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Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち)
Disciples of Hippocrates (ヒポクラテスたち) is a 1980 Japanese ensemble drama, 126 minutes, directed by Kazuki Omori about Kyoto medical students in clinical training; released by ATG, 3rd in Kinema Junpo Best Ten.
Disciples of Shaolin (洪拳小子)
Disciples of Shaolin (洪拳小子, Hong quan xiao zi), aka The Invincible One, is a 1975 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh, starring Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan-chun as rival-bonded Shaolin disciples in a textile-mill feud; it sparked the xiaozi kid-film wave.
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (霹雳十杰)
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (霹雳十杰, aka Disciples of the Master Killers) is a 1985 Shaw Brothers kung fu comedy directed by Lau Kar-leung, third in his Shaolin trilogy, starring Hsiao Hou as Fang Shiyu and Gordon Liu as monk San Te.
Disciples of the Crow
Disciples of the Crow (1983) is a John Woodward short horror film, the first screen adaptation of Stephen King's "Children of the Corn", a Dollar Baby set in Jonah, Oklahoma, released a year before the 1984 feature.
Disciplin A Kitschme
Disciplin A Kitschme, also known as Disciplina Kičme (Дисциплина Кичме), is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade founded by bassist Dušan Kojić "Koja" in 1981.
Disciplinarity
Disciplinarity is the organization of academic knowledge into distinct fields, each with its own subject, methods, and institutions such as departments and journals; modern disciplines emerged in the late 19th century.
Discipline
Discipline: training oneself or others to follow rules and regulate impulses; covers the word's Latin etymology, mental discipline in US university history, ego depletion research, and longitudinal self-control outcomes.
Discipline (BDSM)
Discipline in BDSM is the consensual system of rules, expectations, and corrective consequences within a dominance/submission dynamic, the "D" of bondage and discipline, distinguished from abuse by negotiated, withdrawable consent and safewords.
Discipline (King Crimson album)
Discipline (1981) is the eighth King Crimson studio album by Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, and Bill Bruford, released by E.G. after a seven-year hiatus; a new-wave-inflected prog reinvention that peaked at UK number 41.
Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish (Surveiller et punir) is Michel Foucault's 1975 genealogical history of the prison, arguing that penal reform shifted punishment from the body to the soul through disciplinary power, hierarchical observation, normalizing judgment, the examination, and Bentham's Panopticon.
Disciplined Agile
Disciplined Agile is a process-decision toolkit owned by the Project Management Institute, co-created by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines, that lets teams choose their own way of working.
Discitis
Infection of intervertebral disc (discitis, spondylodiscitis, ICD-11 FA91), usually Staphylococcus aureus; hematogenous or postprocedural; diagnosed by MRI; treated with prolonged antibiotics and sometimes surgery.
Disclaimer
Disclaimer: also exemption, exclusion, or exculpatory clause. A statement limiting responsibility or defining legal rights, used in contracts, warranties, trademarks, and tax; unenforceable against fraud, gross negligence, or unfair consumer terms.
Disclaimer (2024 TV series)
Disclaimer is a 2024 seven-episode Apple TV+ psychological thriller limited series written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, adapted from Renée Knight's 2015 novel, starring Cate Blanchett as journalist Catherine Ravenscroft and Kevin Kline, released October 11 to November 8, 2024.
Disclosure (1994 film)
Disclosure (1994) is a Barry Levinson thriller starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, adapted from Michael Crichton's novel, about a male executive accused of harassment by his new female boss; it grossed $214 million worldwide.
Disclosure (band)
Disclosure are an English electronic duo, brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence from Surrey, formed 2010. Known for house and UK garage hits "Latch" with Sam Smith and albums Settle, Caracal, Energy, and Alchemy.
Disclosure and Barring Service
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), UK Home Office non-departmental public body created 1 December 2012 from the CRB and ISA merger; issues Basic, Standard, Enhanced and Enhanced with Barred List checks for England and Wales and maintains the children's and adults' barred lists.
Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day is a 2026 Steven Spielberg sci-fi thriller (screenplay David Koepp, Universal/Amblin, 145 min) starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, and Colin Firth, about exposing a Wardex corporate cover-up of alien contact; opened June 12, 2026 with $44 million domestic.
Disclosure Day (soundtrack)
Disclosure Day (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is John Williams's score album for Steven Spielberg's 2026 science-fiction film Disclosure Day, his 30th collaboration with Spielberg and their first sci-fi score since War of the Worlds (2005).
Disclosure movement
Disclosure movement: UAP/UFO disclosure advocacy network (Paradigm Research Group, Disclosure Foundation) pressing the U.S. government to release classified records; official AARO and NASA reviews find no evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
Disco
Disco: dance-music genre and nightclub culture from late-1960s/early-1970s New York and Philadelphia Black, Latino, and LGBTQ+ scenes; four-on-the-floor beat, 12-inch singles, Saturday Night Fever peak, 1979 backlash, legacy in house and techno.
Disco (Kylie Minogue album)
Disco is Kylie Minogue's fifteenth studio album, released 6 November 2020 on BMG/Darenote, a dance-pop record recorded largely at home during lockdown, which topped the UK chart and made her the first female artist with UK number 1 albums in five consecutive decades.
Disco (Pet Shop Boys album)
Disco is the first remix album by the English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in November 1986, collecting extended dance remixes of six tracks from their debut album Please.
Disco ball
Disco ball, also called mirror ball or glitter ball: a rotating sphere of small mirror facets that scatters a spotlight into moving light spots. First recorded 1897; patented 1917 as the myriad reflector; iconic of 1970s disco clubs like Studio 54 and the Loft.
Disco Biscuits
The Disco Biscuits, a Philadelphia jam band formed in 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania (originally Party Tent and Zex Sea), pioneered trance fusion, mixing rock improvisation with techno and trance, and run the Camp Bisco festival; albums include Encephalous Crime and Senor Boombox.
Disco Dancer (डिस्को डांसर)
Disco Dancer (डिस्को डांसर) is a 1982 Hindi musical drama directed by Babbar Subhash, starring Mithun Chakraborty as Jimmy, with Bappi Lahiri's soundtrack; a huge hit in India and the USSR and a Hindi-cinema cult classic.
Disco Deewane
Disco Deewane is a 1981 pop album by Pakistani siblings Nazia and Zoheb Hassan, produced by Biddu and considered the first successful pop album in South Asia.
Disco Demolition Night
Disco Demolition Night, a July 12, 1979 White Sox promotion at Comiskey Park devised by Steve Dahl and Mike Veeck, ended in a riot and a forfeit to the Detroit Tigers and became a symbol of the anti-disco backlash.
Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium (also Disco Elysium – The Final Cut) is ZA/UM's 2019 dialogue-driven detective RPG set in Revachol, with skill voices, a Thought Cabinet, and no combat; BAFTA-winning, later marred by the ZA/UM ownership dispute.
Disco Elysium (soundtrack)
Disco Elysium soundtrack: the score for ZA/UM's 2019 RPG, composed by British Sea Power (now Sea Power). 30 songs adapted from the band's catalog, released December 2019 on Golden Chariot, winner of the 2020 BAFTA for Best Game Music.