Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The story of T E Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activists wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
An all star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ
Ryans Daughter (1970)
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it
A Passage to India (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
Hobsons Choice (1954)
Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesnt want to pay settlements, so theyll just have to outsmart him
Summertime (1955)
An American spinsters dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome but married Italian man while vacationing in Venice
Oliver Twist (1948)
In Charles Dickens classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home
Great Expectations (1946)
A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor
Blithe Spirit (1945)
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife
Brief Encounter (1945)
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband
The Sound Barrier (1952)
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight
Madeleine (1950)
Madeleines middle class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man they know nothing about her long term affair with a Frenchman
In Which We Serve (1942)
This story of a ship, the British destroyer H M S Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft
The Passionate Friends (1949)
A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago
This Happy Breed (1944)
Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out
Major Barbara (1941)
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her fathers business A comedy with social commentary