The classic 1955 film "The Dam Busters" was filmed at the Upper Derwent Valley reservoirs, where practice flights for the bombing raids on the Ruhr dams had been made during the Second World War.
"The Terror of Blue John Gap" Sira Arthurja Conana Doyla (1859-1930) pripoveduje strašne dogodke v rudnikih Blue John, in Sherlock Holmes raziskuje ugrabitev otroka v regiji v "The Adventure of the Priory School".