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The Star (2017 film)
The Star is a 2017 American animated comedy that retells the Nativity from the animals' perspective, directed by Timothy Reckart and released by Sony Pictures Animation.
The Star Beast (Doctor Who episode)
The Star Beast is the first of Doctor Who's three 2023 60th anniversary specials, written by Russell T Davies, directed by Rachel Talalay, and adapted from the 1980 Doctor Who Weekly comic by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, reuniting David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor with Catherine Tate's Donna Noble against Beep the Meep.
The Star Chamber
The Star Chamber is a 1983 American legal thriller directed by Peter Hyams and starring Michael Douglas as a Los Angeles judge who joins a secret society of judges.
The Star Chapter: Together
The Star Chapter: TOGETHER is the fourth Korean-language studio album by TOMORROW X TOGETHER (투모로우바이투게더), released July 21, 2025 via BIGHIT MUSIC; eight tracks, title track 'Beautiful Strangers', closing the Star Chapter arc.
The Star of August
The Star of August (نجمة أغسطس) is a 1974 novel by Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, his second, following a released political journalist at the Aswan High Dam site.
The Star of the Covenant
The Star of the Covenant (Der Stern des Bundes) is a 1914 cycle of 100 poems by Stefan George, published in Berlin weeks before the First World War.
The Star Without a Name
The Star Without a Name (Romanian: Steaua fără nume) is a romantic comedy in three acts by Mihail Sebastian, first staged in Bucharest in 1944 under a pseudonym.
The Star-Spangled Banner
The Star-Spangled Banner, the U.S. national anthem: lyrics by Francis Scott Key, September 14, 1814, after the Fort McHenry bombardment, set to John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven"; official anthem since March 3, 1931, under 36 U.S.C. §301.
The Starling
The Starling (2021) is a Netflix comedy-drama directed by Theodore Melfi, written by Matt Harris, starring Melissa McCarthy, Chris O'Dowd, and Kevin Kline, about a couple grieving their baby's death while a starling bird attacks the wife's garden.
The Starlost
The Starlost is a 1973–74 Canadian CTV science fiction series created by Harlan Ellison (credited as Cordwainer Bird), set aboard the generation ship Earthship Ark; Keir Dullea starred, Douglas Trumbull produced, and 16 episodes aired before cancellation.
The Starry Night
The Starry Night (De sterrennacht), Vincent van Gogh's June 1889 oil painting of a swirling night sky over Saint-Rémy, made at the Saint-Paul asylum; held at MoMA, New York, since 1941.
The Stars and Stripes Forever
The Stars and Stripes Forever, John Philip Sousa's 1896-97 patriotic march (also the Stars and Stripes Forever March), designated the US national march in 1987; conceived aboard the Teutonic after manager David Blakely's death.
The Starters
The Starters, formerly The Basketball Jones, was a daily NBA talk show and podcast hosted by Tas Melas, J.E. Skeets, Trey Kerby, and Leigh Ellis on NBA TV from 2013 to 2019, later continuing as No Dunks.
The Starving Games
The Starving Games is a 2013 parody comedy by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer spoofing The Hunger Games, starring Maiara Walsh as Kantmiss Evershot; released November 8, 2013, with a 0% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.
The Station Agent
The Station Agent is Tom McCarthy's 2003 indie comedy-drama starring Peter Dinklage as Finbar McBride, a lonely train enthusiast who inherits an abandoned New Jersey depot; it won Sundance's Audience and Waldo Salt Screenwriting awards and a BAFTA for its screenplay.
The Statler Brothers
The Statler Brothers, country-gospel vocal quartet from Staunton, Virginia (formed 1955 as the Four Star Quartet, briefly the Kingsmen), known for "Flowers on the Wall," nine CMA Vocal Group of the Year awards, and 2008 Country Music Hall of Fame induction.
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Danish: Den standhaftige Tinsoldat) is an 1838 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a one-legged tin soldier who loves a paper ballerina.
The Steel Helmet
The Steel Helmet (1951) is Samuel Fuller's Korean War film, the first American feature about that war, made for $104,000 in ten days, starring Gene Evans and James Edwards, and controversial for its treatment of racism and war crimes.
The SteelDrivers
The SteelDrivers: Nashville bluegrass band formed in 2005, known as "bluegrass soul." Founded with Chris Stapleton and Mike Henderson; won the 2016 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album for The Muscle Shoals Recordings.
The Steerage
The Steerage is a 1907 photograph by Alfred Stieglitz showing crowded steerage-class passengers aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II, widely regarded as his signature, first modernist work.
The Stepfather (1987 film)
The Stepfather is a 1987 American psychological thriller directed by Joseph Ruben, starring Terry O'Quinn as a serial killer who marries widows and infiltrates families.
The Stepfather (2009 film)
The Stepfather (2009) is a Screen Gems horror thriller remake of the 1987 cult film, directed by Nelson McCormick, written by J.S. Cardone, starring Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, and Penn Badgley; released October 16, 2009, grossing $29.1 million.
The Stepford Wives
The Stepford Wives: Ira Levin's 1972 Random House feminist satirical thriller, 145 pages, in which Stepford husbands replace wives with robot duplicates; source of the 'Stepford wife' idiom and two film adaptations.
The Stepford Wives (1975 film)
The Stepford Wives (1975), Bryan Forbes film adapted by William Goldman from Ira Levin's 1972 novel, starring Katharine Ross; a box office flop that became a feminist horror cult classic and gave English the phrase "Stepford wife."
The Stepford Wives (2004 film)
The Stepford Wives is a 2004 American comedy-drama directed by Frank Oz. Nicole Kidman stars as Joanna Eberhart, a former New York executive who moves to Stepford, Connecticut.
The Stepmother (2022 film)
The Stepmother (2022 film), a Tubi original thriller directed by Chris Stokes and written with Marques Houston, released June 17, 2022; a widowed father is targeted by a predatory new stepmother, followed by two sequels.
The Sterile Cuckoo
The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 American comedy-drama, Alan J. Pakula's directorial debut, starring Liza Minnelli as eccentric college student Pookie Adams and earning two Oscar nominations.
The Steve Harvey Show
The Steve Harvey Show: WB sitcom (1996-2002, six seasons, 122 episodes) created by Winifred Hervey, starring Steve Harvey as ex-R&B singer turned Chicago music teacher Steve Hightower, with Cedric the Entertainer; multiple NAACP Image Award winner.
The Steve Wilkos Show
The Steve Wilkos Show: American syndicated daytime talk show (2007–2026, 19 seasons) hosted by ex-Chicago police officer and ex-Jerry Springer security head Steve Wilkos, produced by NBCUniversal, known for lie-detector-based confrontations and canceled in NBCU's 2026 syndication exit.
The Steward of Christendom
The Steward of Christendom is a 1995 play by Sebastian Barry about Thomas Dunne, a former Dublin police chief looking back on his life serving the British crown.