Culture

Paul Thomas Anderson's political thriller One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has been hailed as a "masterpiece", but won't break even at the box office.

Acclaimed new film The Mastermind, starring Josh O'Connor, tells the story of an art heist gone wrong. It's inspired by a wave of similar thefts at a time when society was in upheaval.

A critically acclaimed new documentary's "subversive" use of bodycam and CCTV footage helps it to detail a neighbourhood incident that became international news.

As fans honour the loss of R&B legend D’Angelo and recall his sensual, slow-burn video for Untitled (How Does It Feel), it’s time to consider if the artistry wasn’t skin-deep.

Anthology series Out of the Unknown, which premiered 60 years ago on the BBC, served up sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with technology, among other things.

As Guillermo del Toro’s new film is released, why is the message of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel still overshadowed?

Albert Speer distanced himself from the Nazis' atrocities at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in October 1946. In History revisits a 1970 BBC interview with Hitler's former friend.

A hotel manager's glimpse of something strange in 1933 helped to create a modern monster myth. In 1987, the BBC reported on the scientists who used sonar to hunt for Nessie.

On 2 October 1925, John Logie Baird transmitted a moving image of a human face. Forty years later, the world's first television star told the BBC about that dramatic moment.

Hair was infamous for its nude scene, but other aspects were just as radical. In 1968, its director told the BBC how it would have fallen foul of an outdated censorship law.

In 1955, the British Empire planted the Union flag in its last piece of territory – a bleak, uninhabited rock. A Royal Navy commander told the BBC about securing Rockall.

Martin Scorsese's crime epic was released 35 years ago. In 1990, the director and his stars, Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, revealed its secrets to the BBC.