Derek Jacobi Movies

The glories of Ancient Rome are explored in ROMAN CITY, based on David Macaulay's acclaimed book. This animated and live-action video recounts life...

The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern...

Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles....

With the loss of Patroclus (his undeclared male lover), Greek warrior Achilles returns to the Trojan War.

The film looks at the places Charles Dickens lived and worked and how he used them in his novels and stories.

Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch. Their mission: assassinate the...

The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a...

Series of documentary pods chronicling every aspect of the production of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Released as an extra on the 2005 extended version...

Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy is a British family television film following the life of a border collie puppy as she grows up to become a...

The BBC delves into its archives to discover British acting greats as they take their first tentative steps on the road to success. Long before they...

Travel back to late 18th century Lowell, MA, now infamous for its textile mills and its "Lowell Girls," the poor, barely-educated waifs who helped...

Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves...

As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is as timid as a schoolboy before...

Two astronauts await the news that will decide their fate.

This existential comedic drama follows an ailing film director as he begins to shoot what he believes to be his final work of art. What starts out as...

A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant...

Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch....

IN 1988, rising star Kenneth Branagh tackled the role of Shakespeare’s prince of Denmark for the first time in his professional career under...

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking...