Midway

• 1976
• 132 min
• Action
• Drama
• History
• War
• US

Directed by Jack Smight

How do you win a battle when your only edge is knowing what the enemy intends? June 1942: American codebreakers piece together fragments of Japanese signals, all pointing to a speck of an atoll in the mid-Pacific. Admirals weigh charts, hunches and the carriers they can actually spare, while one officer juggles duty with a family matter that outranks nobody but him. Jack Smight moves between war rooms, cockpits and combat footage to reconstruct the clash that redirected the Pacific campaign.