wills between the new executive officer Denzel Washington of a U.S. nuclear missile submarine and its seasoned commanding officer Gene Hackman, arising from conflicting interpretations of an order to launch their missiles.

In postSoviet Russia, civil war erupts as a result of armed conflict in Chechnya. Military units, loyal to fictional Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Radchenko, have taken control of a nuclear missile installation and are threatening nuclear war if either the American or Russian governments attempt to confront him.A U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine, the USSAlabama, is assigned to a patrol mission to be available to launch its nuclear missiles in a preemptive strike if Radchenko attempts to fuel his missiles. Captain Frank Ramsey Hackman is the submarines commanding officer, one of few active commanders left in the U.S. Navy with combat experience. He chooses as his new executive officer Lieutenant Commander Ron Hunter Washington, who has an extensive education in military history and tactics, but no combat experience. ........

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