The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers previously held the title for its 40-minute war scene during the Battle at Helm's Deep.
However, the third episode of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones firmly knocked the movie off the top spot.
It broke records with its Battle Of Winter Fell which made film history as the longest battle scene ever.
The gory fighting scenes, which aired for a full gripping 82 minutes, resulted in one of the most epic conclusions in television records after Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) killed the supreme leader of the White Walkers - The Night King, after it appeared that all hope was seemingly loss.
The final moments of 'A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms' - which is the halfway point of the season for the HBO series - ended with two of The Night King's generals, amassing his white walker soldiers outside of Winter fell.
However, the Night King and his un dead dragon Viserion was nowhere to be seen, and he wasn't seen in the trailer for this third episode either, with the battle scenes involving more than 750 people both on and off the camera and was filmed over 11 weeks of night shoots.
There is a brief glimpse at one of Daenerys dragons screeching during this epic battle in the brief trailer, which only offered glimpses of the episode before the action takes place.
The opening credits to the show revealed a surprise for fans, stating that Carice Van Houten returns as Melisandre, the red priestess
'' who hasn't been seen for quite some time''.
She was last seen in Dragon stone in the third episode of Season 7, when she said that she would in fact return to Westeros one last time.
The episode opens with Samwell Tarly, visibly nervous as he takes his weapons and gets ready for battle, while others are being lead into the crypts.
Tyrion Lannister is outside as well, defying Daenerys' orders to stay in the crypt when the battle begins, taking a satchel for himself, watching as Theon (Alfie Allen) leads Bran Stark (Isaac Hempstead Wright) out as 'bait' for the Night King.
Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) is seen on the ramparts before the battle begins, when the screech of Daeneyrs' dragons Drogon and Rhaegal are heard as they sweep overhead.
The Unsullied warriors are in formation, with catapults ready for the big attack, as everyone waits for the Night King to arrive, including Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) and Jaime Lannister with The Hound (Rory McCann) even joining in the fight.
In last week's episode, Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) asked when the last time he fought for himself was, and now he's fighting for Winterfell.
Someone on horseback approaches, and it's none other than Melisandre (Carice Van Houten), approaching the battlefront, telling Jorah Mormont to tell the Dothraki
''warriors to lift their swords''.
Melisandre inspects one of the Dothraki weapons, gripping the blade, saying something in Dothraki... when all of the Dothraki blades are set ablaze in an epic spectacle.
The last time Melisandre was seen, in Dragonstone in the third episode of Season 7, she said she would be going to Westeros one more time, and it seems her duty has been fulfilled.
She rides through the unsullied ranks as Davos asks for the gates to be opened for her.
Melisandre is met by Davos, saying,
'There's no need to execute me, I'll be dead before the dawn.'
as she looks and sees Arya glancing at her from the ramparts, as screams can be heard.
The Dothraki warriors with their flaming weapons charge ahead on horseback, with Jorah Mormont in tow, as Jon and Dany watch from their elevated position, while flaming balls are fired from catapults.
All of these soldiers hit a wall, though, as a cease fire is called and the fire from their weapons are eventually, slowly, extinguished, until there is no light left.
The remaining warriors are tense, afraid, waiting for what's next, when a horse comes running back towards them, along with several others on foot, with Jorah injured.
Up top, Dany tries to go and Jon says,
'The Night King is coming,' and she responds, 'The dead are already here,' as their screams can be heard throughout the dark battlefield,
as Grey Worm puts on his helmet.
The sounds get louder and louder as the white walkers attack, piling into the front wave of unsullied warriors, as the rest on the ground start to attack, including Brienne's left flank.
Brienne is taken to the ground, with Jaime trying to save her, when Dany comes roaring in with one dragon, and Jon raiding the next, laying waste to the white walkers and lighting the dark battlefield up.
Jon spots the white walker leaders on horseback standing near the forest, when a wintry wind hits them as they fly through.
Back at Winterfell, Arya asks Sansa to go back to the Crypt, handing her a dagger, when Sansa says she doesn't know how to use it, she says to
'stick them with the pointy end,'
words she was told by Sylvio Forel back in Season 1.
At the Weirwood Tree, a wintry wind sweeps over Bran and Theon Greyjoy, while Jorah Mormont, Brienne of Tarth and Tormund Giantsbane fight for their lives on the ground.
The Hound is also in the midst of the battle, as is Jaime Lannister, completely overwhelmed, when Samwell is saved by Dolorous Edd.... before he's killed by a White Walker.
Down in the crypt, Sansa heads to safety, with the women and children and non-fighters like Varys and Missandei and Tyrion, who drinks from a flask.
Outside, Jon and Dany are still flying blind, so to speak, through this winter storm, as they try to get their bearings.
On the ground, Tormund and Brienne instruct the survivors to fall back to the gates as they all rush inside, pushed back by this undead army.
Jon Snow yells out for Dany, but he can't find her, and on the ground, Bran waits for the inevitable, as a dragon swoops down, carrying Jon.
More rush in through the gates, bloodied and battered, as they all rush in, while unsullied warriors try to hold back the un dead with their spears... but they look simply outnumbered.
