The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries — Season 1, Episode 3: Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
Documentary • 36 min • 3 seasons, 98 episodes
Episode synopsis
He was an action hero as well as an intellectual hero. T.E. Lawrence escaped a safe office job during World War I to become a guerilla war mastermind in desert combat, fighting alongside Arabs to throw off the rule of the Ottoman Empire. But despite British promises of Arab independence, the Middle East would end up being carved by European colonial treaties, and Lawrence faced the challenges of keeping his word to his trusted compatriots of the desert.
About The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries
A series of documentaries covering a wealth of historical epochs touched upon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
- E2Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
- E4From Slavery to Freedom
- E5Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
- E6Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
- E7American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
- E8Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
- E9Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
- E10Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
- E11Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
- E12It's Opera!
- E13The Archduke's Last Journey - End of an Era