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Manufacturer: Entertainment in Video
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Tony Curran, Derek Jacobi, Bill Nighy
Directed By: Len Wiseman

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, John Hurt

Originally released in 1974, The Odessa File is set in Hamburg a decade earlier. Its starting-point is the Nazi support network Odessa, and its involvement with Egyptian plans to destroy Israel. Peter Miller is a freelance journalist whose interest appears initially to be a professional one, before a personal dimension finally becomes apparent in his confrontation with SS Captain ...

Manufacturer: Uca
Starring: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi
Directed By: Ronald Neame

The Gathering Storm is a fictionalised portrayal of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine during their wilderness years of the 1930s. It deservedly won numerous awards, including an Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe in recognition of Albert Finney's wonderful central performance. Equally deserving were those for all aspects of the production design: period wardrobe, set dressing and use of ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey
Directed By: Richard Loncraine

Manufacturer: Bfi Video
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, Adrian Scarborough, Anne Lambton
Directed By: John Maybury

Manufacturer: Acorn Media UK Ltd
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Stuart Wilson, Jane Seymour
Directed By: David Giles

In his book, Robert C. O'Brien called his brave widow mouse "Mrs. Frisby", but Disney escapee animator Don Bluth must have thought children would laugh the wrong way at that. They renamed her "Mrs. Brisby" for The Secret of NIMH. That acronym stands for the National Institute of Mental Health, and the rats that live near Mrs. Brisby came from NIMH--they have strange ways. But they're ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Arthur Malet, Hermione Baddeley
Directed By: Don Bluth

A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, it is now available as two double video packs. After chronicling the foundations of the British Empire in Elizabeth R (1971), the BBC chose to dramatise the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert ...

Manufacturer: Movie Power
Starring: Derek Jacobi, John Hurt, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker

A truly epic saga of dynastic conflict at the heart of Imperial Rome, I Claudius was the landmark BBC drama series of the 1970s. Originally transmitted as 13 50-minute episodes, it is now available as two double video packs. After chronicling the foundations of the British Empire in Elizabeth R (1971), the BBC chose to dramatise the human face of ancient Rome as interpreted by Robert ...

Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, John Hurt

Ridley Scott's glossy historical epic Gladiator revitalised the classic sword 'n' sandal genre, bringing both a modern pop-culture sensibility and state-of-the-art computer-generated special effects to what had seemed like a worn-out formula. Essentially a remake of Anthony Mann's stodgy 1964 Fall of the Roman Empire, Gladiator also borrows heavily from Saving Private ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris
Directed By: Ridley Scott