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The Old Gods and the New
"The Old Gods and the New" is season 2, episode 6 of Game of Thrones (HBO, May 6, 2012), directed by David Nutter, featuring Theon's seizure of Winterfell, the King's Landing riot, and Jon capturing Ygritte.
The Old Grey Whistle Test
The Old Grey Whistle Test (OGWT) was a BBC2 late-night British rock music show running from 21 September 1971 to early 1988, renamed Whistle Test in 1983. Known for live album-oriented performances, the Starkicker logo, and presenter 'Whispering' Bob Harris.
The Old Gringo
The Old Gringo (Spanish: Gringo viejo) is a 1985 novel by Carlos Fuentes that imagines Ambrose Bierce's final days after he crossed into Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
The Old Guard (2020 film)
The Old Guard (2020) is a Netflix action film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, adapted by Greg Rucka from his and Leandro Fernández's Image Comics graphic novel. Charlize Theron leads immortal mercenaries; 78 million households watched in four weeks; sequel released 2025.
The Old Guard 2
The Old Guard 2 (2025) is the Netflix sequel to The Old Guard, directed by Victoria Mahoney, written by Greg Rucka, starring Charlize Theron, Uma Thurman, and Henry Golding; released July 2, 2025 to negative reviews but No. 1 viewership.
The Old Guitarist
The Old Guitarist is Pablo Picasso's late 1903–early 1904 Blue Period oil on panel of a blind, emaciated musician, in the Art Institute of Chicago since 1926, with two hidden paintings beneath the surface and conservation planned under a 2026 grant.
The Old Gypsy
The Old Gypsy (Hungarian: A vén cigány) is a rhapsodic lyric poem by the Hungarian poet Vörösmarty Mihály, written in 1854 and considered his last completed lyric work.
The Old Life
The Old Life (老生) is a 2014 novel by Chinese writer Jia Pingwa, retelling a century of modern Chinese history through a funeral singer's voice in Shaanxi.
The Old Man (TV series)
The Old Man is an American action-thriller drama series on FX, adapted from Thomas Perry's 2017 novel and starring Jeff Bridges as former CIA agent Dan Chase.
The Old Man & the Gun
The Old Man & the Gun is David Lowery's 2018 Fox Searchlight film starring Robert Redford as real bank robber Forrest Tucker, based on David Grann's 2003 New Yorker article, with Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek; Redford's announced final role.
The Old Man and the Medal
The Old Man and the Medal is a 1956 satirical novel by Cameroonian writer Ferdinand Oyono about an old villager whose medal from France ends in humiliation.
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea (El viejo y el mar), Hemingway's 1952 novella of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, and his marlin; first published in Life, won the 1953 Pulitzer and anchored the 1954 Nobel Prize.
The Old Man and the Sea (1958 film)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958) is John Sturges's Warner Bros. adaptation of Hemingway's novella, starring Spencer Tracy as Santiago. Over budget at $5 million, it won an Oscar for Tiomkin's score but failed at the box office.
The Old Mill
The Old Mill (1937) is Disney's 68th Silly Symphony, directed by Wilfred Jackson with music by Leigh Harline. It was the first film to use the multiplane camera and won the 1937 Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
The Old Regime and the Revolution
The Old Regime and the Revolution (L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution) is an 1856 essay by Alexis de Tocqueville examining the origins of the French Revolution.
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq is a 1978 book by the Palestinian historian Hanna Batatu analyzing Iraq's elites and revolutionary movements.
The Old Vic
The Old Vic is a Grade II listed London theatre on The Cut, Waterloo, opened in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, later the Royal Victoria Hall, and first home of the National Theatre in 1963.
The Old Way
The Old Way (2023) is a revenge Western directed by Brett Donowho, starring Nicolas Cage as retired gunslinger Colton Briggs and Ryan Kiera Armstrong as his 12-year-old daughter Brooke; 95 minutes, R, 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Old Wives' Tale
The Old Wives' Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett, generally considered his masterpiece, following sisters Constance and Sophia Baines from girlhood to death.
The Old Woman with the Knife (파과)
The Old Woman with the Knife (파과, Pagwa) is a 2025 South Korean action drama by Min Kyu-dong, adapted from Gu Byeong-mo's novel, starring Lee Hye-young as 60-something assassin Hornclaw and Kim Sung-cheol as Bullfight; premiered at Berlinale Special 2025.
The Oldest View
The Oldest View is a 2023-2024 YouTube liminal horror web series by Kane Parsons (Kane Pixels), set in a Blender-recreated underground Valley View Mall in Dallas; its centerpiece is the 46-minute episode "The Rolling Giant."
The Olsen Gang (1968 film)
Olsen-banden (The Olsen Gang), 1968 Danish crime comedy by Erik Balling and Henning Bahs for Nordisk Film, starring Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald, and Poul Bundgaard; first of 14 films, remade in Norway and hugely popular in East Germany.
The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Olsen-banden i Jylland (The Olsen Gang in Jutland, 1971) is the third of 14 Danish Olsen Gang crime comedies, directed by Erik Balling, in which Egon, Benny, and Kjeld hunt a WWII treasure in a German bunker on the Jutland west coast.
The Olsen Gang Long Gone
The Olsen Gang Long Gone (Olsen-banden over alle bjerge!) is the 13th Olsen-banden film, a 1981 Danish Erik Balling comedy in which Egon, Benny and Kjeld chase a red suitcase of arms-deal documents to Paris.
The Olsen Gang Outwits the Police
Olsen-banden på spanden (The Olsen Gang Outwits the Police), 1969 Danish crime comedy, second Olsen Gang film, directed by Erik Balling; Egon tries to go straight but the gang is wrongly suspected of a National Bank robbery; introduced Dynamit-Harry, Bodil winner Preben Kaas.
The Olsen Gang Sees Red
Olsen-banden ser rødt (The Olsen Gang Sees Red) is the eighth Olsen Gang film, a 1976 Danish comedy by Erik Balling and Henning Bahs. Its Royal Theatre heist timed to Kuhlau's Elverhøj made it the most-watched Danish cinema film, 1,201,293 tickets.
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
The Olsen Gang's Big Score (Olsen-bandens store kup, 1972) is the fourth Danish Olsen-banden comedy, directed by Erik Balling, written with Henning Bahs, 1h39min, IMDb 6.7.
The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
The Olsen Gang's Last Trick (Olsen-bandens sidste bedrifter, 1974) is the sixth Danish Olsen Gang comedy by Erik Balling: Egon opens a Swiss Franz Jäger safe for the Bedford diamonds, is cheated, takes revenge, and the gang finally succeeds and flies to Mallorca.
The Omega Man (Ωmega)
The Omega Man (stylized The Ωmega Man) is a 1971 Boris Sagal sci-fi film starring Charlton Heston, the second adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, set in plague-ravaged 1977 Los Angeles.
The Omen
The Omen is a 1976 Richard Donner supernatural horror film (aka La Malédiction) starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as parents whose adopted son Damien may be the Antichrist; it grossed about $60 million and won Jerry Goldsmith a Best Original Score Oscar for "Ave Satani."