It has been 60 years since David Lean made one of his masterpieces, and the film was controversial for many years, thanks to the fact that it was based on a banned book. There are few filmmakers as ...

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

The 1965 film Doctor Zhivago, directed by David Lean, is a sweeping romantic epic based on Boris Pasternak’s Nobel Prize-winning novel. Set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, the movie ...

At least one of the musicals that I see on Broadway each season leaves me shaking my head and muttering “What were they thinking?” on the way out of the theater. “Doctor Zhivago,” which purports to be ...