Pearl Harbor at 70: good and bad films

Today marks the 70th anniversary of one of our nation's defining tragedies: Japan's bombing of the Pearl Harbor U.S. naval station at Oahu, Hawaii, triggering America's entry into World War II.

Over those 70 years, the attack has served as the backdrop for several movies, some good, others not so good:

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) A lavish Japanese-American coproduction that flopped here, it won an Oscar for special effects. Its war footage has been repurposed for many films, as recently as 2008's "Australia."

1941 (1979) Director Steven Spielberg's sprawling comedy misfire about a panicked Los Angeles in the wake of Pearl Harbor never recouped its $35 million budget in the United States.