Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, in The Aviator

The film series of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia is launched with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, is a sensitive account of a homosexual relationship between two Wyoming cowboys

British actress Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth II in the film The Queen (for which she later wins an Oscar)

Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in a crime thriller, The Departed

Pina Bausch dies, just two days before shooting is due to begin on Pina, the Wim Wenders documentary later premiered at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival

The Fujifilm 3D W1 is the first camera on the market capable of taking stereoscopic images

An excerpt of an anti-Islamic film made in the USA, Innocence of Muslims, is broadcast in Egypt on a Muslim TV channel

Violent protests against the film Innocence of Muslims break out in Egypt and soon spread to other Muslim countries

US embassies in Yemen and Egypt are attacked, as the protests against Innocence of Muslims spread