desert setting

His epic films like 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago' use vast desert landscapes as both a character and a crucible for human ambition and conflict.

His spaghetti westerns, particularly 'Once Upon a Time in the West,' transform barren desert terrain into a mythic space where morality and violence collide.

His documentaries and narrative films obsessively explore hostile desert environments as metaphors for human obsession and the sublime power of nature.