Jack Hawkins

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project—a strategic heist—in this British classic.

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

Ben-Hur's deservedly famous chariot racing scene occupies 20 minutes of a relentlessly epic 212 minutes of screen time, but much else besides happens in this famous 'Tale of the Christ'...

Winner of seven Academy Awards and regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made, David Lean's 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia is based on the life of eccentric British Officer T.E. Lawrence...

The tragic and true story of Czar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Imperial Russia, and his wife Alexandra. Ruling millions with an empire that stretched over more than one sixth of the world, they were doomed to die violently at the hands of their people in the bloody Russian revolution.

WWII drama from director David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) – winner of seven Academy Awards in 1957 (including Best Film) and named the 11th Best British movie ever by the BFI in 1999.