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Name: Lawrence of Arabia
Director: David Lean
Genre: adventure, history, war
Released: 1962
Duration: 3 h 48 min
Rating: 8.3

Lawrence of Arabia has an iRankMovies score of 88.7/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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Release:1962

Runtime:3h 48m

Country:United Kingdom

Director:David Lean

Language:English

Genre

AdventureHistoryWar

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Keywords

CairoWorld War IArabianHorseJerusalemBritish ArmyBritish EmpireDamascus

iRank89

Lawrence of Arabia rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.3/10· 334K votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic100%

TMDb8/10· 3K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.3/10 on IMDb and 100/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About 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 to fight the Turks.

Cast of Lawrence of Arabia

Peter O'Toole
as T.E. Lawrence
Alec Guinness
as Prince Feisal
Omar Sharif
as Sherif Ali
Anthony Quinn
as Auda abu Tayi
Jack Hawkins
as General Allenby
José Ferrer
as Turkish Bey
Anthony Quayle
as Colonel Harry Brighton
Claude Rains
as Mr. Dryden
Arthur Kennedy
as Jackson Bentley
Donald Wolfit
as General Murray
I.S. Johar
as Gasim
Gamil Ratib
as Majid

Lawrence of Arabia facts

Budget: $15M
Box office: $70M

Our take on Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean's 1962 epic charts T.E. Lawrence's transformation from eccentric British officer to messianic leader of the Arab revolt, across deserts shot with unmatched widescreen grandeur. Both a sweeping adventure and a troubled study of identity and hubris, it's the gold standard of the historical epic. If its scale and ambiguity gripped you, the great historical epics — Spartacus and beyond — share its monumental landscapes and larger-than-life figures.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Epic scale captures Arabian desert landscape and British imperial ambition spectacularly
•David Lean orchestrates massive battle sequences with precision and emotional weight
•Historically grounded adventure explores moral complexity of imperialism profoundly

What the audience disliked

•Extended runtime demands patience and may test viewer endurance over three hours
•Political nuance sometimes overshadowed by traditional hero narrative structure