Ally McBeal - TV series - One of the lawyers [Peter McNicol] plays the pipes in a couple of episodes. On one occasion, he plays at the funeral of his pet frog, in another he plays to relax before going into court (presumably as a dramatic effect to show how eccentric he is). It's hard to be sure, but if he isn't actually playing the chanter, he's doing a good imitation of it.
America's Funniest Home Videos (a $100,000 Grand Prize episode)- The Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band piped Bob Sagat in to the tune of Scotland the Brave. Also at the end of the show, the band comes back out and plays the AFHV Theme music on the pipes. Incongruous.
Anne of Green Gables - There was a series of these films. In the (pathetic) 2000 conclusion to Sullivan's 1985 and 1987 Anne of Green Gables films, set during WWI, there is a scene where a lone piper, (unlike the previous ones wearing only a kilt with fatiqgues & Glengarry), plays Scotland the Brave, probably to encourage enlistments. In another 1980s Canadian production, there is a piper in a wedding scene who plays "The Lillle Kidnappers.
Anzio - Staring Peter Faulk and Robert Mitchum this picture has a couple of segments where some British troops were being piped onto the transport ship.
Are You Being Served? - a British comedy made for TV - one episode contained a piping scene.
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Army of Darkness - 1993 95 minutes - Directed by Sam Raime, this movie is a violent comedy in which the main character played by Bruce Campbell and his car are transported back in time to the midst of an Arthurian war. It contains a short clip of skeleton soldiers marching with bagpipes, but the only bagpipey-like sound is a fake orchestral drone.
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Avengers - (TV) An episode called "Castle De'Ath", from the fourth Avengers season (1965/1966) takes place in a Scottish manor. In the final seconds of the episode, Emma Peel [Dianna Rigg] pulls out a set of toy highland bagpipes and proceeds to play them with only one hand on the chanter! Despite this apparent disadvantage, the sound of a full-size set of well-tuned, well-played highland bagpipes emerged. Now, why can't I do that?
The Avengers - 1998 movie There is a scene in it where Sean Connery, in marvelous highland dress, addresses an international summit of some kind. In the background are 4 to 6 fully uniformed pipers standing at rigid attention. Although the blowsticks are in their mouths, not a note is heard. One can't help wondering why they were there in the first place. Did they play so badly that their scene was cut short?