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,...
The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century-Fox, and is directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American exteriors), and Bernhard...
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John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Henry Fonda
Richard Burton
Robert Ryan
Rod Steiger
Robert Wagner
Paul Anka
Fabian Forte
Richard Beymer
Mel Ferrer
Roddy McDowall
Stuart Whitman
Steve Forrest (actor)
Kenneth More
Richard Todd
Sean Connery
Irina Demick
Paul Hartmann (actor)
Curd Jürgens
Alexander Knox
George Segal
Christian Marquand
Wolfgang Preiss
Red Buttons
Gert Fröbe
Hans Christian Blech
Richard Münch (actor)
John Crawford (actor)
Wolfgang Lukschy
Ernst Schröder (actor)