David Lean Movies

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

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

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

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...

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 drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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 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...

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

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...

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

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...