As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated painting, The Fighting Temeraire.

Behind the creation of the festival's most iconic and outrageous costumes – from wardrobe malfunctions to insider tips and viral sensations.

Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired Hitchcock's classic among others.

Twelve suspects were put on trial in April 1964. More than a decade later, several of them talked to the BBC about the notorious heist.

The Ex Machina director's new epic starring Will Poulter and Cosmo Jarvis was co-directed with a former US Navy Seal, and according to BBC Culture it "does what film does best".

A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, geographical and industrial change.

After two planes collided, three hydrogen bombs hit a Spanish village, and one fell into the sea nearby. Two years later, villagers talked to the BBC about the terrifying accident.

Gates and Paul Allen launched computing giant Microsoft 50 years ago. In 1993, he talked to the BBC about the online innovations that would define the 21st Century.

In March 1944, 76 officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp. In 1977, a key member of the escape team talked to the BBC about the mission, and the Hollywood film it inspired.

Stylish and experimental, Breathless heralded a new era of film-making when it was released 65 years ago. In 1964, its director told the BBC why he broke every rule he could.

The story of Schindler's heroism became a novel and a film. But in 1982, author Thomas Keneally told the BBC that this was all thanks to a chance meeting with a luggage salesman.

The author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, spoke to the BBC in 1986 about the appeal of the comic series for tech executives.