Saturday, April 26, 2025

L is for "The Longest Day"

 This was a tough choice because "Lawrence of Arabia" is a great movie, but I feel it is more of a biopic than a war movie. I chose "The Longest Day" because it created a subgenre - the all-star battle epic. And in spite of many pretenders like "A Bridge Too Far", "Battle of Britain", and "Tora! Tora! Tora!", it is still the best of the subgenre. It is accurate and gave both sides of D-Day. And it covered both the generals and the common soldiers.

Lacombe, Lucien (Aug., 2015)
Lancaster Skies   (Jan., 2022)
Land and Freedom  (Oct. 2018)
Land of Bad (Feb., 2024)
Last Flag Flying   (May, 2021)
The Last Full Measure  (July, 2020)
The Last Grenade  (Aug., 2021)
Last Men, The (2023)  (July, 2024)
# 95 – Last of the Mohicans  (Aug, 2010)  /  Book/Movie  (Dec., 2021)
Lebanon vs. Beaufort  (Aug, 2012)
The Legend of Tarzan  (Sept, 2019)
Le Pantalon  (Jan., 2022)
#4 - Letters from Iwo Jima (June, 2014)
Liberation series  (April, 2023)
Lifeboat (1944) (Nov, 2022)
Life is Beautiful  (Feb, 2018)
The Lighthorsemen  (May, 2015)
Lincoln  (Nov, 2017)
Long and the Short and the Tall  (Feb., 2022)
The Longest Day  (June, 2013)
Long Road Home  (Jan., 2022)
The Lost Battalion (Oct., 2015)
Lost Command (Aug., 2023)
Lost Patrol, The  (Feb., 2014)

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