Arya tries picking off un dead with her bow and arrow as the unsullied call for a retreat, as they try to full back into the gates while the white walkers fight their way through the unsullied.
Grey Worm calls for the trench to be lit, with Davos waving the torches but Jon and Dany can't see it because of the winter storm the Night King created.
They try to light it with flaming arrows, but it just isn't working, with several who have tried being tackled by white walkers. Grey Worm seems Melisandre just standing there.
A small convoy of unsullied comes from the gates to protect Melisandre as she says a prayer to the Lord of Light to light the trenches... but the white walkers are getting closer and closer.
She starts to get worried, saying the prayer with desperation, and right when the white walker gets to her, the trench is lit, forming a fiery barrier between the dead and the Winterfell castle.
In the crypt, Varys sighs and mentions that at least they're in a crypt, while Tyrion complains that he should be out there, but Sansa says he would be dead.
Sansa says
'they're all down there because they can't do anything, saying the most heroic thing they can do is face the truth'.
Sansa jokes that they should have stayed married, saying
'he was the best of all of them, but it wouldn't work, that the dragon queen has divided loyalties'.
Missandei, angry that they are talking ill about her queen, overhears, saying
''without the dragon queen, they'd all be dead already before storming off''.
At the Weirwood Tree, Theon tells Bran that they lit the trench, and that he just wants him to know that the things he did, trying to apologize, but Bran cuts him off.
Bran says that the things he did brought him to where he belongs now, home, before saying he's going to go now, as his eyes turn milky white and ravens are sent off into the battle.
The three ravens find The Night King riding his dragon, who reaches out his hand, as the white walkers start walking into the fire, one by one.
They eventually start a path for the rest to get through, as Davos yells for everyone to man the walls, as they race to the ramparts, finding these white walkers climbing the walls.
Podrick starts slaying them with the dragon glass weapons, as does Samwell, Jaime and many others, but they keep getting through.
White walkers are climbing on top of each other to get into the castle, as Brienne and Jaime fight their way through, along with Samwell Tarly.
The White Walkers have infiltrated Winterfell fully, as The Hound waits, terrified, while Arya fights back with her unique custom weapon that Gendry made for her
Dondarrion calls out to The Hound but he doesn't respond, while Arya keeps killing white walkers as Davos looks on, impressed.
Lyanna Mormont is batted aside by a white walker giant, while Araya seems trapped as the giant clears the way.
Dondarrion tries to get The Hound to help, but he says
''it's useless they can't beat death''.
But he shows her Arya still fighting for her life and he rushes after her.
Lyanna Mormont rushes after the giant white walker and he crushes the life out of her, but she stabs him in the eye, as they both fall to the ground, dead.
In the skies, Dany and Jon finally fly above the winter storm, when they're attacked by The Night King and his dragon, Viserion, who spews blue flames at them.
Viserion and the Night King dive back to the earth, followed by Jon and Dany, but they can't find him.
Arya walks into an empty room, bloodied and battered, seeing someone else in the room, finding two white walkers in the library with her as she tries to evade them.
She makes it out but kills a white walker girl, silently, and makes it out in once piece, but she hears more white walkers storming in as she runs for her life, but her fate is uncertain.
In the crypt, soldiers are asking to open the doors as they can hear the white walkers screeching above them, but no one opens the door and the sounds of the white walkers eventually go away.
The Hound and Beric Dondarrion are making their way through a hallway, lead by Beric's flaming sword, with The Hound wielding an axe, when Arya is tackled into the room by a white walker and Beric and The Hound save her.
The Hound takes Arya and they manage to bring Beric into a room and seal it off, but he's about to finally die for seemingly the last time.
Melisandre says
''the Lord brought him back for a purpose and that purpose has been served.''
Arya says,
'I know you,'
and Melisandre says,
'I know you.'
She said
''they'd meet again and there they are, at the end of the world''.
'Brown eyes, green eyes, and blue eyes,' Melisandre says, referring to the eyes Melisandre said Arya would close during an encounter they had back in Season 3.
'What do we say to the God of Death?' Melisandre says. 'Not today,' Arya responds, before running off on her own.
Outside, Theon awaits with Bran and his Iron Islands men, with flaming arrows waiting in their bows,
Theon saying to
''make every shot count.''
The Night King swoops down on Winterfell, with a fiery blue blast at the Winterfell walls, as Jon's dragon fights' with the undead dragon, biting and clawing at each other.
The NIght King has his spear at the ready, trying to kill Jon, but the Night King is tossed off his dragon, allowing Jon's dragon to take it down, as his dragon lands with a thud.
Dany's dragon is seen overhead, floating over the Night King, ordering her dragon to set The Night King ablaze, which it does, as he stands there and takes it and comes out completely unscathed.
On the ground, Jon Snow stumbles towards the fire, as Dany waits, as The Night King is completely untouched by the fire, picking up his spear, throwing it at Dany and her dragon but missing as she files off.
Jon Snow draws his sword and follows him on the ground, as the Night King walks through the ruins of the battlefield, but he stops and turns to face Jon.
