For the second time this series, or third if you count our episode on Doctor Zhivago, we find ourselves discussing the work of film director David Lean. Famous for his epics that pushed the limits of Hollywood technology and budgets, ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is undoubtedly his most ambitious work,  an epic amongst epics. Taking over a year to shoot, and shot largely on location in the Middle East, it had the second largest budget of any film made at the time, all while starring a borderline unknown. This project was one long-talked about in Hollywood, that had been attempted multiple times in the past few decades with little success.