According to TheAnswerBank.co.uk: Film stock by Czech director Buracz Bosnitz in 1968 consisted of 908 hours of blank film. Not surprisingly, it was only shown once and then used to film movies. The longest UK film was a 1970s British underground movie called 'The Longest Most meaningless Movie in the World' which lasted for 48 hours. One of the longest commercially made talking films was Lawrence of Arabia which was made in 1962 by English director David McLean and starred Peter O'Toole. It runs for three hours 42 minutes - two minutes longer than Gone With The Wind.

Various long movies have been made purely for the sake of being long, like the 85 hour Cure For Insomnia. Given that it's just made up of bits of petry recitals, rock concerts and pornography, most people wouldn't class it as a real film. Edgar Reitz' excellent 15 hour 40 minute film Heimat was made to be shown on TV in episodes, but it has been shown in marathon cinema screenings as has Rainer Werner Fassbinder's acclaimed Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hour 20 mins). Reitz has made two sequels: Heimat 2 runs 25 1/2 hours, Heimat 3 a mere 12. Heimat 2 has the Guinness World Record for 'Longest Film Commercially Shown In Its Entirety'. Other good long films are Christine Edzard's 6 hour film of Little Dorrit (starring Derek Jacobi and Alec Guinness), Abel Gance's Napoleon (originally 9 hours, although only a 7 1/2 hour version survives), Claude Lanzmann's 9 1/2 hour Holocaust documentary Shoah and Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition (10 hours). All the films mentioned here (apart from Cure For Insomnia) are well worth seeing.

I have Gone With the Wind clocked as longer than Lawrence of Arabia. None of these are record holders but they're the longest DVD's of three hours or more in my collection Title Running Time (minutes) Year Language Live Aid 600 1985 English Roots 573 1977 English Gone with the Wind 238 1939 English Woodstock 225 1969 English The Ten Commandments 220 1956 English Lawrence of Arabia 217 1962 English Ben-Hur 212 1959 English Das Boot - Director's Cut 209 1981 Deutsch Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) 207 1954 Japanese Malcolm X 201 1992 English The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King 200 2003 English The Sum of Us 200 1994 English The Godfather, Part II 200 1974 English Titanic 198 1953 English Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier 197 1986 Deutsch Schindler's List 196 1993 English The Right Stuff 193 1983 English Gandhi 190 1982 English The Green Mile 188 1999 English King Kong (2005) 188 2005 English Super Bowl XXXVIII - New England Patriots Championship Video 2003 180 2003 English Camelot 180 1967 English Party at the Palace 180 2002 English

how about North and South - it has to be up there

Kenneth Branagh's exquisite full version of Hamlet clocks in at 240 minutes - I believe the longest English-speaking film to date...(not 100% sure)

The cure for insomnia ( 1987) at a wopping 87 hours. If you don't believe me look it up on the guinness world records web site.

