Pearl Harbor is a
war film released in the summer of
2001 by
Touchstone Pictures. It stars
Ben Affleck,
Alec Baldwin,
Jon Voight,
Josh Hartnett,
Kate Beckinsale,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Jaime King, and
Jennifer Garner. It was a dramatic re-imagining of the
attack on Pearl Harbor, produced by the team of
Jerry Bruckheimer and
Michael Bay, who had previously been involved with such summer blockbusters as
Armageddon and
The Rock. The final section of the movie relates the
Doolittle Raid, the first American attack on the Japanese home islands in
World War II.