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The Lone Gunmen (TV series)
The Lone Gunmen is Fox's 2001 comedy-drama spin-off of The X-Files following Byers, Frohike, and Langly. One 13-episode season, 13 million pilot viewers, canceled after a move to Friday nights.
The Lone Ranger (2013 film)
The Lone Ranger (2013) is Disney's Gore Verbinski Western starring Armie Hammer as John Reid and Johnny Depp as Tonto. Budgeted at $215 million, it grossed $260.5 million worldwide, scored 31% on Rotten Tomatoes, and became a major box-office flop.
The Lone Ranger (TV series)
The Lone Ranger (1949-1957) is ABC's five-season, 221-episode filmed TV Western starring Clayton Moore and John Hart as the masked Ranger with Jay Silverheels as Tonto, adapted from the 1933 WXYZ Detroit radio series; ABC's first hit, themed on Rossini's William Tell Overture.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 short story collection by Sherman Alexie, chronicling daily life on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington State.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is Kiran Desai's 2025 novel (Hamish Hamilton, Hogarth, Knopf Canada), her first since the 2006 Booker-winning The Inheritance of Loss; it follows Sonia Shah and Sunny Bhatia, was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, and took about 20 years to write.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: 1962 British New Wave drama by Tony Richardson, adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his 1959 short story; borstal inmate Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay, BAFTA-winning debut) runs for Governor Michael Redgrave.
The Lonely Island
The Lonely Island is an American comedy trio of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone, formed in 2001 in Berkeley. Known for SNL Digital Shorts like "Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box" and comedy hip-hop albums Incredibad, Turtleneck & Chain, and The Wack Album.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, published as Judith Hearne, is a 1955 first novel by Brian Moore about a lonely Belfast piano teacher whose marriage hopes collapse.
The Lonely Warrior (三大队 (网络剧))
The Lonely Warrior (三大队), also translated as Man Hunt, is a 2023 Chinese suspense crime web drama directed by Xing Jianjun, starring Qin Hao as detective Cheng Bing.
The Lonely White Sail
The Lonely White Sail is a 1936 coming-of-age novella by Valentin Kataev about two Odessa boys caught up in revolutionary politics after the 1905 Potemkin mutiny.
The Long and Winding Road
The Long and Winding Road: Paul McCartney ballad (Lennon-McCartney) on Let It Be, Phil Spector-produced, last Beatles US number one (13 June 1970), central to the band's breakup and Let It Be... Naked.
The Long Ballad (长歌行)
The Long Ballad (长歌行, Chang Ge Xing), also The Long March of Princess Changge, is a 2021 49-episode Tencent Chinese historical drama adapted from Xia Da's manhua, starring Dilraba Dilmurat and Leo Wu, set after the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
The Long Day Closes
The Long Day Closes is Terence Davies's 1992 autobiographical British film about eleven-year-old Bud in 1955-56 Liverpool, a mosaic of memory, cinema, song, and Catholic guilt, nominated for the 1992 Palme d'Or.
The Long Earth
The Long Earth (2012) is the first of five parallel-Earth science fiction novels co-written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, featuring potato-powered stepper devices, natural stepper Joshua Valienté, the AI Lobsang, and human-free alternate Earths.
The Long Earth (series)
The Long Earth is a five-novel science fiction series (2012-2016) by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter about stepping between infinite parallel, human-empty Earths via a potato-powered Stepper device, featuring Joshua Valiente and the AI Lobsang.
The Long Game (film)
The Long Game (film) refers chiefly to the 2024 Julio Quintana sports drama based on Mustang Miracle, about five Mexican American caddies in 1950s Del Rio, Texas, who won the 1957 Texas state high school golf title; a 2025 neo-noir of the same name also exists.
The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday: 1979-80 British gangster thriller by John Mackenzie, written by Barrie Keeffe, starring Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand and Helen Mirren; an IRA Easter-weekend rampage destroys a London mobster's Docklands redevelopment deal.
The Long Goodbye (film)
The Long Goodbye (1973) is Robert Altman's neo-noir comedy-drama adapting Raymond Chandler's 1953 Marlowe novel, with Elliott Gould as an anachronistic Philip Marlowe in 1970s Los Angeles, Leigh Brackett's screenplay, Vilmos Zsigmond's cinematography, and a recurring John Williams-Johnny Mercer title song.
The Long Haul (2026 film)
The Long Haul (2026) is David Drake's debut feature drama, formerly titled Dead Letters, starring Margo Martindale as trucker CJ Montague facing parole of her daughter's murderer; it premiered at Tribeca on June 7, 2026.
The Long Home
The Long Home is an unreleased 2015 American drama directed by James Franco, adapted from William Gay's novel, starring Josh Hutcherson, Josh Hartnett, and Ashton Kutcher; filmed in Ohio, it remains without distribution.
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena
The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena is the 1980 English translation, by the author herself, of Elsa Joubert's 1978 Afrikaans novel, a biographical novel about a black woman's life under apartheid.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) is a Renny Harlin action comedy thriller, written by Shane Black for a record $4 million, starring Geena Davis as an amnesiac assassin and Samuel L. Jackson, released by New Line Cinema.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day is her 1952 account of bohemian radical journalism, her Catholic conversion, and founding the Catholic Worker Movement.
The Long Night (Game of Thrones)
"The Long Night" is Game of Thrones season 8, episode 3 (April 28, 2019), the 82-minute Battle of Winterfell directed by Miguel Sapochnik, notable for its dark cinematography, record ratings, mixed reviews, and five Emmy wins.
The Long Night (沉默的真相)
The Long Night (沉默的真相) is a 2020 iQiyi 12-episode suspense drama adapted from Zijin Chen's novel Chang Ye Nan Ming, starring Liao Fan and Bai Yu, with a Douban score of 9.2 and an Asian Content Awards win.
The Long Revolution
The Long Revolution is a 1961 book by Welsh critic Raymond Williams arguing that a cultural revolution has transformed Britain since the late eighteenth century.
The Long Riders
The Long Riders (1980) is Walter Hill's Western about the James-Younger gang, notable for casting four sets of real brothers (Carradines, Keaches, Quaids, Guests) as the outlaw siblings; released 16 May 1980 by United Artists.
The Long River
The Long River (长河) is an unfinished 1945 novel by Chinese writer Shen Congwen, set on the Chen River in West Hunan amid war and modernization.
The Long Road Home (miniseries)
The Long Road Home (2017) is an eight-part National Geographic war miniseries adapted by Mikko Alanne from Martha Raddatz's 2007 book, dramatizing the April 4, 2004 'Black Sunday' ambush of the 1st Cavalry Division in Sadr City, Baghdad; starring Michael Kelly, Jason Ritter, and E.J. Bonilla.
The Long Run (album)
The Long Run (1979) is the Eagles' sixth studio album and last before their 1980 breakup; produced by Bill Szymczyk over 18 months in Miami, a US number 1, 7x Platinum, with three Top 10 singles.