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The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters is a 2007 drama directed by and starring Denzel Washington as professor Melvin B. Tolson, coach of Wiley College's 1935 debate team; Forest Whitaker co-stars, and the film dramatizes the team's victory over the national champions.

The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political-satire comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, who satirizes Adolf Hitler and Nazism in a dual role.

The Great Escape (film)

The Great Escape (1963) is John Sturges' United Artists war drama adapted from Paul Brickhill's book about the 76-man March 1944 breakout from Stalag Luft III, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, famous for McQueen's fictional motorcycle fence jump.

The Great Escaper

The Great Escaper is a 2023 British drama directed by Oliver Parker, starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson as Bernard and Irene Jordan, based on the 2014 escape of an 89-year-old D-Day veteran from his Hove care home to attend the 70th D-Day anniversary in Normandy.

The Great Escapists

The Great Escapists is a 2021 Amazon Prime Video six-part reality-adventure series starring Richard Hammond and MythBusters' Tory Belleci, shipwrecked on a Panamanian island building inventions to escape; one season, ended.

The Great Father (ദ ഗ്രേറ്റ് ഫാദർ)

The Great Father (ദ ഗ്രേറ്റ് ഫാദർ) is a 2017 Malayalam action thriller, Haneef Adeni's debut, starring Mammootty as builder David Ninan hunting a child predator. Produced by August Cinema, it opened to ₹4.31 crore in Kerala and became Mammootty's first ₹50-crore film.

The Great Flood (film)

The Great Flood (대홍수) is a 2025 South Korean sci-fi disaster thriller directed by Kim Byung-woo, starring Kim Da-mi and Park Hae-soo, released on Netflix December 19, 2025; a time-loop twist divides viewers despite a #5 all-time Netflix non-English top-10 finish.

The Great Gambler (द ग्रेट गैम्बलर)

The Great Gambler (द ग्रेट गैम्बलर, Sabse Bada Juaari) is a 1979 Hindi action thriller by Shakti Samanta, starring Amitabh Bachchan in a double role as gambler Jai and Inspector Vijay, with Zeenat Aman and R.D. Burman's music.

The Great Game (Sherlock)

"The Great Game" is the third and final episode of Sherlock series 1, broadcast on BBC One on 8 August 2010; written by Mark Gatiss, directed by Paul McGuigan, it introduces Andrew Scott's Moriarty through timed bomb-vest puzzles and ends on a swimming-pool standoff cliffhanger.

The Great Gatsby (1974 film)

The Great Gatsby (1974) is Jack Clayton's Paramount adaptation of Fitzgerald's novel, written by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, and winning Oscars for costume design and adapted score.

The Great Gatsby (2013 film)

The Great Gatsby (2013) is Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, and Joel Edgerton; released May 10, 2013 by Warner Bros., it opened Cannes out of competition and grossed $353.6 million worldwide.

The Great Gazoo

The Great Gazoo is a tiny green alien from planet Zetox, exiled to The Flintstones' Stone Age for inventing a doomsday button, who serves Fred and Barney, calls them dum-dums, and is invisible to other adults. Voiced by Harvey Korman, he debuted October 29, 1965 in the show's final season.

The Great Grand Superhero

The Great Grand Superhero: Aliens Ka Aagman, a 2026 Hindi sci-fi comedy directed by Manish Saini, stars Jackie Shroff as a grandfather whose 11-year-old grandson claims he is a secret superhero facing an alien invasion; released 29 May 2026, 112 minutes, Zee Studios.

The Great Hack

The Great Hack is a 2019 Netflix documentary by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, premiered at Sundance, about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal, following Brittany Kaiser, David Carroll, and Carole Cadwalladr; Emmy and BAFTA nominated.

The Great Hypnotist (催眠大师)

The Great Hypnotist (催眠大师) is a 2014 Chinese suspense thriller directed by Leste Chen, starring Xu Zheng and Karen Mok as dueling hypnotists, released 29 April 2014, earning 274 million yuan.

