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Drama: SciFi & Fantasy

02/01/2000

BBC One - The Final Countdown

A Pacific aircraft carrier finds itself transported back in time from 1980 to 1941.

Science-fiction drama starring Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas. A Pacific aircraft carrier finds itself transported from 1980 to 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Science-fiction drama about a Pacific aircraft carrier which enters a time warp and finds itself transported from 1980 to 1941. 

Arriving just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the captain is forced to decide whether to strike at the approaching Japanese fleet and change the entire course of the World War II.

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