The Emmy award winning miniseries event about one man's larger-than-life adventures is brought to life by pioneering special effects and an all-star cast that includes Ted Danson, Peter O Toole, Alfre Woodard, Omar Sharif and Mary Steenburgen.

The Emmy award winning miniseries event about one man's larger-than-life adventures is brought to life by pioneering special effects and an all-star cast that includes Ted Danson, Peter O Toole, Alfre Woodard, Omar Sharif and Mary Steenburgen.

Based on the true story of the greatest long-distance horse race ever run, "Hidalgo" is an epic action-adventure and one man's journey of personal redemption. Held yearly for centuries, The Ocean of Fire -- a 3,000 mile survival race across the Arabian desert -- was a challenge restricted to the finest Arabian horses ever bred, the purest and noblest lines, owned by the greatest royal families. In 1890, a wealthy sheik invited an American and his horse to enter the race for the first time. Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) was a cowboy and dispatch rider for the us cavalry who had once been billed as the greatest rider the west had ever known. The sheik (Omar Sharif) would put this claim to the test, pitting the American cowboy and his mustang, Hidalgo, against the world's greatest Arabian horses and Bedouin riders- some of whom were determined to prevent the foreigner from finishing the race. For Frank, the ocean of fire becomes not only a matter of pride and honor, but a race for his very survival as he an

In the middle of the desert stands the most extraordinary of all human monuments. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that has survived. With astonishingly realistic special effects, the film takes us back to Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago, where Nakht (voiced by Omar Sharif), a fictional laborer, is conscripted from his village by the Nile to join the 25,000-strong workforce in the desert plateau, where an impressive burial site is being constructed for King Khufu. From water bearer in the limestone quarries, he works his way up through the ranks to senior overseer. Through his eyes we see the construction of the greatest tomb ever known. Brilliantly polished casing stones clad the pyramid and the top (which Nakht helps nudge into place) sparkles with a gold capstone. The base covers 13 acres and is level to within less than one inch.

A boy from a broken home finds a friend in an insular, spiritual shopkeeper in this period drama from writer/director Fran ois Dupeyron. Set in 1960s Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran revolves around Momo (Pierre Boulanger), a young man who lives alone with his father in the bustling Rue Bleu district. Still smarting over the separation from his wife and other son, Momo's dad neglects his son in ways both minor and major, to the point where the teen spends most of his time out of school alone and isolated. He finds an unlikely ally in Monsieur Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), a Muslim shopkeeper who spends most of his days behind the counter of his store reading the Koran. As time passes, Momo and Ibrahim begin to bring each other out of his respective shell, sharing a series of everyday adventures, culminating in Momo's indoctrination into Ibrahim's faith. Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fleurs du Coran played the {~Toronto} and {~Venice} film festivals; at the latter, Sharif was given a lifetime achievement awa

The Asian conqueror (Omar Sharif) and his mentor (Stephen Boyd) vie for the same woman in Genghis Khan (1965).

A doctor (Omar Sharif) is swept up in the events of the Russian Revolution in David Lean's epic, Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Behind the scenes on the filming of David Lean's 1965 film adaptation of the Boris Pasternak novel starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie.

A behind the scenes featurette on the making of Mayerling (1968) starring Omar Sharif, Catharine Deneuve and James Mason.