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The Building of Skadar
The Building of Skadar (Zidanje Skadra) is a Serbian epic folk song about the walled-up sacrifice of a young wife needed for the fortress of Skadar to stand.
The Bullet That Missed
The Bullet That Missed (2022) is Richard Osman's third Thursday Murder Club mystery, following retirees at Coopers Chase solving the Bethany Waites cold case; fastest-selling British adult fiction hardback, beating JK Rowling's record.
The Bulletin
The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine published in Sydney from 1880 to 2008, known as the bushman's bible and famous for publishing Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.
The Bullitts
The Bullitts is the musical moniker of London-born producer and filmmaker Jeymes Samuel (born 1979), also known for directing The Harder They Fall; his 2013 concept album They Die by Dawn & Other Short Stories featured Lucy Liu as Amelia Sparks and Jay Electronica, named after the 1968 Bullitt film.
The Bunker (2024 film)
The Bunker (2024 film), also released in Germany as Bunker 06: Das Exitus-Protokoll, is an American sci-fi horror film directed by Brian Hanson, starring Chelsea Edmundson, Tony Todd, and Tobin Bell; premiered at Popcorn Frights 2024 and released digitally in 2025 by Electric Entertainment.
The Bunny Game
The Bunny Game is a 2010 black-and-white American extreme horror film by Adam Rehmeier, co-written with star Rodleen Getsic, about a prostitute abducted by a trucker; banned by the BBFC in 2011, released uncut in the US in 2012.
The Bunnys
The Bunnys, known in Japan as 寺内タケシとバニーズ (Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys), were a Japanese Group Sounds band formed by guitarist Takeshi Terauchi in 1966 that scored hits on King Records before disbanding in 1971.
The Burdens
The Burdens is a 1972 play by the Ugandan playwright John Ruganda, portraying the fall of a former cabinet minister and the disillusionment of Uganda's post-independence middle class.
The Bureau (TV series)
The Bureau (Le Bureau des Légendes) is a French espionage drama created by Éric Rochant for Canal+, 2015–2020, five 10-episode seasons about DGSE deep-cover agents, praised for realism and remade in the US as The Agency.
The Bureau of Magical Things
The Bureau of Magical Things is an Australian children's fantasy drama by Jonathan M. Shiff, 2018–2021, two 20-episode seasons, about Kyra, a Tri-ling uniting fairies, elves, and humans.
The Burghers of Calais
The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais) is Auguste Rodin's 1884–95 bronze monument of six citizens who offered their lives to Edward III in 1347; ground-level, anti-heroic, cast twelve times.
The Burial (film)
The Burial is a 2023 Maggie Betts legal drama on Prime Video, starring Jamie Foxx as attorney Willie E. Gary and Tommy Lee Jones as funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe, based on Harr's 1999 New Yorker article about the real 1995 Loewen Group lawsuit.
The Burial of Kojo
The Burial of Kojo is Blitz Bazawule's 2018 Ghanaian magical-realist debut feature about Esi, her father Kojo, and uncle Kwabena; ARRAY-distributed, Netflix-released March 2019, Urbanworld and Luxor award winner.
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (El entierro del señor de Orgaz) is a large 1586–88 oil painting by El Greco in the church of Santo Tomé, Toledo, Spain.
The Buried Giant
The Buried Giant (2015) is Kazuo Ishiguro's seventh novel, a fantasy set in post-Arthurian Britain where Axl and Beatrice search for their son amid a memory-erasing mist caused by the dragon Querig, exploring collective forgetting.
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴)
The Burmese Harp (ビルマの竪琴, Biruma no Tategoto) is Kon Ichikawa's 1956 Nikkatsu antiwar film, adapted by Natto Wada from Takeyama Michio's novel, about soldier Mizushima becoming a monk in Burma; San Giorgio Prize winner, Oscar-nominated, remade in color in 1985.
The Burning Girls
The Burning Girls is a 2023 six-part Paramount+ British horror-thriller adapted by Hans Rosenfeldt from C.J. Tudor's 2021 novel, starring Samantha Morton as vicar Jack Brooks in the haunted village of Chapel Croft; released October 19, 2023, later on Netflix.
The Burning Mill
"The Burning Mill" is the third episode of House of the Dragon season 2 (HBO, June 30, 2024), written by David Hancock and directed by Geeta Vasant Patel; named for the book's Battle of the Burning Mill, which the episode shows only through its aftermath.
The Burning Plain
The Burning Plain is a 2008 drama, Guillermo Arriaga's directorial debut, starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, and Jennifer Lawrence. It competed at Venice 65, won Lawrence the Marcello Mastroianni Award, and earned mixed reviews (RT 38%, Metascore 45).
The Burning Train
The Burning Train (दी बर्निंग ट्रेन) is a 1980 Hindi disaster action thriller directed by Ravi Chopra for BR Films, starring Dharmendra, Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini, and Jeetendra, about a sabotaged Super Express train; music by R.D. Burman.
The Burning Up Tour All Over Again
The Burning Up Tour All Over Again is the Jonas Brothers' 2026 45-city North American tour recreating their 2008-2009 Burning Up Tour, launched after sold-out Madison Square Garden shows, with guests Magnus Ferrell, Deleasa, Franklin Jonas, and All Time Low.
The Buscón
The Buscón is a picaresque novel by the Spanish writer Francisco de Quevedo, following the swindler Pablos, first printed in Zaragoza in 1626 and counted as the third great model of the Spanish picaresque.
The Business (2005 film)
The Business is a 2005 British crime film by Nick Love, starring Danny Dyer as Frankie, a South Londoner who joins Tamer Hassan's expat drug gang on the 1980s Costa del Sol, made by Vertigo Films for under £2 million.
The Business (music)
"The Business" is a 2020 single by Dutch DJ and producer Tiësto, released on his Musical Freedom label, which peaked at number 3 in the UK and earned a 2022 Grammy nomination.
The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy: 1997 Neil Jordan film, adapted with Patrick McCabe from McCabe's Booker-shortlisted 1992 novel, about Francie Brady, a boy in 1960s Ireland whose family collapses into madness and murder.
The Butcher's Wife
The Butcher's Wife (殺夫) is a 1983 novella by Taiwanese writer Li Ang, winner of the United Daily News first prize and a landmark of Taiwanese feminist fiction.
The Butler
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) is a historical drama by director Lee Daniels and writer Danny Strong, loosely based on White House butler Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents 1952–1986; fictional Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) anchors a civil rights family saga.
The Butter Battle Book
The Butter Battle Book is Dr. Seuss's 1984 Random House picture book in which the Yooks and Zooks escalate a butter-side dispute into a Cold War arms-race allegory ending in an unresolved standoff with the Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo; adapted as a 1989 Ralph Bakshi TNT special.
The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 psychological thriller directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Ashton Kutcher as Evan Treborn, who rewrites his traumatic past through his journals; also the chaos-theory term from Lorenz's 1972 talk.
The Butterfly Effect 2
The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006) is a direct-to-DVD sci-fi thriller directed by John R. Leonetti, starring Eric Lively as Nick Larson, who alters the past via photographs with tragic consequences.