The Longest Day
Genres
Overview
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"
Details
Budget
$10000000
Revenue
$50100000
Runtime
178 min
Release Date
1962-09-25
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
975
Vote Average
7.6
John Wayne
Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
Robert Mitchum
Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
Henry Fonda
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Richard Burton
Flying Officer David Campbell
Sean Connery
Pvt. Flanagan
Leslie Phillips
RAF Officer Mac
Robert Ryan
Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Paul Anka
U.S. Army Ranger
Wolfgang Büttner
Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
Mel Ferrer
Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
Ray Danton
Capt. Frank
Peter Lawford
Lord Lovat
Eddie Albert
Col. Thompson
Arletty
Madame Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
Father Louis Roulland
Richard Beymer
Pvt. Dutch Schultz
Hans Christian Blech
Maj. Werner Pluskat
Bourvil
Mayor of Colleville
Red Buttons
Pvt. John Steele
Pauline Carton
Maid
Irina Demick
Janine Boitard, a resistance
Fred Dur
U.S. Army Ranger Major
Fabian
U.S. Army Ranger
Steve Forrest
Capt. Harding
Gert Fröbe
Sgt. Kaffekanne
Leo Genn
Brig. Gen. Edwin P. Parker Jr.
John Gregson
British Padre
Paul Hartmann
Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt
Peter Helm
Young GI
Werner Hinz
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Donald Houston
RAF Pilot
Jeffrey Hunter
Sgt. (later Lt.) John H. Fuller
Karl John
Gen. Wolfgang Häger
Curd Jürgens
Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt
Alexander Knox
Maj. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Fernand Ledoux
Louis
Christian Marquand
Cmdr. Philippe Kieffer - Commando Leader
Dewey Martin
Sgt. Wilder
Roddy McDowall
Pvt. Morris
Michael Medwin
Pvt. Watney
Sal Mineo
Pvt. Martini
Kenneth More
Capt. Colin Maud
Richard Münch
Gen. Erich Marcks
Edmond O'Brien
Gen. Raymond D. Barton
Wolfgang Preiss
Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Ron Randell
Joe Williams
Madeleine Renaud
Mother Superior
Georges Rivière
Sgt. Guy de Montlaur
Norman Rossington
Pvt. Clough
Tommy Sands
U.S. Army Ranger
George Segal
U.S. Army Ranger
Jean Servais
RAdm. Janjard
Rod Steiger
Destroyer Commander
Richard Todd
Maj. John Howard
Tom Tryon
Lt. Wilson
Peter van Eyck
Lt. Col. Ocker
Robert Wagner
U.S. Army Ranger
Richard Wattis
British Paratrooper
Stuart Whitman
Lt. Sheen
Georges Wilson
Alexandre Renaud
Patrick Barr
Group Capt. J.N. Stagg (uncredited)
Lyndon Brook
Lt. Walsh (uncredited)
John Crawford
Col. Caffey (uncredited)
Armin Dahlen
Blumentritt's Adjutant (uncredited)
Mark Damon
Pvt. Harris (uncredited)
Richard Dawson
British Soldier (uncredited)
Eugene Deckers
German Soldier (uncredited)
Gil Delamare
French Commando (uncredited)
Frank Finlay
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
Harry Fowler
British Paratrooper (uncredited)
Bernard Fox
Pvt. Hutchinson (uncredited)
Robert Freitag
Meyer's Aide (uncredited)
Bernard Fresson
French Commando (uncredited)
Lutz Gabor
Minor Role (uncredited)
Arnold Gelderman
German Guard on Train Track (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
British Soldier (uncredited)
Walter Gotell
German Soldier (uncredited)
Henry Grace
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (uncredited)
Clément Harari
Minor Role (uncredited)
Ruth Hausmeister
Frau Maria Rommel (uncredited)
Jack Hedley
RAF Briefing Officer (uncredited)
Michael Hinz
Manfred Rommel (uncredited)
Walter Horsbrugh
Adm. Creasey (uncredited)
Til Kiwe
Capt. Helmuth Lang (uncredited)
Harry Landis
British Soldier (uncredited)
Wolfgang Lukschy
Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl (uncredited)
Victor Maddern
Camp Cook (uncredited)
Howard Marion-Crawford
Glider Doctor (uncredited)
Neil McCallum
Canadian Doctor (uncredited)
John Meillon
RAdm. Alan G. Kirk (uncredited)
Kurt Meisel
Capt. Ernst During (uncredited)
Gérard Moisan
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Tony Mordente
Cook (uncredited)
Bill Nagy
Major in Ste. Mère-Eglise (uncredited)
