# 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 |
| Resan (The Journey) | 873 min (14 hr, 33 min) | Peter Watkins | 1987 |
| Exergue – on documenta 14 | 848 min (14 hr, 8 min) | Dimitris Athiridis | 2024 |
| La flor | 803 min (13 hr, 23 min) | Mariano Llinás | 2018 |
| Out 1 (Noli me tangere) | 775 min (12 hr, 55 min) | Jacques Rivette | 1971 |
| How Yukong Moved the Mountains | 763 min (12 hr, 43 min) | Joris Ivens Marceline Loridan-Ivens | 1976 |
| Evolution of a Filipino Family | 624 min (10 hr, 24 min) | Lav Diaz | 2004 |
| Shoah | 566 min (9 hr, 26 min) | Claude Lanzmann | 1985 |
| Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | 551 min (9 hr, 11 min) | Wang Bing | 2003 |
| Death in the Land of Encantos | 538 min (8 hr, 58 min) | Lav Diaz | 2007 |
| Heremias | 519 min (8 hr, 39 min) | Lav Diaz | 2006 |
| Dead Souls | 495 min (8 hr, 15 min) | Wang Bing | 2018 |
| A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery | 485 min (8 hr, 5 min) | Lav Diaz | 2016 |
| The Works and Days | 480 min (8 hr) | C.W. Winter Anders Edström | 2020 |
| O.J.: Made in America | 463 min (7 hr, 43 min) | Ezra Edelman | 2016 |
| Melancholia | 450 min (7 hr, 30 min) | Lav Diaz | 2008 |
| Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh | 442 min (7 hr, 22 min) | Giuliano Tomassacci | 2023 |
| CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel | 448 min (7 hr, 28 min) | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur | 2018 |
| Sátántangó | 439 min (7 hr, 19 min) | Béla Tarr | 1994 |
| A Tale of Filipino Violence | 434 min (7 hr, 14 min) | Lav Diaz | 2022 |
| Napoléon | 425 min (7 hr, 5 min) | Abel Gance | 1927 (Restoration, 2024) |
| La Roue | 413 min (6 hr, 53 min) | Abel Gance | 1923 (Restoration, 2019) |
| Minamata Mandala | 372 min (6 hr, 12 min) | Kazuo Hara | 2020 |
| Florentina Hubaldo, CTE | 367 min (6 hr, 7 min) | Lav Diaz | 2012 |
| The Best of Youth | 366 min (6 hr, 6 min) | Marco Tullio Giordana | 2003 |
| Century of Birthing | 360 min (6 hr) | Lav Diaz | 2011 |
| Near Death | 358 min (5 hr, 58 min) | Frederick Wiseman | 1989 |
| Karamay | 356 min (5 hr, 56 min) | Xu Xin | 2011 |
| DAU. Degeneration | 355 min (5 hr, 55 min) | Ilya Khrzhanovsky Ilya Permyakov | 2020 |
| Little Dorrit | 350 min (5 hr, 50 min) | Christine Edzard | 1987 |
| La Commune (Paris, 1871) | 345 min (5 hr, 45 min) | Peter Watkins | 2000 |
| Carlos | 339 min (5 hr, 39 min) | Olivier Assayas | 2010 |
| From What Is Before | 338 min (5 hr, 38 min) | Lav Diaz | 2014 |
| Nymphomaniac | 325 min (5 hr, 25 min) | Lars von Trier | 2013 |
| My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow | 324 min (5 hr, 24 min) | Julia Loktev | 2024 |
| Happy Hour | 317 min (5 hr, 17 min) | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 2015 |
| Novecento (1900) | 317 min (5 hr, 17 min) | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1976 |
| Ugryum-River [ru] | 316 min (5 hr, 16 min) | Yaropolk Lapshin | 1969 |
| Batang West Side | 315 min (5 hr, 15 min) | Lav Diaz | 2001 |
| The Deluge | 315 min (5 hr, 15 min) | Jerzy Hoffman | 1974 |
