Search Results for 'David Lean' (9 total)
Lawrence of Arabia
Directed by David Lean | Rated PG | 216 min | 1962
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Directed by David Lean | Rated PG | 161 min | 1957
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Doctor Zhivago
Directed by David Lean | Rated PG-13 | 197 min | 1965
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 during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
In Which We Serve
Directed by Noël Coward, David Lean | 115 min | 1942
This "story of a ship," the British destroyer HMS Torrin, is told in flash backs by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Brief Encounter
Directed by David Lean | 86 min | 1945
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
A Passage to India
Directed by David Lean | Rated PG | 164 min | 1984
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Great Expectations
Directed by David Lean | 118 min | 1946
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Oliver Twist
Directed by David Lean | 105 min | 1948
Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket ...
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Directed by David Lean | Rated N/A | 109 min | 1952
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.