A list of movies with the longest running times ever. Most notably, the movie director Sir Peter Jackson is most likely to make films that possess a running time of almost three hours. * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Running time: 201 minutes * Titanic (1997) Running time: 195 minutes * King Kong (2005) Running time: 187 minutes * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Running time: 179 minutes * The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Running time: 178 minutes * Interstellar (2014) Running time: 169 minutes * The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Running time: 165 minutes * Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) Running time: 165 minutes * Boyhood (2014) Running time: 165 minutes * Avatar (2009) Running time: 161 minut