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Wild Horse Nine
Wild Horse Nine is Martin McDonagh's 2026 black comedy thriller starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as CIA agents in 1973 Chile who travel to Easter Island before the coup; released November 6, 2026 by Searchlight.
Wild Hunt
Wild Hunt (German Wilde Jagd, wütendes Heer): European folklore motif of a nocturnal spectral hunting party led by figures such as Odin, Arthur, or Diana; name coined by Jacob Grimm in 1835 from three separate medieval traditions.
Wild Kingdom
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, also called Wild Kingdom, is an American wildlife TV series premiering on NBC January 6, 1963, hosted by Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler, running to 1988, airing in over 40 countries, and revived in 2023 as Protecting the Wild.
Wild Kratts
Wild Kratts: PBS Kids animated adventure comedy (premiered January 3, 2011) by zoologist brothers Chris and Martin Kratt, featuring Creature Power Suits, live-action/animated hybrid episodes, over 150 episodes, and 2025 Canadian Screen Award recognition.
Wild Life (Wings album)
Wild Life, also known as Wings Wild Life, is the debut studio album by Wings, released in December 1971 and featuring Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, and Denny Laine.
Wild man
The wild man, or woodwose (Wilder Mann), is the hairy forest-dwelling humanoid of medieval European legend and art, derived from satyrs and the Gilgamesh figure Enkidu; he appears from the 13th century in sculpture, heraldry, and pageants.
Wild Mint Festival
Wild Mint Festival (Дикая Мята) is Russia's largest independent multi-format music and arts festival, founded by Andrei Klyukin in 2008 and held near Bunyrevo in Tula Oblast since 2015.
Wild Mountain Thyme
Wild Mountain Thyme, also Will Ye Go Lassie Go or Purple Heather, is a Scottish/Irish folk song adapted by Belfast's Francis McPeake from Robert Tannahill's The Braes of Balquhidder, first recorded by the McPeake family in the 1950s.
Wild Mountain Thyme (film)
Wild Mountain Thyme is a 2020 romantic comedy-drama written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, adapted from his 2014 Broadway play Outside Mullingar, starring Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan.
Wild Oats (film)
Wild Oats is a 2016 Andy Tennant comedy starring Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, and Demi Moore, in which a widow cashes an accidental $5,000,000 insurance check and flees to the Canary Islands; it earned $263,271 worldwide.
Wild Orchid (film)
Wild Orchid is a 1990 American erotic drama directed by Zalman King, starring Mickey Rourke, Jacqueline Bisset, and Carré Otis in Rio de Janeiro; initially rated X, cut to R, a critical and commercial disappointment.
Wild Orchid Garden
野生兰花园 (wild orchid garden): a conservation-focused orchid collection, especially the 9.08-mu Wild Orchid Garden founded in 2000 at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, holding nearly 200 wild orchid species for ex situ conservation and research.
Wild oyster fisheries
Wild oyster fisheries are the commercial harvest of oysters from self-recruiting natural beds, once the world's main oyster supply and now concentrated mainly on North America's East and Gulf coasts.
Wild Palms
Wild Palms: 1993 ABC six-hour sci-fi miniseries created by Bruce Wagner from his Details comic strip, executive produced with Oliver Stone; Harry Wyckoff, the Go chip, holographic TV, mimezine, cult 135-of-140 ratings flop.
Wild rice
Wild rice is the grain of aquatic grasses in the genus Zizania, native to North America and East Asia; the Great Lakes' northern wild rice, called manoomin by the Ojibwe, is the most widely eaten species.
Wild River State Park
Wild River State Park is a 6,768-acre Minnesota state park in Chisago County along 18 miles of the St. Croix River near Center City, authorized 1973, opened 1978, with 94-site campground, 30-plus miles of trails, and Nevers Dam Overlook.
Wild Rovers
Wild Rovers is a 1971 American Western directed, written, and produced by Blake Edwards, starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal as cowhands who rob a bank and are pursued.
Wild Search (伴我闯天涯)
Wild Search (伴我闖天涯) is a 1989 Hong Kong film directed by Ringo Lam and starring Chow Yun-fat as a detective protecting a girl who witnessed an arms deal.
Wild Sing
Wild Sing (와일드 씽) is a 2026 South Korean comedy film directed by Son Jae-gon about fictional early-2000s co-ed K-pop group Triangle, starring Gang Dong-won, Um Tae-goo, and Park Ji-hyun; it opened June 3, 2026, sold about 1.35 million admissions, and streamed on Netflix from July 31, 2026.
Wild Strawberries (film)
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället), Ingmar Bergman's 1957 Swedish drama, follows Professor Isak Borg, played by Victor Sjöström, on a Stockholm-to-Lund drive through dreams and memories; it won the 1958 Golden Bear and an Oscar screenplay nomination.
Wild Style
Wild Style is Charlie Ahearn's 1983 independent film, the first hip-hop feature, starring graffiti artist Lee Quiñones as Zoro with Fab 5 Freddy, Lady Pink, Grandmaster Flash, and the Cold Crush Brothers; shot on 16mm in the South Bronx for about $500,000 and restored in 4K by Arrow Films in 2025.
Wild Tales (film)
Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) is a 2014 Argentine-Spanish black comedy anthology film of six revenge stories written and directed by Damián Szifron, produced by K&S Films and the Almodóvar brothers' El Deseo, nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and the most-viewed Argentine film on record.
Wild Target
Wild Target is a 2010 British black comedy directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Bill Nighy as a hitman who falls for his mark, played by Emily Blunt.
Wild Thing (The Troggs song)
Wild Thing is a 1965 Chip Taylor song, first recorded by the Wild Ones, made famous by the Troggs' 1966 version: US Billboard #1, UK #2, ocarina solo, Rolling Stone #257, Grammy Hall of Fame 2019, famously covered by Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop 1967.
Wild Things
Wild Things is a 1998 American erotic thriller and neo-noir directed by John McNaughton, starring Matt Dillon, Kevin Bacon, Neve Campbell, and Denise Richards, set in Blue Bay, Florida.
Wild Thorns
Wild Thorns (الصبّار, al-sabbār) is a 1976 novel by Sahar Khalifeh, set in Nablus under Israeli occupation and considered the first Arabic novel to depict everyday life under occupation; it appeared in English in 1985.
Wild Thoughts
"Wild Thoughts" (2017) is a DJ Khaled single featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller, from the album Grateful; it samples Santana and the Product G&B's "Maria Maria", hit No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was co-written by PARTYNEXTDOOR.
Wild turkey
Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), also eastern, Rio Grande, Merriam's, Osceola, and Gould's wild turkey, a large North American game bird of open woodlands restored to 49 states; recent eastern declines documented.
Wild Turkey (bourbon)
Wild Turkey is a Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey produced in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, owned by Gruppo Campari since 2009 and closely identified with master distiller Jimmy Russell.
Wild type
Wild type (WT) is the naturally occurring, unaltered allele or phenotype of an organism, popularized by Thomas Hunt Morgan in fruit flies and used as the standard for comparing mutants.