- Mayday
2026 Nikolai Ustinov
- Atonement
2026 Michael Reid
- The Devil Wears Prada 2
2026 Stuart
- Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean
2026 David Lean (voice)
- The King of Kings
2025 Charles Dickens (voice)
- A Haunting in Venice
2023 Director
- Oppenheimer
2023 Niels Bohr
- Death on the Nile
2022 Director
- Fireheart
2022 Shawn Nolan (voice)
- Belfast
2021 Director
- Tenet
2020 Sator
- Artemis Fowl
2020 Director
- Lost Lives
2019 Narrator
- Avengers: Infinity War
2018 Asgardian Distress Call (voice) (uncredited)
- All Is True
2018 Director
- Dunkirk
2017 Commander Bolton
- Murder on the Orient Express
2017 Director
- Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
2016 Archie Rice
- Mindhorn
2016 Himself
- Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet
2016 Director
- Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale
2015 Director
- Cinderella
2015 Director
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
2014 Director
- National Theatre Live: Macbeth
2013 Stage Director
- Thor: The Dark World
2013 Producer
- London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder
2012 Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Stars in Shorts
2012 Mark Snow
- My Week with Marilyn
2011 Sir Laurence Olivier
- Discovering Hamlet
2011 Hamlet (archive footage)
- Prodigal
2011 Mark Snow
- Thor
2011 Director
- The Boat That Rocked
2009 Dormandy
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009 Narrator (voice)
- Valkyrie
2008 Henning von Tresckow
- Alien Love Triangle
2008 Steven Chesterman
- Sleuth
2007 Director
- James Ellis: An Actor's Life
2007 Himself
- As You Like It
2006 Director
- The Magic Flute
2006 Director
- Walking with Monsters
2005 Narrator (voice)
- Warm Springs
2005 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- The Goebbels Experiment
2005 Narrator (voice)
- Five Children and It
2004 Uncle Albert
- Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
2004 Narrator (voice)
- Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003 Himself / Narrator
- Listening
2003 Director
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 Gilderoy Lockhart
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
2002 A. O. Neville
- How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002 Peter McGowan
- The Tramp and the Dictator
2002 Narrator (voice)
- Conspiracy
2001 Reinhard Heydrich
- Schneider's 2nd Stage
2001 Joseph Barnett
- The Beasts Within
2001 Narrator (voice)
- Triumph of the Beasts
2001 Narrator (voice)
- The Road to El Dorado
2000 Miguel (voice)
- Love's Labour's Lost
2000 Director
- The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs
2000 Narrator
- The Book That Wrote Itself
2000 Kenneth Branagh
- Wild Wild West
1999 Dr. Arliss Loveless
- IMAX: Galapagos 3D
1999 Narrator
- The Periwig-Maker
1999 Periwig-maker (voice)
- The Theory of Flight
1999 Richard
- Wild Wild West: Loveless's Ladies
1999 Himself
- Wild Wild West: Evil Devices
1999 Himself
- Celebrity
1998 Lee Simon
- The Gingerbread Man
1998 Rick Magruder
- Universal Horror
1998 Narrator
- The Proposition
1998 Father Michael McKinnon
- The Dance of Shiva
1998 Colonel Evans
- Hamlet
1996 Director
- Othello
1995 Iago
- Shadow of a Gunman
1995 Donal Davoren
- Anne Frank Remembered
1995 Narration (voice)
- In the Bleak Midwinter
1995 Director
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994 Director
- Much Ado About Nothing
1993 Director
- Swing Kids
1993 Herr Knopp, Gestapo (uncredited)
- Peter's Friends
1992 Director
- Swan Song
1992 Director
- Dead Again
1991 Director
- Discovering Hamlet
1990 Himself / Hamlet
- Henry V
1989 Director
- Look Back in Anger
1989 Jimmy Porter
- Thames Wallah
1988 Narrator
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988 Director
- A Month in the Country
1987 James Moon
- High Season
1987 Rick
- Ghosts
1987 Oswald Alving
- The Lady's Not For Burning
1987 Thomas Mendip
- Lorna
1987 Billy Martin
- Coming Through
1985 D.H. Lawrence
- A Coming to Terms for Billy
1984 Billy Martin
- A Matter of Choice for Billy
1983 Billy Martin
- To the Lighthouse
1983 Charles Tansley
- Easter 2016
1982 Student
- Too Late to Talk to Billy
1982 Billy Martin
- Chariots of Fire
1981 Cambridge Student at Society Day (uncredited)
- Goblin
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