The Longest Day — A Film
4 min readMay 30, 2018
Hollywood doesn’t always get history right, in fact it often gets it wrong. But when it does get it right it can often outshine the rest of the world’s film industry, as was the case with producer Darryl F. Zanuck’s masterpiece, The Longest Day.
The film was released in 1962, only 18 years after the actual Allied landings on France’s Normandy beaches on June 6th, 1944; consequently the realities of that day were still…
