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Desert films: 10 to try

With David Lean’s Middle Eastern epic Lawrence of Arabia celebrating its 50th anniversary, we recommend 10 other great sand-blown desert classics.

Yash Chopra: tribute to a Bollywood great

Rachel Dwyer pays tribute to the late Bollywood legend, whose career bridged the Hindi cinema of the 1950s and the globalising India of today.

Video: Steve Crossan on Archiving the Future

Steve Crossan, Head of Google’s Cultural Institute, explores the questions facing moving image archiving in the digital age.

My favourite modern vampire films

From Buffy and Blade to the Twilight series, the vampire film has flourished since the early 1990s. Author Ken Gelder chooses his favourites.

Lawrence of Arabia: 50 years ago

Fifty years after the royal premiere of David Lean’s epic, Patrick Fahy turns back the clock to a very special Arabian night in Leicester Square.

Bitter victory: Ealing’s The Ship That Died of Shame

Sailing against the tide of nostalgic 50s war dramas, this late Ealing drama tells a darker story about postwar Britain.

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