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The Longest Day

THE INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIMED HIT JUST AS IT WAS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR CAPITALS OF THE WORLD!

7.6(1,061)19622h 58m15

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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Status
Released
Budget
$10M
Box office
$50.1M
Language
English
  • steel helmet
  • resistance
  • allies
  • world war ii
  • normandy, france
  • based on true story
  • d-day
  • historical fiction
  • black and white
  • soldier
  • dramatic
  • commanding

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Behind the camera

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG4 Oct 1962
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereLondon11 Oct 1962
    • TheatricalPG12 Oct 1962
    • TheatricalRe-release6 Jun 1969
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical28 Dec 1962
    • Theatrical (limited)Sydney, 70mm re-release5 Jun 1969
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical25 Oct 1962
    • TheatricalRe-release17 Jun 1971
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical21 Dec 1962
    • TheatricalRe-release23 May 1969
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical (limited)16Brussels9 Nov 1962
    • Theatrical (limited)16Gent, re-release31 Jan 1964
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical15 Oct 1962
    • TV12Fox Film15 Dec 2000
    • PhysicalLDVD/VHS16 Dec 2003
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1529 Apr 1963
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical2 Nov 1962
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1225 Sept 1962
    • TheatricalRe-release18 Jun 1969
    • TheatricalRe-release, restored version11 Jun 2014
    • TVFrance•3 1 Jun 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical12West Germany25 Oct 1962
    • PhysicalDVD5 Jul 2001
  • Hong KongHK

    • Theatrical22 Nov 1962

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The Longest Day was released on 25 September 1962.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    6/22/2019

    8/10

    For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French gets an all star production. One of the great war movie epics, it has all the requisite blunderbuss spectacle and heroism as the Allies invade…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/3/2024

    7/10

    John Wayne may have featured just slightly more than anyone else in this drama, but it's very much an ensemble effort that delivers a film with a great deal of authenticity to it. It's all set around the day of the D-Day landings in 1944. The weather on England's south coast was, in the words of their meteorologist, "akin to mid-winter". Delay meant more frustrations for everyone so off they go using just about every…

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