The Longest Day
G
Action
Documentary
Drama
History
War
- Release Date
- September 25, 1962
- Director
- Ken Annakin , Andrew Marton , Bernhard Wicki , Darryl F. Zanuck
- Cast
- Eddie Albert , Paul Anka , Arletty , Jean-Louis Barrault , Richard Beymer , Hans Christian Blech
- Runtime
- 178
- Main Genre
- Action
- Writers
- Cornelius Ryan , Romain Gary , James Jones , David Pursall , Jack Seddon
- Tagline
- This is the day that changed the world... When history held its breath.
Summary
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"