Midway

“The glory, the suspense, the spectacular drama of the men who won the most decisive naval battle in our history!”

Captain Matthew Garth (Charlton Heston) is a naval officer drawn into the Pacific war just as the U.S. and Japanese fleets move toward Midway. Jack Smight stages the lead-up on both sides, with Admiral Nimitz (Henry Fonda) and Commander Rochefort (Hal Holbrook) working out where the enemy will strike. The battle became the turning point of the Pacific War, and the film treats it as a contest of information and nerve as much as ships.