The Longest Day (1962)




Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: US

Director: Andrew Marton, Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki

Duration: 178 min

Release: 1962

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"