The Great Indian Family

The Great Indian Family (द ग्रेट इंडियन फैमिली) is a 2023 Yash Raj Films Hindi comedy-drama directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya, starring Vicky Kaushal as bhajan singer Vedvyas Tripathi, released 22 September 2023 and streaming on Prime Video from 17 November 2023.

The Great Indian Kapil Show

The Great Indian Kapil Show is a Hindi Netflix variety comedy talk show hosted by Kapil Sharma with Sunil Grover, Krushna Abhishek, Kiku Sharda, and Archana Puran Singh. Premiered 30 March 2024; five seasons by 2026; first Indian series on the Global Top 10 Non-English TV list for five weeks.

The Great Indian Kitchen

The Great Indian Kitchen (മഹത്തായ ഭാരതീയ അടുക്കള), 2021 Malayalam drama by Jeo Baby starring Nimisha Sajayan and Suraj Venjaramoodu, about a new bride's domestic drudgery; remade in Tamil and as Hindi film Mrs.

The Great Indian Murder

The Great Indian Murder is a 2022 Hindi crime mystery series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, adapted from Vikas Swarup's Six Suspects, starring Pratik Gandhi and Richa Chadha as CBI investigators probing Vicky Rai's murder.

The Great Indian Suicide

The Great Indian Suicide (ది గ్రేట్ ఇండియన్ సూసైడ్), also earlier titled Telisinavaallu, is a 2023 Telugu mystery thriller by Viplove Koneti starring Hebah Patel and Ram Karthik, released directly on Aha on October 6, 2023, based on Madanapalle family mass-suicide incidents.

The Great Indoors (TV series)

The Great Indoors is a CBS sitcom created by Mike Gibbons, starring Joel McHale as adventure reporter Jack Gordon managing millennial writers at Outdoor Limits magazine; it ran one 22-episode season from October 27, 2016 to May 8, 2017 before cancellation.

The Great King Munmu

The Great King Munmu (대왕문무, later Sword & Silence) is a 2026 KBS2, 28-episode epic historical drama starring Lee Hyun-wook as Silla's King Munmu, with Jang Hyuk as Yeon Gaesomun, premiering November 14, 2026.

The Great Magician (大魔术师)

The Great Magician (大魔術師, 2011) is a Derek Yee-directed Hong Kong-China comedy-drama starring Tony Leung as magician Zhang Xian, Lau Ching-wan as warlord Lei Daniu, and Zhou Xun as Liu Yin, set in 1916 Beijing; it earned ¥174 million at the 2012 mainland box office.

The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty (1940) is Preston Sturges' directorial debut, a Paramount political satire starring Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, and Akim Tamiroff, about a hobo who rises from vote fraud to governor and is ruined by honesty; it won the first Best Original Screenplay Oscar.

The Great Mouse Detective

The Great Mouse Detective is Disney's 1986 G-rated animated mystery, directed by Clements, Mattinson, Michener, and Musker, based on Eve Titus's Basil of Baker Street, with Vincent Price as Ratigan, a Henry Mancini score, and a Big Ben climax using early computer animation.

The Great Muppet Caper

The Great Muppet Caper is a 1981 musical comedy film that stars the Muppets, including Kermit and Fozzie, investigating the theft of Lady Holiday's diamonds in London.

The Great North

The Great North is a Fox adult animated sitcom (2021-2025) created by Wendy Molyneux, Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, and Minty Lewis, following single dad Beef Tobin (Nick Offerman) and his family in Lone Moose, Alaska; canceled after five seasons on October 3, 2025.

The Great Outdoors (film)

The Great Outdoors is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Howard Deutch, written by John Hughes, starring John Candy and Dan Aykroyd as rival brothers-in-law on a Wisconsin lake vacation.

The Great Passage (舟を編む)

The Great Passage (舟を編む, Fune o Amu) is a 2013 Japanese drama film by Yuya Ishii, adapted from Shion Miura's Booksellers' Award-winning novel about editors compiling the dictionary Daitokai; it was Japan's 86th Academy Awards entry.

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett, in which Daffy Duck dreams he is detective Duck Twacy in a Dick Tracy parody, battling grotesque villains such as Neon Noodle and Rubberhead.