The Longest Day (1962) - Ouistreham

[MrGoblin60]

Assuming that this is an accurate depiction of the battle, one wonders why those gallant Frogs didn't get air support. A couple of riads by Thunderbolts or P51's on the buildings used by the Germans would have neutralised most of their firepower and quickly.

[LordGeorgeRodney]

That was a British tank at the end..

[djjmria]

why are french soldiers fighting, they didnt do shit

[bengacris]

@djjmria they're british, it's just the french version.

[djjmria]

@bengacris lol, no shit sherlock

[Giranialuffsfishies]

@djjmria They were Free French forces. There were several brigades of French soldiers fighting for the allies on D-Day, all under the overall command of Gen. DeGaulle.

[LordGeorgeRodney]

@Giranialuffsfishies wrong only 150 French landed on D-Day these men were under Lord Lovat's command

[bleushift]

@djjmria they are french commandos and you are an ignorant idiot

[sharqi666]

i just love that the first action sequence is just one long panning shot, don't think i seen anything like it in any other movie

[riptorrex]

One of my favorite fighting scenes of all time. I love the aerial perspective of the initial wave. It really exemplifies the charge them or you get killed philosophy. If you stay in the same place too long the enemy will spot you and know you are there. The mortars and big guns will start to rain in on you.

[DrNine]

One of the best shots in this great movie. What great work planning,and pulling it off. So much going on such a huge a set - and in one take. Thanx for posting it here. Bravo!

[DrNine]

One of the best shots in this great movie. What great work planning,and pulling it off. So much going on in so huge a set - and in one take. Thanx for posting it here. Bravo!

[Sidewinder5O4]

0:00-1:45 was just... wow! a full spaning shot like that! with all those extras! good luck making a movie on that scale today!

[cobraflaco]

This scene is filmed in Port-en-bessin, actually in the 'gasoline' harbour, where the allies unloaded the big tankers until the undersea pipeline was ready. it's still a D-Day site, and the 'guardtower wich sits on the hill is still to be seen(yet it's renovated and looks different now) if you want to visit this site, go to Port-en-bessin and travel allongside the coast heading Colleville-Sur-Mere and turn left when you see the D-Day roadsign calling; Port Petrollier.

[dinoman2222]

probably the coolest tracking shot in history right there

[deldan57]

Stayed here in Ouistreham for just under a week. Many of the older buildings still remain but the beach area has changed a lot. Very moving the trip there. Alway's wanted to see Sword beach but 1 night we got locked out from the hotel and we ended up sleeping on Sword beach

[Wieland1985]

@SGEmoCoolBoi84 what s the shortest french book? The book about french heroes in WW2

[Damar158]

1:13

Weee I'm the first over the brid-*gunned down*

[sbchelldiver]

This is a beautiful example of a very effective way to do a lot of effect with actually very little resources-for startes, no CGI at all!!!

[davvvvo]

nuns bring good luck and private ryandosent show any other groups like french or british

[sjinouck]

kieffer!

[Saxowolf]

one word to describe this scene: EPIC!

[nomadnametab]

SEND IN THE NUNS! sisters from some catholic schools would wip anyones ass if you turned them loose! they aint scared of nuttin!

[MrEAMO10]

this is a beast of a film but there no subtitles

[TheTxBandit]

Magnificent camera angles! a true classic! One of my favorite films! & scenes!

[animegamer77]

God, I love this film.

You can't charge in against a heavily fortified building! You always need tank support before you plan a charge! In the beginning of this battle, they should have already had a tank with them.

[roanokedude]

the first 2 minutes of this sequence goes on the short list of all time best war scenes ever filmed.I watched the special features on dvd and this scene was attempted 7 times before this and Zanuch gave Ken Annakin a" shot at it",This was the last attempt. he either got it this time or Zanuch was going to abandon the effort at this scene.

[olvoro11]

Wow, this was in 1962?

[LocMgr]

One of the great battle scenes in the film and well...ever.

This is why The Longest Day won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

What is so brilliant here is that first helicopter shot. And it was one of the first helicopter shots, too. Mitchell NC camera up in the air. The scope of the shot is phenomenal...And it's so well coordinated. Everything happens in front of the camera. Stunning cinema.

[veltroo]

opppsss errata corrige Port au Bessin

[veltroo]

anyone knows that this scene wasn't filmed in Ouistreham but actually in Pont au Bessin east of Arromanches???

Actually the real casino was a well fortified classicl blockhaus with flak and antitank guns.Not this fictional but really nice to see fortified Casino.

[deusirae76]

@veltroo The actual casino was destroyed to build tthe bunker.

[davvvvo]

whas it relly nesesery tho write heil sieg heil on the walls

[sbchelldiver]

@davvvvo many of the German troops in the French coast at this time were Waffen SS, including the Das Reich & Hitlerjugend Divisions, very hardened & fanatical soldiers from the Russian Front, so Nazi-themed morale-boosters on the walls would have been historically accurate...

