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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
On the Aesthetic Education of Man is Friedrich Schiller's 1795 work of aesthetics, published as 27 letters and arguing that beauty and art can prepare humanity for political liberty.
On the Basis of Sex
On the Basis of Sex (2018) is a Mimi Leder biographical drama, written by Ginsburg's nephew Daniel Stiepleman, starring Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Armie Hammer as Marty, dramatizing the 1972 Moritz v. Commissioner tax case; released by Focus Features, grossing $24.7 million.
On the Beach (1959 film)
On the Beach (1959) is Stanley Kramer's post-apocalyptic drama adapted from Nevil Shute's 1957 novel, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins as survivors in Melbourne awaiting nuclear fallout, premiered simultaneously in 18 cities on 17 December 1959.
On the Beach (Neil Young album)
On the Beach is Neil Young's fifth studio album (Reprise, July 1974), the middle record of the Ditch Trilogy after Harvest, recorded at Broken Arrow and Sunset Sound, notably dark and spare, with Revolution Blues and Ambulance Blues.
On the Beach (novel)
On the Beach, 1957 post-apocalyptic novel by Nevil Shute (also filmed in 1959): survivors in southern Australia await radiation after nuclear war; a bestseller never out of print, distinct from other 'beach' books.
On the Border
On the Border is the third studio album by the Eagles, released in 1974 on Asylum Records, featuring "Best of My Love," the band's first US number-one single.
On the Bowery
On the Bowery is Lionel Rogosin's 1956 docu-fiction film about Ray Salyer on New York's skid row; Venice Grand Prize winner, Oscar-nominated, and added to the National Film Registry in 2008.
On the Buses
On the Buses: British ITV sitcom (1969–1973, 74 episodes, 7 series) by Chesney and Wolfe for London Weekend Television, starring Reg Varney as driver Stan Butler; spawned the 1971 hit film and spin-offs, distinct from other shows of the same name.
On the Calculation of Volume
On the Calculation of Volume (Om udregning af rumfang) is Solvej Balle's Danish seven-volume time-loop septology about antiquarian bookseller Tara Selter, trapped reliving November 18; winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize and International Booker shortlistee.
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences (О культе личности и его последствиях)
Khrushchev's Secret Speech, 'On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences' (О культе личности и его последствиях), delivered 25 February 1956 to a closed session of the 20th CPSU Congress, denounced Stalin's purges and cult of personality, launched de-Stalinization, and helped trigger the 1956 Polish and Hungarian crises.
On the Death of Pushkin
"On the Death of Pushkin" (Russian: «Смерть поэта», "Death of the Poet") is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in response to Pushkin's fatal duel.
On the Edge of Reason
On the Edge of Reason (Na rubu pameti) is a 1938 novel by the Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, in which a Zagreb lawyer is branded insane for speaking one truth aloud.
On the End
On the End (2025) is Ari Selinger's feature debut, a comedy-drama-romance starring Tim Blake Nelson and Mireille Enos as Tom Ferreira and Freckles, a real Montauk couple fighting eviction amid gentrification.
On the Eve
On the Eve (Nakanune) is an 1860 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his third, in which Elena Stakhova falls in love with the Bulgarian exile Dmitri Insarov, devoted to freeing his homeland from Ottoman rule.
On the Floor
"On the Floor" (2011) is a dance-pop single by Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull, produced by RedOne for the album Love?. It samples Kaoma's "Lambada" (from Los Kjarkas' "Llorando se fue"), hit No. 1 in the UK and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was YouTube's most popular song of 2011.
On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality (Zur Genealogie der Moral) is Nietzsche's 1887 treatise of three essays tracing 'good and evil' to ressentiment, guilt to creditor-debtor relations, and morality's ascetic origins.
On the Heights of Despair
On the Heights of Despair (Pe culmile disperării) is a 1934 volume of philosophical essays by Romanian writer Emil Cioran, his first book, written at 23 during severe insomnia.
On the Hill
On the Hill (Na klancu) is a 1902 novel by Slovenian writer Ivan Cankar, a key work of Slovenian Moderna depicting a poor family's poverty, motherhood, and hope.
On the Hungarian Fallow
On the Hungarian Fallow (A magyar Ugaron) is a 1906 poem by Hungarian poet Endre Ady, opening his volume Új versek, where a fallow field symbolizes Hungary's backwardness.
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog
Caption of Peter Steiner's July 5, 1993 New Yorker cartoon of two dogs at a computer; the magazine's most reprinted cartoon and a standard adage about internet anonymity, later inverted by data-driven tracking.
On the Jewish Question
On the Jewish Question (Zur Judenfrage) is Karl Marx's 1843 essay, published 1844 in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, criticizing Bruno Bauer's Die Judenfrage and distinguishing political from human emancipation.
On the Jews and Their Lies
On the Jews and Their Lies (Von den Juden und ihren Lügen) is a 1543 treatise by Martin Luther urging Christian rulers to expel Jews or impose punitive measures.
On the Job
On the Job is a 2013 Philippine neo-noir crime thriller by Erik Matti, premiering at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, about prison hitmen furloughed for political assassinations; extended as On the Job: The Missing 8 (Venice 2021) and an HBO Go series.
On the Letters
On the Letters is an Old Bulgarian treatise by the monk Chernorizets Hrabar, written in the late 9th century to defend the new Slavic alphabet.
On the Line (2022 film)
On the Line (2022) is a thriller directed and written by Romuald Boulanger, starring Mel Gibson as radio host Elvis Cooney, forced live on air into a survival game by a caller holding his family hostage; released by Saban Films, 104 minutes, 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
On the Nature of the Gods
On the Nature of the Gods (De natura deorum) is a three-book philosophical dialogue by Cicero, composed in 45 BCE and dedicated to Brutus, in which Epicurean, Stoic, and Academic speakers debate the divine.
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species is an 1859 scientific book by the English naturalist Charles Darwin arguing that species descend from common ancestors and change over time by natural selection.
On the Republic
On the Republic (De re publica) is a six-book dialogue by Cicero on the best constitution, written between 54 and 51 BCE and modeled on Plato's Republic.
On the Road
On the Road, Jack Kerouac's 1957 Viking Press novel of Beat Generation travels, typed as a 120-foot scroll in April 1951, starring Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, over four million copies sold.
On the Road (2012 film)
On the Road is a 2012 drama film directed by Walter Salles, adapted from Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel, starring Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, and Kristen Stewart.