Proto-wokeness does not sink this mini-series

This is the 1985 TV mini-series that is just the famous 1981 movie with more scenes. The extra scenes give more of a sense of "months of boredom" in the saying about war, "months of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror". So, yes, it actually adds flavor to the movie and makes it better. On IMDB, this version scores an 8.8/10 versus 8.4/10 for the movie.

In one scene, one crewman taunts another for reading the Bible, while others do not intervene. During this time, only 1.5% of Germans were atheist or agnostic, so I question whether this is a rewriting of history for an anti-Christianity agenda. Later, the Christian is frantically praying while ignoring the guy's pleas to help in saving their butts from doom, so the guy smacks him upside the head. Again, it's tough to say if it's a proto-woke agenda at play, but at least they tied the first incident into the later plot. And admittedly, in Nazi Germany, there was some tension between the religion of the State (Nazism) versus Christianity.

Another possible bit of proto-wokeness is the nightclub scene at the start. The submariners are quite piggish towards the women working the joint. However, I judge this as plausibly realistic, as these are men who know they are very likely about to die. Still, I suspect the real reason is that the film creators did not want to be seen as glorifying Nazis, and this scene made the characters less likable. That's understandable.

So, I'll mark it as not-woke, and certainly it's a great mini-series.