Culture

This year's Toronto International Film Festival featured a host of talent – and, at the BBC's exclusive photo studio, they discussed the projects that define their life and careers.

Lavinia Fontana is considered the first female professional artist. Were her suggestive nudes a commercial choice, a rebellion against her father – or a clue to her inner life?

Once a symbol of tech's promise, Holmes was brought down by her false claims about a blood-testing device. Now gripping new film You Can See Everything explores her baffling character.

Telling the stories of three gay men across a century, this sweeping but relatively low-budget drama is second favourite to The Odyssey for the Academy's top prize.

The Norse made it to Canada around the year 1000, and used it as a base to explore. The BBC has delved into the "lost history" of the first Europeans to cross the Atlantic.

After a volcano erupted on tiny Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, the 264 displaced islanders told the BBC about their first taste of modern British life.

On 29 September 1947, the "biggest murder trial in history" began. Seventy years on, the chief prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, told the BBC how he fought to bring 22 killers to justice.

In 1968, the BBC broadcast extracts from JRR Tolkien's last ever recorded interview, 31 years after The Hobbit was published. In 2019, the full video was unearthed from the archive.