After various attempts at reconstruction, the dedicated work of the film historian Kevin Brownlow produced a five-hour version of the film, still incomplete but fuller than anyone had seen since the 1920s.

The schedule also includes a screening of the complete five-hour version of "Underground," Emir Kusturica's epic about a family in the war-torn Balkans.

Even today a full five-hour version, with a chamber orchestra performing Lully's music, would be exorbitantly expensive to present.

And Mark Lamos directed the full five-hour version in two parts to considerable acclaim with Richard Thomas in the title role at Hartford Stage Company in 1989.

In 2007, a five-hour, weeknight version was launched and has gone on to be heard in over forty markets in the United States.

Consider "David Copperfield," which currently can be seen on public TV's "Masterpiece Theater" in a new five-hour version made for the BBC.

This five-hour version allowed for a dinner intermission, during which some of us in the $1.65 seats trekked across town for a huge spaghetti dinner, then back to the second balcony.

On March 28, 2013 eXtra 2 was launched, with a five-hour timeshifted version of eXtra broadcast.

A five-hour version exists in a DVD box-set released in Thailand.

Sean Graney's five-hour version of the seven extant Sophocles plays, "These Seven Sicknesses," comes to the Flea Theater in New York.