Editing Doolittle Raid (section)

===Films===
The raid inspired several films.

A highly fictionalized film in 1943, ''[[Destination Tokyo]]'' starring [[Cary Grant]], tangentially involved the raid, concentrating on the fictional submarine {{USS|Copperfin}}. The submarine's mission is to enter [[Tokyo Bay]] undetected and place a landing party ashore to obtain weather information vital to the upcoming Doolittle raid. The film suggests the raid did not launch until up-to-the-minute data were received. All the after-action reports indicated the raid launched without time for weather briefings because of the encounter with the picket ship.{{sfn|Doolittle|1942}}

A 1944 film, ''[[The Purple Heart]]'', was a highly fictionalized account of the torture and execution of Doolittle Raid prisoners.

The Doolittle Raid was the subject of another 1944 feature film, ''[[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo]]'', based on the book of the same title by Ted Lawson, who was seriously injured in a crash landing off the coast of China. [[Spencer Tracy]] played Doolittle and [[Van Johnson]] portrayed Lawson. Footage from the film was later used for the opening scenes of ''[[Midway (1976 film)|Midway]]'' and in the TV miniseries ''[[War and Remembrance (miniseries)|War and Remembrance]]''.

The 2001 film ''[[Pearl Harbor (film)|Pearl Harbor]]'' (with [[Alec Baldwin]] playing Doolittle) presented a heavily fictionalized version of the raid. The film used the retired World War II aircraft carrier {{USS|Lexington|CV-16|6}} in [[Corpus Christi, Texas]], to stand in for a Japanese carrier, while the aircraft were launched from {{USS|Constellation|CV-64|6}}, standing in for ''Hornet'' from which the Doolittle Raid was launched. The film's portrayal of the planning of the raid, the air raid itself, and the raid's aftermath, is not historically accurate.<ref>Gutthman, Edward. [http://www.mysanantonio.com/performance/article/Pearl-Hyped-Yet-Promising-Movie-to-honor-3302399.php {{"'}}Pearl' – Hyped, yet promising / Movie to honor vets, nation's wartime spirit"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403011700/http://www.mysanantonio.com/performance/article/Pearl-Hyped-Yet-Promising-Movie-to-honor-3302399.php |date=3 April 2015 }}. ''MyUSA'', 7 December 2000.</ref><ref>Heines, Vivienne. [http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/?file=NL_pearlharbor_heines "Bringing 'Pearl Harbor' To Corpus Christi"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012005647/http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/?file=NL_pearlharbor_heines |date=12 October 2014 }}. ''Military.com'', 1 August 2000.</ref>

The [[VHS video]] ''DeShazer'', including film footage of Doolittle and the flight preparations, along with the B-25s launching, is the story of missionary Sergeant [[Jake DeShazer]] of B-25 No. 16 (the last to launch from ''Hornet''). The video is based on ''The Amazing Story of Sergeant Jacob De Shazer: The Doolittle Raider Who Turned Missionary'' by C. Hoyt Watson. At the end of both the video and the book, DeShazer after the war meets [[Mitsuo Fuchida]], the commander and lead pilot of the Pearl Harbor attack.

''Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast'', a documentary by Tim Gray and the World War II Foundation, released in 2015, has interviews with the few surviving members of the raid.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwiifoundation.org/2015/05/02/doolittles-raiders-a-final-toast-documentary-to-premiere-at-the-gi-film-festival-in-washington-dc/ |title=Doolittle's Raiders: A Final Toast Documentary to Premiere at the Capitol in Washington, DC |publisher=WWII Foundation |date=6 November 2015 |access-date=6 November 2015 |archive-date=27 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151227034737/http://www.wwiifoundation.org/2015/05/02/doolittles-raiders-a-final-toast-documentary-to-premiere-at-the-gi-film-festival-in-washington-dc/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 2018 film ''[[The Chinese Widow]]'' (aka ''The Hidden Soldier'' and ''In Harm's Way'') presented a heavily fictionalized version of the raid with [[Emile Hirsch]] playing a fictional Captain Jack Turner who was hidden from the Japanese in China by a Chinese widow and her daughter, after he parachutes from his B-25 near her village. [[Vincent Riotta]] played Jimmy Doolittle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5759434/reference|title = In Harm's Way (2017)|work=IMDb}}</ref>{{bsn|reason=IMDb is [[WP:RS/P|not a reliable source]]|date=July 2024}}

The raid is depicted in the 2019 film ''[[Midway (2019 film)|Midway]]'', with actor [[Aaron Eckhart]] portraying Jimmy Doolittle. Emperor [[Hirohito]] is seen being told to go to a shelter during this scene.