David Lean

A look at T.E. Lawrence, a British officer who unites the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks during World War I.

The story of love and class-struggle in British-occupied India in 1928. Two Englishwomen experience misunderstanding and the conflict of culture when they travel to India.

The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.

The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable life in the period between the two World Wars.

The chance meeting of a boy and a convict on the Romney Marshes leads to strange consequences for both of them, with mystery and wealth for the boy.

This adaptation of one of Charles Dickens's finest novels was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Many critics call it one of the greatest of all filmed versions of Dickens. It tells the story of the orphaned boy Pip, who is brought up as a gentlemen with the help of a mysterious benefactor and who falls in love with the beautiful Estella.

Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.