Adventure · History · War
Lawrence of Arabia
Avg rating 8.9 / My rating TBC
1962 · Directed by David Lean · With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
- Historical Epic
- War Film
- Classical Hollywood
In 1916 a restless, unconventional British officer is sent into the Arabian desert and becomes entangled in a revolt against the Ottoman Empire. David Lean's film is a huge, patient portrait of a man and a landscape, more interested in ambition and identity than in battle.
Film info
- Runtime
- 3h 48m · 228 min
- Format
- Shot in 70mm widescreen. Seeing it on a large screen, or the largest you can, makes a real difference.
- IMDb
- 8.3 / 10 (334,419 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 93% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 100 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (audience, 3,601 votes)
- Trailer
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