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Here are the films to see this month, including the second instalment of Wicked, a new Knives Out mystery and several potential Oscar contenders.

Aviator Alfred Buckham created some of the earliest and most awe-inspiring bird's-eye images - to achieve them, he employed perilous, death-defying acts of ingenuity.

As people around the world mark Halloween, our editors pick the frightening scenes that have truly stayed with them.

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat is a deceptively simple image of a real-life murder. But a closer look at the iconic painting reveals the political messages contained within.

From an all-star legal drama starring Kim Kardashian, to Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan's new sci-fi series, and the fifth and final season of Netflix's Stranger Things.

Elizabeth II's sister had to choose between ending her engagement and renouncing her title in 1955. Or did she? In 1978, the BBC talked to the war hero who almost married a princess.

An unhappy bride plotting others' downfalls, the 19th-Century anti-heroine is one of the great roles for women - and as new film Hedda is released, she remains controversial.

The Nazi high command was put on trial 80 years ago in 1945. The new film Nuremberg draws on a little-known detail of the tribunal to ask enduring questions about the nature of evil.

Man Ray's 1924 image Le Violon d'Ingres, of a woman's body transformed into a violin, has continued to fascinate, confuse and upset viewers, more than 100 years on.

Forty years ago, the mad scientist comedy-horror was released to meagre box-office. But its shock value and outrageous humour soon made it a cult favourite among horror fans.