David Lean

Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he wa...

A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply...

Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

Interviews analyzing and looking back at the making of, and the impact made by, of one of the greatest epic films ever produced.

Documentary about the making of the epic 1962 film, with reminiscences from surviving cast and crew.

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with hi...

A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a Bri...

Director David Lean became involved in the search for an anchor lost by Captain Cook in 1773. This documentary follows the search for this historic i...

Director David Lean became involved in the search for an anchor lost by Captain Cook in 1773. This documentary follows the search for this historic i...

A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews in...

The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.

A behind-the-scenes look at "Ryan's Daughter," a 1970 drama directed by David Lean and starring Sarah Miles as an Irish wife who has an affair with a ...

Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian gover...

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a lo...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship dur...

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M...

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles i...

After a short biography of author Boris Pasternak, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Doctor Zhivago (1965).

A short documentary about the making of David Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. A 1970 documentary with a similar title uses some footage but is otherwise a ...

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law...

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law...

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence...

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she doe...

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulgi...

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standi...

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman....

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuo...

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough materia...

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mothe...

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only comman...

On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands ...

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by com...

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in ...

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released i...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training,...

In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chines...

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Ga...

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pas...

Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threa...

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles ...

A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young report...

Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue.

A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her ...

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)

A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a pa...

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests w...

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

Profiles the double Oscar winner, who helmed some of the most well-respected movies of all time, via never-before-seen archive and contributions from ...