List of longest films

This list of longest films is composed of films with a running time of 300 minutes (5 hours) or more.

Cinematic films

Note: Some releases are extended cuts or director's cuts, and are ranked according to the longest verified running time.

Cinematic films

Title	Running time	Director	Year released	Notes
Resan (The Journey)	873 min (14 hr, 33 min)	Peter Watkins	1987	[1]
Exergue – on documenta 14	848 min (14 hr, 8 min)	Dimitris Athiridis	2024	[2][3]
La flor	803 min (13 hr, 23 min)	Mariano Llinás	2018	[4]
Out 1 (Noli me tangere)	775 min (12 hr, 55 min)	Jacques Rivette	1971	[5]
How Yukong Moved the Mountains	763 min (12 hr, 43 min)	Joris Ivens Marceline Loridan-Ivens	1976	[6]
Evolution of a Filipino Family	624 min (10 hr, 24 min)	Lav Diaz	2004	[7]
Shoah	566 min (9 hr, 26 min)	Claude Lanzmann	1985	[8]
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks	551 min (9 hr, 11 min)	Wang Bing	2003	[9]
Heremias	519 min (8 hr, 39 min)	Lav Diaz	2006	[10]
Dead Souls	495 min (8 hr, 15 min)	Wang Bing	2018	[11]
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery	485 min (8 hr, 5 min)	Lav Diaz	2016	[12]
The Works and Days	480 min (8 hr)	C.W. Winter Anders Edström	2020	[13]
O.J.: Made in America	463 min (7 hr, 43 min)	Ezra Edelman	2016	[14]
Melancholia	450 min (7 hr, 30 min)	Lav Diaz	2008	[15]
Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh	442 min (7 hr, 22 min)	Giuliano Tomassacci	2023	[16]
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel	448 min (7 hr, 28 min)	Shivendra Singh Dungarpur	2018	[17]
Sátántangó	439 min (7 hr, 19 min)	Béla Tarr	1994	[18]
A Tale of Filipino Violence	434 min (7 hr, 14 min)	Lav Diaz	2022	[19]
Napoléon	425 min (7 hr, 5 min)	Abel Gance	1927 (Restoration, 2024)	[20]
La Roue	413 min (6 hr, 53 min)	Abel Gance	1923 (Restoration, 2019)	[21]
Minamata Mandala	372 min (6 hr, 12 min)	Kazuo Hara	2020	[22]
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE	367 min (6 hr, 7 min)	Lav Diaz	2012	[23]
The Best of Youth	366 min (6 hr, 6 min)	Marco Tullio Giordana	2003	[24]
Century of Birthing	360 min (6 hr)	Lav Diaz	2011	[25]
Near Death	358 min (5 hr, 58 min)	Frederick Wiseman	1989	[26]
Karamay	356 min (5 hr, 56 min)	Xu Xin	2011	[27]
DAU. Degeneration	355 min (5 hr, 55 min)	Ilya Khrzhanovsky Ilya Permyakov	2020	[28]
Little Dorrit	350 min (5 hr, 50 min)	Christine Edzard	1987	[29]
La Commune (Paris, 1871)	345 min (5 hr, 45 min)	Peter Watkins	2000	[30][31]
Carlos	339 min (5 hr, 39 min)	Olivier Assayas	2010	[32]
From What Is Before	338 min (5 hr, 38 min)	Lav Diaz	2014	[33]
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow	324 min (5 hr, 24 min)	Julia Loktev	2024	[34]
Happy Hour	317 min (5 hr, 17 min)	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	2015	[35]
Novecento (1900)	317 min (5 hr, 17 min)	Bernardo Bertolucci	1976	[36]
Ugryum-River [ru]	316 min (5 hr, 16 min)	Yaropolk Lapshin	1969	[37]
Batang West Side	315 min (5 hr, 15 min)	Lav Diaz	2001	[38]
The Deluge	315 min (5 hr, 15 min)	Jerzy Hoffman	1974	[39]
Fanny and Alexander	314 min (5 hr, 14 min)	Ingmar Bergman	1982	[40]
Tsahal	304 min (5 hr, 4 min)	Claude Lanzmann	1994	[41]

Experimental films

While most cinematic films have a broad theatrical release in multiple locations through normal distribution channels, some of the longest films are experimental in nature or created for art gallery installations, having never been simultaneously released to multiple screens or intended for mainstream audiences. They may have been shown in venues where audiences were only expected to view a portion of the film during its screening.

