The film was a box office smash and is still well-regarded for its beautiful cinematography and direction and the bravura performances from O’Toole, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif and the rest of the cast. Critics widely agreed that the extended version (which aired on HBO Max) was much better than the original release, which underperformed at the box office. It wasn’t until the DVD release in 2003 that Americans saw the full version. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, the film was shot in VistaVision (a widescreen motion-picture format) and is full of spectacle and special effects. The only franchise film on our list, the superhero epic “Justice League” is technically a re-cut of the 2017 theatrical release, which director Zack Snyder stepped away from, replaced by Joss Whedon. While it was never a theatrical release, the 2012 Swedish documentary “Logistics” is considered by IMDB to be the longest film ever made. However, some critics felt that the film was far too sympathetic to its Confederate figures. It was, however, good enough for some fans — and anyway, Bugatti made it official later.

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The film is famous for a 40-minute chariot race between Ben-Hur and a Roman commander. The result was an almost entirely separate movie that stretched just past the four-hour mark, making it the longest Hollywood film of the 21st century so far. Guinness World Records cites the longest movie to have a theatrical release as 1987’s “The Cure for Insomnia.” It clocks in at 85 hours. It was filmed in real-time, with a running length of over 35 days, 17 hours, or 857 hours. Perhaps the length had something to do with it. As it fills, he tests the radiosonde’s battery, tunes the radio equipment and attaches the whole assembly together with a length of nylon cord. The full-length version (starring Robert De Niro and James Woods) debuted at Cannes, but the studio got scared of the long runtime and cut it down to a more typical 139-minute length for theaters, rearranging the content in chronological order. Based on an 1880 novel, 1959’s “Ben-Hur” was not the book’s first nor last film adaptation, but it’s widely regarded as the best, most complete version.

De Niro and Pacino start the film as young men, and gradually age into their present-day bodies. This film, based on the lives of real-life criminal figures Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Sheeran, was a return to form for director Martin Scorsese and actors Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Famous for his spaghetti western films like “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” Italian director Sergio Leone took a late-career turn when he helmed “Once Upon a Time in America.” Instead of the Old West, this film focuses on mobsters in New York over five decades in the 20th century. It was also the most expensive and elaborate film production of its time, almost sending studio 20th Century Fox into bankruptcy. Elizabeth Taylor in the title role, has laid claim to the title of the longest Hollywood film release for about 60 years now. Civil War battles and earns that epic title. Actor Peter O’Toole portrays the author and title character who joins the British military in the 1910s and leads campaigns against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. During this time, he travels through much of Syria and establishes diplomatic relations with local Arab tribes.