The Longest Day

The Longest Day
7.6

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Directed by: Ken Annakin

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"

The Longest Day
The Longest Day

Reviews (2)

  • John Chard (Rated: 8)

    For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day.

    The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

    The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French gets an all star produ...

  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)

    John Wayne may have featured just slightly more than anyone else in this drama, but it's very much an ensemble effort that delivers a film with a great deal of authenticity to it. It's all set around the day of the D-Day landings in 1944. The weather on England's south coast was, in the words of the...

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