A truly epic epic and winner of 7 Academy Awards. Lawrence serves British colonial interests during the First World War by uniting the Arabs against the fast collapsing Ottoman Empire. Stupendous cinemascope drama with a cast of thousands and some of cinema's most famous shots; Sheik Ali's emergence from the desert haze and the storming of Aquaba for example. This is the director's cut, a more coherent version than the original cinema release. find out more...

Emiliano Zapata was the reluctant but impassioned revolutionary hero who gave the Mexican people the courage to rise up and fight against their brutal and corrupt president. As much high adventure as it is a political and historical epic, Viva Zapata has some fine performances, but it rides dangerously close to melodrama at times, a genre ill suited to the subject. find out more...