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The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty (1940) is Preston Sturges' directorial debut, a Paramount political satire starring Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, and Akim Tamiroff, about a hobo who rises from vote fraud to governor and is ruined by honesty; it won the first Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Mouse Detective is Disney's 1986 G-rated animated mystery, directed by Clements, Mattinson, Michener, and Musker, based on Eve Titus's Basil of Baker Street, with Vincent Price as Ratigan, a Henry Mancini score, and a Big Ben climax using early computer animation.
The Great Muppet Caper
The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 musical comedy film that stars the Muppets, including Kermit and Fozzie, investigating the theft of Lady Holiday's diamonds in London.
The Great North
The Great North is a Fox adult animated sitcom (2021-2025) created by Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, and Minty Lewis, following single dad Beef Tobin (Nick Offerman) and his family in Lone Moose, Alaska; canceled after five seasons on October 3, 2025.
The Great Outdoors (film)
The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, written by John Hughes, starring John Candy and Dan Aykroyd as rival brothers-in-law on a Wisconsin lake vacation.
The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy
The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy is the third studio album by The Claypool Lennon Delirium (Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon), released May 1, 2026 on ATO Records: a 14-song, 62-minute AI-themed concept album with a 24-page Rich Ragsdale comic book and WILLOW as sole guest vocalist.
The Great Passage (舟を編む)
The Great Passage (舟を編む, Fune o Amu) is a 2013 Japanese drama film by Yuya Ishii, adapted from Shion Miura's Booksellers' Award-winning novel about editors compiling the dictionary Daitokai; it was Japan's 86th Academy Awards entry.
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett, in which Daffy Duck dreams he is detective Duck Twacy in a Dick Tracy parody, battling grotesque villains such as Neon Noodle and Rubberhead.
The Great Pottery Throw Down
The Great Pottery Throw Down is a British television competition where amateur potters compete in weekly challenges; it began on BBC Two in 2015 and airs on Channel 4.
The Great Pre-Wedding Show
The Great Pre-Wedding Show (ది గ్రేట్ ప్రీ-వెడ్డింగ్ షో) is a 2025 Telugu comedy-drama directed by Rahul Srinivas, starring Thiruveer and Teena Sravya; a village photographer loses a pre-wedding shoot's memory card. Released 7 November 2025; streamed on ZEE5.
The Great Pretender
The Great Pretender: a popular song known through Stan Freberg's comedy version and Freddie Mercury's cover, also the title of Cahalan's 2019 Rosenhan book, a 2018 Nathan Silver film, and the 2020 Netflix anime Great Pretender.
The Great Race
The Great Race (1965) is Blake Edwards' slapstick comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, and Peter Falk in a 1908 New York-to-Paris auto race; 157 minutes, Oscar for Sound Effects, famous 2,500-pie fight honoring Laurel and Hardy.
The Great Root Bear
The Great Root Bear, also called Rooty, is A&W's orange-sweatered bear mascot, introduced in the mid-1970s with the tuba jingle 'Ba-Dum, Ba-Dum'; famous for a 2023 jeans joke and a 50th-birthday campaign in Canada.
The Great Santini
The Great Santini (1979), also released as The Ace, is Lewis John Carlino's drama adapted from Pat Conroy's autobiographical 1976 novel, starring Robert Duvall as Marine pilot Bull Meechum; Oscar-nominated for Duvall and Michael O'Keefe.
The Great Satan (Rob Zombie album)
The Great Satan is Rob Zombie's eighth studio album, released in 2026. It reunites him with Mike Riggs and Rob Blasko, returning to his "Hellbilly" style and late-1990s sound.
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim (우수무당 가두심)
The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim (우수무당 가두심), also Superior Shaman Ga Doo Shim, is a 2021 KakaoTV Korean web drama, 12 episodes, starring Kim Sae-ron and Nam Da-reum as teen exorcists.
The Great Shamsuddin Family
The Great Shamsuddin Family is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama film directed and written by Anusha Rizvi, released 12 December 2025 on JioHotstar. Kritika Kamra plays Bani Ahmed, a writer whose 12-hour deadline collides with her chaotic Muslim family in Delhi.
The Great Snake's Bride
The Great Snake's Bride (大蛇に嫁いだ娘, Daija ni Totsuida Musume) is a Japanese romance-fantasy manga by Fushiashikumo about Miyo, a village woman offered as a bride to the giant snake god Daija; serialized from 2021, published in English by Seven Seas from 2023.
The Great Southern Trendkill
The Great Southern Trendkill is Pantera's eighth studio album, released May 7, 1996 on East West; gold, then platinum in 2004. Its heaviest, most abrasive record, vocals taped separately at Trent Reznor's Nothing Studios amid Anselmo's addiction.
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (onscreen title The St. Louis Bank Robbery) is a 1959 black-and-white American crime drama directed by Charles Guggenheim and John Stix, starring Steve McQueen as a getaway driver, based on the real 1953 Southwest Bank robbery and shot on location in St. Louis.
The Great Theatre of the World
The Great Theatre of the World, or El gran teatro of Spain, is an auto sacramental by Pedro Calderón de la Barca that allegorically dramatizes life as a play before God.
The Great Tradition
The Great Tradition is a 1948 work of literary criticism by F. R. Leavis naming Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad as the great English novelists.
The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)
The Great Train Robbery (1903) is a silent Western short directed by Edwin S. Porter for Edison Manufacturing Co., about twelve minutes long, fourteen scenes, famous for its final bandit-fires-at-camera shot and pioneering continuity editing.
The Great Wall (长城) (film)
The Great Wall (长城) is Zhang Yimou's 2016 US-China monster fantasy starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau; a $150 million co-production about mercenaries defending the wall from Tao Tei monsters, a hit in China but a Western flop.
The Great Wall of Los Angeles
The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a half-mile-long mural by Chicana artist Judith F. Baca on the Tujunga Wash channel, depicting California's ethnic history through the 1950s.
The Great War (1959 film)
La grande guerra (The Great War) is Mario Monicelli's 1959 Italian-French war comedy-drama with Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman, produced by Dino De Laurentiis; the first realistic Italian film on World War I, it shared the 1959 Venice Golden Lion-equivalent prize.
The Great War (Sabaton album)
The Great War (2019) is Swedish power metal band Sabaton's ninth studio album and first full World War I concept album, released on Nuclear Blast, produced by Jonas Kjellgren, with 11 tracks, a History Edition with narration, and a 2022 follow-up, The War to End All Wars.
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory is a 1975 study by American scholar Paul Fussell arguing that the First World War's irony shaped modern war writing.
The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦)
The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical drama by Takashi Yamazaki, based on Norifusa Mita's manga, in which mathematician Kai Tadashi tries to stop the battleship Yamato's construction through cost analysis; it earned ¥1.93 billion in Japan.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa-oki nami ura), also called Under the Wave off Kanagawa, is Katsushika Hokusai's c. 1830–32 color woodblock print from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, famous for its Prussian blue wave, three fish-delivery boats, and distant Mount Fuji.