Rainer Penkert
Lt. Fritz Theen (uncredited)
Malte Petzel
German Officer with Rupert (uncredited)
John Phillips
Roosevelt's Aide (uncredited)
Siân Phillips
WRNS Officer (uncredited)
Maurice Poli
Jean (uncredited)
Hartmut Reck
Sgt. Bernhard Bergsdorf (uncredited)
Trevor Reid
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery (uncredited)
Heinz Reincke
Col. Josef 'Pips' Priller (uncredited)
Alexandre Renaud
Firefighter (uncredited)
Paul Edwin Roth
Col. Schiller (uncredited)
Ernst Schröder
Gen. Hans von Salmuth (uncredited)
Dietmar Schönherr
Luftwaffe Major (uncredited)
Heinz Spitzner
Lt. Col. Helmuth Meyer (uncredited)
Nicholas Stuart
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley (uncredited)
Hans Söhnker
German Officer (uncredited)
Alice Tissot
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Michel Tureau
French Commando (uncredited)
Roland Urban
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Vicco von Bülow
Pemsel's Adjutant (uncredited)
Joe Warfield
US Army Medic (uncredited)
Dominique Zardi
French Spitfire Pilot (uncredited)
7.9
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
1966-12-08 | fr
7.7
Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
2005-01-07 | ku
5.8
Badland
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
2007-11-30 | en
6.6
The Red Baron
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
2008-03-29 | de
6.0
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glouster, New Britain island in 1943 in the South Pacific theatre of World War Two, and the handicaps of the wild jungle in addition to the Japanese snipers and pill-box emplacements.
1944-06-20 | en
7.3
Patch Adams
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
1998-12-25 | en
6.7
Catch-22
A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
1970-06-24 | en
6.5
Tea with Mussolini
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
1999-03-25 | en
5.3
Hanging Up
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
2000-02-16 | en
6.5
Romper Stomper
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?
1992-03-05 | en
0.0
The Infernal
The Infernal follows the paranormal events that Oscar, a University graduate, experiences upon moving into a new household with his friends. But are the events that occur at Hollowmere House truly paranormal, or are his housemates playing some twisted games?
| en
0.0
California Schemin'
In the late '90s, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd had their musical ambitions consistently ridiculed for having the 'wrong' accents, so they went for broke and reinvented themselves as Californian rappers. The duo re-recorded their own tracks with fake accents and turned up in London claiming to be an established duo on the Cali scene as well as childhood friends with Eminem. They quickly bagged themselves a record deal, a hefty sum in advances, and an appearance on MTV... until it all came crashing down.
2025-09-06 | en
6.3
Universal Soldier
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
1992-07-10 | en
7.0
Before the Fall
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column,Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.
2004-07-04 | de
6.6
Great Expectations
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and contemporary look at life's great coincidences.
1998-01-30 | en
4.2
Matar al Nani
The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation has not yet been clarified, putting the accent on the denunciation of police brutality and speculating on the outcome of the story. A story that mixes political denunciation and social chronicle of an era.
1988-04-22 | es
7.5
Barefoot Gen
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
1983-07-21 | ja
6.4
Auto Focus
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
2002-10-18 | en
4.8
Only Cloud Knows
The film revolves around a Chinese man who returns to New Zealand following the death of his wife and begins to discover that she harbored a number of secrets.
2019-12-20 | zh
3.2
Interrupted Song
Young couple separated by World War 2, dream of being reunited years later.
1960-05-13 | ka