Doctor Zhivago

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Opening scene introducing screenwriter Robert Bolt's plot device, Alec Guinness playing a Russian general as the half-brother of the hero, in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, 1965, from the Boris Pasternak novel.

Quick appearances by many principals, as Lara (Julie Christie) surprises Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), Yuri (Omar Sharif) and especially Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) at a Moscow party, in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Yuri, Tonya and Sasha (Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin, Jeffrey Rockland), with uncle Gromeko (Ralph Richardson) fleeing to the family estate in the Urals, hear tales of a heroic revolutionary warlord, who is revealed to be the long missing Pasha (Tom Courtenay), in David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Moscow, 1905, with Lara (Julie Christie) and Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) traversing the city, Yuri (Omar Sharif, title character) observes as strikers led by Pasha (Tom Courtenay) are attacked by imperial dragoons, uncle Gromeko (Ralph Richardson) to his rescue, in David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Lara (Julie Christie) has arranged for her powerful older lover Komarovsky (Rod Steiger) to meet and approve her idealistic boyfriend Pasha (Tom Courtenay), in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

Director David Lean's remarkable transition, from the opening in contemporary Russia, the meeting of Alec Guinness (as General Zhivago) and Rita Tushingham ("The Girl") to the dramatic funeral of her father's mother, in Doctor Zhivago, 1965.

A behind-the-scenes short describes the making of David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965) and the background of the book.

Illicit lovers fight to stay together during the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution in David Lean's epic adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago (1965).