Does anyone know which is the longest running movie?

I have no idea, although I thought The English Patient was long.

Lord of the Rings and Pearl Harbor are both 3 hours long

Originally posted by ~*Hannah_Lee*~
Lord of the Rings and Pearl Harbor are both 3 hours long

Gone with the Wind is longer than that, but i dont think its the longest...

wasnt Titanic three and a half hours long??

The Green Mile was 4 hours long and so was Stephen King's IT.

Originally posted by Titania


Gone with the Wind is longer than that, but i dont think its the longest...

Gone With the Wind isn't the longest. It's 3 hours and 44 minutes. I know two movies that are longer than that: Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor and Rex Harrison, plus some other actor I can't remember at this exact moment) at 4 hours and 2 minutes and Gettysburg at 4 hours and 14 minutes.

Originally posted by T.a.T.u Gurl18
The Green Mile was 4 hours long and so was Stephen King's IT.

Wrong. The Green Mile was 3 hours and 9 minutes and It was around three hours but neither movie was 4 hours.

Originally posted by Titania
Gone with the Wind is longer than that, but i dont think its the longest...
At 4 hours, I wouldn't be surprised if GWTW is the longest movie. Now I'm curious.

One movie that comes to mind, even though it isn't the longest, is Heaven's Gate. Anybody ever hear of that movie? It was a 1981 bleak anti-western bomb that cost $44 million to proudce and grossed only $1.5 million. It was almost 3 and a half hours long but cut down to 149 minutes. It was called by one reviewer as "Gone With the Wind...without the wind." It bankrupted United Artists and resulted in the sale of the studio to MGM. And the director of this film was the same guy that brought us the Oscar-winning "The Deer Hunter", Michael Cimino!:eek: Since then, he has found it almost impossible to find work.

Though it was a documentary, "Shoah," a movie about the holocaust, was over 9 hours long.

It was in theaters, I think they showed it all in one day. They must have had 2 - 3 intermissions.

I don't know if that's the longest, but it's gotta be close.

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090015

well it was made for tv but Roots is like 10 hours long

Originally posted by Janice

At 4 hours, I wouldn't be surprised if GWTW is the longest movie. Now I'm curious. I think The Ten Commandments and Cleopatra were longer. But, like all of us, I'm just guessing.

I just did some research...

"The Cure for Insomnia" is the world's longest running movie, which ran for 85 hours. It's in the Guiness Book of World Records. :eek: :eek:

Originally posted by Jo's the bomb
I just did some research...

"The Cure for Insomnia" is the world's longest running movie, which ran for 85 hours. It's in the Guiness Book of World Records. :eek: :eek: I fell asleep during the 3rd hour of that movie. So I didn't know it was THAT long. That record will stand longer than Cal Ripkins 'most games played without a day off' record.;)

I don't know how long it is but I think War and Peace is the longest. Someone mentioned Roots. That is a miniseries and doesn't count, right? My favorite miniseries is Centennial which is 26 hours long! :)

Originally posted by BJL


Gone With the Wind isn't the longest. It's 3 hours and 44 minutes. I know two movies that are longer than that: Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor and Rex Harrison, plus some other actor I can't remember at this exact moment) at 4 hours and 2 minutes and Gettysburg at 4 hours and 14 minutes.

LOL That other actor is Richard Burton ( i think) And Gods and Generals was awfully long too.

Lonesome Dove is a long movie when you watch all four parts at once. All four parts make the Running Time: 6 hr 18 mins long.

Originally posted by T.a.T.u Gurl18
The Green Mile was 4 hours long and so was Stephen King's IT.

and so is 'Rose Red' and 'The Shining' and 'The Stand' and 'Storm Of The Century'. AND The Green Mile is only 188 minutes...you were an hour off.

We watched "Mr.Holland's Opus" in Music Appreciation last week, and that movie lasted a really long time!

Don't theatre's give an intermission in Gods and Generals cuz it's so long?

In one of my Guiness world records books, it states- sometime in the 20's or before that, a film about the 'Wooden horse of Troy' was directed, also included other troy legends, lasting 25 Hours!

It was either 23 or 25, that's the longest i've heard, you can't buy it, or get the prints (probably rotted) but I think there's a longer film.

What was "rose red" about...my boyfriend wants me to come over and watch it with him...but it sounds scary! would i end up getting really scared?

Stephen Kings The Stand is 6 hours long!

one of the longest......and boringest

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0196530/

Stephan King's The Shining was really long. That was a 2 disc dvd me and my friends rented...we seriously had to put in the 2nd dvd disc they couldn't fit all the movie on one. It was crazy. We started the movie around 11pm and we were watching it until 4:30 am !!!

Originally posted by Transit Whiz
I just did some research...

"The Cure for Insomnia" is the world's longest running movie, which ran for 85 hours. It's in the Guiness Book of World Records. :eek: :eek:

Wow! Who would be able to stay up that long to watch it? well, I guess it would have to be watched over many days. I never knew there was a film that long, though. The first films that came to my head with this topic was The Green Mile and Titanic. Someone should make an 86 hour film and beat that record. :D