Featuring a celebrated international cast, including Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda and Robert Mitchum, The Longest Day is a vivid, hour-by-hour re-creation of the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, France – told from the perspectives of both sides. With an astonishing armada and enormous courage, the “D-Day” invasion of France marked the beginning of the end of Nazi domination.