General articles: Arts and culture
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World of Music, Arts and Dance
WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international festival co-founded by Peter Gabriel in England in 1982; first held at Bath and West Showground, it has staged 160+ editions in 27 countries, with editions including WOMADelaide and WOMAD Cáceres.
World of Street Woman Fighter (월드 오브 스트릿 우먼 파이터)
World of Street Woman Fighter (WSWF, 월드 오브 스트릿 우먼 파이터), also called SWF3, was Mnet's 2025 global dance survival, the third Street Woman Fighter season, won by Japan's Osaka Ojo Gang with record viral Mega Crew views but the franchise's lowest TV ratings.
World of Volvo
World of Volvo is a brand experience centre in Gothenburg, Sweden, opened 14 April 2024 as a joint venture of Volvo Cars and Volvo Group, replacing the Volvo Museum with a 22,000 m² Henning Larsen timber building and a 4,500 m² interactive exhibition.
World on Fire (TV series)
World on Fire is a British WWII drama series created by Peter Bowker for BBC One and PBS Masterpiece, airing 2019-2023 in two seasons following ordinary people in Britain, Poland, France, and Germany; cancelled after season 2 in 2024.
World Party
World Party was the British rock project of Welsh multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger, formed in London in 1986 after he left The Waterboys. Five albums, including Goodbye Jumbo (1990) and Egyptology (1997); "She's the One" became a Robbie Williams number one.
World Peace Is None of Your Business
World Peace Is None of Your Business is Morrissey's tenth studio album, released 15 July 2014 on Harvest/Capitol, produced by Joe Chiccarelli in France; praised (Metacritic 70) but pulled from distributors after a label clash.
World Trigger (ワールドトリガー)
World Trigger (ワールドトリガー) is a sci-fi battle manga by Daisuke Ashihara, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2013 and Jump SQ. since 2018, about Border defending Mikado City from Neighbors; 30 volumes, Toei anime with three seasons.
World War Hulk
World War Hulk: 2007 Marvel Comics crossover event by Greg Pak and John Romita Jr.; five-issue miniseries sequel to Planet Hulk in which the Hulk returns from Sakaar with the Warbound to attack the Illuminati and New York's heroes.
World War II with Tom Hanks
World War II with Tom Hanks is a 2026 History Channel 20-episode documentary series narrated and executive produced by Tom Hanks, produced by Nutopia, covering the war from the 1939 invasion of Poland to the atomic age.
World War Z
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks's 2006 Crown novel, tells a global zombie pandemic through postwar survivor interviews modeled on Studs Terkel; distinct from the 2013 Brad Pitt film, banned in China, annotated 2026 edition.
World War Z (film)
World War Z (2013), Marc Forster's American zombie pandemic action horror film starring Brad Pitt as Gerry Lane, loosely adapted from Max Brooks's novel; $540 million worldwide, troubled reshoots, sequel with Edward Berger announced.
World Without End (Follett novel)
World Without End is Ken Follett's 2007 Kingsbridge novel, a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth set in 1327-1361, following four children bound by a witnessed killing through the Black Death and Hundred Years War.
World Without End (miniseries)
World Without End is an eight-part 2012 miniseries adapted from Ken Follett's 2007 Kingsbridge novel, a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, it stars Cynthia Nixon, Ben Chaplin, and Charlotte Riley in 14th-century Kingsbridge during the Hundred Years' War and Black Death.
World's Biggest Gang Bang
The World's Biggest Gang Bang (世界第一群交會) is a 1995 John T. Bone pornographic video starring Annabel Chong (Grace Quek), billed as 300 men but actually about 70 participants and 251 sex acts in 10 hours; she was never paid the promised $10,000.
World's End Harem (終末のハーレム)
World's End Harem (終末のハーレム, Shūmatsu no Hāremu) is a LINK-written, Kotaro Shono-illustrated sci-fi erotic thriller manga serialized on Shonen Jump+ from May 2016 to May 2023 in 18 volumes, about the MK virus killing 99.9% of men; adapted into an 11-episode 2022 anime.
World's Finest Comics
World's Finest Comics: DC's 1941–1986 Superman/Batman anthology and team-up series (322 issues), and the name inherited by the 2022 ongoing Batman/Superman: World's Finest by Mark Waid and Dan Mora.
World's Gone Wrong
World's Gone Wrong is Lucinda Williams' 16th album, released January 23, 2026 on Highway 20 Records; 10 songs, 47 minutes, with guests Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, and Brittney Spencer, titled after a Mississippi Sheiks blues.
World's Greatest Dad
World's Greatest Dad is a 2009 American dark comedy written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, starring Robin Williams as a teacher who fakes his son's suicide note; Sundance premiere, Magnolia Pictures, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji
World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji is a 2020 Amazon Prime Video 10-episode reality series, hosted by Bear Grylls and produced by Mark Burnett, documenting the 2019 revival of the Eco-Challenge adventure race: 66 teams racing 671 km non-stop across Fiji for 11 days.
Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding (conworlding) is constructing an imaginary world or fictional universe for novels, games, RPGs, film, foresight, or its own sake. Key ideas: Tolkien's subcreation, transmedia worlds, game narrative techniques, and LLM-assisted world generation.
Worldcon
Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society, first held in New York in 1939 and annual since 1946. Members vote on sites two years ahead and on the Hugo Awards; each Worldcon is independent.
WorldEnd (終末なにしてますか？忙しいですか？救ってもらっていいですか？)
WorldEnd (終末なにしてますか？忙しいですか？救ってもらっていいですか？), aka SukaSuka, is a Japanese fantasy light novel series and 2017 anime about Willem Kmetsch, last survivor of extinct humanity, among fairy weapon-girls on floating islands.
Worlds Apart (group)
Worlds Apart is a Franco-British boy band formed in London in 1992 whose bilingual hit Je te donne and album Everybody made it a star act in France.
Worlds Beyond Number
Worlds Beyond Number is an independent TTRPG actual play podcast starring Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson, produced by Taylor Moore. Launched 2023; first campaign The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One set in Umora.
Worlds Collide Concert Tour
Worlds Collide Concert Tour: Disney arena show uniting Descendants, ZOMBIES, and Camp Rock (Camp Rock new for 2026), opening September 25, 2026 in Palm Desert, eight cast members, 34 shows through Europe in 2027. Not the same-named Within Temptation and Evanescence co-headline tour of 2022.
WorldStarHipHop
WorldStarHipHop (WSHH), founded 2005 by Lee "Q" O'Denat, is a Worldstar, LLC video aggregation site known for fight clips, hip-hop premieres, the "Worldstar" chant, and Questionable credibility ratings.
WorldWired Tour
The WorldWired Tour was a 2016 to 2019 concert tour by the American heavy metal band Metallica, supporting the album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct and grossing $433 million from over 4 million tickets.
Worm (web serial)
Worm is a completed superhero web serial by the Canadian author John C. McCrae, who writes as Wildbow, running from 2011 to 2013 at about 1,680,000 words.
Worms (The Bear)
"Worms" is Season 4, Episode 4 of The Bear (June 2025), written by Ayo Edebiri and Lionel Boyce and directed by Janicza Bravo, following Sydney Adamu's day off deciding between The Bear and Adam Shapiro's job offer.
Wormwood (miniseries)
Wormwood (2017) is Errol Morris's six-part Netflix docudrama miniseries about Frank Olson's 1953 death, MKUltra, LSD dosing, and son Eric Olson's decades-long investigation; also released as a 258-minute theatrical film.