Find out when the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal is on TV in the UK, including local listings, channels and upcoming airings.
There are currently no scheduled TV airings for The Day of the Jackal in London — Freeview.
A group of conspirators contracts the Jackal, a professional hitman, to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle of France. The killer starts to put his painstaking plans into action, creating a new identity, establishing his alibi and commissioning a custom-made weapon, while out-foxing the French police at every turn. Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of Frederick's Forsyth thriller, with Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Tony Britton and Cyril Cusack