Pearl Harbor

:For the World War II battle, see Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Films and books

Fiction

• The Final Countdown is a movie set around Pearl Harbor, in which the nuclear aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz, from 1980 is time-warped back to December 6, 1941, one day before the attack on the base.
• From Here to Eternity by James Jones. The attack on Pearl Harbor plays a crucial role for Robert E. Lee Prewitt.
• In an episode of Freakazoid!, the hero goes back to 1941 and prevents the attack from happening. When he returns to the present, everything seems normal-except for Sharon Stone as a good actress, Chevy Chase not doing movies and Brain as the president.

'Historical' fiction

• Tora! Tora! Tora! is a movie about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Many consider this to be the most faithful movie re-telling of the attack as it deals with many aspects of the battle with attention to historical fact. The movie's re-enactment of the attack lasts almost as long as the original event.
• Pearl Harbor is the title of a 2001 film about the 1941 attack.