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The Final Countdown

Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.

1980 · PG · 1h 43m

Directed by Don Taylor

6.6

TMDB audience score
715 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • 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

  • Lloyd Kaufman
    LCdr. Kaufman

  • Dan Fitzgerald
    Navy Doctor

  • Peter Douglas
    Quartermaster

  • Joe Lowry
    Cdr. Damon

  • Ted Richert
    Tideman's Assistant

  • Mark Thomas
    Marine Cpl. Kullman

  • Harold Bergman
    Bellman

  • George Warren
    Tideman's Bodyguard