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Black Hawk Down (film)
Black Hawk Down is a 2001 American war film directed by Ridley Scott, depicting the Battle of Mogadishu after two U.S. helicopters were shot down in Somalia in 1993.
Black horror
Black horror is a horror-fiction and film genre centering Blackness, Black history, and racism as the source of terror. Also called Afrohorror; spans Birth of a Nation (1915), Night of the Living Dead, Blacula, Get Out, and Sinners, with scholarship by Robin R. Means Coleman.
Black Ink Crew
Black Ink Crew (Black Ink Crew New York) is a VH1 reality series premiered January 7, 2013, following Ceaser Emanuel's African-American-owned Harlem tattoo shop staff across 10 seasons, with Chicago and Compton spin-offs.
Black Is King
Black Is King is Beyoncé's 2020 visual album on Disney+, based on The Lion King: The Gift, 85 minutes, directed with Emmanuel Adjei, Blitz Bazawule, and Kwasi Fordjour; 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, six Grammy nominations.
Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) (manga)
Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) is Osamu Tezuka's medical manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion 1973–1983, 243 self-contained episodes about Hazama Kuroo, an unlicensed genius surgeon, distinguishable from the card game and other uses of the name.
Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
Black Knight (Dane Whitman) is a Marvel Comics superhero, third bearer of the name after Sir Percy of Scandia and Nathan Garrett. Debuting in Avengers #47 (1967), he wields the cursed Ebony Blade, joined the Avengers, and was played by Kit Harington in Eternals (2021).
Black Knight (film)
Black Knight is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Gil Junger, in which Martin Lawrence plays an amusement-park worker who wakes up in 14th-century England.
Black Knight (Marvel Comics)
Black Knight is a Marvel Comics legacy title held by Sir Percy of Scandia (1955), the villain Nathan Garrett (1964), and Avenger Dane Whitman (1967), wielder of Merlin-forged, cursed Ebony Blade; Dane appears in the MCU Eternals played by Kit Harington.
Black Knight (Monty Python)
The Black Knight is the John Cleese character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) who guards a bridge, has all four limbs cut off by King Arthur, and keeps fighting, saying 'Tis but a scratch.
Black Knight (South Korean TV series)
Black Knight (택배기사, Taekbaegisa) is a 2023 Netflix South Korean dystopian sci-fi series by Cho Ui-seok, based on Lee Yoon-gyun's webtoon Delivery Knight, starring Kim Woo-bin as courier 5-8 in 2071 Korea.
Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (흑기사)
Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (흑기사) is a 2017 KBS2 Korean fantasy romance drama, 20 episodes, starring Kim Rae-won and Shin Se-kyeong, about a CEO, a travel agent, and two 200-year-old witches; distinct from the 2023 Netflix series Black Knight.
Black Lagoon
Black Lagoon (ブラック・ラグーン) is a seinen manga by Rei Hiroe, serialized in Sunday GX since 2002, about salaryman Rock joining the Lagoon Company couriers in Roanapur; 14 volumes, 10 million copies, Madhouse anime.
Black Lightning
Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce) is a DC Comics superhero with lightning powers, debuting in Black Lightning #1 (1977) as DC's first Black title character; adapted into a 2018 CW series starring Cress Williams.
Black Lightning (TV series)
Black Lightning is a CW superhero drama (2018–2021) created by Salim Akil, starring Cress Williams as retired hero Jefferson Pierce, father to Thunder and Lightning.
Black Manta
Black Manta, also David Hyde or David Kane in film, is DC Comics' aquatic supervillain and Aquaman's chief enemy. Created by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy, he debuted in Aquaman #35 (1967), killed Aquababy, and fathered Aqualad (Jackson Hyde).
Black Mariah
Black Mariah is the name of two comic book characters: Marvel's Mariah Dillard, a Harlem gang leader and Luke Cage villain debuting in Hero for Hire #5 (1972), later played by Alfre Woodard in Netflix's Luke Cage, and a separate Fallen Angel character, Mariah Blacque (2003).
