An Oscar can only, officially, be sold for $1 – but that hasn’t stopped a small but lucrative black market. Where are all those that have disappeared?

From two incarnations of Churchill to uncannily similar terrorist attacks on the White House, the film industry can’t resist repeating itself

Lynyrd Skynyrd flew it, Ludacris stamped on it and Spike Lee compared it to a swastika. In the era of Black Lives Matter, what do these battles reveal about the American South’s Confederate flag?

Gloria Grahame? Tilda Swinton? Viola Davis? Our chief critic selects a champion from previous Oscar winners – and shares the result of the readers’ vote

Whether they tackle war, Soviet monotony or working-class suffering, the movies that countries take to their collective hearts tend to transcend age and class. We run through nine local treasures – and a few that fall just short