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. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day" From TMDB
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60 of 196 · most liked firstI recently rewatched the Longest Day, the classic WWII film about D-Day; a crucial Panzer division can’t be sent into action to defend the beaches at Normandy until the Fuhrer gives the ok, but he is sleeping and nobody wants to wake him up. Was reminded of that here, for no particular reason
unlabelledView post →Time to rewatch The Longest Day... silverscreenoriginals.com/longest-day-...
unlabelledView post →#OTD in 1944, Port-en-Bessin, France. D-Day + 4. The town became famous as "Ouistreham" in The Longest Day movie. #WW2 #HISTORY
unlabelledView post →Last four watched… -‘Ice Station Zebra’ (1968) -‘It Happened Tomorrow’ (1944) -‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ (1947) -‘The Longest Day’ (1962) An engaging espionage thriller; two decent fantasy comedies; and an impressive, albeit episodic D-Day epic- It’s also the whitest WWII film ever! 🤦♂️
unlabelledView post →The Longest Day: a film in which the Americans are the heroes, the British are the comic relief, and the Canadians are ignored (shamefully).
unlabelledView post →They say whatever movie was #1 on your 10th birthday is how 2025 is going to go. Wish I had NEVER looked it up. “The Longest Day” Well shit…
unlabelledView post →#OTD in 1944, Port-en-Bessin, France. D-Day + 4. The town became famous as "Ouistreham" in The Longest Day movie. #WW2 #HISTORY
unlabelledView post →My ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of THE LONGEST DAY boxd.it/fB620H Absolutely massive, D-Day epic is monument to editing & film construction. Stunningly shot, spectacularly impressive from every technical standpoint. Who's who of cameos can distract & ambitious scope engaged my brain more than my heart. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? The Longest Day & Saving Private Ryan The Normandy Invasion 36 years apart.
unlabelledView post →The movie The Longest Day was based on his book. Good movie too. Use to watch it with dad every June 6th.
unlabelledView post →I want a Star Wars movie in vein The Longest Day that’s just one epic battle from multiple perspectives. All Star cast. Jakku. Like the end of Jedi but the whole damn movie and no Skywalkers.
unlabelledView post →A 1962 original for The Longest Day. Love the block colour here. Movie posters often unheralded art.
unlabelledView post →For the remnants of the day that's in it... the assault on Pegasus Bridge, D-Day 1944; Dublin-born Lt Richard Todd, 7th Bttn Parachute Regiment, not only fought here but then famously played his CO in the battle, Major John Howard, in the 1962 film The Longest Day... youtu.be/QHFqa9kN6rM?...
unlabelledView post →Good morning! I finally watched The Longest Day from start to finish on Memorial Day. I've seen portions before. I realize the real thing was more chaotic than the movie showed. Those soldiers were incredibly brave.
unlabelledView post →I was recruited by Antifa at the ripe old age of 7 by none other than John Wayne watching the movie the Longest Day. My unit commander was FDR, but it’s been a while since I’ve received any orders.
unlabelledView post →6 juni, D-Day, een goed moment om nog een mythe te begraven. De mythe is dat de Duitsers hadden kunnen winnen als men Hitler maar tijdig had gewekt om de tankreserve vrij te geven. Wie de film The Longest Day heeft gezien, kent de scène wel. /1
unlabelledView post →Once my dad let me stay up to watch "The Longest Day" with him. The star-studded D-Day film from 1962. It opens with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and its rhythmic pattern. Three short notes followed by a long note was a symbol of Allied resistance. Morse code for "V" or "victory."
unlabelledView post →Tonight's movie like every year is The Longest Day
unlabelledView post →Actor Red Buttons once called it "the definitive World War II movie." But The Longest Day (1962) — a detailed documentary-like look at D-Day invasion — almost didn’t make it to the screen. More on the film here: cometoverhollywood.com/2024/06/06/l...