[Sturmmann]

the french are always good when they fight alone apart from their country, under different leadership

french foreign legion, SS Charlemagne, LVF...these guys...

theyre better in mercenary and legionnary units

[Augments]

@Sturmmann tell that to the men that served France during the Revolution and under Napoleon Bonaparte.

[Sturmmann]

@Augments

they have their share of defeats, im not impressed

[TemplarX2]

@Augments Yea after gangbanging the Germans and Europe for more than 20 years. How long did the German last, 4 years? NAZI doesn't compare to Napoleonic France is military genius. It was like France during the reign of Louis XIV.

[BERTRAMCAT]

les notres,,, WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER.

[Augments]

best scene in the film in my opinion.

[MrSlowhand1954]

This Scene is not taken in Ouistreham ! It is taken in Port-en-bessin!

[whowantsabighug]

That was.

Without a doubt...

The best scene i've ever been privelidged to watch.

[moongazer50]

Note this scene is all one take, how skilled is that !

[SEETER1]

this is the best part ever made love the camera at this part how it have tapt it

[ellyjelly101]

isnt Paul Anka in here?



[Zimbib270]

yddes, there are pics of the casino out there, this movie depiction is nothing like the original casino in Ouistreham, it was (or looked like) a half timbered hall with spikey towers! (sortof) you can find it if you look in google "the battle of Ouistreham" may take a few hits but cannot remember site address.

[Zimbib270]

Supern recreation of the actual action, but it seems the assault was actually from the sea and not as this depicts from the land.

never mind it is superb

[shad0wtraceur]

lol, such cheesy explosion sound effects.

[jonlovesyou1]

I was there that day, I lose all my men

[YDDES]

Anyone who knows where to find pictures of te REAL casino before or during the war? I've unable to find any. Also, this whole segment in the movie was not in Cornelius Ryans book...

[strongSLO]

Germans were not so stupid, as shown in the movie. Is this a joke one sherman destoyed germans?

[bleushift]

@strongSLO

if you know any military tactics

youll know as soon the tank came the french had the advantage

germans are dug into the buidle restricting their fire angle to about 90 degrees they had to turn the barrels and move the whole gun emplacement to blow up the tank and tank was faster

buiilding callposed all over for the germans

[SaladofStones]

@strongSLO

At that point, the crew was not only under heavy fire, it also lost some of its members.

[deusirae76]

@strongSLO I real life, the Germans were not stupid, they blew up the casino to build a concrete bunker. In this scene they are entrenched inside the casino and inside the bunker under the casino, which is likely made of bricks. Bricks can't take a single shot from the sherman, so the building collapses on the bunker.

[IIIJFRIII]

man modern war movies suck so bad to the old ones lol. im 23 and im saying that!!

[schizoidboy]

I love the part where the nuns are walking right into the battle to tend with the wounded, it's just remarkable with all those guns going off they just walk in unconcerned about the danger.

[deusirae76]

The real Ouistreham Casino was already destroyed when the D-day occured, the Germans blasted it to build a bunker.

[youse12132]

Guy on the left hand side of the bridge between 1:19-1:21 had a lucky escape from the machine gun.

[Dac719]

Epic! And, awesome! Also, I love that gun the Germans had on the top of that building...the one that fired quick shots "Pow! Pow! Pow-pow!" It's hard to type it in, but you can hear it (and see it) at some parts here. I don't know what it's called, but it's so cool!

[BudmanPackfan]

@Dac719 it's a 20 mm, devastaing gun

[PyjamaShark9]

@Dac719 I think it's an Oerliken Gun.

[goldyn12345]

thank god it worked, and that hitler wouldnt give rommel the panzers he needed to drive the allies back. europe and possibly the world would have been a much darker and more sinister place today!!

[deusirae76]

@goldyn12345 You should read "Fatherland" by Robert Harris, a very interesting novel about that

[goldyn12345]

@deusirae76 i watched the film, it was pretty good!!!

[deusirae76]

@goldyn12345 You mean a Communist Paradise ... Don't forget the Eastern front, which concentrated 80 per cent of the German forces. The Western front surely helped to end the war more quickly, but it also helped to protect Western Europe against a Soviet occupation. Hitler's defeat was inevitable since winter 1941.

[goldyn12345]

@deusirae76 you make a good point, im certain hadnt the allies landed in france in june 44, then the russians wouldnt have stopped in germany they probably would have advanced as far as spain, especially as franco was seen as a hitler sympathiser.

[miradoseven7]

The Longest Day is beyond amazing. Awesome actors, combat scenes that are still better than half the war movies we have today, just cool. It's so cool even without special effects, it makes Avatar look low budget.

