David Lean Movies

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

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...

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

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....

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

Straight-to-DVD documentary produced by Passport International detailing the life of Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif with briefly concentrating on the...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...