Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi and Daniel Craig star as artist Francis Bacon and his muse George Dyer in John Maybury’s darkly exquisite biopic.

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.

Through one man's eyes, Dickens' classic story of Victorian London comes alive in this epic tale of love and injustice. As Arthur Clennam uncovers dark family secrets, he finds both corruption and unexpected hope in society's shadows.

The early life of Roman ruler Julius Caesar as told in three working prisons in South Africa, the UK and Canada. A small group of professional actors is joined by a cast of to tell the story of one of history's foremost personalities.

In CHARLES DICKENS'S ENGLAND, Derek Jacobi takes the viewer around the most important places, towns and cities that were the inspiration to some of the most famous settings in literature. The DVD features Cooling Church in Kent, used by the author in the opening chapter of Great Expectations; Miss Havisham's house in Rochester; the almost forgotten London Roman Baths used by David Copperfield; Joe Gargey's cottage in Chalk, the notorious Bowes Academy, the harshest of the Yorkshire schools and now known to the world as Dotheboys Hall. From Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight and then on to numerous London locations; from Chatham to Broadstairs; from Folkestone to Barnard Castle and then to St George's Hall in Liverpool. Well over 100 locations are featured. Many of these, such as 58 Lincoln's Inn Fields where Dickens first read in public, the All The Year Round offices in Covent Garden where he lived and worked and Gad's Hill in Kent, the last in a very long list of his homes, are not open to the public and their interiors have rarely been filmed.

Hamlet returns home to learn that his father, the King, has recently died and his mother, Gertrude, has already married his uncle, Claudius.

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.

The story of a young orphan girl who goes to live with her aloof, hunchback uncle and his mysterious family, and discovers a locked garden which becomes the greatest mystery of all!

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.

At the start of WWII, Joe Maddison embarks on a journey of self-discovery.

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

'Morris: A Life With Bells On' follows the fortunes of avant-garde folk dancer, Derecq Twist and his team in their struggle to modernise the folk dance. In doing so, they antagonise 'The Morris Circle' (the sinister governing body of Morris dance in England) led by the formidable Quentin Neeley (Derek Jacobi) and his enforcer, Endeavour (Ian Hart).

Tolkien explores the formative years of the orphaned author.

In a grand country manor, a sinister butler resents his employer's libertine lifestyle and uses dark magic to take possession of his mind.

Peter Miller, a reporter, comes across the diary of a death camp survivor and begins his search for a Nazi who has gone into hiding.

When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, it fights back by galvanizing the local community.

A young aristocrat in turn-of-the-century England struggles with the constraints of his class society as he falls in love with a merchant's daughter.