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Back to Basics (Christina Aguilera album)
Back to Basics is Christina Aguilera's fifth studio album, a 22-song double album released by RCA on August 15, 2006, drawing on 1920s-1940s blues, jazz, and swing; Metascore 69, with Candyman and Hurt among its songs.
Back to Bataan
Back to Bataan is a 1945 RKO World War II drama directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring John Wayne and Anthony Quinn, depicting Filipino guerrilla resistance after the fall of Bataan and the 1945 Cabanatuan raid.
Back to Black
Back to Black is the second studio album by English singer Amy Winehouse, released in 2006; it won five Grammys and was the UK's best-selling album of 2007.
Back to Black (film)
Back to Black (2024 film), Amy Winehouse biopic directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, written by Matt Greenhalgh, starring Marisa Abela; released April/May 2024, Metacritic 43, Rotten Tomatoes 35%, US gross $6.0M, estate-approved counterpart to the 2015 documentary Amy.
Back to Black (song)
"Back to Black" (2006) is the title track of Amy Winehouse's album Back to Black, written by Winehouse with producer Mark Ronson after he composed the verse chords overnight in March 2006; the breakup song about Blake Fielder-Civil was recorded with the Dap-Kings and charted in the UK in April 2007.
Back to Buenos Aires
Back to Buenos Aires, or Ritorno a Buenos Aires, is a 2026 Italian-Brazil drama directed by Marco Bechis. It depicts a doctor testifying against military officers from Argentina's dictatorship.
Back to December
Back to December: Taylor Swift song from Speak Now (2010), written solo and produced with Nathan Chapman; an apology ballad linked to Taylor Lautner, re-recorded as Back To December (Taylor's Version) in 2023.
Back to Friends
Back to Friends is a song by sombr, released December 27, 2024. It became a breakout hit after spreading on TikTok and topping the Spotify global chart.
Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) is a 1989 Soul II Soul single featuring Caron Wheeler, produced by Jazzie B and Nellee Hooper; UK number one for four weeks, US Billboard number four, Grammy-winning, recorded at Brittania Row, Islington.
Back to Life (TV series)
Back to Life: British dark comedy-drama (BBC Three/Showtime, 2019–2021), created by and starring Daisy Haggard with Laura Solon; ex-con Miri Matteson returns home after 18 years in prison; two six-episode seasons, Metacritic 88.
Back to Reality (Red Dwarf)
Back to Reality is the Series V finale of Red Dwarf (26 March 1992, BBC2), written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, in which a Despair Squid hallucination convinces the crew they scored 4% in a four-year video game. It repeatedly tops fan polls as the show's best episode and introduced Duane Dibbley.
Back to School
Back to School (1986) is an Orion Pictures comedy directed by Alan Metter, starring Rodney Dangerfield as millionaire Thornton Melon, who enrolls in college with his son; it grossed $91,258,000 domestically.
Back to the Beginning
Back to the Beginning: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne farewell benefit concert, 5 July 2025, Villa Park, Birmingham; original lineup's first show since 2005; Osbourne's final performance before his death 17 days later.
Back to the Dawn
Back to the Dawn (动物迷城) is a 2025 prison escape RPG by Metal Head Games and Spiral Up Games, released 17 July 2025 after Early Access from 2 Nov 2023. Play fox reporter Thomas or panther agent Bob, with 21 in-game days, 100+ quests, and multiple endings.
Back to the Egg
Back to the Egg, Wings' ninth and final studio album by Paul McCartney, released June 8, 1979 (UK) with Laurence Juber and Steve Holly, Rockestra guest sessions, and a 1980 Grammy for Rockestra Theme.
Back to the Future
Back to the Future is the 1985 Robert Zemeckis time-travel comedy starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, the top-grossing film of 1985, Oscar winner, and start of a trilogy, musical, and franchise.
Back to the Future (franchise)
Back to the Future (BTTF) franchise: Zemeckis and Gale's Universal/Amblin trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990) starring the DeLorean time machine, plus animated series, ride, Olivier-winning musical, and 2025 40th-anniversary releases.
Back to the Future (TV series)
Back to the Future, also Back to the Future: The Animated Series, is a 1991-1992 CBS cartoon continuing the film trilogy, with Christopher Lloyd in live-action Doc Brown segments, Dan Castellaneta voicing animated Doc, and Bill Nye's first TV appearances.
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part II (1989) is Robert Zemeckis's sequel starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, released November 22, 1989, earning $331,971,868 worldwide, shot back-to-back with Part III, and set partly on October 21, 2015.
Back to the Future Part III
Back to the Future Part III (1990) is Robert Zemeckis's Western-set finale to the Back to the Future trilogy, with Marty McFly traveling to 1885 Hill Valley to rescue Doc Brown, co-starring Mary Steenburgen and Thomas F. Wilson.
Back to the Future: The Game
Back to the Future: The Game is Telltale Games' five-episode 2010 point-and-click adventure set after Back to the Future Part III, with Christopher Lloyd as Doc, AJ LoCascio as Marty, and Bob Gale advising.
Back to the Future: The Ride
Back to the Future: The Ride was Universal's OMNIMAX motion simulator based on the film trilogy, with eight-passenger DeLorean vehicles; it ran at Universal Studios Florida (1991-2007), Hollywood (1993-2007), and Japan (2001-mid-2010s).
Back to the Outback
Back to the Outback is a 2021 Netflix animated comedy adventure directed by Clare Knight and Harry Cripps, in which Australian zoo animals including Maddie the taipan escape to the Outback; 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Back to the Rafters
Back to the Rafters is a 2021 six-episode Australian Amazon Prime Video drama reviving Packed to the Rafters; created by Bevan Lee, starring Rebecca Gibney and Erik Thomson, cancelled after one season.
Back translation
Back translation is a quality-check method for translated research instruments, introduced by Richard Brislin in 1970, in which a blind bilingual translates the target version back into the source language so divergences reveal meaning errors.
Back-arc basin
A back-arc basin is a region of rifting and seafloor spreading behind a volcanic arc at a convergent plate margin, first proposed for western Pacific marginal seas in 1971.
Back-contact solar cell
A back-contact solar cell is a crystalline silicon solar cell with both contacts on the rear, eliminating front gridline shading; it holds the silicon efficiency record at 27.8%.
Back-fire
Back-fire, also known as after-fire or afterfire, is abnormal combustion in which a fuel-air mixture ignites and flame travels backward through an engine's intake manifold or carburetor.
Back-gate biasing
Back-gate biasing is the technique of applying a voltage to the back gate of a transistor to tune its threshold voltage, trading speed against leakage after fabrication.
Back-pass rule
Back-pass rule: IFAB Law 12 provision, introduced 1992, banning goalkeepers from handling deliberate kicks or throw-ins from team-mates; extended 1997 with the six-second rule, replaced by an eight-second corner-kick sanction in 2025.