* Homer Hickam, Jr .' s book Rocket Boys was adapted into the 1999 film October Sky.

The television, film, book, costume, home decoration, and confectionery industries use this time of year to promote products closely associated with such a holiday, with promotions going from early September to 31 October, since their themes rapidly lose strength once the holiday ends, and advertising starts concentrating on Christmas.

* 1967: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin reported that on October 20 they had captured a purported Sasquatch on film at Bluff Creek, California.

Production on The Circus resumed, and the film was completed in October 1927.

In October 2010, Love and Michael Mouris created an animated short film detailing Love's " kooky " fashion sense, titled The Dark Night of the Soul.

Preparations were made to film episode 923, to be transmitted Wednesday 29 October 1969, in colour.

On 23 October 2011, Variety reported that Elwes will make his directorial debut with an independent film, Elvis & Nixon.

Barrymore's directorial debut film Whip It, was released in October 2009.

The film premiered on October 15, 1981, and was released in 128 theaters on April 15, 1983.

François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984 ) was an influential filmmaker and film critic, one of the founders of the French New Wave.

The second experimental film, Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by Louis Le Prince on October 14, 1888 in Roundhay, Leeds, England, is now known as the earliest surviving motion picture.

The Bolshevik revolution in October 1917 did not eliminate the privately owned film companies at first, though production was reduced through 1918.

The date of its première, October 22, 1908, is considered the founding date of Polish film industry.

A film of the kidnapping De Heineken Ontvoering, with Rutger Hauer playing Freddy Heineken, was released in October 2011.

Federico Fellini (; January 20, 1920 – October 31, 1993 ) was an Italian film director and scriptwriter.

In an October 1960 letter to his colleague Brunello Rondi, Fellini first outlined his film ideas about a man suffering creative block: " Well then-a guy ( a writer?

Producer Alberto Grimaldi, prepared to buy film rights to all of Castaneda ’ s work, then paid for pre-production research taking Fellini and his entourage from Rome to Los Angeles and the jungles of Mexico in October 1985.

Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx ( October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 ) was an American comedian and film and television star.

The film was filmed from October to December 1927 and released in February 1928.

His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller ( 14 October 1945 — 13 November 1992 ), an Austrian film and television director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer.

The film premiered in New York on 20 October 1976, but was given a lukewarm reception by critics and fans.

On 13 September 2012 it was announced that a film of the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert, entitled Celebration Day, would premiere in theatres on 17 October 2012 and be released 19 November 2012.

In October 2011, BBC Four premiered the made-for-TV comedy film Holy Flying Circus, written by Tony Roche and directed by Owen Harris.

The film was later released on DVD in October 2004, and quickly went out of print the following year.

On October 26, 1996, a well-known gaming clan, the Rangers, surprised the Quake community with Diary of a Camper, the first widely known machinima film.

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill, ( although after 1948 Churchill never spoke to him again since he was famously annoyed with Mountbatten's later role in the independence of India and Pakistan ), and on 27 October 1941 Mountbatten replaced Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations and received promotion to commodore.

Over the next five years, according to Sayers ' short stories, the Wimseys have three sons: Bredon Delagardie Peter Wimsey ( born in October 1936 in the story " The Haunted Policeman "); Roger Wimsey ( born 1938 ), and Paul Wimsey ( born 1940 ).

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

* October 25 – Roger Désormière, French conductor ( b. 1898 )

* October 19 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader ( d. 1962 )

* October 1 – Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.

* October 25 – Roger Miller, American singer ( b. 1936 )

* October 4 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral ( d. 1945 )

* October 12 – Roger Taney, United States Supreme Court Justice ( b. 1777 )

* October 14 – Roger Moore, English actor

* October 9 – Rhode Island founder Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident, after speaking out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.

* October 26 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist ( b. 1621 )

* October 19 – King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, executing his regent Roger Mortimer.

In October 1970, Roger Lewis left and David S. Lewis from McDonnell Douglas was named CEO.

Boyle was born at Canterbury 3 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle ( d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent ), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan ( born 15 October 1529 at Canterbury-died 20 March 1586 ), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564.

* Roger Boyle ( 1 August 1606, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland – 10 October 1615, Deptford, Kent, England, where he was buried ).

" On 30 October 1137, at the Battle of Rignano ( next to Monte Gargano ), the younger Roger and his father, with Sergius of Naples, met the defensive army of Duke Ranulf.

Nine members of the Confédération Générale du Travail ( CGT ) trade union, most of them communists, were killed at Charonne métro station by the police forces, directed by the same Maurice Papon under the same government, with Roger Frey as Minister of Interior, Michel Debré as Prime minister and Charles de Gaulle as president, who did all they could to " dissimulate the scale of the October 17 crime " ( Jean-Luc Einaudi ).

Fort Jones was established on October 18, 1852, named in honor of Colonel Roger Jones, who had been the Adjutant General of the Army from March 1825 to July 1852, and would continue to serve Siskiyou County's military needs until the order was received to evacuate some six years later.

Roger Désormière (; 13 September 189825 October 1963 ) was a French conductor.