Listmania!
David Lean: His Life and Films
By an Amazon.com customer
David Lean: A BiographyDavid Lean: A Biography by Kevin Brownlow
Buy used from: $6.59
Brownlow's book is the best and most thorough biography of Lean's life.
Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David LeanBeyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean by Gene D. Phillips
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $19.00
Another good study of Lean and his films.
David Lean: An Intimate PortraitDavid Lean: An Intimate Portrait by Lady Sandra Lean
Buy used from: $4.03
A biography co-written by Lean's widow, the last of his six wives.
Lawrence of Arabia: The 30th Anniversary Pictorial HistoryLawrence of Arabia: The 30th Anniversary Pictorial History by L. Robert Morris
Buy used from: $8.99
An excellent study of Lean's greatest film.
In Which We ServeIn Which We Serve
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $10.75
The first film Lean directed (in collaboration with Noel Coward), it is a great tale of the crew of a British destroyer in World War II.
David Lean's This Happy Breed ~ by Noel Coward and Ronald Neame [Import, All-regions] (1944)David Lean's This Happy Breed ~ by Noel Coward and Ronald Neame [Import, All-regions] (1944)
Buy used from: $7.94
Lean's second directorial effort and his second collaboration with Coward was a portrait of a British family between the wars.
Blithe Spirit [Import]Blithe Spirit [Import]
A second wife finds herself competing with her predecessor for her husband's attention -- even though the first wife is dead.
Brief Encounter - Criterion CollectionBrief Encounter - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $23.99
A classic of cinema, this was Lean's last collaboration with Coward and earned him his first Oscar nomination as a director.
Great Expectations (1946) (Criterion Collection Spine #31)Great Expectations (1946) (Criterion Collection Spine #31)
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $19.99
The first of Lean's adaptations of a Dickens novel.
Oliver Twist (1948) - Criterion CollectionOliver Twist (1948) - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $21.99
Summertime - Criterion CollectionSummertime - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $15.97
A romantic film about an American spinster who finally finds love while on a trip to Italy -- but with a married man.
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Limited Edition)The Bridge on the River Kwai (Limited Edition)
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $12.47
Lean received his first Oscar as a director for this film, a great tale of British prisoners-of-war working on a Japanese railway in the jungles of Burma.
Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)Lawrence of Arabia (Limited Edition)
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $5.50
Lean's greatest film, it won him his second Academy Award for Best Direction.
Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $9.97
Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition)Ryan's Daughter (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $9.99
A romance tangled in Irish revolutionary politics during the First World War, the negative reception it received led Lean to abandon directing for over a decade.
A Passage to IndiaA Passage to India
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $10.99
Lean's last film, it's an adaptation of an E. M. Forster novel about a Englishwoman in 1920s India who accuses a young Indian doctor of assaulting her.