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Top Long Films

This list is sorted from the longest film to the (relatively) shortest film. The first four films are made-for-television miniseries, and Flash Gordon (1936) and Les Vampires (1915) are serials. For the rest of the films, there is sometimes even longer cuts and/or shorter versions.

Length in
Minutes
Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
924 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 1404
894 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1233
705 Band of Brothers 2001 David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To 1915
550 The Decalogue 1989 Krzysztof Kieslowski 396
544 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 415
450 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 1155
427 War and Peace 1967 Sergei Bondarchuk 1019
399 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 856
383 The Best of Youth 2003 Marco Tullio Giordana 1747
317 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 970
280 The Kingdom 1994 Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier 1960
273 La Roue 1923 Abel Gance 2011
266 Histoire(s) du cinéma Jean-Luc Godard 1935
261 Gettysburg 1993 Ronald F. Maxwell 1548
260 The Hour of the Furnaces 1970 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez 2370
251 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 Marcel Ophüls 599
245 Flash Gordon 1936 Frederick Stephani 2108
242 Hamlet 1996 Kenneth Branagh 1386
242 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1594
238 Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 17
237 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang 1108
236 La Belle noiseuse 1991 Jacques Rivette 1050
235 Napoléon 1927 Abel Gance 264
230 The Travelling Players 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 988
229 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 Sergio Leone 207
224 Lagaan: Once upon a Time in India 2001 Ashutosh Gowariker 1884
220 The Ten Commandments 1956 Cecil B. DeMille 403
219 Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 1410
217 The Mother and the Whore 1973 Jean Eustache 1087
216 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 9
212 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 140
210 Chelsea Girls 1966 Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol 1489
207 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 32
205 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 236
202 Malcolm X 1992 Spike Lee 582
201 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 Peter Jackson 96
201 Olympia 1938 Leni Riefenstahl 596
201 Giant 1956 George Stevens 605
201 Jeanne Dielman 1975 Chantal Akerman 751
200 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 14
200 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1206
197 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 191
195 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg 22
194 Titanic 1997 James Cameron 63
194 Reds 1981 Warren Beatty 588
193 The Right Stuff 1983 Philip Kaufman 371
193 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 727
192 Cleopatra 1963 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1397
192 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1445
192 Nixon 1995 Oliver Stone 1460
191 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough 251
190 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné 129
190 The Birth of a Nation 1915 D.W. Griffith 161
189 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 423
189 The Green Mile 1999 Frank Darabont 560
188 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 202
188 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 276
188 Sholay 1975 Ramesh Sippy 1987
187 The Leopard 1963 Luchino Visconti 332
187 Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 603
187 King Kong 2005 Peter Jackson 1075
186 The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Ermanno Olmi 976
186 Judgment at Nuremberg 1961 Stanley Kramer 1126
185 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 1450
184 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick 211
184 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 355
184 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 828
183 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1354
183 Pearl Harbor 2001 Michael Bay 2029
182 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino 85
182 El Cid 1961 Anthony Mann 2004
181 Dances with Wolves 1990 Kevin Costner 213
181 A Star Is Born 1954 George Cukor 250
181 Fiddler on the Roof 1971 Norman Jewison 881
180 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1061
180 The Diary of Anne Frank 1959 George Stevens 1427
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