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uNodada
uNodada is the isiXhosa form of address for a person named Nodada, used for a National Assembly member in Hansard and recorded in Zulu genealogy and Shona.
Unorthodox (miniseries)
Unorthodox is a four-part 2020 Netflix miniseries created by Anna Winger and Alexa Karolinski, directed by Maria Schrader, loosely based on Deborah Feldman's memoir; first Netflix series primarily in Yiddish, starring Shira Haas, Emmy-winning for directing.
Unorthodox Jukebox
Unorthodox Jukebox is Bruno Mars's second studio album, released December 2012 on Atlantic Records; a genre-spanning 10-song set produced with The Smeezingtons, Mark Ronson, and Jeff Bhasker that topped the Billboard 200 and won the 2014 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots is Deborah Feldman's 2012 Simon & Schuster memoir of growing up in and leaving Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidic community; it became a New York Times bestseller and the loose basis for Netflix's 2020 series Unorthodox.
Unpaarvaiyil (உன்பார்வையில்)
Unpaarvaiyil (உன் பார்வையில்), a 2025 Tamil psychological thriller directed by Kabir Lal, remakes Julia's Eyes; Parvati Nair plays twins Bhavya and Dhivya, released on Sun NXT 19 December 2025.
Unplanned
Unplanned is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman. It dramatizes Johnson's resignation from a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas.
Unplugged (Alice in Chains album)
Unplugged (MTV Unplugged) is Alice in Chains' live acoustic album, recorded April 10, 1996 at Brooklyn's Majestic Theatre and released July 30, 1996. It captures Layne Staley's final era-defining performance with the band's original lineup.
Unplugged (Eric Clapton album)
Unplugged is a live album by Eric Clapton, recorded acoustically in January 1992 for MTV Unplugged; it won six Grammys and sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions
Unplugged: The Complete 1991 and 2001 Sessions is a 2014 Rhino live compilation by R.E.M. collecting both MTV Unplugged appearances, 33 tracks including 11 unaired, first issued on Record Store Day vinyl.
Unprecedented
Unprecedented (2022) is a three-part Discovery+ docuseries by British director Alex Holder following Donald Trump and his family through the 2020 campaign, January 6, and Trump's final presidential interview; its footage was subpoenaed by the House January 6 committee.
Unpregnant
Unpregnant (2020) is an HBO Max comedy-drama road movie directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg, adapted from the Hendriks and Caplan novel, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Barbie Ferreira as teens driving from Missouri to New Mexico for an abortion.
Unprisoned
UnPrisoned is a Hulu comedy-drama created by Tracy McMillan, inspired by her life, starring Kerry Washington as therapist Paige Alexander and Delroy Lindo as her father Edwin, released after 17 years in prison; two seasons, 2023-2024, Onyx Collective's most-viewed premiere, canceled September 2024.
Unprocessed
Unprocessed is a German progressive metalcore/djent band from Wiesbaden (formed 2012/2013), led by guitarist-vocalist Manuel Gardner Fernandes; seven albums from In Concretion (2014) to Angel (2025), tours with Polyphia, TesseracT, Jinjer, and a 2026 Angel world tour.
Unproven
Unproven is the stage name of Stein Bosch, a Dutch uptempo hardcore DJ and producer signed to Barbaric Records who has played Defqon.1 and Masters of Hardcore.
Unquestionable Presence
Unquestionable Presence, Atheist's 1991 second album on Active Records, is a landmark technical death metal record recorded at Morrisound with Scott Burns, dedicated to late bassist Roger Patterson, blending death metal with jazz fusion and shifting time signatures.
Unravelling (Muse song)
Unravelling is a 2025 single by English rock band Muse, their first new music since Will of the People (2022), produced by Dan Lancaster, built on Matt Bellamy's 8-string guitar, and later track 8 of the 2026 album The Wow! Signal.
Unreal (TV series)
Unreal (styled UnREAL, 2015–2018) is an American Lifetime drama, created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, behind the scenes of a Bachelor-style dating show called Everlasting, starring Shiri Appleby and Constance Zimmer; its final season moved to Hulu in 2018. Not the Unreal Engine or WWE: Unreal.
Unreleased Prince projects
Unreleased Prince projects: the shelved albums, songs and films (Dream Factory, Camille, Crystal Ball) left in Prince's Paisley Park vault, and posthumous releases from it, including Piano & a Microphone 1983, Originals, Welcome 2 America, and the 2026 collection Timeless.
Unreliable narrator
Unreliable narrator: a storyteller in fiction or film whose account may not be truthful. Term coined by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961); defined by distance from the implied author's norms; examples include Moll Flanders, Roger Ackroyd, and Life of Pi.
Unresolved
Unresolved is the stage name of Ihor Fedorutsa, a Ukrainian raw hardstyle DJ and producer active since 2014 who runs RSLVD Records and has played festivals including Defqon.1.
Unsane
Unsane (2018) is Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller starring Claire Foy as an involuntarily committed stalking victim; shot entirely on iPhone 7 Plus with Moment lenses, released March 23, 2018.
Unseen character
Unseen character: also called absent or offstage character, a story figure who never appears to the audience but advances the plot, exemplified by Godot, Harvey, and Mr. Wingfield.
Unshatter
"Unshatter" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park, released as a single on April 25, 2025 and included on the deluxe edition of their album From Zero.
Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo)
Unshatter Film Soundtrack (Live in São Paulo) is Linkin Park's 2026 Warner Records live album, recorded November 2024 at Allianz Parque, São Paulo, companion to the Joe Hahn documentary Unshatter; 20 tracks, 65:27, released September 25, 2026.
Unshō Ishizuka (石塚運昇)
Unshō Ishizuka (石塚運昇) was a Japanese voice actor, narrator, and stage actor (1951–2018), Professor Oak in Pokémon and Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop; also dub voice of Liam Neeson and Kizaru in One Piece.
Unsi al-Haj
Unsi al-Haj (أنسي الحاج; 1937–2014) was a Lebanese poet and journalist, a pioneer of the Arabic prose poem whose first collection, Lan, appeared in 1960, and a leading contributor to the modernist magazine Shi'r.
Unsimulated sex
Unsimulated sex in film: real, non-imitated sex acts performed on screen in fiction and art cinema, from Warhol's Blue Movie and Gift (1966) to Romance, Intimacy, and Baise-Moi, governed by boards like the BBFC and now largely replaced by simulated scenes with intimacy coordinators.
Unsinkable (film)
Unsinkable, also titled Unsinkable: Titanic Untold, is a 2024 American historical drama directed by Cody Hartman about Senator William Alden Smith's inquiry into the Titanic sinking, starring Cotter Smith, Fiona Dourif, Karen Allen, and Jayne Wisener; distinct from the 2022 Irish documentary and 2023 Danish film of the same name.
Unsolved Mysteries
Unsolved Mysteries is an American documentary TV series created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer, premiering on NBC in January 1987 with hosts Raymond Burr, Karl Malden, and Robert Stack; over 260 cases were solved through viewer tips, and Netflix revived it in 2020.
Unsound Festival
Unsound Festival is an annual festival of experimental and avant-garde electronic music held each October in Kraków, Poland, founded in 2003, with satellite editions in New York, London, and other cities.