The Package - 1989 Starring Gene Hackman and Tommy Lee Jones. Hackman, as a career Army sergeant, becomes involved in a plot by dissident Russian and US Army officers to sabotage disarmament talks by assassinating the Russian president. Jones is the designated assassin. The piping scene takes place at a wreath-laying ceremony attended by the American and Russian presidents prior to the reception in Chicago where the assassination is to take place. A full pipe band plays Amazing Grace and The Minstrel Boy. The film which takes place in Chicago features the Emerald Society Pipes & Drums of the Chicago Police Department. The scene was filmed on a brutally cold day in February near the University of Chicago. D/M W. E. Halley writes that they were out there for nearly four and a half hours filming that scene. At least it was sunny that day; the next day Chicago had a blizzard.
Paratrooper - Alan Ladd is a Yank volunteer in a Canadian or possibly English airborne unit (WW II). The unit's SMJ is a Scot, always saying "Pity the man who wasn't born in the Highlands and hears the pipes." Not a dry eye after he steps on a mine, and insists he can hear the pipes as he's dying. Indeed, he can, reinforcements are coming.
The Party - 1968 Directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers as a bumbling Indian actor, the movie begins with an attempted re-make of the famous Gunga Din scene, complete with pipers.
Patton - 1970 173 minutes. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott and Karl Malden, the film tells the story of the North African campaign starting just before General George S. Patton Jr. took over command in 1943 of an American component of the Anglo/American force. It ends with the surrender of Germany and Patton's relief from command. Montgomery's pipe band plays Scotland the Brave when the two armies join forces in a victory parade in Sicily.
Paul McCartney - A Paul McCartney concert shows up periodically on the Disney channel and has a rendition of the Mull of Kintyre to the accompaniment of a Pipe Band.
Petite Paudete - pipes and hurdy-gurdy.
A Perfect World - No one in this movie, featuring Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood, plays the bagpipes on screen, but a record is played that has a bagpipe on it. This comes near the end of the movie when Kevin's character is dancing with the farmer's wife. The recording is of a Cajun band playing a walz called, Big Fran's Baby, composed by Clint Eastwood (no kidding). There is no mention of who was the piper.
The Pest - 1997 82 minutes - Pestario "Pest" Vargas (John Leguizamo) owes the Scottish Mafia some money and they try to collect it. There are a few scences of where the great highland bagpipes are played.
The Playboy of the Western World- the hero plays Uilleann pipes.
The Pipes, the Pipes are Calling - This is a documentary about bagpipes. It shows such things as Finbar Furey on the Uilleann pipes, a large festival in France with lots of pipes and hurdy-gurdys, an inteview in Nova Scotia with John Walsh about making shuttle pipes, and a Northumbrian piping festival in Vermont. It was produced by (and is available from) SeaBright in Nova Scotia.
Poltergiest II - (TV) There is an episode in which the principles are sent a group of objects, one of which is a very old set of bagpipes, which are promptly lifted from the box, dust flying, and played by a woman who has not bothered to check reeds or tune. Ah well, reality is not a strong suit of the series. Videlicet, some evil pixies in the form of microscopic bagpipe-playing knights and proceed to fly around attacking the humans. They are only sedated by the continued piping of the woman.
The Postmistress - This is described as a funny madcap Canadian film set in the backwoods, the main theme of which was a nymphomaniac postmistress and her designs on the local engineer. But, the story included a half-Scot, half-Italian (named Mario? Marco?) who played the bagpipes and wore the tartan.
Postmortem - (1998) A piper plays "Amazing Grace" at a funeral in the last scene of the film. We actually get to see a lot of the piper.
Power Rangers - (TV, 1997?) Mike Reynolds (of Dead Poets Society) appears as a geeky bagpipe player in an episode in which the power rangers wanted to form a band for the tallent show.
Prehystrical 4 A miniture golf course falls on hard times, and the owner's brother tries to buy him out. The daughter talks with a (bad) Scottish accent and she plays Caberfeidh on the pipes despite the disadvantage of collapsed drones.