Derek Jacobi

BBC presents Shakespeare's classic tale of betrayal, murder, and revenge. Rodney Bennett's television adaptation of Hamlet stars Derek Jacobi as the most complex of all Shakespeare’s characters. Prince Hamlet is told by his father's ghost that his uncle Claudius has murdered him and married his widow.

In 1973, Gen. Augusto Pinochet overtook Chile in a violent coup. During his 17-year rule, he gained a reputation as one of the world’s most oppressive dictators. This new HBO Film tells the fascinating story of Pinochet’s surprise arrest for crimes against humanity in 1998. Then retired, the 82-year-old former dictator went to Great Britain for a vacation that was to forever change his life—and the prospects for dictators across the globe. Emmy(R)-winning actor Derek Jacobi stars as Pinochet; also with Peter Capaldi, Phyllida Law and Anna Massey. Written and directed by Richard Curson Smith.

Blacklisted by the BBC after ruining Peter Pan, the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society hijack a live production of A Christmas Carol on stage.

Through The Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum is a documentary on the collections of books, instruments, and medical anomalies at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Mütter Museum. This short film, commissioned by the College, is the first made by the internationally recognized Quay Brothers in the United States. The coupling of the Quay Brothers' vision with the collections of the Mütter Museum and the College's Historical Medical Library has produced a riveting experience of contemplative set pieces in which the Quays find poetry in the ill-fated, true-life stories of the "ossified man" Harry Eastlack and famed Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker. Adding to the film's visual strength is a powerful musical score by composer Timothy Nelson and a resonant voice over by Derek Jacobi.

Actor Derek Jacobi narrates this portrait of author Graham Greene, a British spy, doubting Catholic and manic-depressive who wrote critically acclaimed best-sellers, including The Quiet American and The Third Man. The documentary weaves Greene’s novels and movies into the story of his life and reveals an extraordinary man who traveled the globe to escape the boredom of ordinary existence.

This is the story of 76 men trying to escape from Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp. 3 got home, 73 were captured, 50 of whom were secretly shot on the instructions of Hitler against every rule of War.

The life of Edward de Vere, an Oxford Earl and bisexual traveler in the 1500s, who discovered improv arts and may have written some Shakespeare works.

In this animated adventure, a timid mouse seeks help from a colony of intelligent rats to save her family, but the rats have their own problems.

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, a young and uncertain King Henry V defeats the French but learns that victory takes its toll in bloodshed.

An adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic of unrequited love, passion and injustice. Set in the year 1450 against the background of the Paris cathedral.

After being spotted dancing on high-rise girders, a construction worker joins the circus and gets paired with the owner's aerialist daughter.

In postwar France, a once-wealthy attorney deals with the fallout from a deadly deal he struck with a fellow inmate while imprisoned by the Nazis.

Mike Church (Branagh) is a L.A. gumshoe with a knack for tossing off wisecracks and tracking down missing persons. But Church doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim (Thompson) tormented by blood-curdling nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist (Derek Jacobi) leads Church to a startling discovery.

A former circus showman who was spared from death in a Nazi gas chamber becomes a ringleader for Holocaust survivors in an asylum after World War II.

A washed-up Hollywood action star (Kiefer Sutherland) takes a role in a small English village's Christmas pageant. With the help of the straight-talking choreographer and quirky cast, he embraces the holiday spirit to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Sibling assassins target a controversial atheist author but wind up killing the wrong man.

A prince leaves his city with only one thing on his mind: to avenge his father. However, he soon learns the truth about his father and his people.

Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author.

An emotionally frail code-breaker revisits the scene of his breakdown to crack a Nazi code and stop a deadly Russian plot, in this true story.