The longest movie with an actual storyline is the 1928 Chinese movie The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple. The longest documentary is Grandmother Martha. The longest movie ever made is the 2006 Matrjoschka ringing in at a astounding 5700 min or 95 hours. The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple 1620 min (27 hr). 1928–1931 Die Zweite Heimat - Chronik Einer Jugend 1532 min (25 hr). 1992 Grandmother Martha 1452 min (24 hr). 1996 Berlin Alexanderplatz 931 min (15 hr). 1980 Heimat - Eine Deutsche Chronik 924 min (15 hr). 1984 Resan (The Journey) 873 min (14 hr). 1987 Out 1 (Noli me tangere) 773 min (13 hr). 1971 How Yukong Moved the Mountains 763 min (13 hr). 1977 Heimat 3 - Chronik Einer Zeitenwende 679 min (11 hr). 2004 Evolution of a Filipino Family 643 min (11 hr). 2004 Shoah 566 min (9 hr). 1985 Death in the Land of the Encantos 540 min (9 hr). 2007 Heremias Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess 540 min (9 hr). 2006 Taiga 501 min (8 hr). 1992 Liberation 487 min (8 hr). 1969 War and Peace 484 min (8 hr). 1968 Melancholia (film) 480 min (8 hr). 2008 The Photo-Drama of Creation 480 min (8 hr). 1914 Imitation of Christ 480 min (8 hr). 1967 El Protegido de Satán 480 min (8 hr). 1917 Mefisto 460 min (8 hr).1917 Satantango 450 min (8 hr). 1994 Hitler: A Film from Germany 442 min (7 hr). 1978 Arshin Mal Alan 420 min (7 hr). 1916 The Satin Slipper 410 min (7 hr). 1985 The Best of Youth 400 min (7 hr). 2003 Bábolna 400 min (7 hr). 1985 I, Paisan 392 min (7 hr). 1967 Parisette 380 min (6 hr). 1921 Babel - A Letter to My Friends Left Behind in Belgium 380 min (6 hr). 1991 The French Revolution 360 min (6 hr). 1989 Little Dorrit 360 min (6 hr). 1988 Bevezetés a filmkészítés rejtelmeibe 360 min (6 hr). 1996 Les Miserables 359 min (6 hr). 1925 The Fight for Moscow 358 min (6 hr). 1985 Near Death 358 min (6 hr). 1989 Fragments: Jerusalem 358 min (6 hr). 1997 La Commune (Paris, 1871) 345 min (6 hr). 2000 And Quiet Flows the Don 340 min (6 hr). 1957 Perón, sinfonía del sentimiento 340 min (6 hr). 1999 L'idole des jeunes 338 min (6 hr). 1976 Vkus khleba 336 min (6 hr). 1979 Napoléon 330 min (6 hr). 1927 Yoman 330 min (6 hr). 1983 Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948 330 min (6 hr). 1968 Spiritual Voices 328 min (5 hr). 1995 Vindicta 320 min (5 hr). 1923 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 320 min (5 hr). 2000 1900 318 min (5 hr). 1976 Tsahal 316 min (5 hr). 1994 The Deluge 316 min (5 hr). 1974 Batang West Side 315 min (5 hr). 2002 Fanny and Alexander 312 min (5 hr). 1983 Nightmare 312 min (5 hr). 1972 Legend About Thiel 311 min (5 hr). 1976 Les Misérables 305 min (5 hr). 1934 The Confessions of Winifred Wagner 302 min (5 hr). 1975 EXPERIMENTAL FILMS Matrjoschka 5700 min (95 hr). 2006 The Cure for Insomnia 5220 min (87 hr). 1987 The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World 2880 min (48 hr). 1970 **** (Four Stars) 1500 min (25 hr). 1967 Crude Oil 840 min (14 hr). 2008 Empire 485 min (8 hr). 1964 Lamentations a Monument for the Dead World 427 min (7 hr). 1985 The Movie Orgy 420 min (7 hr). 1968 Star Spangled to Death 402 min (6 hr). 2004 Sleep 321 min (5 hr). 1963

hmmmmmm thornbirds, roots, or lonesome dove maybe?

The Notebook, or at least it feels like it.

Never saw it, but I heard about a movie called Sleep from Andy Warhol that is about 7 or 8 hours long. It's about someone sleeping "I could never finally figure out if more things happened in the sixties because there was more awake time for them to happen in (since so many people were on amphetamine), or if people started taking amphetamine because there were so many things to do that they needed to have more awake time to do them in... Seeing everybody so up all the time made me think that sleep was becoming pretty obsolete, so I decided I'd better quickly do a movie of a person sleeping. Sleep was the first movie I made when I got my 16mm Bolex."

D.W.Griffiths "The General" like 10hrs. silent

The sequels to Lord of the Rings. At least they seemed to be.

Titianic by 3hr and 15 minutes

Well, it all started back in 1924, and well, it's still in production lol. JK, Titanic.

I'd go with Lawrence of Arabia....3hrs 37 mins approx...