Black Mask (1996 film)
Black Mask (黑俠) is a 1996 Hong Kong sci-fi superhero action film directed by Daniel Lee, produced by Tsui Hark, starring Jet Li as a pain-free ex-super-soldier vigilante, adapted from Li Chi-Tat's 1992 comic.
Black Mask (character)
Black Mask (Roman Sionis) is a DC Comics Gotham crime lord and Batman enemy, created by Doug Moench and Tom Mandrake in Batman #386 (1985); he wears a mask carved from his father's casket, leads the False Face Society, and has been played by Ewan McGregor in Birds of Prey.
Black Mask 2: City of Masks
Black Mask 2: City of Masks (黑俠2) is a 2002 Tsui Hark sci-fi action sequel to the 1999 Jet Li film Black Mask, with Andy On as the masked hero fighting DNA-bomb terrorists and mutant wrestlers.
Black Mass (film)
Black Mass (film) refers chiefly to the 2015 Scott Cooper Warner Bros. crime biopic starring Johnny Depp as Whitey Bulger and Joel Edgerton as FBI agent John Connolly, based on Lehr and O'Neill's book; also a 2024 Devanny Pinn Ted Bundy thriller.
Black Mesa Research Facility
The Black Mesa Research Facility, colloquially Black Mesa, is the fictional New Mexico desert complex where a disastrous resonance cascade triggers the Black Mesa Incident in Valve's 1998 game Half-Life.
Black Mirror
Black Mirror is a British dystopian science-fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker, first aired on Channel 4 in 2011 and later a Netflix original, with standalone episodes about technology and society, including the interactive film Bandersnatch and a seventh season in 2025.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is Netflix's 2018 interactive choose-your-own-adventure film by Charlie Brooker and David Slade, starring Fionn Whitehead as a 1984 game programmer; it had five endings and was removed from Netflix on May 12, 2025.
Black Monday (TV series)
Black Monday is a Showtime dark comedy series (2019–2021, 30 episodes) created by David Caspe and Jordan Cahan, starring Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, and Regina Hall as 1980s Wall Street outsiders who cause the October 19, 1987 stock market crash; cancelled in 2022, later on Netflix.
Black Museum (Black Mirror)
"Black Museum" is the sixth and final episode of Black Mirror season 4 (2017), written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Colm McCarthy, starring Letitia Wright and Douglas Hodge, an anthology of three consciousness-transfer stories confirming a shared universe.
Black Narcissus
Black Narcissus is a 1947 Powell and Pressburger Technicolor drama, adapted from Rumer Godden's 1939 bestseller, about Anglican nuns whose Himalayan convent in a former harem unravels; shot entirely at Pinewood, it won Oscars for cinematography and art direction.
Black News Channel
Black News Channel (BNC), also called BNC, was a Tallahassee, Florida-based 24-hour cable news network for Black audiences, launched February 10, 2020 by J.C. Watts and Bob Brillante, shut down March 25, 2022, and rebranded theGrio after Allen Media Group's $11 million bankruptcy purchase.
Black or White (film)
Black or White is a 2015 American drama film written and directed by Mike Binder, starring Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer in a custody battle over a biracial girl.
Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro, Orfeu do Carnaval) is Marcel Camus's 1959 French-Italian-Brazilian film retelling the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in Rio's favelas during Carnival, starring Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn, with a Jobim-Bonfá bossa nova soundtrack, winner of the 1959 Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Black Out (TV series)
Black Out (백설공주에게 죽음을, Snow White Must Die) is a 2024 MBC Korean crime thriller starring Byun Yo-han and Go Joon, adapting Nele Neuhaus's German novel; 14 episodes aired August 16 to October 4, 2024, rising from 2.8% to 6.4% Nielsen ratings.