Is there a perfect length for a movie? The average movie lasts between 90 minutes and 2 hours, but many of the best directors have found good reasons to make movies that last more than 3 hours (to varying results).
But it’s safe to say that the longest movie you’ve ever watched is nothing compared to Logistics, a Swedish film that broke records when it came out in 2012. Logistics is by far the longest movie ever made. It takes 35 days and 17 hours to finish.
Logistics, which is the longest movie ever made, is not your typical Hollywood epic. The Swedish filmmakers Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson came up with the idea for and directed the experimental film, which doesn’t follow any normal rules. The movie’s website says that the idea came from the question, “Where do all the gadgets come from?” Magnusson and Andersson tried to figure out the answer to this question by looking at how a pedometer works over its lifetime.
The story starts in a store in Stockholm where the item is sold, and then it goes backwards to show how it got to people. Logistics takes viewers on a trip in a truck, on a freight train, on a huge container ship, and finally to a factory in China’s Bao’an district. The trip happens in real-time, so viewers can see how long and far it takes to get gadgets to people who use them on the other side of the world. This may be painfully accurate. A 72-minute version of the movie can be seen above.
Some of the longest movies ever made would be hard for a lot of people to sit through. Hamlet (1996) by Kenneth Branagh is 242 minutes long, and Cleopatra (1963) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz is a huge 248 minutes long. But it’s almost physically impossible to sit down and watch all 857 hours of Logistics in one sitting (though intrepid journalist and film critic Ashley Darrow did just that in 2022).
You don’t have to watch Logistics all the way through in one sitting, which would take more than a month of your life. Logistics has been broken up on the project’s website into short, two-minute clips, one for each day of the trip. Here, you can watch a shortened version of the epic experiment and then brag about it.
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