Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 film based on a 1943 book by Ted W. Lawson. Both in the book and film Lawson gives an eyewitness account of the assignment that he and 85 volunteer airmen—the "Tokyo Raiders"—executed in April 1942. Lawson shared his firsthand experience as the bomber pilot of sixteenth B-25 (named 'The Ruptured Duck') to take off from the deck of the USS Hornet.

The film stars Van Johnson as Lawson, Phyllis Thaxter as Ellen Lawson and Spencer Tracy as Gen. James Doolittle, the man who planned the operation.

The film is based on the 1942 Dolittle Raid, the first American air raid on the Japanese capital following Pearl Harbor. It includes actual footage of B-25 Mitchell medium bombers launching from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet at the start of the mission.

Experimental Rock band Pere Ubu's 1975 debut single is named after the movie.

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