The Longest Day (1962)
1944 · Resource
The all-star ensemble D-Day epic, shot partly at the real locations with veterans of the day as advisers — Pegasus Bridge, Omaha, the paratroopers and the German side too, in their own languages.
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Around 1944
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)