The Final Countdown

• 6.603 War
• 1980-01-31
• 103 minutes mins

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Starring:

Kirk Douglas (Capt. Matthew Yelland) Martin Sheen (Warren Lasky) Katharine Ross (Laurel Scott) James Farentino (Wing Commander Richard T. Owens) Ron O'Neal (Commander Dan Thurman) Charles Durning (Senator Samuel Chapman) Victor Mohica (Black Cloud) James Coleman (Lt. Perry) Soon-Tek Oh (Simura) Alvin Ing (Lt. Kajima)

Director:

Don Taylor

Writer:

David Ambrose Thomas Hunter Gerry Davis Peter Powell