<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $12 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $16,647,800 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Final Countdown is a 1980 alternate history science fiction film about a modern aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor . Produced by Peter Vincent Douglas and directed by Don Taylor, the film stars Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katharine Ross and Charles Durning . This was Taylor's final film . </P> <P> Produced with the full cooperation of the United States Navy, set and filmed on board the real - life USS Nimitz supercarrier, The Final Countdown was a moderate success at the box office . </P>

Movie about a carrier that goes back in time