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The Wind and the Lion
The Wind and the Lion (1975) is John Milius's MGM adventure film starring Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, and Brian Keith, loosely fictionalizing the 1904 Perdicaris kidnapping crisis in Morocco under Theodore Roosevelt.
The Wind from the Plain
The Wind from the Plain (Ortadirek) is a 1960 novel by Yaşar Kemal, the first book of his Other Face of the Mountain trilogy about cotton pickers.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel from bedtime stories for his son Alastair, follows Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad on the Thames; famous for Shepard's 1931 illustrations, Toad's motorcar obsession, and debate over whether it is a children's book.
The Wind of the South
The Wind of the South (Rih al-Janub) is a 1971 Arabic novel by Algerian writer Abdelhamid Benhedouga, often called the first artistic Algerian novel in Arabic.
The Wind Rises (風立ちぬ)
The Wind Rises (風立ちぬ) is Studio Ghibli's 2013 Hayao Miyazaki anime about Zero designer Jiro Horikoshi, blending Tatsuo Hori's 1937 novel; Japan's 2013 #1 film, Oscar-nominated.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is Ken Loach's 2006 Palme d'Or-winning war drama starring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney as brothers divided by the Irish War of Independence and Civil War; Loach's biggest commercial success.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル) is Haruki Murakami's three-volume 1994–95 novel about Toru Okada's search for his wife, his first work using history (Khalkhyn Gol, Manchuria), winner of the Yomiuri Literary Prize, abridged by 25,000 words in Jay Rubin's 1997 English translation.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
The Wind's Twelve Quarters is Ursula K. Le Guin's first short story collection (Harper & Row, 1975), gathering seventeen stories from 1962 to 1974 with author introductions, including the Hugo-winning "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and Nebula-winning "The Day Before the Revolution"; it won the 1976 Locus Award for Best Collection.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is a 1933 poetry collection by W. B. Yeats, his longest separate volume of verse and companion to The Tower.
The Windmills of Your Mind
The Windmills of Your Mind (Les Moulins de mon cœur) is a 1968 Michel Legrand song with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman for The Thomas Crown Affair, sung by Noel Harrison, Oscar-winning in 1969 and covered over 400 times.
The Winds of War (miniseries)
The Winds of War (miniseries): 1983 ABC 18-hour, $40 million adaptation of Herman Wouk's WWII novel, produced and directed by Dan Curtis, starring Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, and Jan-Michael Vincent; averaged a 38.6 rating, second only to Roots, and won 3 Emmys.
The Winds of Winter
The Winds of Winter is the planned sixth, penultimate novel of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, in progress since 2010 after 2011's A Dance with Dragons; unfinished, about 1,100 pages reported, no release date, to be followed by A Dream of Spring.
The Winds of Winter (Game of Thrones)
"The Winds of Winter" is the tenth and final episode of the sixth season of HBO's Game of Thrones, aired in 2016 to wide critical acclaim.
The Windsors
The Windsors is a Channel 4 British comedy soap opera (2016–2023) parodying the royal family, created by Bert Tyler-Moore and George Jeffrie, starring Harry Enfield as Charles, with three series, specials, and a West End stage spinoff.
The Wine Advocate
The Wine Advocate, also Robert Parker Wine Advocate, is a fine-wine review publication founded by Robert Parker Jr. in 1978, known for its 50–100 point scale, peer-group tastings, and measurable influence on Bordeaux en primeur prices.
The Wine of Astonishment
The Wine of Astonishment is a 1982 novel by Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace about a Spiritual Baptist congregation in Trinidad during a colonial worship ban.
The Winery Dogs
The Winery Dogs are an American hard rock power trio formed in 2013: Richie Kotzen (guitar, vocals), Billy Sheehan (bass), and Mike Portnoy (drums). Albums: The Winery Dogs (2013), Hot Streak (2015), III (2023); also the Dog Years EP (2017).
The Wingfeather Saga
The Wingfeather Saga is Andrew Peterson's four-book children's epic fantasy (2008–2014) about the Igiby children versus the Fangs of Dang and Gnag the Nameless; over 1 million copies sold, adapted as a crowdfunded Angel Studios animated series premiering December 2, 2022.
The Wings of Eagles
The Wings of Eagles is John Ford's 1957 MGM biographical drama starring John Wayne as Navy aviator turned screenwriter Frank "Spig" Wead, with Maureen O'Hara and Dan Dailey, made with Navy cooperation.
The Wings of Rean (リーンの翼)
The Wings of Rean (リーンの翼) is a 2005–2006 six-episode Sunrise web anime by Yoshiyuki Tomino, adapting his Byston Well novel, a spinoff of Aura Battler Dunbine; first Blu-ray BOX released March 2026.
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove is Henry James's 1902 novel about the terminally ill American heiress Milly Theale, the lovers Kate Croy and Merton Densher, and their plot to inherit her fortune; famous late James, adapted in Softley's 1997 film.
The Wings of the Dove (1997 film)
The Wings of the Dove is a 1997 period drama directed by Iain Softley, starring Helena Bonham Carter and adapted by Hossein Amini from Henry James's 1902 novel.
The Winner Takes It All
ABBA ballad "The Winner Takes It All", written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, sung by Agnetha Fältskog, released July 21, 1980 on Super Trouper; UK number one, one billion Spotify streams, and the showstopper of the Mamma Mia! musical.
The Winning Try (승부)
The Winning Try (트라이: 우리는 기적이 된다, Try: We Become a Miracle) is a 2025 SBS rugby sports K-drama, 12 episodes, starring Yoon Kye-sang as disgraced coach Ju Ga-ram of Hanyang High, with Im Se-mi and Kim Yo-han, streamed on Netflix.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is Terence Rattigan's 1946 four-act play about the Archer-Shee case, in which a family fights to clear a naval cadet expelled for stealing a five-shilling postal order, later adapted to screen in 1948 and 1999.
The Winslow Boy (1948 film)
The Winslow Boy (1948) is Anthony Asquith's British film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play, starring Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, and Margaret Leighton, based on the 1908 Archer-Shee case.
The Winter King (TV series)
The Winter King is a 2023 British historical drama adapting Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles; 10 episodes on MGM+ and ITVX, starring Iain De Caestecker as Arthur, cancelled after one season in 2024.
The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck's final novel (Viking, 1961), set in fictional New Baytown modeled on Sag Harbor, follows grocery clerk Ethan Allen Hawley's moral fall; cited in Steinbeck's 1962 Nobel Prize.
The Winter Soldier (story arc)
The Winter Soldier is a 2005 to 2006 story arc in Marvel's Captain America comic series, written by Ed Brubaker, that revealed Bucky Barnes was alive.
The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare's late romance written c. 1609-11, printed in the 1623 First Folio: Leontes's jealousy, the sixteen-year gap bridged by Time as Chorus, and Hermione's statue revival, adapted from Greene's Pandosto.