Cast

• Ben Affleck — Capt. Rafe McCawley
• Josh Hartnett — Capt. Danny Walker
• Kate Beckinsale — Nurse Lt. Evelyn Johnson
• Alec Baldwin — Lt. Col. James Doolittle
• Peter James Smith — Mission listener
• Ewen Bremner — Lt. Red Winkle
• Steve Rankin — Rafe's Father
• Brian Haley — Training Captain
• Jon Voight — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• William Lee Scott — Lt. Billy Thompson
• Greg Zola — Lt. Anthony Fusco
• Jaime King — Nurse Betty Bayer
• Catherine Kellner — Nurse Barbara
• Jennifer Garner — Nurse Sandra
• Sara Rue — Nurse Martha
• Michael Shannon — Lt. Gooz Wood
• Dan Aykroyd — Capt. Thurman
• Colm Feore — Adm. Husband E. Kimmel
• John Fujioka — Nishikura
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa — Cmdr. Minoru Genda
• William Fichtner — Danny's Father
• Graham Beckel — Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
• Sung Kang — Listener
• Marty Belafsky — Louie, Sailor
• Yuji Okumoto — Japanese Shy Bomber
• Peter Firth — Capt. Mervyn Bennion - USS West Virginia
• Ted McGinley — Army Major
• Eric Christian Olsen — Gunner
• Jeff Wadlow — Next Guy in Line
• Will Gill Jr. — Train Conductor
• Michael Shamus Wiles — Captain Marc Andrew Mitscher
• Sean Gunn — Traction Sailor
• Guy Torry — Teeny Mayfield
• Pat Healy — Newsreel Guy
• Thomas Wilson Brown — Young Flier
• James Saito — Japanese Aide
• Robert Jayne — Sunburnt Sailor
• Frederick Koehler — Wounded Sailor
• Sean Faris — Danny's Gunner
• Tony Curran — Ian
• Daniel Mays — Pilot
• Vic Chao — Japanese Doctor
• Toshi Toda — Dentist
• Toru Tanaka Jr. — Samoan Bouncer
• Tomas Arana — Vice-Adm. Frank J. 'Jack' Fletcher
• Tom Everett — Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox
• Tim Choate — Navy Doctor
• Tak Kubota — Japanese Aide
• Stan Cahill — Pentagon Lieutenant
• Seth Sakai — Japanese Tourist
• Rufus Dorsey — Dorie's Friend
• Ron Harper — Minister
• Rod Biermann — Navigator
• Reiley McClendon — Young Danny
• Raphael Sbarge — Kimmel's Aide
• Randy Oglesby — Strategic Analyst
• Ping Wu — Japanese Officer
• Paul Francis — Doolittle Co-Pilot
• Nicholas Farrell — RAF Squadron Leader
• Nicholas Downs — Terrified Sailor
• Michael Milhoan — Army Commander
• Matthew Davis — Joe
• Matt Casper — Wounded Sailor
• Marco Gould — Pop-Up Sailor
• Mako — Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto
• Madison Mason — Adm. Raymond A. Spruance
• Lindsey Ginter — Captain Low
• Leland Orser — Major Jackson
• Kim Coates — Jack Richards
• Josh Green — Pvt. Ellis, Radar Operator
• Joseph Patrick Kelly — Medic
• John Pyper-Ferguson — Naval Officer in Hospital (as John Pyper Ferguson)
• John Diehl — Senior Doctor
• Jesse James — Young Rafe
• Jaymee Ong — Dental Assistant
• Ian Bohen — Radar Operator #2
• Howard Mungo — George
• Glenn Morshower — RAdm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr.
• Garret Sato — Japanese Soldier
• David Kaufman — Young Nervous Doctor
• David Hornsby — Flyer with Murmur
• Curtis Andersen — 18-Year-Old Typist
• Cuba Gooding Jr. — Petty Officer Doris Miller
• Cory Tucker — Baja Sailor
• Chad Morgan — Pearl Harbor Nurse
• Bret Roberts — Baja Sailor
• Blaine Pate — Orderly in Aftermath
• Beth Grant — Motherly Secretary
• Ben Easter — Baja Sailor
• Angel Sing — Japanese Aide
• Andrew Bryniarski — Joe, Boxer
• Abe Sylvia — Baja Sailor
• Tom Sizemore — Sgt. Earl Sistern