David Lean Movies

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

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.