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Worapong Walor (วรพงษ์ วาเลาะ)

Worapong Walor (วรพงษ์ วาเลาะ), known as Save, is a Thai actor under DOMUNDI TV (DMD Gen 4), born 2003 in Bangkok; debut 2024 in Your Sky as Hia, first lead as Wan in Mr. Fanboy (2026).

Word Is Out

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, a 1977 documentary by the Mariposa Film Group (Peter and Nancy Adair, Rob Epstein and others), the first feature documentary about gay people by gay people, with 26 interviewees aged 18 to 77, restored by UCLA in 2008.

Word of Honor (山河令) (TV series)

Word of Honor (山河令) is a 2021 Chinese 36-episode wuxia streaming series adapted from Priest's novel Faraway Wanderers, starring Zhang Zhehan and Gong Jun, which scored 8.6 on Douban and spread to over 190 countries and regions.

Word Party

Word Party is a Jim Henson Company CG-animated Netflix preschool series (2016–2021, five seasons, 60 episodes) created by Alex Rockwell, featuring baby animals Bailey, Franny, Kip, Lulu, and later Tilly, teaching vocabulary and Mandarin through digital puppetry.

WordGirl

WordGirl (2007–2015) is a PBS Kids animated series created by Dorothea Gillim and produced by Scholastic Media's Soup2Nuts, about alien fifth-grader Becky Botsford, who fights Fair City villains with Captain Huggy Face while teaching four vocabulary words per episode.

Words on Bathroom Walls

Words on Bathroom Walls: 2020 American romantic drama directed by Thor Freudenthal, from Julia Walton's 2017 YA novel; Charlie Plummer plays Adam, a teen with schizophrenia, opposite Taylor Russell's Maya.

Worf

Worf, son of Mogh, is the Klingon Starfleet officer in Star Trek played by Michael Dorn; first Klingon in Starfleet, most-appearing Trek character across TNG, DS9, four films, and Picard.

Work It (film)

Work It (2020) is an American teen dance comedy directed by Laura Terruso, written by Alison Peck, starring Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Jordan Fisher; produced by Alicia Keys, it debuted number one on Netflix August 7, 2020.

Work Later, Drink Now (술꾼도시여자들)

Work Later, Drink Now (술꾼도시여자들), also Drinker City Women, is a 2021 South Korean TVING original drama adapted from Mikkang's webcomic, starring Lee Sun-Bin, Han Sun-Hwa, Jung Eun-Ji, and Choi Si-Won as drinking friends, with a 2022–2023 second season.

Workaholics

Workaholics is an American Comedy Central sitcom (2011-2017, 7 seasons, 86 episodes) created by and starring Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, and Anders Holm with Kyle Newacheck, about telemarketer roommates; adapted from the web series 5th Year by Mail Order Comedy.

Workin' Moms

Workin' Moms is a Canadian comedy-drama created by and starring Catherine Reitman, about four Toronto mothers (Kate, Anne, Jenny, Frankie) returning to work after maternity leave. It ran on CBC from January 10, 2017, moved to Netflix in 2019, and ended with a seventh and final season in 2023.

Working Girl

Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith as a Staten Island secretary who impersonates her boss, with Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver.

Working Girls

Working Girls is Lizzie Borden's 1986 American independent drama about a day in the life of sex workers, led by Louise Smith as photographer Molly, in a Manhattan brothel. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, won a Sundance Special Jury Recognition, restored by Criterion in 2021.

Working Title Films

Working Title Films: British film and TV production company founded 1984 by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, led with Eric Fellner; maker of Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Billy Elliot; Universal subsidiary since 1998.

Working!!

Working!! (Wagnaria!!): Karino Takatsu's four-panel seinen comedy manga, Young Gangan 2005-2014, 13 volumes, set in the Hokkaido family restaurant Wagnaria; three A-1 Pictures TV anime seasons (2010, 2011, 2015) plus the 2016 webcomic adaptation WWW.WORKING!!.

Works based on the Amityville haunting

Works based on the Amityville haunting: books, films, and TV derived from the 1974 DeFeo murders and the Lutz family's claimed haunting at 112 Ocean Avenue, starting with Jay Anson's 1977 book and the 1979 film, plus dozens of sequels, remakes, and name-only titles.

Works by Jesse Eisenberg

Works by Jesse Eisenberg: filmography and creative output of American actor-filmmaker Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born 1983), known for The Social Network, Zombieland, Lex Luthor, and his writer-director films When You Finish Saving the World and A Real Pain.

World Breaker

World Breaker (Worldbreaker; Разрушитель миров) is a 2026 sci-fi action horror film by Brad Anderson starring Luke Evans, Billie Boullet, and Milla Jovovich; a father trains his daughter on an island against Breaker monsters after a dimensional tear.

World cinema

World cinema: film regarded globally rather than through the Hollywood lens, an academic field alongside national cinema, encompassing Third Cinema, transnational production, and 9,628 feature films made worldwide in 2024.

World Cinema Project

The World Cinema Project, founded by Martin Scorsese in 2007 under The Film Foundation, restores and preserves neglected films from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East; 72 films from 34 countries restored, released via Criterion box sets.

World Enough and Time (Doctor Who)

World Enough and Time is Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 11 (BBC One, 24 June 2017), written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay. On a 400-mile colony ship near a black hole, time dilation lets Bill Potts be converted into a Mondasian Cyberman; John Simm's Master is revealed as Razor.

World Famous Lover (వర్ల్డ్ ఫేమస్ లవర్)

World Famous Lover (వర్ల్డ్ ఫేమస్ లవర్) is a 2020 Telugu romantic drama written and directed by Kranthi Madhav, starring Vijay Deverakonda, Raashi Khanna, Aishwarya Rajesh, Catherine Tresa, and Izabelle Leite; released 14 February 2020, it was a critical and box-office failure.

World Government (世界政府) (One Piece)

World Government (世界政府, Sekai Seifu) is the One Piece fictional union of 170+ nations founded by twenty royal families, headquartered at Mary Geoise, publicly led by the Five Elders but secretly ruled by Imu on the Empty Throne.

World of Dance (TV series)

World of Dance was an NBC dance competition series (2017-2020), the TV version of the World of Dance live brand, judged by Jennifer Lopez, Derek Hough, and NE-YO, with a $1 million prize, five-round format, and 100-point scoring; canceled after four seasons with MDC 3 as final champion.

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 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 (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 (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.