This weekend, travel back in time to 1962, when David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia hit the big screen with its even bigger desert panoramas. Then, travel even further back to World War I, when the film’s misfit lieutenant, based on a real-life T.E. Lawrence, arrives in the Arabian Peninsula. For nearly four hours, a dazzling blue-eyed Peter O’Toole endures hazy sun, hot sand, gold, greed, and warfare. The film is an epic tale of man and country that is both gruesomely honest and universally beloved. – Sarah Andrews
