So you think that the extended versions of the Lord of the Rings movies were long? Even if you combined all three (total of about 12 hours), you wouldn’t come close to the longest movie ever made.

Someone Asked Yahoo! this question and they came up with “Cure For Insomnia,” which is 87 hours of L.D. Groban reading a reeeeaaalllllly loooooong poem. I think the title is probably appropriate.

However, “Cure For Insomnia” is considered an “experimental film.” Second-longest in this category is called “The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World,” which runs about 48 hours.

If you want the longest with an actual story line, it’s “The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple,” a Chinese movie made in 1928, which lasted 27 hours and which, apparently, never was publicly shown in its entirety.

Wikipedia gives us a list of the longest movies ever made, covering everything 300 minutes and more. And of course you can look up those titles in IMDb for more info about them.