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The Black Iron Age
The Black Iron Age (黑铁时代, Heitie Shidai) is a posthumous collection of unfinished fiction by the Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, published after his death in 1997.
The Black Keys
The Black Keys are an American rock duo from Akron, Ohio, formed in 2001 by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney. Known for basement-recorded blues rock, the Grammy-winning Brothers and El Camino, the Danger Mouse era 2008-2014, and the 2024 tour cancellation followed by No Rain, No Flowers (2025) and the covers album Peaches! (2026).
The Black Label (ΛƆKLΛBEL)
THEBLACKLABEL (더블랙레이블) is a Seoul record label and entertainment company founded in 2015 by producer Teddy Park as a YG sub-label, now largely independent, home to Rosé, Taeyang, Jeon Somi, MEOVV, and ALLDAY PROJECT.
The Black List (survey)
The Black List survey: an annual December poll of Hollywood executives' favorite unproduced screenplays, founded by Franklin Leonard in 2005 at Appian Way; distinct from the paid blcklst.com platform built on it in 2012.
The Black Man
The Black Man (Чёрный человек) is a poem by Sergei Yesenin, a dramatic night dialogue with a dark, accusing visitor, completed in November 1925 shortly before his death.
The Black Monk
The Black Monk (Чёрный монах) is an 1893 novella by Anton Chekhov about the scholar Andrei Kovrin, whose visions of a black monk lead to megalomania and death.
The Black Parade
The Black Parade is My Chemical Romance's third studio album, released October 24, 2006 on Reprise. A Rob Cavallo-produced emo rock opera about The Patient, a dying cancer patient, it spawned the UK No. 1 "Welcome to the Black Parade" and went 4x Platinum in the US.
The Black Parade World Tour
The Black Parade World Tour: My Chemical Romance's 2007/2008 tour for The Black Parade, and its 2025/2026 anniversary revival (Long Live: The Black Parade; The Black Parade 2026), performing the album in full in the fictional state of Draag.
The Black Phone
The Black Phone (2022) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson, adapting Joe Hill's short story; Ethan Hawke plays the Grabber, a child abductor whose victims' ghosts call Finney (Mason Thames) through a disconnected phone.
The Black Pirate
The Black Pirate (1926) is a Douglas Fairbanks silent swashbuckler directed by Albert Parker, the first major feature shot in two-strip Technicolor, famous for its sail-slide stunt and 2023 4K restoration.
The Black Queen (band)
The Black Queen is a Los Angeles dark synth-pop trio of Greg Puciato, Joshua Eustis, and Steven Alexander, known for the self-released albums Fever Daydream (2016) and Infinite Games (2018) and a 2026 reunion tour.
The Black Scorpion
The Black Scorpion is a 1957 Warner Bros. giant-monster film directed by Edward Ludwig, starring Richard Denning and Mara Corday, with stop-motion scorpions animated by Willis O'Brien and Pete Peterson; distinct from the 1995 Black Scorpion superhero film.
The Black Seed
The Black Seed (Crno seme) is a 1966 novel by Macedonian writer Taško Georgievski about Macedonian prisoners tortured in Greek concentration camps during the Greek Civil War.
The Black Spot (It: Welcome to Derry)
"The Black Spot" is episode 7 of HBO's It: Welcome to Derry, aired December 7, 2025, directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Jason Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane; it adapts King's interlude about the racist arson of the Black Spot nightclub, retimed from 1930 to 1962, with Rich Santos's death and a 1908 Bob Gray cold open.
The Black Stallion Returns
The Black Stallion Returns is a 1983 American family adventure film directed by Robert Dalva, a sequel in which Alec Ramsay rides his stolen stallion in a desert race in Morocco.
The Black Steed
The Black Steed (Heijunma, 黑骏马) is a 1982 novella by Chinese writer Zhang Chengzhi, a love tragedy on the Inner Mongolian grassland that won the National Outstanding Novella Award.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill (1974) is a Don Siegel spy thriller starring Michael Caine as agent John Tarrant, adapted from Clive Egleton's Seven Days to a Killing, about a kidnapped son held for a diamond ransom; a critical and commercial flop later reappraised.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
The Blackcoat's Daughter (originally February) is Osgood Perkins' 2015 supernatural horror debut, starring Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, and Lucy Boynton, released by A24 in 2017; a slow-burn, non-linear story of girls stranded at a Catholic boarding school.
The Blackening (film)
The Blackening (2023) is an American horror comedy directed by Tim Story, written by Tracy Oliver and Dewayne Perkins, based on a 2018 3Peat Comedy Central short. Seven Black friends at a Juneteenth cabin getaway are forced by a masked killer to decide who is 'the Blackest.'
The Blacklist
The Blacklist is an NBC crime thriller (2013–2023, 10 seasons, 218 episodes) created by Jon Bokenkamp, starring James Spader as fugitive informant Raymond Reddington and Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen; ended 2023 with a divisive finale.
The Blacklist season 1
The Blacklist season 1 (NBC, 2013-2014) is the debut season of Jon Bokenkamp's crime drama starring James Spader as fugitive Raymond Reddington and Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen; 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 74.
The Blacklist season 2
The Blacklist season 2 (2014-2015), the 22-episode second season of the NBC crime drama starring James Spader and Megan Boone, premiering September 22, 2014, centered on Berlin, the Fulcrum conspiracy, and Liz Keen becoming a fugitive.
The Blacklist: Redemption
The Blacklist: Redemption is NBC's 2017 spin-off of The Blacklist: Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) joins covert mercenary chief Scottie Hargrave (Famke Janssen) at Halcyon Aegis. Eight episodes, February–April 2017, canceled after one season on low ratings.
The Blackout (group)
The Blackout are a Welsh post-hardcore band formed in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, in 2003, whose album Hope reached number 27 in 2011 before a 2015 split and 2022 reunion.
The Blackout (Навождение) (2019 film)
The Blackout (Аванпост) is a 2019 Russian post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller directed by Egor Baranov, written by Ilya Kulikov, released 21 November 2019; Earth darkens except a light circle around Moscow, defended from a military outpost.
The Blackout Crew
The Blackout Crew are a donk and rap group from Bolton, Greater Manchester, formed in 2005, best known for the 2008 single "Put a Donk on It".
The Blade (《刀(电影)》)
The Blade (刀, mainland title 断刀客) is Tsui Hark's 1995 Hong Kong wuxia film remaking One-Armed Swordsman: a one-armed sword-maker's revenge, shot documentary-style without scripted dialogue, a HK$3.3 million flop later hailed as a masterpiece.
The Blair Witch Project
The Blair Witch Project (1999), found-footage horror by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, starring Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard; grossed about $249 million worldwide and popularized found footage and viral internet marketing.
The Blame (TV series)
The Blame is a 2026 six-part ITV crime drama adapted from Charlotte Langley's 2023 novel, created by Megan Gallagher, starring Michelle Keegan and Douglas Booth as detectives investigating a teenage skater's murder amid police misogyny.
The Blame It All On My Roots Tour
The Blame It All On My Roots Tour is Garth Brooks' 2026 arena tour, announced July 7, 2026, reviving his 1990s Drum Pod production and a new Halo 360-degree LED system, opening with four sold-out Indianapolis shows.