Oscars Retrospective: Lawrence of Arabia (35th Academy Awards Review)
Overture~Lawrence of Arabia - Maurice Jarre In terms of movies made about the World Wars, Lawrence of Arabia is the only movie I can think of that is specifically about the Far Eastern front of World War I. The vast majority of books, films and other works tend to focus on the Hellish Western front. Every now and then, you might get one based on the Eastern front and the ensuing Bolshevik Revolution. But I cannot think of a single other movie or (fictional) book about the Arab Revolt. For those who don’t know what the Arab Revolt was: the Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) used to control almost the entirety of the Middle-East and was one of the Central Powers in World War I. The British and French wanted to get rid of the Ottomans to both knock them out of the war and seize most of their possessions for themselves so they decided to instigate a revolt by the numerous Arab tribes subjugated by the Turks. Most of the boiling pot that is the modern-day Middle-East can be tra...
