The Longest Day (1962) is a classic war epic directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard Wicki. Based on Cornelius Ryan's book of the same name, the film follows the events of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on June
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The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic war film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction 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 is 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.