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When the Clouds Roll By
When the Clouds Roll By is a 1919 American silent comedy, Victor Fleming's directorial debut, starring Douglas Fairbanks as a superstitious New Yorker tormented by a mad psychiatrist, released through United Artists and famous for its surreal nightmare and flood sequences.
When the Cranes Fly South
When the Cranes Fly South (Tranorna flyger söderut) is Lisa Ridzén's 2024 debut novel about Bo, an 89-year-old man in northern Sweden with his dog Sixten, winner of Sweden's 2024 Book of the Year award.
When the Game Stands Tall
When the Game Stands Tall is a 2014 sports drama directed by Thomas Carter, starring Jim Caviezel as coach Bob Ladouceur of the De La Salle Spartans, whose 151-game winning streak (1992-2003) ended in 2004; based on Neil Hayes's book, released by TriStar, grossing $30.1M.
When the Levee Breaks
When the Levee Breaks: 1929 country blues by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, remade in 1971 as the closing track of Led Zeppelin IV with Bonham's famous Headley Grange drum sound.
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is a 2020 poetry anthology of Native nations poetry edited by US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo.
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
When the Moon Hits Your Eye is John Scalzi's 2025 Tor satirical science fiction novel in which the Moon turns into same-mass cheese; day-by-day vignettes follow reactions, then a fragment threatens Earth.
When the Pawn...
When the Pawn... is Fiona Apple's second album, released November 9, 1999 on Epic, produced by Jon Brion, famous for its 90-word poem title and songs like Paper Bag.
When the Phone Rings (지금 거신 전화는)
When the Phone Rings (지금 거신 전화는) is a 2024 MBC romantic thriller starring Yoo Yeon-seok and Chae Soo-bin, adapted from Geon Eomul-nyeo's web novel The Number You Have Dialed, about a silent arranged-marriage couple whose relationship changes after a kidnapping call; it hit 8.6% ratings and Netflix's global Top 10 in 78 countries.
When the Saints Go Marching In
When the Saints Go Marching In, also called The Saints, is an anonymous African-American spiritual from the late 1800s or early 1900s, first recorded in 1923 by the Paramount Jubilee Singers and made a jazz standard by Louis Armstrong's 1938 Decca recording; traditional version is public domain.
When the Streetlights Go On
When the Streetlights Go On (also When the Street Lights Go On) is a 2020 Quibi crime drama, 10 short episodes, set in 1995 Colfax, Illinois, about a double homicide investigated by teen Charlie Chambers; later on Roku Channel.
When the Weather Is Fine (날씨가 좋으면 찾아가겠어요) (TV series)
When the Weather Is Fine (날씨가 좋으면 찾아가겠어요, also I'll Go to You When the Weather Is Fine) is a 2020 JTBC 16-episode Monday-Tuesday romance drama adapted from Lee Do-woo's 2018 novel, starring Park Min-young and Seo Kang-joon, set around a rural bookstore.
When the Wind Blows (1986 film)
When the Wind Blows (1986) is a British adult animated film directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, adapted by Raymond Briggs from his 1982 graphic novel, following elderly couple Jim and Hilda Bloggs as they follow Protect and Survive guidance through nuclear attack and radiation sickness; scored by Roger Waters with a David Bowie title song, it won the 1987 Annecy Grand Prix.
When They See Us
When They See Us is Ava DuVernay's 2019 four-part Netflix limited series dramatizing the wrongful convictions of the Central Park Five, their 2002 exoneration, the 2014 settlement, and the case's aftermath, including Trump's ads and the Fairstein defamation suit.
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is Billie Eilish's 2019 debut album, written and produced with Finneas O'Connell in a bedroom studio; 14 tracks, Grammy sweep, about 10 million copies sold.
When We Cease to Understand the World
When We Cease to Understand the World (Un verdor terrible) is Benjamín Labatut's 2020 fact-fiction hybrid on Haber, Schwarzschild, Grothendieck, Heisenberg and Schrödinger, translated by Adrian Nathan West; International Booker 2021 shortlist, NBA finalist, five sections with increasing fiction.
When We Dead Awaken
When We Dead Awaken (Når vi døde vågner) is a three-act play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, published in 1899 and the last he completed before his death in 1906.
When We First Met
When We First Met is a 2018 Netflix romantic comedy directed by Ari Sandel, starring Adam Devine and Alexandra Daddario, in which Noah uses a magical photo booth to relive the night he met Avery; 45% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 36.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions is a six-part 2008 Discovery Channel documentary miniseries, narrated by Gary Sinise, tracing NASA's human spaceflight from Mercury to the International Space Station.
When We Rise
When We Rise is a 2017 ABC eight-hour docudrama miniseries created by Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black, based partly on Cleve Jones's memoir, following LGBT activists Cleve Jones, Roma Guy, Ken Jones, Diane, and Cecilia Chung from 1970s San Francisco to the 2015 same-sex marriage ruling.
When We Were Kings
When We Were Kings is Leon Gast's 1996 Oscar-winning documentary on the 1974 Rumble in the Jungle, Ali's eighth-round knockout of George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire, completed 22 years after the footage was shot.
When We Were Young (Adele song)
"When We Were Young" is a 2015 Adele piano ballad from the album 25, co-written with Tobias Jesso Jr., produced by Ariel Rechtshaid; UK peak No. 9, US No. 14, Adele's stated favorite of her own songs.
When We Were Young (festival)
When We Were Young is a Live Nation nostalgia festival of 2000s emo, pop-punk, and hardcore acts at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds, first held October 2022, expanded to multiple days, paused for 2026 with a return planned for October 2027.
When We Were Young (人不彪悍枉少年)
When We Were Young (人不彪悍枉少年) is a 2018 Tencent Video youth web drama, 24 episodes, adapted from a Tianya-based novel, set in 1996 at Yucai High School, starring Hou Minghao, Wan Peng, and Zhang Yao, with over 1 billion views and Douban scores of 7.7 to 8.0.
When Worlds Collide
When Worlds Collide (1933) by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer is a rogue-planet apocalypse novel, sequel After Worlds Collide, adapted in George Pal's 1951 Oscar-winning film.
When Worlds Collide (1951 film)
When Worlds Collide is a 1951 Paramount science fiction film directed by Rudolph Maté and produced by George Pal, about a rocket built to carry survivors away from doomed Earth.
When You Believe
When You Believe: Oscar-winning song from DreamWorks' 1998 animated film The Prince of Egypt, written by Stephen Schwartz; the pop duet version by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, with added music by Babyface, was released November 2, 1998, peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #4 in the UK, and won Best Original Song at the 71st Academy Awards.
When You Finish Saving the World (film)
When You Finish Saving the World: 2023 A24 comedy-drama, Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut, adapted from his 2020 Audible Original; Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as an activist mother and livestreaming son; Sundance 2022 premiere, Metascore 61, 62% on Rotten Tomatoes.
When You Say Nothing at All
"When You Say Nothing at All", a love song by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz. First a 1988 US country No. 1 for Keith Whitley, then a 1995 CMA Single of the Year for Alison Krauss & Union Station, and a 1999 UK No. 1 for Ronan Keating from the film Notting Hill.
When You Wish Upon a Star
"When You Wish Upon a Star" (Una stella cade), by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for Disney's 1940 Pinocchio, sung by Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket; Best Song Oscar winner and the Disney company's official theme song.
When You're Lost in the Darkness
"When You're Lost in the Darkness" is the series premiere of HBO's The Last of Us, aired January 15, 2023; written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Mazin; drew 4.7 million US viewers.