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The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
2009 documentary by Julien Nitzberg, produced by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine (Dickhouse/MTV), following Jesco White's notorious Boone County, West Virginia family over a year; distributed by Tribeca Film.
The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch (1969) is Sam Peckinpah's revisionist Western, also called Grupo Salvaje, about aging outlaws led by William Holden's Pike Bishop fleeing into Mexico in 1913, famous for slow-motion multi-camera violence and repeated censorship cuts.
The Wild City
Wild City is an Indian music discovery platform and online magazine founded in 2011 by Munbir and Sarah Chawla, now a studio spanning events, consulting, and cultural programming.
The Wild Duck
The Wild Duck (Vildanden), Ibsen's 1884 five-act tragicomedy, published 11 November 1884, premiered Bergen 9 January 1885; Hjalmar Ekdal's household destroyed by Gregers Werle's truth-telling, ending in Hedvig's suicide.
The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese is a 1978 British action film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, and Richard Harris as mercenaries hired to rescue a deposed African president, based on Daniel Carney's novel and advisor Mad Mike Hoare, re-released in 4K in 2025.
The Wild Goose
The Wild Goose (Gan) is a 1915 novel by Mori Ōgai about Otama, a moneylender's mistress in Tokyo around 1880 who quietly loves a medical student.
The Wild Goose Lake
The Wild Goose Lake (南方车站的聚会) is Diao Yinan's 2019 Chinese-French neo-noir crime film set in Wuhan, starring Hu Ge as a fugitive gang boss. Premiered in Cannes 2019 main competition; released in China December 6, 2019.
The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris is a 1992 poetry collection by Louise Glück in which a gardener, a god, and garden flowers speak over one summer; it won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize.
The Wild One
The Wild One (1953) is László Benedek's outlaw biker drama starring Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler, based on Frank Rooney's Harper's story about the 1947 Hollister, California motorcycle incident, banned for years in the UK.
The Wild Robot
The Wild Robot is a 2024 DreamWorks Animation film directed by Chris Sanders, adapted from Peter Brown's novel about a shipwrecked robot who adopts an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Robot (book series)
The Wild Robot is Peter Brown's middle-grade series (2016, 2018, 2023) about ROZZUM unit 7134, a shipwrecked robot who survives on a wild island by learning from animals and raising the gosling Brightbill; adapted into a 2024 DreamWorks film.
The Wild Stallion (2020) is a drama that centers on the bond between a young man and an untamed horse, exploring themes of freedom and identity through rural imagery. The film offers a contemplative look at human-animal connection, grounded in specific cultural landscapes rather than universalized Hollywood tropes.
The Wild Stallion is a 2009 American family adventure film directed by Craig Clyde, in which two girls try to protect a wild black stallion in Utah.
The Wild Thornberrys
The Wild Thornberrys is a Klasky Csupo animated Nickelodeon series (1998–2004, 91 episodes) about Eliza Thornberry, a girl who secretly talks to animals while her wildlife-filmmaker family travels the world.
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie is a 2002 American animated adventure film from Paramount, following 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry, who can talk with animals, as she rescues a cheetah cub from poachers in Africa.
The Wild Wild West
The Wild, Wild West: CBS American TV series (1965-1969), created by Michael Garrison, blending Western, espionage, and science fiction; Robert Conrad as James West, Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon, 104 episodes, canceled amid TV-violence controversy.
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle is Bruce Springsteen's second album, recorded with the E Street Band at 914 Sound Studios, Blauvelt, New York, and released in 1973 on Columbia; critically praised, commercially weak, home of Rosalita, Sandy, and Kitty's Back.
The Wilderness (2025 film)
The Wilderness (2025) is a Spencer King drama-thriller, produced by Aaron Paul and Amy Berg, about teens forced into a brutal Utah wilderness therapy program; released October 17, 2025 by Dark Star Pictures.
The Wildhearts
The Wildhearts are an English hard rock band formed in Newcastle in 1989 by Ginger, fusing metal riffs with pop hooks and punk energy; Earth Vs The Wildhearts (1993) was Kerrang!'s album of the year.
The Wilds (TV series)
The Wilds is an American YA survival drama on Prime Video created by Sarah Streicher: nine teen girls stranded after a plane crash are subjects of Gretchen Klein's social experiment; two seasons, 2020 to 2022, then canceled.
The Will of the Many
The Will of the Many, also called Hierarchy book 1, is James Islington's 2023 Roman-inspired epic fantasy (Saga Press, 688 pages) about Vis, a hidden prince in the Catenan Academy, in a world powered by Will ceded upward by the lower classes.
The Will Rogers Follies
The Will Rogers Follies, also titled A Life in Revue, is a 1991 Broadway musical by Peter Stone, Cy Coleman, Comden and Green, directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune; it won six Tonys including Best Musical and ran 981 performances at the Palace Theatre.
The Willis Family
The Willis Family was a TLC reality series (2015–2016, 13 episodes) about the Willis Clan, Toby and Brenda Willis's 12 J-named children and touring band; cancelled after Toby Willis's child rape arrest and 40-year sentence.
The Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour
The Willoughby Tucker Forever Tour, also called the Willoughby Tucker world tour, is Ethel Cain's fourth concert tour supporting the album Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You and Perverts; it ran August 2025 to September 2026 worldwide.
The Willoughbys
The Willoughbys is a 2020 Netflix CG-animated comedy directed by Kris Pearn, based on Lois Lowry's 2010 book, produced by BRON Animation, starring Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, and Ricky Gervais as the narrator cat.
The Willow Tree (بید مجنون)
The Willow Tree (بید مجنون, Bīd-e majnūn) is a 2005 Iranian drama, Majid Majidi's sixth feature, starring Parviz Parastui as a blind professor who regains sight in France. It won four Crystal Simorghs at the 23rd Fajr Film Festival.
The Winchesters
The Winchesters is a 2022–23 CW dark-fantasy drama, a prequel to Supernatural narrated by Jensen Ackles as Dean, telling how John Winchester and Mary Campbell met in the 1970s; cancelled after one season.
The Wind (1928 film)
The Wind (1928) is Victor Sjöström's silent MGM melodrama starring Lillian Gish as Letty, a Virginian driven toward madness on the windswept Texas plains; adapted from Dorothy Scarborough's 1925 novel, a 1993 National Film Registry selection.
The Wind (2018 film)
The Wind (2018) is an American horror-western directed by Emma Tammi, written by Teresa Sutherland, starring Caitlin Gerard. Premiered at TIFF 2018; inspired by accounts of prairie wind driving settler women mad; shares source material with the 1928 silent film.
The Wind (더윈드) (band)
The Wind (더윈드) is a South Korean boy group under With Us Entertainment that debuted May 15, 2023 with Beginning : The Wind Page and ISLAND; fandom WHIZ; first music show win 2024; fourth mini album Second Wind : S#00 in 2026.
The Wind Among the Reeds
The Wind Among the Reeds is an 1899 poetry collection by William Butler Yeats, containing 37 intense, indirect love poems and widely seen as the culmination of his early symbolist style.