Beginning with "Bridge on the River Kwai" in 1957, the only David Lean film I would rate less than 5 stars is "A Passage to India" and I would give it 4.8. "Ryan's Daughter" is simply one of those films that any serious creator of a DVD library should have on his/her top 25 list. It is so spectacular that, for the life of me, I can't imagine what has taken so long for it to arrive in DVD format. As with all his films, Lean's cinematography is truly unequalled, but there isn't a single ingredient with which one can find reasonable fault. "Ryan's Daughter" is what filmmaking should always be and so rarely is.