[Baldenlong77]

"C'est Kieffer!"

[ilikecher123]

the opened attack scene from the air was done in one take. by far the longest day is the most impressive WWII film ever created.

[moakley]

how was this shot done? helicopter?

[joey143anna]

it looks king kong 2 me.

[snoox895]

uhm, thats a Sherman.. not Centurion

[denis480]

@snoox895 it's a Sherman M4A1 (HVSS) under lend-lease contract with france

[PajamaShark9]

Best scene in the film, you know.

[carpal24]

Saving Private Ryan wishes it could be close to being half as good as the Longest Day.

[xbrakx]

Woah thats Tom hanks your talkin about. This is the first time ive seen this and i love war movies so i hope your right

[bleushift]

@carpal24 u cannot compare the 2

simple as that

this movie shows the most events while saving private ryan just a view but spr is more realistic

[Snako85]

@carpal24 what people dont get was spr had a 20 minute scene about D-Day and people suddenly think thats what its about. this is a D-Day film

[Necrophite78]

@carpal24 saving private ryan is better... only because it shows how much hurt this war has inflicted upon everyone

[davvvvo]

@Necrophite78 the longest day whas writen by a person named ryan

[Agarlicabreadacheese]

@carpal24 More like the other way round! The people in the longest day sound like they're going for cream tea, rather than landing on the beach!

[Agarlicabreadacheese]

@carpal24 More like the other way round! The people in the longest day sound like they're going for cream tea, rather than landing on the beach!

This battle is rather good though, but where is the emotion?

[Agarlicabreadacheese]

@carpal24 More like the other way round! The people in the longest day sound like they're going for cream tea, rather than landing on the beach!

This battle is rather good though, but where is the emotion?

At least this film contains us Brits!

[Mokkari77]

@Agarlicabreadacheese

There's a 1975 movie called "Overlord" about the D-Day invasion from a British soldier's POV.

[Agarlicabreadacheese]

@Mokkari77 Thanks, i'll have 2 check it out



[davvvvo]

heil sieg heil !!!

is writen in the german bunker

[carpal24]

Well it would be wouldn't it.

[gipcambero]

Vive Kieffer !!

[denis480]

Kieffer avec nous !

[QPhilms]

My favorite scene still, even after seeing this movie repeatedly for 40 years.

The camera work is simply awe-inspiring, the first minute and a half is ONE camera shot. Don't see that much anymore. It's planning took weeks.

Incredible work.

[dlseth2]

Even more so as they had to use such primitive special effects. No computer-generated explosions, no stock footage of water hits...

And yet here we are, over 40 years later, still awed by it all, even though we have science-fiction 3D smurfs 2.0 (Avatar).

[davvvvo]

@dlseth2 some times real guns with blanks in

[MaGGdiZZle]

@dlseth2 I agree!!! and "science fiction smurfs" is such an appropriate term to describe that movie hahahaha

[Colton5]

@dlseth2 least Avatar still had models unlike any of the star wars prequels lol fucking Lucas

[Mokkari77]

@Colton5

The prequels had plenty of models. The Naboo palace and pod race stands in Episode I. The arena in Episode II, Most of the sinkhole planet and the lava planet in Episode III.

[Colton5]

@Mokkari77 yes, but they were far and few. and Probably mostly covered in green

[LuiB13]

@dlseth2 i know i saw this for the first time last night and i was in awe, how did they manage to do this?

[208STROKER]

the camera work and direction is simply bloody fantastic...PLUS its one of the greatest true storie films of the 20th century..!!!!

[fbsiubvsitdhdhjuk]

Great scene!

[Nemeanhavoc]

Different types of ammo..

[HeiniKraetzer]

omg the Sherman destroy the house with one shoot, the stronger pak40 needs4 so that on the buidling is 20% dmg? rofl =D

[aspiehd]

a Centurion, not a Sherman; possibly HE instead of AP being fired by the Centurion

[pwner9999]

Definately a M4A1 (76mm) VVSS with the late war M1A1C gun.

[PajamaShark9]

Fuchs.

[pwner9999]

CPS.

You linked me to this.

[PajamaShark9]

Oh.

Right.

[YDDES]

@aspiehd The Centurion didn't paticipate in WW2. It came too late. It is a Sherman.

[hypleb07]

@HeiniKraetzer sherman most likely would use HE whereas the pak40 is using AP less damage to structures

[HeiniKraetzer]

@hypleb07 I don´t think so, its only a bad Film^^

[HistoriCall1]

- Scènes tournées à Port-en-Bessin.

- Le casino était de style néo-normand et avait été rasé, les Allemands n'ayant conservé que les soubassements pour en faire un blockhaus.

- L'épisode des bonnes soeurs est faux; en revanches des soeurs ont secourus des Britanniques à Hermanville.