Colonel T.E. Lawrence, who had started the Great War as an English archaeologist working in the Middle East, helps to lead the Arab Revolt of 1917 against the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany and...

Colonel T.E. Lawrence, who had started the Great War as an English archaeologist working in the Middle East, helps to lead the Arab Revolt of 1917 against the Ottoman Empire, an ally of Germany and Austria. As a fluent Arabic speaker and a believer in the Arabs' cause, Lawrence finds himself fighting the political bad faith of the British Empire as well as the crumbling imperial power of the Turks. A dashing and clever desert fighter, he ends the war as a legend and changes his name to get away from the international spotlight.