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One woman can change the course of history

Overview

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Top Billed Cast

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    Nicole Kidman

    Gertrude Bell

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    James Franco

    Henry Cadogan

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    Damian Lewis

    Richard Wylie

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    Jay Abdo

    Fattuh, Bell's guide

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    Robert Pattinson

    T.E. Lawrence

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    Jenny Agutter

    Florence Bell

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    David Calder

    Hugh Bell

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    Christopher Fulford

    Winston Churchill

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    Nick Waring

    Sir Mark Sykes

> The woman who knew every inch of the middle-east! It is a kind of female version of 'Lawrence of Arabia', the lead actress herself told that. A biographical drama of a British woman who had played an important role in many middle-eastern affairs during the early 1900s. After the tragic death of the man she was madly in love, the young Gertrude Bell decides to travel across the middle-east to write about it and to do some archaeological research and other stuffs. After the decades of travel on all the corners of the region, what she achieved was the film disclosed in an inspiring way. I...