The Longest Day

1962 · 180 min · dir. Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck, Gerd Oswald, Ken Annakin

The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 nonfiction book about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century-Fox and was directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki. The screenplay was written by Ryan, with additional material written by Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, and Jack Seddon. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.