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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is Roald Dahl's 1977 Jonathan Cape collection of seven stories and memoir pieces for older readers, including the title tale of a gambler who learns to see without his eyes, later adapted by Wes Anderson for Netflix.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More is a 2024 Netflix anthology combining Wes Anderson's four Roald Dahl short films; the lead short won the 2024 Best Live Action Short Film Oscar.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's novel, illustrated by W. W. Denslow, first of 14 Oz books, basis of the 1939 MGM film and later Wicked, public domain since 1956.

The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse

The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse is a Disney+ animated shorts series (2020–2023) from executive producer Paul Rudish, continuing the 2013 Mickey Mouse shorts with seven-minute episodes starring Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto, ending with "Steamboat Silly."

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 MGM fantasy-biography film produced by George Pal, the first dramatic story film shot in 3-strip Cinerama, starring Laurence Harvey and Karlheinz Böhm, winner of the Best Color Costume Design Oscar.

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball is the 2025 revival of The Amazing World of Gumball, created by Ben Bocquelet at Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, premiering July 28, 2025 on Hulu and renewed for seasons 3 and 4.

The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball season 2

Season 2 of The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, the Hulu revival of The Amazing World of Gumball: 20 episodes released December 22, 2025, second half of a 40-episode order, ending with Rob's return.

The Wonderland (バースデー・ワンダーランド)

The Wonderland (バースデー・ワンダーランド, Birthday Wonderland) is a 2019 Signal MD anime film directed by Keiichi Hara, adapting Sachiko Kashiwaba's Strange Journey From The Basement; released April 26, 2019, 115 minutes, Annecy competition entry.

The Wonders (film)

The Wonders (Le meraviglie) is Alice Rohrwacher's 2014 Italy-Switzerland-Germany drama about an Umbrian beekeeping family, starring Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, and Monica Bellucci; it won the 2014 Cannes Grand Prix.

The Wonders of Creation

The Wonders of Creation (ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt, عجائب المخلوقات) is an Arabic cosmography by al-Qazwini, compiled in the mid-1200s in Wasit, Iraq, describing the heavens and the earth.

The Wood

The Wood is a 1999 American comedy-drama directed by Rick Famuyiwa, about three lifelong friends in Inglewood, California, whose wedding-day crisis triggers flashbacks to their adolescence, starring Taye Diggs, Omar Epps, and Richard T. Jones.

The Woodcutter and the Fairy

The Woodcutter and the Fairy (선녀와 나무꾼) is a Korean folktale in which a woodcutter marries a fairy and loses her by breaking a taboo.

The Wooden Horse

The Wooden Horse (1950) is a British black-and-white POW escape film directed by Jack Lee, adapted by Eric Williams from his novel about the real Stalag Luft III tunnel escape hidden under a vaulting horse, starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, and Anthony Steel.

The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders is an 1887 novel by Thomas Hardy, set in the woodland village of Little Hintock in Wessex and a book he called his best as a story.

The Woods

The Woods, also known as W głębi lasu, is a 2020 Polish-language Netflix crime thriller miniseries in six episodes, adapted from Harlan Coben's 2007 novel.

The Word Alive

The Word Alive: American metalcore band formed 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, signed to Fearless Records; albums Deceiver (2010) through Hard Reset (2023), fronted by vocalist Telle Smith.

The Words (film)

The Words is a 2012 American drama film starring Bradley Cooper as a young writer who publishes a found manuscript as his own, directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal.

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso, aka Lulu the Tool) is Elio Petri's 1971 Italian drama starring Gian Maria Volonté as piece worker Lulù Massa; it shared the 1972 Cannes Palme d'Or with The Mattei Affair.

The Works (Queen album)

The Works (Queen album), Queen's eleventh studio album, released 27 February 1984, produced by Queen and Mack, recorded in Los Angeles and Munich, peaked UK No. 2, US No. 23, sold over five million copies.

The World (世界) (2004 film)

The World (世界, Shijie) is Jia Zhangke's 2004 Chinese drama, his fourth feature and first government-approved film, set in Beijing World Park among migrant dancers and guards, starring Zhao Tao and Cheng Taishen, Metascore 81.

The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp, John Irving's 1978 breakout novel from E. P. Dutton about T. S. Garp, son of feminist Jenny Fields; National Book Award 1980, ten million copies in print, 1982 Robin Williams film.

The World According to Garp (film)

The World According to Garp (1982) is George Roy Hill's Warner Bros. comedy-drama adapting John Irving's novel, starring Robin Williams, Glenn Close, and John Lithgow; screenplay by Steve Tesich, released July 23, 1982.

The World According to Jeff Goldblum

The World According to Jeff Goldblum is a Disney+ docuseries from National Geographic and Nutopia, hosted by Jeff Goldblum, exploring everyday objects like sneakers and ice cream; 22 episodes, 2019-2022.

The World After the Fall (멸망 이후의 세계)

The World After the Fall (멸망 이후의 세계, also The World After the End) is a Korean web novel by singNsong of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, serialized on Munpia 2016–17 and revised 2022, in which Jaehwan refuses the regression stone; adapted into a Naver webtoon and licensed by Yen Press.

The World at War

The World at War is a 1973 British documentary series about the Second World War, produced by Thames Television for ITV, with 26 episodes narrated by Laurence Olivier.

The World Changed On Me

The World Changed On Me is Fat Joe's eleventh studio album, released December 13, 2024, on RNG/EMPIRE. His first solo album since The Darkside Vol. 1 (2010), it is dedicated to his late brother Angel, led by the single "Paradise" with Anitta and DJ Khaled.