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"

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  Ken Annakin
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  Andrew Marton
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  Bernhard Wicki
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  Henry Wise
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  Jean Herman
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  Gerd Oswald
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  Henry Sokal Jr.
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  Elmo Williams

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  John Wayne
  Lt. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort
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  Robert Mitchum
  Brig. Gen. Norman Cota
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  Henry Fonda
  Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
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  Richard Burton
  Flying Officer David Campbell
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  Sean Connery
  Pvt. Flanagan
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  Leslie Phillips
  RAF Officer Mac
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  Robert Ryan
  Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
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  Paul Anka
  U.S. Army Ranger
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  Wolfgang Büttner
  Maj. Gen. Dr. Hans Speidel
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  Mel Ferrer
  Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
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  Ray Danton
  Capt. Frank
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  Peter Lawford
  Lord Lovat
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  Eddie Albert
  Col. Thompson
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  Arletty
  Madame Barrault
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  Jean-Louis Barrault
  Father Louis Roulland
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  Richard Beymer
  Pvt. Dutch Schultz
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  Hans Christian Blech
  Maj. Werner Pluskat
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  Bourvil
  Mayor of Colleville
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  Red Buttons
  Pvt. John Steele
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  Pauline Carton
  Maid