Midway

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Critics' Rating:

Release Year:

1976

MPAA Rating:

PG

Genre:

War

In this dramatization of the Battle of Midway during World War II, U.S. Navy Adm. Chester Nimitz leads an outnumbered unit in the Pacific to break Japanese encryption codes. They soon discover that Adm. Yamamoto plans an ambush of the U.S. base on the island of Midway. Capt. Matt Garth helps devise the Navy's strategy, while his pilot son, Tom, falls in love with a Japanese-American woman who is headed for an internment camp.