Experimental films

Title	Running time	Director	Year released	Notes
Logistics	51,420 min (857 hr / 35 days, 17 hours)	Erika Magnusson Daniel Andersson	2012	[42]
Modern Times Forever	14,400 min (240 hr / 10 days)	Superflex	2011	[43]
Beijing 2003	9,000 min (150 hr / 6 days, 6 hours)	Ai Weiwei	2003	[44]
Cinématon	9,000 min (150 hr / 6 days, 6 hours)	Gérard Courant	2009	[45]
Untitled #125 (Hickory)	7,200 min (120 hr / 5 days)	Josh Azzarella	2011	[46]
Matrjoschka	5,700 min (95 hr / 3 days, 23 hours)	Karin Hoerler	2006	[47]
The Cure for Insomnia	5,220 min (87 hr / 3 days, 15 hours)	John Henry Timmis IV	1987	[48][unreliable source?]
Eniaios	4,800 min (80 hr / 3 days, 8 hours)	Gregory Markopoulos	2004 (ongoing)	[49]
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World	2,880 min (48 hr / 2 days)	Vincent Patouillard	1968	[50][unreliable source?]
**** (Four Stars)	1,500 min (25 hr / 1 day, 1 hour)	Andy Warhol	1967	[51]
24 Hour Psycho	1,440 min (24 hr / 1 day)	Douglas Gordon	1993	[52]
The Clock	1,440 min (24 hr / 1 day)	Christian Marclay	2010	[53]
24 Hours of Happy	1,440 min (24 hr / 1 day)	Yoann Lemoine	2013	[54][55]
My Human Time	1,440 min (24 hr / 1 day)	Marc Sallent	2014	[56]
15 Hours	900 min (15 hr)	Wang Bing	2017	[57]
Crude Oil	840 min (14 hr)	Wang Bing	2008	[58]
Bordeaux Piece	823 min (13 hr, 43 min)	David Claerbout	2004	[59]
Non c’è Nessuna Dark Side (atto uno, parte due) _ L’Orizzonte degli Eventi	798 min (13 hr, 18 min)	Erik Negro	2024	[60]
The White House	690 min (11 hr, 30 min)	David Claerbout	2006	[61]
Circus Savage	643 min (10 hr, 43 min)	Larry Jordan	2009	[62]
Paint Drying	607 min (10 hr, 7 min)	Charlie Shackleton	2016	[63]
Empire	485 min (8 hr, 5 min)	Andy Warhol	1965	[64]
Baa Baa Land	480 min (8 hr)	Garth Thomas	2017	[65]
Imitation of Christ	480 min (8 hr)	Andy Warhol	1967	[66]
Park Lanes	480 min (8 hr)	Kevin Jerome Everson	2015	[67]
Sleep	480 min (8 hr)	Lilja Juha	2013	[68][69][70]
The Wake	462 min (7 hr, 42 min)	Michael Kvium Christian Lemmerz	2000	[71]
Hitler: A Film from Germany	442 min (7 hr, 23 min)	Hans-Jürgen Syberberg	1977	[72]
Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World	435 min (7 hr, 15 min)	R. Bruce Elder	1985	[73]
The Movie Orgy	420 min (7 hr)	Joe Dante	1968	[74]
Rejected		William E. Jones	2017	[75]
Star Spangled to Death	402 min (6 hr, 42 min)	Ken Jacobs	2004	[76]
Babel	380 min (6 hr, 20 min)	Boris Lehman	1991	[77]
A Lot of Sorrow	369 min (6 hr, 9 min)	Ragnar Kjartansson	2013	[78]
River of Fundament	352 min (5 hr, 52 min) Including two 20-minute intermissions	Matthew Barney	2014	[79]
Sleep	321 min (5 hr, 21 min)	Andy Warhol	1964	[64]

Films released in separate parts

This section lists films conceived as an artistic unity and produced simultaneously, or consecutively with no significant interruption or change of production team, even though they were released with separate premières.