| Fanny and Alexander | 314 min (5 hr, 14 min) | Ingmar Bergman | 1982 |
| Tsahal | 304 min (5 hr, 4 min) | Claude Lanzmann | 1994 |

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

## 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 |
| The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple | 1,620 min (27 hr) | Zhang Shichuan | 1928–31 | 16 | 101 min (1 hr, 41 min) |
| Die Zweite Heimat | 1,509 min (25 hr, 9 min) | Edgar Reitz | 1992 | 13 | 116 min (1 hr, 56 min) |
| Amra Ekta Cinema Banabo (The Innocence) | 1,260 min (21 hr) | Ashraf Shishir | 2019 | 8 | 158 min (2 hr, 38 min) |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | 931 min (15 hr, 31 min) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 | 14 | 72 min (1 hr, 12 min) |
| Heimat | 924 min (15 hr, 24 min) | Edgar Reitz | 1984 | 11 | 84 min (1 hr, 24 min) |
| A Dream of Red Mansions | 735 min (12 hr, 15 min) | Xie Tieli Zhao Yuan | 1988–89 | 6 | 123 min (2 hr, 3 min) |
| Heimat 3 | 680 min (11 hr, 33 min) | Edgar Reitz | 2003 | 6 | 113 min (1 hr, 53 min) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Dekalog | 572 min (9 hr, 32 min) | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1988–89 | 10 | 57 min |
| 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) |
| The Hobbit Trilogy (Extended cut) | 532 min (8 hr, 52 min) | Peter Jackson | 2012–14 | 3 | 177 min (2 hr, 57 min) |
| 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) |
| The Photo-Drama of Creation | 480 min (8 hr) | Charles Taze Russell | 1914 | 4 | 120 min (2 hr) |
| Liberation | 445 min (7 hr, 25 min) | Yuri Ozerov | 1968–71 | 5 | 89 min (1 hr, 29 min) |
| Sangokushi [ja] | 436 min (7 hr, 16 min) | Masaharu Okuwaki | 1992–94 | 3 | 145 min (2 hr, 25 min) |
| Les Vampires | 421 min (7 hr, 1 min) | Louis Feuillade | 1915–16 | 10 | 42 min |
| Tih Minh | 418 min (6 hr, 58 min) | Louis Feuillade | 1918 | 12 | 35 min |
| War and Peace | 415 min (6 hr, 55 min) | Sergei Bondarchuk | 1966–67 | 4 | 104 min (1 hr, 44 min) |
| The Emigrants + The New Land | 393 min (6 hr, 33 min) | Jan Troell | 1971–72 | 2 | 197 min (3 hr, 17 min) |
| Arabian Nights | 383 min (6 hr, 23 min) | Miguel Gomes | 2015 | 3 | 128 min (2 hr, 8 min) |
| La Révolution française | 360 min (6 hr) | Robert Enrico (Part 1) Richard T. Heffron (Part 2) | 1989 | 2 | 180 min (3 hr) |
| 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) |
| Fantômas | 337 min (5 hr, 37 min) | Louis Feuillade | 1913 | 5 | 67 min (1 hr, 7 min) |
| Joan the Maid | 336 min (5 hr, 36 min) | Jacques Rivette | 1994 | 2 | 168 min (2 hr, 48 min) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Baahubali | 325 min (5 hr, 25 min) | S. S. Rajamouli | 2015–17 | 2 | 163 min (2 hr, 43 min) |
| Nymphomaniac (uncut) | 325 min (5 hr, 25 min) | Lars von Trier | 2013 | 2 | 163 min (2 hr, 43 min) |
| Aszparuh (uncut) | 323 min (5 hr, 23 min) | Ludmil Staikov | 1981 | 3 | 108 min (1 hr, 48 min) |
| 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) |
| 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 |