The Longest Day

About The Longest Day

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.

The Longest Day is a 1962 war film directed by Andrew Marton and Bernhard Wicki. John Wayne stars as Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort, Robert Mitchum as Brig. Gen. Norman Cota, Henry Fonda as Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Richard Burton as Flight Officer David Campbell.

At 178 minutes long, it arrived in September 1962. Written by Cornelius Ryan and David Pursall. The film began as real events.

Shelv files it under soldier, historical fiction, resistance, and commanding. American members can watch it on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 1,058 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.

Patton, Dunkirk, and A Bridge Too Far make useful companions to The Longest Day, all filed under allies and d-day.