unlabelledView post →Worn #onthisday in 1962 by Audrey Hepburn (with husband Mel Ferrer) to a gala honoring the World War II film "The Longest Day" at the Palais De Chaillot in Paris, France. Her Autumn/Winter 1962 Givenchy beaded pink silk gown is now in the Henry Wilkinson Collection. #OTD
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching THE LONGEST DAY (1962). Directors: Multiple. John Wayne, Robert Ryan. With several directors on location around globe & a huge superstar international cast, one of cinema's most ambitious war epics. Events of D-Day told from American, German, French, & English perspectives. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →This is a minor real life plot point present at the start of The Longest Day stretched out to movie length
unlabelledView post →The film that is credited with saving 20th Century Fox after the financial disaster of Cleopatra was ‘The Longest Day’. The retelling of the D-Day invasion, was a massive success and helped to recoup some of the losses from Cleopatra. Americans love War Films. #TCMParty #Cleopatra
unlabelledView post →Ironic that the title "The Longest Day" was given to a movie that celebrated our victories over the Nazis. Now the longest day exists to allow Trump to continue his tariff extortion scheme without interference by congress. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lon...
unlabelledView post →John Wayne is the most over rated actor ever. In every movie he plays the same person; John Wayne! Same voice, same mannerisms, no characterization. His character in "The Longest Day" could be the same guy in "She Wore.." I understand many Americans like that tough guy drawl, but it's not "acting"!
unlabelledView post →I'm watching The Longest Day on Film Four and have been reminded of the time BBC Scotland's Untied Shoelaces Show taught its young viewers how to draw a picture of Robert Mitchum. They certainly knew their target audience.
unlabelledView post →Today is June, 6th, D-Day. Each year, I watch the movie "The Longest Day" to remember the sacrifices of the Allies, the USA first among others, to liberate my country Belgium from fascism. Last year I didn't watch, nor will I this year. Not until this fascist regime in the US is defeated
unlabelledView post →It wasn't groundless mind you; at that age my favorite movie was The Longest Day (1962) and favorite book was 'Discovery Of The Titanic' by Robert Ballard.
unlabelledView post →OCD compels me to spreadsheet. Crunched the greatest-films-of-all-time lists. Here are the top 1,461 presented as a daily countdown to the end of the Trump Administration. #Film #Resist #MovieSky #Movies #1,451 The Longest Day (1962) dir. Darryl F. Zanuck
unlabelledView post →something understood at the time but less so post-Greatest Gen cult. great depiction of this in THE LONGEST DAY, which you certainly would not call a revisionist war film or book. Two GIs walk away from a German bunker full of corpses, one asks the other "What do you think 'bitter, bitter' means?"
unlabelledView post →Okay #HATM friends. D-Day is upon us, and we’re starting The Longest Day tonight. I wish some of yall could join us…. Because all of Hollywood, British film industry and German dim industry were drafted. Why tonight ? We’re old and it takes us forever @herberthistoru
unlabelledView post →This is making me think a lot of the most popular war films are actually adventure films, because they focus on single operations and the efforts of individuals. My favorite war film is The Longest Day, which is about logistics
unlabelledView post →By pure coincidence I'm watching The Longest Day as we speak. I started watching it yesterday. It's also the longest film. Ver good cast.
unlabelledView post →The movie “The Longest Day” was based on the book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan in 1959. The book “D-Day” by Ambrose was published in 1994.
unlabelledView post →I’ve never seen that classic movie “The Longest Day” starring John Wayne, but I assume it’s about traveling with young kids.
unlabelledView post →for no reason whatsoever i am starting off this long holiday weekend by watching movies about punching and killing Nazis first up… one of my all-time faves, The Longest Day
unlabelledView post →Canadian units units at Juno beach were the only units to take all their objectives on June 6 1944. 1 of 5 beaches. The American movie "the Longest Day" does not mention us. Yes, you Yanks took credit.
unlabelledView post →Watching the Longest Day. I love any movie featuring British WW2 guys saying things like ‘Righto Chaps time to send this crate up, it’s the Big Show!’
unlabelledView post →Here are some of my favorites. I'm an older guy so the films may be a bit dated. The Longest Day - the quintessential D-Day movie starring everyone that was anyone. The Devil's Brigade - a film that, in this era of tension between Canada and the USA, shows how we used to stand, fight, and die with each other. Sink The Bismarck - thrilling sea story about the hunt for the famous Kriegsmarine battleship by the Royal Navy. Only issue is that it characterizes the German Admiral, Gunter Lutjens,…
unlabelledView post →Apropos of nothing, one of my favorite scenes in a war movie is from a black and white WW2 film about D-Day called The Longest Day. In the scene a German general reviews intercepted US mail and declares Germany will lose because the cake a flyover state mother mailed her son is still fresh.