Films released in separate parts

Title	Running time	Director	Year released	Parts	Average runtime	Notes
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple	1,620 min (27 hr)	Zhang Shichuan	1928–31	16	101 min (1 hr, 41 min)	[80][81]
Die Zweite Heimat	1,509 min (25 hr, 9 min)	Edgar Reitz	1992	13	116 min (1 hr, 56 min)	[82]
Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo (The Innocence)	1,260 min (21 hr)	Ashraf Shishir	2019	8	158 min (2 hr, 38 min)	[83][84][85]
Berlin Alexanderplatz	931 min (15 hr, 31 min)	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1980	14	72 min (1 hr, 12 min)	[86]
Heimat	924 min (15 hr, 24 min)	Edgar Reitz	1984	11	84 min (1 hr, 24 min)	[87]
A Dream of Red Mansions	735 min (12 hr, 15 min)	Xie Tieli Zhao Yuan	1988–89	6	123 min (2 hr, 3 min)	[88]
Heimat 3	680 min (11 hr, 33 min)	Edgar Reitz	2003	6	113 min (1 hr, 53 min)	[89]
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended cut)	683 min (11 hr, 23 min)	Peter Jackson	2001–03	3	228 min (3 hr, 48 min)	[90]
Soldiers of Freedom	599 min (9 hr, 59 min)	Yuri Ozerov	1977	4	150 min (2 hr, 30 min)
The Human Condition	574 min (9 hr, 34 min)	Masaki Kobayashi	1959–61	3	191 min (3 hr, 11 min)	[91]
Dekalog	572 min (9 hr, 32 min)	Krzysztof Kieślowski	1988–89	10	57 min	[92]
Men and War	563 min (9 hr, 23 min)	Satsuo Yamamoto	1970–73	3	188 min (3 hr, 8 min)
Digimon Adventure tri.	536 min (8 hr, 56 min)	Keitaro Motonaga	2015–18	6	89 min (1 hr, 29 min)	[93]
The Hobbit Trilogy (Extended cut)	532 min (8 hr, 52 min)	Peter Jackson	2012–14	3	177 min (2 hr, 57 min)	[94]
Barrabas	506 min (8 hr, 26 min)	Louis Feuillade	1919	12	42 min
Taiga	501 min (8 hr, 21 min)	Ulrike Ottinger	1992	3	167 min (2 hr, 47 min)	[95][96]
The Photo-Drama of Creation	480 min (8 hr)	Charles Taze Russell	1914	4	120 min (2 hr)	[97]
Liberation	445 min (7 hr, 25 min)	Yuri Ozerov	1968–71	5	89 min (1 hr, 29 min)	[98]
Sangokushi [ja]	436 min (7 hr, 16 min)	Masaharu Okuwaki	1992–94	3	145 min (2 hr, 25 min)	[99]
War and Peace	431 min (7 hr, 11 min)	Sergei Bondarchuk	1966–67	4	104 min (1 hr, 44 min)	[100]
Les Vampires	421 min (7 hr, 1 min)	Louis Feuillade	1915–16	10	42 min	[101]
Tih Minh	418 min (6 hr, 58 min)	Louis Feuillade	1918	12	35 min	[102]
The Emigrants + The New Land	393 min (6 hr, 33 min)	Jan Troell	1971–72	2	197 min (3 hr, 17 min)	[103]
Arabian Nights	383 min (6 hr, 23 min)	Miguel Gomes	2015	3	128 min (2 hr, 8 min)	[104]
Rebel Moon (Director's Cut)	374 min (6 hr, 14 min)	Zack Snyder	2023-24 (2024 director's cut)	2	204 min (3 hr, 24 min)
La Révolution française	360 min (6 hr)	Robert Enrico (Part 1) Richard T. Heffron (Part 2)	1989	2	180 min (3 hr)	[105]
Battle of Moscow	358 min (5 hr, 58 min)	Yuri Ozerov	1985	2	179 min (2 hr, 59 min)
Little Dorrit	357 min (5 hr, 57 min)	Christine Edzard	1987	2	179 min (2 hr, 59 min)	[106]
Fantômas	337 min (5 hr, 37 min)	Louis Feuillade	1913	5	67 min (1 hr, 7 min)	[107]
Joan the Maid	336 min (5 hr, 36 min)	Jacques Rivette	1994	2	168 min (2 hr, 48 min)	[108]
Ponniyin Selvan	332 min (5 hr, 32 min)	Mani Ratnam	2021–22	2	166 min (2 hr, 46 min)
Avengers: Infinity War + Endgame	330 min (5 hr, 30 min)	Anthony Russo Joe Russo	2018–19	2	165 min (2 hr, 45 min)	[109][110]
And Quiet Flows the Don	330 min (5 hr, 30 min)	Sergei Gerasimov	1957	3	110 min (1 hr, 50 min)
Fear Street	328 min (5 hr, 28 min)	Leigh Janiak	2021	3	109 min (1 hr, 49 min)	[111]
Baahubali	325 min (5 hr, 25 min)	S. S. Rajamouli	2015–17	2	163 min (2 hr, 43 min)	[112][113]
Nymphomaniac (uncut)	325 min (5 hr, 25 min)	Lars von Trier	2013	2	163 min (2 hr, 43 min)	[114]
Aszparuh (uncut)	323 min (5 hr, 23 min)	Ludmil Staikov	1981	3	108 min (1 hr, 48 min)	[115]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest + At World's End	319 min (5 hr, 19 min)	Gore Verbinski	2006–07	2	160 min (2 hr, 40 min)
Gangs of Wasseypur	317 min (5 hr, 17 min)	Anurag Kashyap	2012	2	159 min (2 hr, 39 min)	[116]
Samurai Trilogy	303 min (5 hr, 3 min)	Hiroshi Inagaki	1954-56	3	101 min (1 hr, 41 min)
Judex	300 min (5 hr)	Louis Feuillade	1916	13	23 min	[117]

See also

• National Film Registry
• Slow cinema
• Marathon
• Back-to-back film production
• List of films with longest production time
• List of longest films in India
• List of longest animated films