The Movies canon

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Subject·Colonialism✕clear
Epic

Lawrence of Arabia

Directed by David Lean
1962 · United Kingdom

There is no better argument for seeing a film on the largest screen you can find: Lean's desert swallows the frame, and a British officer dissolves inside it over nearly four hours.

★ 9.8