Twenty five years ago, The Marshall Mathers LP became notorious for its offensive lyrics. Now it's an even more divisive listen.

Having reached Everest's summit for the first time in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay shared, with elation and relief, their victory with the BBC.

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong's dystopian feature film debut, premiering on HBO, imagines a world run by super-rich tycoons, and has "timely resonance" in this "high-tech moment".

With a record 15-minute standing ovation at its world premiere, Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value is winning rave reviews and generating the biggest buzz from the Cannes Film Festival.

Set in the military dictatorship of 1970s Brazil, The Secret Agent "makes up in pulpy excitement what it lacks in subtlety", and "bursts with sex, shoot-outs and sleazy hitmen".

After years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, director Jafar Panahi returns with the taut and twisting It Was Just an Accident.

When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood's idea of a mainstream hit. In its Academy Award-winning year, the BBC spoke to one of its actors.

In May 1943, a specially formed RAF squadron embarked on a daring moonlit mission. In 1976, the BBC spoke to one of the airmen who made it home alive.

On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison. While their fate remains unknown, the ingenuity of their escape continues to captivate.

In 1956, Commander "Buster" Crabb disappeared during a visit to the UK by Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. In 2006, a BBC reporter read the files that detailed his secret mission.

CIA officer Aldrich Ames spent nearly a decade selling secrets to the Soviet Union, leading to the deaths of at least 10 Western agents. In 1994, the BBC spoke to one of the spies he betrayed.

In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, the forged diaries were an extraordinary hoax.