Derek Jacobi Movies

Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.

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....

In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from God.

It's Christmas, and Angelina Mouseling (Finty Williams) is auditioning for the lead role in the musical extravaganza, Cinderella Mouse and the Ugly...

We mark 60 glorious years of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running soap, with a celebration of the women who have ruled the roost in...

An eccentrically-dressed stranger gets off a train and within a few days has endeared himself to the citizens of the town with his jovial behaviour...

Follow the breathtaking adventures of divers looking for pearls in the Persian Gulf and learn how the gems brought fortune to the islands of Bahrain.

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...

A drama about greed, the film will focus on a group of men corrupted by greed, who, in their desperation, are drawn together for one night to play a...

This film explores many of his key canvases which have been newly filmed in HDTV. The works are complemented solely with Bacon’s own words,...

A talented young violinist enrols at an isolated music school. But when he begins having visions of the other students dead, he realises there is a...

We've all had "one of those days" - when nothing seems to go right, when life just seems to be dealing you one poor hand after another. Unfortunately...

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

Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."

Over a million people a year are injected with animal venom, and many thousands die. We see how the nine main types of venom work their damage in the...

A claymation adaptation of "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In". The Chimes was a short novel by...

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels...

John is a special forces operative who retires after his family is killed in a terrorist bombing, but his former bosses have other plans. He is...

The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

A documentary about the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen that eventually was...