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The Artist (film)

The Artist (2011), Michel Hazanavicius's French silent black-and-white comedy-drama starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo, about a silent star's decline as talkies arrive; won five Oscars including Best Picture.

The Artist and His Mother

The Artist and His Mother is an unfinished double portrait by Armenian American painter Arshile Gorky, based on a 1912 photograph of him with his mother in Armenia.

The Artist and the Model

The Artist and the Model (El artista y la modelo) is a 2012 Spanish black-and-white drama, Fernando Trueba's first film in French, starring Jean Rochefort and Aida Folch as a sculptor and his young refugee model in 1943 occupied France; it won the San Sebastián Silver Shell for Best Director and earned 13 Goya nominations.

The Artist in His Museum

The Artist in His Museum is an 1822 oil self-portrait by American painter Charles Willson Peale, lifting a red curtain to reveal his Philadelphia Museum in Independence Hall.

The Artist's Way

The Artist's Way (1992) is Julia Cameron's twelve-week creative recovery course built on Morning Pages, three daily longhand stream-of-consciousness pages, and the weekly solo Artist Date; over four million copies sold.

The Artists

The Artists (German: Die Künstler) is a long didactic poem by Friedrich Schiller, composed and published in 1789, presenting a history of the arts and arguing for the poets' civilizing mission.

The arts

The arts: music, dance, theater, literature, and visual arts, practices creating artifacts with aesthetic interest in virtually every culture; from Latin ars, skill or craft.

The Ascension (professional wrestling)

The Ascension: WWE tag team of Konnor (Ryan Parmeter) and Viktor (Rick Thompson), record-setting NXT Tag Team Champions (344 or 364 days), called up December 2014, later The Awakening on independents.

The Ascent (Восхождение)

The Ascent (Восхождение) is Larisa Shepitko's 1976 Soviet black-and-white war drama based on Vasil Bykov's novella Sotnikov, about two captured partisans in 1942 Belorussia; it won the 1977 Berlin Golden Bear, the only Soviet film to do so.

The Ascent of Man

The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part BBC documentary series from 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski, tracing humanity's history through its understanding of science.

The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series between England and Australia, first contested in 1882-83, which derives its name from a mock obituary following the 1882 Oval test.

The Ashes urn

The Ashes urn is a 150 mm terracotta vessel, possibly a perfume bottle, given to England captain Ivo Bligh at Rupertswood, Melbourne, on Christmas Eve 1882 and held at the MCC Museum, Lord's; it symbolizes but is not the trophy for, the England-Australia Ashes cricket series.

The Asiatic Society

The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, founded by Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784, is India's oldest institution of learning, an Institute of National Importance with a major research library, manuscript collection, museum, and journal.

The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) is John Huston's MGM heist film noir, adapted from W.R. Burnett's novel, starring Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, and Marilyn Monroe in her first major credit; it set the template for later heist films.

The Assassin (TV series)

The Assassin is a British crime thriller series by Harry and Jack Williams (Two Brothers Pictures), starring Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore, premiering 25 July 2025 on Prime Video UK, renewed for a Malta-filmed second season due 6 November 2026.

The Assassin (刺客聂隐娘) (2015 film)

The Assassin (刺客聶隱娘) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2015 wuxia film adapted from Pei Xing's Tang story Nie Yinniang, starring Shu Qi and Chang Chen; it won Cannes Best Director and five Golden Horse Awards.

The Assassin (大刺客) (1967 film)

The Assassin (大刺客, Da Ci Ke) is Chang Cheh's 1967 Shaw Brothers wuxia film starring Jimmy Wang Yu as the assassin Nie Zheng, adapted from Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and shot during the 1967 Hong Kong riots.

The Assassin(s)

The Assassin(s) (암살자(들), Amsalja(deul)) is a 2026 South Korean political thriller directed by Hur Jin-ho, starring Yoo Hae-jin, Park Hae-il, and Lee Min-ho, dramatizing the 1974 shooting of First Lady Yuk Young-soo through fictional journalists and a detective; it premiered at TIFF 2026 and opened in Korea September 23, 2026.

The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau (UK title The Assassination Bureau Limited) is a 1969 British black comedy adventure film by Basil Dearden and Michael Relph, starring Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg, based on Jack London's unfinished novel completed by Robert L. Fish.

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story is FX's second American Crime Story season (2018), a nine-episode drama based on Maureen Orth's Vulgar Favors, starring Darren Criss as Andrew Cunanan, told in reverse chronology, and winner of seven Emmys including Outstanding Limited Series.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007 Western drama by Andrew Dominik, adapted from Ron Hansen's 1983 novel, starring Brad Pitt as Jesse James and Casey Affleck as Robert Ford; Deakins shot it, Cave and Ellis scored it, $3.9M US gross.

The Assassins (铜雀台)

The Assassins (铜雀台, Tong Que Tai) is Zhao Linshan's 2012 Chinese historical drama, starring Chow Yun-fat as an aging Cao Cao targeted by trained assassins Ling Ju and Mu Shun; 107 minutes, released 26 September 2012.

The Assemblies of al-Hariri

The Assemblies of al-Hariri (Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī) is a collection of fifty rhymed Arabic prose tales by al-Hariri, a philologist born near Basra, written between 1101 and 1110.

The Assessment

The Assessment is a 2024 dystopian sci-fi drama, Fleur Fortuné's feature debut, starring Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel, and Alicia Vikander as an assessor testing a couple's fitness for parenthood over seven days.

The Asset (TV series)

The Asset (Danish: Legenden) is a 2025 Danish Netflix crime thriller in which cadet Tea Lind goes undercover as a jeweler to befriend a cocaine trafficker's girlfriend; six episodes, renewed for a second season in January 2026.

The Assignment (2016 film)

The Assignment (2016), also titled (re)Assignment and formerly Tomboy: A Revenger's Tale, is a Walter Hill action thriller starring Michelle Rodriguez as hitman Frank Kitchen, forcibly given gender reassignment surgery by Sigourney Weaver's Dr. Rachel Kay; released by Saban Films in 2017.

The Assistant (2019 film)

The Assistant is Kitty Green's 2019 workplace drama starring Julia Garner as Jane, assistant to an unseen film mogul inspired by Harvey Weinstein; premiered at Telluride, released by Bleecker Street, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Associates (band)

The Associates (Associates) were a Scottish post-punk/new wave band formed in Dundee in 1979 by Billy Mackenzie and Alan Rankine, known for the 1982 UK No. 10 album Sulk and the No. 9 single "Party Fears Two."

The Association

The Association, American sunshine-pop vocal harmony group formed in Los Angeles in 1965, known for "Cherish," "Windy," "Along Comes Mary," and "Never My Love," and for opening the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

The Asterisk War (学戦都市アスタリスク)

The Asterisk War (学戦都市アスタリスク, Gakusen Toshi Asterisk) is a Yuu Miyazaki light novel series, illustrated by Okiura, about Genestella students battling in the Rokka academy city's Seibusai tournament; 17 volumes, a 2015-2016 two-season anime, and a five-volume manga.