The Final Countdown (1980)
PG | 103 min | Action, Sci-Fi | 1 August 1980 (USA)
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Don Taylor
Writers: Thomas Hunter (story), Peter Powell (story)
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
PG | 103 min | Action, Sci-Fi | 1 August 1980 (USA)
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Don Taylor
Writers: Thomas Hunter (story), Peter Powell (story)
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross
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00:00You are on board the USS Nimitz, the most advanced nuclear supership in the American
00:20arsenal.
00:21Carrying a couple of 102 aircraft and 6,000 men, the Nimitz is on routine duty guarding
00:28the waters of the South Pacific.
00:39But within minutes, a bizarre, unexplainable phenomenon of nature will transport the Nimitz
00:4540 years back in time, back to the day of infamy, back to the Japanese attack on Pearl
00:51Harbor.
01:06This is the captain.
01:08I'm speaking to every man aboard this ship.
01:10The storm has had some effect on time, as we know it.
01:15It created a portal, a door into another era.
01:18Today is December the 7th, 1941.
01:23We are about to fight a battle that was lost before most of you were born.
01:29This time, God's help is going to be different.
01:33There are forces in the universe which we're only now just beginning to understand.
01:36There are black holes in space, antimatter, curves in space.
01:40Things that are as strange to us as electricity would have been to people in the Middle Ages.
01:43Holy cow, it's the whole Japanese fleet.
01:48Our reconnaissance plane has just taken pictures of something that hasn't existed for over
01:5340 years.
01:54What have you got?
01:55Two Japanese Zeroes, sir.
01:57Splash the Zeroes.
02:18What's happening here?
02:27Who are you people?
02:30Why don't you tell him what's going on here, Commander?
02:36You're an expert on what's going to happen tomorrow.
02:39Why don't you tell him about it, for God's sakes?
02:41Go on, tell him.
02:42We've got nothing to lose.
02:43Welcome to the paradox of time.
02:47When past and present become one, and history is actually changed.
02:52We've got an incredible opportunity here.
02:54We know where all the mistakes are going to be made for the next 40 years, and you've
02:57got the power to correct them.
02:59The final countdown.