The Night King raises his hands, goading him into a fight, as Jon charges at him, sword in hand, but The Night King reanimates all of the fallen unsullied soldiers, putting them between Jon.
Inside Winterfell, all of the enemies they have slain start to rise from the dead... including Lyanna Mormont and the Dothraki, Dolorous Edd and more.
The Night King leaves, an army surrounding Jon Snow, when the Night King's generals start entering Winterfell.
In the crypt, though to be safe, the dead start clawing their way through the walls, as the peaceful scene becomes a panic.
Theon and the ironborn try to protect Bran, whose eyes are still milky white, while Jon Snow tries to fight his way out when Dany returns with her dragon, blazing a trail for him.
Jon says he's running for Bran as Dany finds white walkers overrunning her own dragon, stabbing him, as he screeches in pain.
Dany is thrown from her dragon as he takes off with white walkers all over him, trying to shed them, and as they fall to the ground, they come back to life again.
Jon Snow draws his sword and follows him on the ground, as the Night King walks through the ruins of the battlefield, but he stops and turns to face Jon.
The Night King raises his hands, goading him into a fight, as Jon charges at him, sword in hand, but The Night King reanimates all of the fallen unsullied soldiers, putting them between Jon.
Inside Winterfell, all of the enemies they have slain start to rise from the dead... including Lyanna Mormont and the Dothraki, Dolorous Edd and more.
The Night King leaves, an army surrounding Jon Snow, when the Night King's generals start entering Winterfell.
In the crypt, though to be safe, the dead start clawing their way through the walls, as the peaceful scene becomes a panic.
Theon and the ironborn try to protect Bran, whose eyes are still milky white, while Jon Snow tries to fight his way out when Dany returns with her dragon, blazing a trail for him.
Jon says he's running for Bran as Dany finds white walkers overrunning her own dragon, stabbing him, as he screeches in pain.
Dany is thrown from her dragon as he takes off with white walkers all over him, trying to shed them, and as they fall to the ground, they come back to life again
Dany is about to be killed when Jorah saves her, while Jon Snow and the rest try to fight their way inside, as Samwell is being attacked and hope looks lost for everyone.
Jon runs into a corridor, fighting his way through, as the ceiling crumbles around him, as he shuts an iron gate.
At the Weirwood tree, Theon's soldiers are overrrun, as Theon is out of arrows, as Bran is still harnessing his greensight.
Jorah slays more white walkers to protect Dany, as she grabs a sword herself, looking desperate.
In the crypts, Sansa and Tyrion hide behind a barrier, terrified, as Sansa takes out the dagger Arya gave her, and Tyrion pulls out his own weapon as they give each other a look and he kisses her hand.
The undead dragon Viserion lands on the Winterfell wall, blowing blue fire everywhere, as Dany and Jorah fight side by side.
In the crypt, Tyrion and Sansa try to make a move while Jon Snow is nearly burned alive by Viserion. Theon keeps fighting around Bran as The Night King walks into Winterfell.
Jaime and Podrick look near death, as does Brienne, as Samwell cries, while The Night King and his generals advance.
Theon has finally defended Bran, killing every last white walker around him, but The Night King comes to Bran as his eyes return to their regular color.
Bran tells Theon,
'You're a good man, thank you,' as tears stream down his face and he looks down the Night King.
The Night King approaches while Theon charges with his spear, but the Night King dodges it easily and stabs him through the stomach as he falls to his knees, then to the ground.
Jon tries to sneak up on Viserion but he's nearly burned alive.
The Night King walks over a dying Theon, and Jorah Mormont is stabbed in the chest but still standing with Daenerys.
The Night King approaches Bran, while Jon hides from Viserion, as the Night King make his way to Bran, who looks at him... as Jon stares Viserion in the face while The Night King raises his hand to stab Bran and Arya jumps on top of him to stop him.
While he catches her, she stabs him with her valyrian steel dagger, killing him with her dragon glass blade... killing all of the white walkers en masse.
Jorah collapses to the ground, as the rest try to make sense of what happened, as he dies in Dany's arms.
At the Weirwood tree, Arya smiles at Bran, but on the battlefield, Daenerys cries as she realizes she's losing Jorah Mormont, while her dragon lands beside her, protecting her.
The Hound walks outside with Melisandre, exhausted, as Melisandre walks through the massive carnage, seemingly leaving Winterfell on her own terms, as Davos watches her.
She takes off her mystical necklace as she walks, ageing exponentially instantly as she walks into the winter night, dying within seconds as the episode comes to a close.
In the preview for next week's episode, Cersei (Lena Headey) waits in the Red Keep,
As Dany says
''we have won the great war,' now we'll win the last war''
Cersei is seen with Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbaek) as she watches over The Golden Company army, while Daenerys and the rest of Winterfell celebrate their victory in The Great War.
Arya is seen going in for a kiss, perhaps with Gendry, while Euron gets on one knee for Cersei, perhaps proposing to her.
The trailer ends with Sansa watching Daenerys' two dragons flying over Winterfell, with a voice-over featuring Dany
Saying they will rip Cersei out
'root and stem.'
The fourth episode of Game of Thrones Season 8 airs May 5 at 9 PM ET on HBO.
