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The Wild Thornberrys Movie

The Wild Thornberrys Movie is a 2002 American animated adventure film from Paramount, following 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry, who can talk with animals, as she rescues a cheetah cub from poachers in Africa.

The Wild Wild West

The Wild, Wild West: CBS American TV series (1965-1969), created by Michael Garrison, blending Western, espionage, and science fiction; Robert Conrad as James West, Ross Martin as Artemus Gordon, 104 episodes, canceled amid TV-violence controversy.

The Wilderness (2025 film)

The Wilderness (2025) is a Spencer King drama-thriller, produced by Aaron Paul and Amy Berg, about teens forced into a brutal Utah wilderness therapy program; released October 17, 2025 by Dark Star Pictures.

The Wilds (TV series)

The Wilds is an American YA survival drama on Prime Video created by Sarah Streicher: nine teen girls stranded after a plane crash are subjects of Gretchen Klein's social experiment; two seasons, 2020 to 2022, then canceled.

The Willis Family

The Willis Family was a TLC reality series (2015–2016, 13 episodes) about the Willis Clan, Toby and Brenda Willis's 12 J-named children and touring band; cancelled after Toby Willis's child rape arrest and 40-year sentence.

The Willoughbys

The Willoughbys is a 2020 Netflix CG-animated comedy directed by Kris Pearn, based on Lois Lowry's 2010 book, produced by BRON Animation, starring Will Forte, Maya Rudolph, and Ricky Gervais as the narrator cat.

The Willow Tree (بید مجنون)

The Willow Tree (بید مجنون, Bīd-e majnūn) is a 2005 Iranian drama, Majid Majidi's sixth feature, starring Parviz Parastui as a blind professor who regains sight in France. It won four Crystal Simorghs at the 23rd Fajr Film Festival.

The Winchesters

The Winchesters is a 2022–23 CW dark-fantasy drama, a prequel to Supernatural narrated by Jensen Ackles as Dean, telling how John Winchester and Mary Campbell met in the 1970s; cancelled after one season.

The Wind (1928 film)

The Wind (1928) is Victor Sjöström's silent MGM melodrama starring Lillian Gish as Letty, a Virginian driven toward madness on the windswept Texas plains; adapted from Dorothy Scarborough's 1925 novel, a 1993 National Film Registry selection.

The Wind (2018 film)

The Wind (2018) is an American horror-western directed by Emma Tammi, written by Teresa Sutherland, starring Caitlin Gerard. Premiered at TIFF 2018; inspired by accounts of prairie wind driving settler women mad; shares source material with the 1928 silent film.

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 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 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 (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 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 (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 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 (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 Wire

The Wire is an HBO crime drama (2002–2008) created by David Simon with Ed Burns, set in Baltimore, with five seasons each centered on one city institution; critically acclaimed but never Emmy-winning.

The Wishing Tree

The Wishing Tree (Natvris khe, ნატვრის ხე) is Tengiz Abuladze's 1976 Georgian drama, second in his trilogy, adapting Giorgi Leonidze's stories about Marita's forced marriage; Karlovy Vary 1978 Special Prize winner.

The Witch (2015 film)

The Witch (2015 film), or The VVitch, is a historical horror film directed by Robert Eggers. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy and won Best Director at Sundance.

The Witch (마녀) (TV series)

The Witch (마녀, Manyeo) is a 2025 Channel A Korean mystery romance drama adapted from Kang Full's 2013 webtoon, starring Park Jin-young and Roh Jeong-eui, airing 10 episodes from February 15 to March 16, 2025, with a record 2.4% Channel A premiere rating.

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion

The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (마녀, Manyeo) is a 2018 South Korean mystery-action film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung, starring Kim Da-mi as Ja-yoon, a girl who escaped a secret laboratory as a child.

The Witch: Part 2. The Other One

The Witch: Part 2. The Other One (마녀 Part2) is Park Hoon-jung's 2022 Korean sci-fi action sequel to The Subversion, starring Shin Si-ah as Ark 1, a lab-raised superhuman hunted after surviving a raid on the Witch Program facility; second of a planned trilogy.

The Witch's Diner (마녀식당으로 오세요)

The Witch's Diner (마녀식당으로 오세요) is a 2021 TVING original Korean fantasy drama, 8 episodes, starring Song Ji-hyo, Nam Ji-hyun, and Chae Jong-hyeop, adapted from Goo Sang-hee's award-winning novel about a wish-granting witch's restaurant.

The Witch's Familiar

The Witch's Familiar is the second episode of Doctor Who series 9 (2015), written by Steven Moffat and directed by Hettie Macdonald. It concludes The Magician's Apprentice: the Doctor faces dying Davros on Skaro, who drains his regeneration energy, while Missy and Clara infiltrate the Dalek city.