Lawrence of Arabia
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
See moreGreat Expectations
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...
See more49th Parallel
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...
See moreHobson's Choice
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for...
See moreBrief Encounter
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with...
See moreRyan's Daughter
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.
See moreIn Which We Serve
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...
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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...
See morePygmalion
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...
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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...
See moreThe Sound Barrier
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
See moreThe Passionate Friends
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
See moreOne of Our Aircraft Is Missing
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more)...
See moreThis Happy Breed
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs...
See moreLost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor
Director David Lean became involved in the search for an anchor lost by Captain Cook in 1773. This documentary follows the search for this...
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