Best on Prime Video: The Final Countdown Watch Guide

The Final Countdown (1980) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. Trapped outside the boundaries of time and space... 102 aircraft... 6,000 men... all missing.

Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, YouTube TV, Philo, Night Flight Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

Cast

Kirk Douglas as Capt. Matthew Yelland; Martin Sheen as Warren Lasky; Katharine Ross as Laurel Scott; James Farentino as Wing Commander Richard T. Owens; Ron O'Neal as Commander Dan Thurman; Charles Durning as Senator Samuel Chapman; Victor Mohica as Black Cloud; James Coleman as Lt. Perry

About The Final Countdown

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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