10 Scariest Shark Movies You've Never Seen
9. Mission Of The Shark: The Saga Of The USS Indianapolis
While the prospect of Nicolas Cage in a shark-driven movie based around the USS Indianapolis tragedy sounded intriguing on paper, the end result - 2016's Men of Courage - was pretty darn awful, straying from the real facts, full of awful effects, and brimming with some brutal performances.
Thankfully, 1991 saw the events of July 1945 done justice more fittingly with the CBS TV movie Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the USS Indianapolis.
Headed up by the great Stacy Keach as Captain Charles B. McVay III, this isn't a shark movie in the same sense as most of the films on this list. Rather, the sharks are a background element to the wider disaster of the Indianapolis sinking after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.
Yes, numerous people lose their lives to shark attacks in Mission of the Shark, but just as featured are the build-up to the torpedo attack, the sinking of the vessel, and how different people react in different ways to being stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; some doing all they can to help others, others doing all they can for self-preservation.
While Mission of the Shark was hard to come by for years, nowadays it can be found on Prime Video in certain regions, not to mention the full film - albeit poor quality - on YouTube.