![]() The Final Countdown was produced by Peter Douglas. history, or do you leave it alone? You could save thousands of lives but at what future cost? If you are the captain, do you utilize the power you control, 80-90 aircraft, to help change the outcome of one of the greatest defeats in U.S. The real meat of the story is the question it proposes. ![]() Although the prisoner of war causes some trouble when he is on board. Meanwhile, other recon has been done and they discover the huge approaching Japanese fleet. The two yacht survivors and a downed Japanese pilot are picked up by helicopter and brought aboard the Nimitz. The jets engage them in one of the most lopsided aerial dogfights ever put on film. Some reconnaissance jets witness a private yacht get strafed by some Japanese fighters. The radio is only picking up golden oldies from 1941. All communication from Hawaii has stopped. He and the captain, played by Kirk Douglas, along with a couple of other officers, must figure out what has happened to them after the carrier passed through the storm. Martin Sheen plays Lasky, a civilian aboard the ship of nearly 6,000 servicemen. Nimitz runs into a strange electrical storm that sends the entire nuclear aircraft carrier back in time to the day before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Shortly after leaving port in Hawaii, the U.S.S. If you are a history or military buff this film is for you. It also has the addition of (then) modern technology going back in time as well. The Final Countdown asks both of these questions. Even if those questions never get answered, they must at least be posed in any good time travel film. The second is, how will the person use their knowledge of history. The first is, will the person's actions affect the future. There are two key questions to any time travel film where someone travels back in time. Martin Sheen, James Farentino and Kirk Douglas in The Final Countdown
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