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Five Came Back
Five Came Back: 2017 Netflix three-part documentary miniseries directed by Laurent Bouzereau, written by Mark Harris from his 2014 book, narrated by Meryl Streep, about Hollywood directors Ford, Wyler, Huston, Capra, and Stevens in World War II.
Five Capitals and Fifteen Circuits of Balhae
The Five Capitals and Fifteen Circuits (오경십오부) was the territorial structure of the Balhae kingdom, recorded in the New Book of Tang, with five capitals and fifteen circuits supervising sixty-two prefectures.
Five Capitals of the Liao
The Five Capitals of the Liao (五京) were the five cities that simultaneously served as capitals of the Liao dynasty of China from 916 to 1125.
Five Capitals system
The Five Capitals system (五京制) was the practice of the Liao and Jin dynasties of designating five cities simultaneously as capitals, governed by local customs and completed in 1044.
Five cells
Five Cells is a Nikoli grid-division logic puzzle: partition a rectangular grid into connected five-cell regions using clues that count surrounding walls, including the grid edge. Solvability is NP-complete.
Five Chief Military Commissions
The Five Chief Military Commissions (五军都督府) were the five central military boards of the Ming dynasty, created around 1380 when the Hongwu Emperor split the single Chief Military Commission to scatter military power.
Five Civilized Tribes
The Five Civilized Tribes are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole nations of the southeastern United States, removed to Indian Territory, allotted under the Curtis Act via the Dawes Rolls, with Freedmen citizenship disputes continuing.
Five crowns
The five crowns, or Five Heavenly Crowns, are five New Testament passages mentioning crowns promised to believers, popularly taught as distinct rewards given at the judgment seat of Christ.
Five Crowns (card game)
Five Crowns is a five-suited rummy-style card game by Marsha J. Falco (SET Enterprises/PlayMonster) for 1-7 players, ages 8+, played over 11 rounds of 3 to 13 cards with a rotating wild card and lowest score winning.
Five Days (TV series)
Five Days is a BBC One crime drama serial co-produced with HBO and written by Gwyneth Hughes, in which five episodes each cover one non-consecutive day of a police investigation; series 1 (2007) drew 6.5 million viewers and series 2 aired in 2010.
Five Days at Memorial
Five Days at Memorial is Sheri Fink's 2013 Crown investigative nonfiction book on patient deaths and triage at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina, based on her Pulitzer-winning 2009 ProPublica/New York Times Magazine article, adapted as a 2022 Apple TV+ series.
Five Days at Memorial (2022 TV series)
Five Days at Memorial is an eight-episode Apple TV+ limited series (2022) by John Ridley and Carlton Cuse, adapted from Sheri Fink's book about Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina, starring Vera Farmiga and Cherry Jones.
Five Dolls for an August Moon
Five Dolls for an August Moon (5 bambole per la luna d'agosto) is a 1970 Italian giallo directed and edited by Mario Bava, starring William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, and Edwige Fenech, a Christie-style island whodunit about a resin formula.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (五代十国)
五代十国, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907–979): five short northern dynasties (Later Liang to Later Zhou) and ten southern kingdoms between Tang and Song, marked by jiedushi warlordism, the Sixteen Prefectures cession, southern economic growth, and Song unification.
Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces (1970) is Bob Rafelson's New Hollywood drama starring Jack Nicholson as pianist-turned-oil-rigger Bobby Dupea, with Karen Black; four Oscar nominations, NYFCC Best Film, National Film Registry 2000.
Five Element Ninjas (五遁忍术)
Five Element Ninjas (五遁忍术, aka Chinese Super Ninjas) is a 1982 Shaw Brothers martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh and written with Ni Kuang, in which Japanese element-based ninja squads battle a Chinese martial alliance; it earned HK$1,628,717 in Hong Kong and became a Western cult favorite.
Five Elms Capital
Five Elms Capital is a Kansas City, Missouri growth-equity firm founded by Fred Coulson in 2006 that invests $5 million to $75 million in lower-middle-market B2B software companies.
Five Enough (아이는 다섯)
Five Enough (아이가 다섯) is a 2016 KBS 2TV weekend family drama starring Ahn Jae-wook and So Yu-jin as a single father and single mother who remarry, blending five children into one family; it averaged 29.1% ratings over 54 episodes.
Five Evenings
Five Evenings is a 1958 two-act play by the Soviet playwright Alexander Volodin, in which Ilyin returns to Leningrad after seventeen years and spends five evenings with Tamara.
Five Eyes
Five Eyes (FVEY) is the intelligence-sharing alliance of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US, founded on the 1946 UKUSA signals intelligence agreement, declassified in 2010, with burden-sharing and joint oversight.
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) is a 39-item self-report questionnaire measuring five mindfulness facets: observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreactivity, published in 2006.
Five Families
The Five Families are New York City's major Italian-American Mafia organizations: Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese, formed after the 1930–31 Castellammarese War under Lucky Luciano's Commission. Once controlling rackets citywide, they remain active in gambling and labor racketeering despite RICO-era prosecutions.
Five Feet Apart
Five Feet Apart is a 2019 American romantic drama directed by Justin Baldoni, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse as teenagers with cystic fibrosis who fall in love.
Five Finger Death Punch
Five Finger Death Punch (5FDP), American groove metal band formed in Las Vegas in 2005 by Zoltan Bathory and Jeremy Spencer; ten studio albums through Legacy (2026), record 13 consecutive Billboard Mainstream Rock number ones, 15 billion streams.
Five Fingers of Death
Five Fingers of Death (天下第一拳, aka King Boxer) is a 1972 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Korean filmmaker Chung Chang-wha, starring Lo Lieh. Its 1973 U.S. release launched the American kung fu craze and influenced Tarantino's Kill Bill.
Five for Fighting
Five for Fighting is the stage name of American singer-songwriter John Ondrasik, a one-man piano pop/rock act formed in Los Angeles in 1997, known for "Superman (It's Not Easy)", "100 Years", and the platinum album America Town.
Five Great Assemblies
The Five Great Assemblies (ஐம்பெருங்குழு, Aimperunguzhu or Aimperum Kulu) was, in the Sangam Age tradition of ancient Tamil country, one of two councils assisting Pandya and other Tamil kings in day-to-day administration.
Five Great Epics
The Five Great Epics are five Tamil epic poems: Cilappatikāram, Manimekalai, Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, Valayapathi, and Kundalakesi, mostly by Jain and Buddhist poets; two survive only in fragments.
Five Guards
The Five Guards (Owi, 오위) was the central army organization of Korea's Joseon dynasty from the mid-15th century until the 1590s, comprising five guards under the Five Guards Command.
Five Guys
Five Guys is an American fast-casual burger chain founded in 1986 in Arlington, Virginia, by Jerry and Janie Murrell and named for their five sons. It reached 2,000 stores in 30 countries by 2026, known for fresh beef, peanut-oil fries, and 15 free toppings.