 The film was originally screened at about 170 minutes. When it was initially  released on North American home video in the 1980s, it was trimmed to a mere  141 minutes. Most of the cuts involved was seen as "unnecessary" battle  footage, such as when Guffys tanks arrive in the first major battle scene to  back up Major Wolenskis battalion and, later, portions of the German day  attack on Ambleve are missing, among other scenes. The 1990 video and  subsequent home video and laserdisc releases run 156 minutes (in order to  market the film on a T