unlabelledView post →I have the original Dunkirk on Dvd. It's a masterpiece. The fact it is black and white makes it better. As is the case with The Longest Day. A Bridge Too Far is an incredible film too. So much so, I visited Arnhem a few years ago. Oosterbeek is a beautiful place. Very sad what happened there.
unlabelledView post →There’s a new Cleopatra movie in works. On Richard Burton’s birthday it’s worth recalling that he & chum Roddy McDowall got so bored of shooting delays with epic 1963 version in Rome that they paid for their own flights to film cameo parts in the D-Day epic ‘The Longest Day’.
unlabelledView post →Finished up The Longest Day (1962) this morning. It’s a bit of a comfort movie for me… if you’ve never seen it because it sounds like homework: 1) it’s got tons of light moments, 2) it’s got tons of cool cameos (basically every male actor of the period is in it), 3) the battle scenes are incredible.
unlabelledView post →Well that’s in keeping with the casting of the original epic D-Day movie, The Longest Day.
unlabelledView post →My Dad was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne who parachuted in to capture the town of Sainte-Mère-Église 82 years ago. His commander was Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort, played by John Wayne in the movie "The Longest Day"
unlabelledView post →The Longest Day. I saw it when it first hit the theaters in 1962. Have loved it ever since. Also, The Fighting Sullivan's. Great movie. A real tearjerker.
unlabelledView post →#DendensMovieDen. No. 124. The Longest Day. It became obvious to me fairly early into this movie that A Bridge Too Far followed a blueprint made by The Longest Day on how to make a WWII movie epic. While not as effective here as it was in A Bridge Too Far and (1/8)
unlabelledView post →he is played by Henry Fonda in THE LONGEST DAY - a good movie.
unlabelledView post →The Longest Day saved Fox from the longest movie!! #TCMParty #Cleopatra ☺️ 🎥
unlabelledView post →#Motosky Pegasus Bridge 🇬🇧 6th Airborne Division In the film "The Longest Day," actor Richard Todd played the man he'd reported to, Major John Howard. In 1944 Todd was a lieutenant leading part of the wave of reinforcements at the bridge. He joked that his original role was cut from the script.
unlabelledView post →for a few years my parents were way too far down the fox news rabbit hole and I dreaded Christmas because dad usually left the news on, which was stressful one Christmas some channel did a week long marathon of every John Wayne movie and we opened presents watching "The Longest Day." So grateful.
unlabelledView post →One of the best scenes in "The Longest Day". The best "oh shit" moment ever put on film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPW1...
unlabelledView post →Can't they watch the film the Longest Day?
unlabelledView post →Still one of my favourite film facts is that Richard Todd played Major Howard in The Longest Day, and a random extra played Richard Todd as a paratrooper relieving Major Howard as he was actually there on the day.
unlabelledView post →Just off the top of my head, I think more people should see The Longest Day. Not just for the stand out 'actors in roles before they were famous' bits, but it's just literally every little weird story about the events of D-Day all mooshed up together into a film, and somehow it really works!
unlabelledView post →In the movie The Longest Day these got a nod: unfortunately they had the same sound as a German machine gun bolt being pulled…
unlabelledView post →also if you're picking a war movie, why aren't you picking The Green Berets or The Longest Day or something? Apocalypse Now is not pro war...
unlabelledView post →it's a good way to start a movie The Longest Day (1962) is perhaps the movie I've seen the most, thanks to having it on BetaMax when I was in elementary school. One summer my sisters stole the cassette and hid it in an attempt to stop me from watching it again.
unlabelledView post →The Longest Day with Connery (again) John Wayne, Mitchum, Fonda and the film stealing Richard Burton
unlabelledView post →💙📚The troubled homecoming of combat veterans of the Greatest Generation. My dad was a paratrooper portrayed in The Longest Day movie.
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