David Lean

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A Passage to India
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A Passage to India

Dec. 14, 1984

A Passage to India

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a ...
Ryan’s Daughter
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Ryan’s Daughter

Mar. 19, 1970

Ryan’s Daughter

In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
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The Greatest Story Ever Told

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 ...
Doctor Zhivago
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Doctor Zhivago

Dec. 22, 1965

Doctor Zhivago

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences ...
Lawrence of Arabia
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Lawrence of Arabia

Dec. 11, 1962

Lawrence of Arabia

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward ‘T.E.’ Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes ...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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The Bridge on the River Kwai

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 ...
Summertime
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Summertime

Jun. 21, 1955

Summertime

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 ...
Hobson’s Choice
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Hobson’s Choice

Apr. 19, 1954

Hobson’s Choice

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they’ll just have to outsmart him.
The Sound Barrier
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The Sound Barrier

Jul. 22, 1952

The Sound Barrier

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of ...
Madeleine
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Madeleine

Feb. 16, 1950

Madeleine

Madeleine’s middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her ...
The Passionate Friends
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The Passionate Friends

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who’s married to someone else, and her older husband.
Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist

Jun. 28, 1948

Oliver Twist

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 ...
Great Expectations
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Great Expectations

Dec. 26, 1946

Great Expectations

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a ...
Blithe Spirit
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Blithe Spirit

Apr. 05, 1945

Blithe Spirit

A harmless séance at a novelist’s home summons the ghost of his glamorous first wife.
Brief Encounter
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Brief Encounter

Nov. 24, 1945

Brief Encounter

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with ...
This Happy Breed
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This Happy Breed

May. 28, 1944

This Happy Breed

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
In Which We Serve
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In Which We Serve

Sep. 17, 1942

In 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 ...
Major Barbara
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Major Barbara

May. 14, 1941

Major Barbara

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the ...