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The Night Revels of Han Xizai
The Night Revels of Han Xizai (韩熙载夜宴图) is a celebrated Chinese figure-painting handscroll attributed to Gu Hongzhong, depicting minister Han Xizai at a night banquet in five scenes.
The Night Shift (TV series)
The Night Shift (2014–2017) is an NBC medical drama created by Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs, starring Eoin Macken, Jill Flint, and Brendan Fehr as Army-veteran doctors on the night shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital; four seasons, 48 episodes, Metacritic 44.
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles, also billed as The Beatles: The Night That Changed America – A GRAMMY Salute, is a 2014 CBS tribute special marking the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show debut, with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performing together and 13.95 million viewers.
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is a 1972 Southern Gothic murder ballad by Bobby Russell, first recorded by Vicki Lawrence, reaching No. 1 in 1973.
The Night the Zombies Came
The Night the Zombies Came is the Pixies' tenth studio album, released October 25, 2024 via BMG: 13 songs, first with bassist Emma Richardson, produced by Tom Dalgety, mixing Dust Bowl ballads and punk tracks.
The Night They Raided Minsky's
The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 William Friedkin musical comedy produced by Norman Lear from Rowland Barber's 1960 novel, starring Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, and Bert Lahr, about an Amish girl who accidentally invents striptease during a 1925 burlesque raid.
The Night Watch
The Night Watch (De Nachtwacht) is Rembrandt's 1642 Amsterdam militia group portrait of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq's company, trimmed in 1715, attacked in 1911, 1975 and 1990, and under restoration since 2019.
The Night Watchman
The Night Watchman is a 2020 novel by Louise Erdrich about the Turtle Mountain Chippewa's fight against 1950s termination policy; it won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Night's Dawn Trilogy
The Night's Dawn Trilogy is a science fiction trilogy by the British author Peter F. Hamilton, comprising The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God.
The Nightfly
The Nightfly is Donald Fagen's 1982 debut solo album on Warner Bros., produced by Gary Katz, one of the first fully digital recordings (3M 32-track, Wendel II drums), themed on late-1950s Cold War suburbia with the hit I.G.Y.
The Nightingale (2018 film)
The Nightingale (2018) is Jennifer Kent's Australian period revenge thriller set in 1825 Tasmania, starring Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, and Sam Claflin; it won the Venice Special Jury Prize and depicts the Black War.
The Nightingale (Hannah novel)
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah's 2015 St. Martin's Press historical novel, follows sisters Vianne and Isabelle in Nazi-occupied France; inspired by Andrée de Jongh's Comet Line, it sold over 4 million copies in 45 languages and is being adapted as a 2027 film.
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore was a Comedy Central late-night satire and panel show that replaced The Colbert Report at 11:30 p.m., premiering January 2015 and canceled in August 2016 after a 19-month run marked by race-focused coverage.
The Nightmare
The Nightmare (1781) is Henry Fuseli's oil painting of a sleeping woman visited by an incubus and a horse, first shown at the Royal Academy in 1782, now in the Detroit Institute of Arts, and an icon of Gothic and Romantic art.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is a stop-motion animated musical directed by Henry Selick, conceived by Tim Burton, with songs by Danny Elfman, about Jack Skellington of Halloween Town kidnapping Santa Claus to take over Christmas.
The Nights
"The Nights" is a 2014 song by Swedish DJ and producer Avicii, written and sung by Nicholas Furlong, released on The Days / Nights EP and known for appearing on the FIFA 15 soundtrack.
The Nine Billion Names of God
Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 short story in which Tibetan monks hire a computer to enumerate nine billion names of God; when the list is complete, the stars quietly go out.
The Nine Guardians
The Nine Guardians (original Spanish title Balún-Canán) is the 1957 first novel by Mexican writer Rosario Castellanos, set in Chiapas during the agrarian reform of the 1930s and narrated largely through a seven-year-old girl.
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974) is Robert Taylor's R-rated animated sequel to Bakshi's Fritz the Cat, following married, unemployed Fritz through catnip fantasies; it premiered at Cannes and flopped with critics.
The Nines
The Nines (2007) is John August's directorial debut, a three-part drama in which Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, and Melissa McCarthy each play three roles whose stories interlock metaphysically; Sundance premiere, limited release, $62.7K gross.
The Ninth Configuration
The Ninth Configuration (1980), also released as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane, is William Peter Blatty's directorial debut: a castle-set military-asylum drama starring Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson, funded partly by PepsiCo and winner of a Golden Globe screenplay.
The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate (La Neuvième Porte, La novena puerta) is Roman Polanski's 1999 occult thriller, adapted from Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel El club Dumas, starring Johnny Depp as rare-book dealer Dean Corso authenticating a satanic 1666 text; 133 minutes, 44% Tomatometer, $18.7M US gross.
The Nipple Talk (妮波自由式)
The Nipple Talk (妮波自由式) is a 2024 Taiwanese LGBTQ+ comedy series, 10 x 30-minute episodes directed by Jack Hsu for Sequoia Entertainment, following Pony, Xuan, Xiao Zhi, and drag bar owner MAMA in Taipei; it premiered November 1, 2024 on Hami Video, MyVideo, and friDay, and earned Kaiser Chuang a 60th Golden Bell supporting-actor nomination.
The Nirvana of the Phoenixes
The Nirvana of the Phoenixes (凤凰涅槃) is a 1920 lyric poem by Chinese poet Guo Moruo, in which phoenixes burn and are reborn, symbolizing a new China.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is Alexander McCall Smith's 1998 novel and series about Mma Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's first female-run detective agency in Gaborone; over 20 million English copies, 46 languages, BBC/HBO 2008 adaptation.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV series)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a BBC and HBO comedy-drama based on Alexander McCall Smith's novels, starring Jill Scott as a detective in Gaborone, Botswana.
The Noid
The Noid is Domino's Pizza's 1986 claymation anti-mascot from the "Avoid the Noid" campaign, created by Group 243 and Will Vinton Studios, retired after a 1989 hostage incident by Kenneth Lamar Noid, and revived in 2021.
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time, also known as Shum vremeni, is a 1925 book of autobiographical prose by Osip Mandelstam, recalling his childhood in St. Petersburg through fourteen short essays.
The Nolans
The Nolans, also known as the Nolan Sisters, were an Irish pop group of sisters from Dublin whose hit "I'm in the Mood for Dancing" topped the charts in 1979.
The Norm Show
The Norm Show is an American sitcom starring Norm Macdonald as Norm Henderson, a former hockey player banned for gambling who becomes a social worker to avoid prison.